Jacoby D. Dickens Center
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | September 2, 1867 |
| Endowment | $5,157,070 |
| President | Cecil Lucy (interim) |
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Academic staff
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470 |
| Students | 3,578 (Fall 2016) |
| Undergraduates | 2,352 |
| Postgraduates | 1,226 |
| Location |
Chicago, Illinois, U.S. 41°43′04″N 87°36′35″W / 41.717646°N 87.609744°WCoordinates: 41°43′04″N 87°36′35″W / 41.717646°N 87.609744°W |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Green, Black and White |
| Athletics | NCAA Division I – WAC |
| Nickname | Cougars |
| Mascot | Cougar |
| Affiliations |
AASCU TMCF |
| Website | www |
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Chicago State University (CSU) is a state university of the U.S. state of Illinois, located in Chicago. The University is a member-school of Thurgood Marshall College Fund.
Cook County Normal School was founded in 1867 largely through the initiative of John F. Eberhart, the Commissioner of Schools for Cook County. Eberhart noted that Cook County schools lagged far behind their counterparts in the City of Chicago, especially in terms of the quality and competence of instructors. He convinced the County Commissioners to hold a teacher training institute in April 1860; its success convinced the commissioners of the need for a permanent school to educate teachers. In March 1867, the Cook County Board of Supervisors created a Normal school at Blue Island on a two-year experimental basis; Daniel S. Wentworth was the first principal.
The school opened in 1869 as a permanent institution in Englewood, which was a village far beyond the outskirts of Chicago at that time. After Wentworth died in 1883, he was replaced by Colonel Francis Wayland Parker, a towering figure in the history of American education. Parker was an educational innovator who helped construct the philosophy of progressive education, which has decisively shaped American schooling over the past century. Dedicated to the proposition that the nature and interests of the child should determine curricular decisions, not vice versa, progressive reformers from the 1890s forward tried to banish what they saw as oppressive and authoritarian standards of instruction. Parker urged teachers to grant pupils the freedom to learn from their environment, to let curiosity rather than rewards or punishments provide their motivation, and to advance American democracy by democratizing their classrooms. John Dewey wrote in The New Republic in 1930 that Parker, "more nearly than any other one person, was the father of the progressive educational movement."” Parker believed that education was the cornerstone of a democracy, and that to achieve this end rote memorization should be replaced with exploration of the environment. Parker's Talks on Pedagogics preceded Dewey's own School and Society by five years, and it is one of the foundational texts in the progressive movement.
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