From the NIU College of Education Facts and History.
1895-- Northern Illinois State Normal School
1921-- Northern Illinois State Teachers College
1955-- Northern Illinois State College
1957-- Northern Illinois University
Two other education dates of interest:
1915-- Fanny Ruth Patterson graduated, the first black student to graduate from the institution. I wrote about her earlier this month.
July 1943-- The State of Illinois now required teachers to have a four-year degree.
--Cooter
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Showing posts with label Fanny Patterson. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Fanny Patterson, Black Pathfinder-- Part 3: The Fanny Patterson Scholarship
The Fanny Patterson Scholarship at Northern Illinois University.
Applicant must be:
** At least third year (minimum of 70 credit hours).
** 2.5 cumulative GPA.
** Active in campus affairs (SA, NBC and Black Greek organizations)
** Must submit a 500 word essay on the importance of obtaining a college degree.
** Scholarship will be a minimum of $500.
Applicant must be:
** At least third year (minimum of 70 credit hours).
** 2.5 cumulative GPA.
** Active in campus affairs (SA, NBC and Black Greek organizations)
** Must submit a 500 word essay on the importance of obtaining a college degree.
** Scholarship will be a minimum of $500.
Fanny Patterson: A Black Pathfinder-- Part 2
I had never heard of this woman so looked her up on the internet.
From the NIU Black Alumni Council "Fanny Patterson Scholarship Award.
Miss Fanny Patterson was born August 14, 1892 and graduated from Hinckley High School and, at the age of 21, entered NI State Normal School (former name of NIU back then) and took classes in arithmetic, reading, grammar, methods, and a state course.
Upon graduation in 1915, she was noted by then NIU President John Watson Cook as "an excellent girl, having good looks, good taste, extreme modesty of demeanor and a good mind."
She then went downstate and taught four years before dying of pulmonary tuberculosis on Feb. 17, 1920 at the young age of 28.
She was a brave, unique, an innovator at NIU.
Quite an Accomplished Woman.
From the NIU Black Alumni Council "Fanny Patterson Scholarship Award.
Miss Fanny Patterson was born August 14, 1892 and graduated from Hinckley High School and, at the age of 21, entered NI State Normal School (former name of NIU back then) and took classes in arithmetic, reading, grammar, methods, and a state course.
Upon graduation in 1915, she was noted by then NIU President John Watson Cook as "an excellent girl, having good looks, good taste, extreme modesty of demeanor and a good mind."
She then went downstate and taught four years before dying of pulmonary tuberculosis on Feb. 17, 1920 at the young age of 28.
She was a brave, unique, an innovator at NIU.
Quite an Accomplished Woman.
Looking Back to 1916: Fannie Patterson, a Black Woman, Gets Teaching Job
From the March 6, 2016, MidWeek (DeKalb County, Illinois) "Looking Back."
1916, 100 Years Ago.
Fannie Patterson of Hinckley has been engaged at a good salary to teach a two-room suburban school of colored children in Cairo, Illinois. When Miss Patterson graduated from Hinckley high school a couple years or so ago she had the distinction of being the first colored graduate in the history of the institution."
Quite an accomplishment for a black woman back then.
I'll Do a Follow Up On Her. She Had Quite the NIU Connection As Well. --Cooter
1916, 100 Years Ago.
Fannie Patterson of Hinckley has been engaged at a good salary to teach a two-room suburban school of colored children in Cairo, Illinois. When Miss Patterson graduated from Hinckley high school a couple years or so ago she had the distinction of being the first colored graduate in the history of the institution."
Quite an accomplishment for a black woman back then.
I'll Do a Follow Up On Her. She Had Quite the NIU Connection As Well. --Cooter
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