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We Were Student sitting on vintage Harley near heading Boise State Celebrates 30 Years

Boise State University: picturing growth

Founded as an Episcopal college in 1932, relocated to the Boise River in 1940, brought into the state higher education system in 1969, elevated and expanded with graduate programs in 1974, Boise State now celebrates thirty years as a metropolitan research university. History student Jennele Estrada provides the following retrospective of the university’s growth. Pictures courtesy of the Albertsons Library University Archives.

http://www.iotakappa.org/history_bsu.html
St. Margaret's Hall

St. Margaret’s Hall housed the junior college until 1940.
 

1950 Registration Line
  

A more spacious campus, 1940s.

1950 registration

 


Register1965
Register 1975
  

In 1965, exactly 3,307 students registered for spring classes.

1975 registration

aerial campus 1990
 Geology Student
VoTech Student

The 1990s campus.

Brittany Brand is one of thirty geology graduate students.
Isaac Meikle is a vocational – technology student.