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4 unusual facts about Teachers College


Caroline Beaumont Zachry

For the next ten years she attended as well as taught at the Teachers College, Columbia University where she received a B.S. in 1924.

Elizabeth Burchenal

Burchenal became a teacher at the Teachers College at Columbia University from 1902 to 1905.

Henry Herman Meyer

He was educated at California State Normal School; German Wallace College, Ohio; the Drew Theological Seminary; Teachers College, Columbia; and at Jena.

Margaret H. Lippert

D. in Education from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1983 and wrote her dissertation on the use of storytelling in the classroom.


Al Frazier

After his football career ended, he earned a Master's Degree from Teachers College at Columbia University, and worked for over thirty years at York College in New York, where he was Assistant Dean of Student Development at the time of his retirement in 2006.

Comic Book Project

, while at Teachers College at Columbia University.

Donald Vining

Vining's playwriting ambitions gradually petered out, and he eventually took a full-time position in the Development Office at Teacher's College, Columbia University, spending 30 years there in a job he disliked before taking early retirement, in part so he could start his own publishing company, The Pepys Press, named in honor of one of the most celebrated of all diarists, Samuel Pepys.

James E. Kearney

Kearney graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in 1901, and then attended the Teachers College of Columbia University, where he earned a Regents license to teach in New York State.

Mary Antin

She married Amadeus William Grabau, a geologist, in 1901, and moved to New York City where she attended Teachers College of Columbia University and Barnard College.

Merian Soto

Soto earned a Bachelor of Arts in Dance from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University and she received a Masters of Arts in Dance Education from Teachers College, Columbia University.

William M. Hadley

Through the State Department of Education he was recommended for and received a full fellowship by the General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation to Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City, New York in the fall of 1949.


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189, Frank Tate Building

Originally part of the Melbourne Teachers’College, this Art Deco building is currently designed a learning centre designed to allow a multitude of different user groups to configure the space according to their individual requirements.

Ad Reinhardt

He took painting classes as an undergraduate at Columbia's Teachers College and after graduation began to study painting with Carl Holty and Francis Criss at the American Artists School, while simultaneously studying portraiture at the National Academy of Design under Karl Anderson.

Alison Holst

Holst graduated from the University of Otago, then a constituent college of the University of New Zealand, with a Bachelor of Home Science and subsequently spent a year at Teachers' College.

Billy Adams

The college’s name was later changed to Adams State Teachers College in honor of its founder and finally to its present name Adams State University.

Carl Schalk

Schalk graduated in 1952 from Concordia University Chicago (then known as Concordia Teachers College River Forest) with a B.S. in education and proceeded to earn a M.Mus from the Eastman School of Music and an M.A.R. from Concordia Seminary in Saint Louis.

Charles D. Neff

He was the first in his family to attend college, starting at Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas, eventually finishing with a BS in Economics from Central Missouri State Teachers College.

Charles V. Taylor

In 1961, he moved to Butere in Western Kenya to a teaching position at Chadwick Teachers' College, where he later became Principal.

Clifton C. Edom

After receiving a teaching certificate from the Western Illinois State Teachers College, now Western Illinois University, in 1925, Edom attended a Linotype school and worked for several newspapers.

David O. McKay School of Education

The David O. McKay School of Education began in 1913 as an integral part of BYU named the Church Teachers College with Edwin S. Hinckley as the first dean.

Deans Trophy

Latter Day Saints (LDS) College, Nasinu Teachers' College, Navuso Agricultural College and Suva Grammar School (SGS) have each won the trophy once.

Douglas Sloan

Douglas M. Sloan, professor of history and education at Teachers College, Columbia University

Ed Philip

Philip was educated at St. Joseph's Teachers' College, the University of Ottawa, and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, earning a Master's Degree in Education.

Education in the Philippines during the American rule

It was headed by Paul Monroe, who at the time was the Director of the International Institute of Teachers College, Columbia University, and it was composed by a total of 23 education professionals, mostly from the U.S. and some from the Philippines.

Gary Bertini

Gary studied music at the Music Teachers' College in Tel Aviv and then in Milan, Italy, and at the Paris Conservatoire.

George Sheldon Johnsen

He studied drawing with George Bridgman and William Charles McNulty at the Art Students League of New York, and painting at Williamson Teachers College under the tutelage of Jack Perlmutter.

Glen Frey

Glen Frey was an American college football head coach who holds the distinction as being the New Jersey State Teachers College at Glassboro (now called Rowan University) program's first head coach.

Harris–Stowe State University

In 1929, its name was changed to Stowe Teachers College, after author Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose Uncle Tom's Cabin had promoted the abolitionist cause in the antebellum United States.

History of Wagga Wagga

In 1971, following pressure from the Wagga Wagga community for a university, the teachers' college became the Riverina College of Advanced Education and was relocated to a site adjacent to the Wagga Agricultural College, with whom it amalgamated in 1975.

Iosefa Enari

The music for the work was inspired by the 1960s recordings of Samoan songs made by the Samoan Teachers College and the Samoan composer Tuala Falenaoti Tiresa Malietoa.

Jan Gunnar Hoff

Hoff is a graduate of the Teachers' College in Bodø and Bergen, and was further educated on the Jazz program at Trondhein musikkonservatorium under Terje Bjørklund (1986–89), and in Composisjon at Norges Musikkhøgskole (2001).

Kikuyu, Kenya

Kenya Forestry Research Institute, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Alliance High School, Alliance Girls High School, The Green Garden Schools, Jeverden Highlands Academy, St. Veronica I.L.C, Thogoto Teachers' College, Musa Gitau Primary School, and Mary Leakey Girls Secondary School at the fringes of the Nairobi city boundary, which was started by the famous Leakey family of archeologists.

Kitikifumba

In 2011, the government openened a brand new Shimoni Primary Teachers College, which had been relocated from Kampala, on land that now accommodates Kampala Intercontinental Hotel.

Kristiansand Teacher Training College

The seminary moved to Kristiansand in 1877, and was renamed Kristiansand Teachers' College in 1902.

Liang Heng

During his studies at the Hunan Teachers' College in Changsha he met Judith Shapiro, an American teacher.

Linnaeus N. Hines

With Hines as president the institution expanded to become the Indiana State University and the Eastern Division was charted as the Ball State Teachers College in 1929.

Makeni Teacher's College

Makeni Teacher's College formerly St Augustine’s Teachers College is a two to three years public college located in Makeni, Bombali District, Sierra Leone.

Marjorie Bean

She attended Wilberforce University (in Ohio), Columbia University's Teachers College (in New York City) and the Institute of Education at the University of London.

Max Wagenknecht

He was born in Woldisch Tychow, Pomerania, Free State of Prussia and spent most of his life in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania region where he was music teacher at the Franzburg Teachers’ College and in his later life organist and composer in Anklam.

Miguel Pou

In 1906, he completed the methodology course in teaching drawing at the Hyannis Normal School (now the Hyannis State Teachers College) in Massachusetts, United States.

Mr G

Like his creator, Mr G mentions that he graduated from the Teachers' College of Macquarie University in Sydney, where he completed a Bachelor of Arts, where he mentions majoring in the performing arts (music, drama and dance), and a Diploma of Education.

Nasarawa State College of Education, Akwanga

The institution was established as the Advanced Teachers College Akwanga(ATCA) in September 1976, by Plateau State edict No.5 in 1978.The edict was then repealed in favour of Nasarawa State Edict No. 16 of 1996 which came into effect on 1 October 1996, after the state was created from Plateau State, by the Abacha government, which transferred the responsibilities of the institution to Nasarawa state government, as a result of the location of the institution in the new Nasarawa state.

National Association of Student Personnel Administrators

In 1925, the first piece of "research" - presented by John Bennett of Teachers College, Columbia University - was offered at a NADAM meeting.

Nelio Dallolio

Nelio Dallolio was an American college football head coach at New Jersey State Teachers College at Glassboro (now called Rowan University), an NCAA Division III program in Glassboro, New Jersey.

Norm Cash

Cash was born in Justiceburg, Garza County, Texas, and attended (what was then) Sul Ross State Teachers College, where he was All-Lone Star Conference in football as well as playing baseball; he was drafted by the Chicago Bears as a running back in 1955, but declined to play pro football.

Pengkalan Chepa

They are the Kota Bharu Teachers' College, Darulnaim College of Technology (KTD), Maktab Rendah Sains Mara Kota Bharu, and Sekolah Menengah Sains Kelantan (now named Sekolah Menengah Sains Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra, after Kelantan's regent).

Peru State College

During World War II, the Peru campus of the Nebraska State Teachers College hosted a unit of the US Navy V-12 officer training program, which served as an alternative military route for college students who were drafted during the war.

Queensland Softball Association

23 Clubs affiliated with the Brisbane Women's Softball Association for the 1965/66 season—Athletics, Brisbane Bears, Cannon Hill Stars, Hawks, Inala Carltons, Kedron Park Teachers College, Magpies, Mitchelton Missiles, Mt Gravatt Eagles, Oxley Rockets, Pandas, Panthers, Rebels, Saints, Spiro Tots, Southside Scamps, T-Jets, Tramway Terrors, University, Wildcats, Windsors, Wolves and WRAAC and 66 teams participated in the competition at Downey Park.

Quintilian

Gwynn, Aubrey S.J. Roman Education from Cicero to Quintilian. New York: Teachers College Press, 1926.

Samuel Jacob Sesanus Olsen

Before Jacob Olsen studied at Teachers College, he worked 15 months in business in Sandavágur and was at sea for a single year.

Samuel Totten

Samuel Totten earned a master's degree and a doctoral degree at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Semko Libadi

Born in 1945 in the West Azarbaijan Province of Iran, Libadi graduated from the Teachers' College of Agriculture in Urumieh in 1963 and took up a post as a secondary school teacher in Saqqez.

William F. Russell

William Fletcher Russell (1890–1956), president of Teachers College, Columbia University, New York

Wingate H. Lucas

Born in Grapevine, Texas, Lucas attended the public schools, the North Texas Teachers College at Denton, the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College at Stillwater, and the Texas University at Austin.

Winston Saunders

Having attended the Bahamas Teachers’ College, Saunders obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Classics from the University of London in 1964.