Texas Woman's University history

1903 — The first building, now known as Old Main, was constructed on campus.

1904 — First graduating class with one graduate, Beulah Kincaid.

In 1905, the name changed again to the College of Industrial Arts and expanded its programs to include liberal arts, fine arts, and sciences.

1910 — CIA becomes the first institution of higher learning to establish and maintain a department of music.

1915 — The first bachelor’s degrees are awarded at CIA.

1917 — The first kindergarten at a public institution is established at CIA.

A representative from the YWCA traveled to Texas to survey the existing clubs and encourage them to meet to elect delegates to go to St Louis July 14-18, 1919, for the purpose of founding a national federation.

1923 — CIA becomes an accredited member of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.

1930 — Graduate studies are established at the college.

In 1934, the school underwent another name change to the Texas State College for Women (TSCW) to reflect its growing reputation as a premiere institution of higher education for women in the state.

Zorach carved the huge figure of Benjamin Franklin for the Franklin Post Office in Washington D.C. in 1937.

1953 — The first doctoral degrees are awarded at TSCW.

1954 — The college’s nursing program begins in Dallas at Parkland Hospital.

In 1956, it established the first building in Texas dedicated solely to the instruction of library sciences.

1960 — The TWU Institute of Health Sciences-Houston Center opens in the Texas Medical Center.

The university integrated in 1961, admitting its first African-American student, Alsenia Dowells, to study nursing; while Dowells only attended for one year, six more black women enrolled the following year.

1966 — The TWU Institute of Health Sciences-Dallas Center opens near Parkland Hospital.

1976 — Mary Evelyn Blagg Huey becomes the first woman president of TWU.

1977 — TWU opens the Presbyterian campus, the university’s second clinical center in Dallas.

His studio in New York was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.NITA THURMAN, a Shady Shores resident and journalist, is a member of the Denton County Historical Commission.

1986 — The Mary Evelyn Blagg Huey Library opens on the Denton campus.

1992 — The TWU Stroke Center-Dallas is established to provide treatment and training in neurological rehabilitation specifically for stroke patients.

In 1994, in anticipation of changing protocols of single-gender institutions across the United States such as the Citadel and Mississippi College for Women, the school opened all of its programs to qualified men.

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2002 — The TWU soccer team begins its inaugural season in the fall, joining basketball, gymnastics, softball and volleyball.

2004 — TWU launches G-Force, a program aimed at increasing higher education enrollment for first-generation students.

The first Go-Center — a physical space in a high school that offers admission and financial aid application assistance and other information — opened in spring 2005.

2006 — The new, state-of-the-art TWU Houston Center opens at the southern gateway to the Texas Medical Center.

2007 — The new Redbud Theater Complex opens on the northwest side of Hubbard Hall.

2008 — The TWU gymnastics team wins its ninth USA Gymnastics Collegiate National Championship.

2009-10 — TWU celebrates a Decade of Achievement, marking 10 years of student, faculty and staff accomplishments; academic innovations; enrollment growth; technological advances; and transformed facilities.

2010-11 — The TWU basketball team captures the university’s first-ever Lone Star Conference Championship and advances to the NCAA Tournament.

2011 — The TWU T. Boone Pickens Institute of Health Sciences-Dallas Center opens, combining the university’s Parkland and Presbyterian centers at the Parkland site.

2012 — The university launches its mobile website, TWU Mobile, in January.

2013 — Terry Foundation Scholarships become available for TWU students.

2014 — Carine M. Feyten, Ph.D. becomes the second chancellor and the 11th president of TWU. Landon Dickerson is the first male student to be elected TWU student body president.

The TWU gymnastics team wins its 11th USA Gymnastics Collegiate National Title, a back-to-back win for the Pioneers, who also hold the 2017 title.

2018 — The Institute for Women's Leadership is established to serve the State of Texas as a resource for scholarship and research and to prepare more women to take on successful roles in business and public service.