University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh
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| Type | State university |
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| Established | 1871 |
| Endowment | $18.18 million |
| Chancellor | Andrew Leavitt |
| Students | 13,902 (2014) |
| Undergraduates | 12,623 (2014) |
| Postgraduates | 945 (2014) |
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Oshkosh, Wisconsin, U.S. 40°42′46″N 74°00′21″W / 40.7127837°N 74.00594130000002°WCoordinates: 40°42′46″N 74°00′21″W / 40.7127837°N 74.00594130000002°W |
| Campus | Urban, 173.5 acres (70 ha) |
| Colors | Black, Gold |
| Nickname | Titans |
| Website | www |
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Oshkosh State Normal School Historic District
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Dempsey Hall
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| Location | Buildings at 800, 842, and 912 Algoma Blvd., and 845 Elmwood Ave., Oshkosh, Wisconsin |
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| Area | 9 acres (3.6 ha) |
| Built | 1934 |
| Architectural style | Gothic, Other, Collegiate Gothic |
| NRHP Reference # | 84000722 |
| Added to NRHP | December 6, 1984 |
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Oviatt House
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Oviatt House
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| Location | 842 Algoma Blvd., Oshkosh, Wisconsin |
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| Area | 1.2 acres (0.49 ha) |
| Built | 1883 |
| Architectural style | Late Victorian |
| NRHP Reference # | 79000121 |
| Added to NRHP | August 27, 1979 |
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Pollock, William E., Residence
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Pollock Alumni House
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| Location | 765 Algoma Blvd., Oshkosh, Wisconsin |
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| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1920 |
| Architectural style | Other, Mission/spanish Revival, Spanish-Mediterranean |
| NRHP Reference # | 84000728 |
| Added to NRHP | December 6, 1984 |
The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (also known as UW Oshkosh) is the third-largest university in Wisconsin, United States. As part of the University of Wisconsin System, UW Oshkosh offers bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees in an annual on- and off-campus enrollment of nearly 14,000.
In 1871 the school opened as Oshkosh State Normal School, Wisconsin's third teacher-training school. Oshkosh Normal was the first state normal school in the United States to have a kindergarten.
The university was renamed Oshkosh State Teachers College in 1927, Wisconsin State College–Oshkosh in 1951, and Wisconsin State University–Oshkosh in 1964. It became part of the University of Wisconsin System in 1971 and gained its current name.
On November 21, 1968 there were two demonstrations involved in and referred to as 'Black Thursday'. The fist demonstration occurred during the morning by mostly black students at Wisconsin State University–Oshkosh, that occupied the Presidents office, protesting against the lack of black faculty and black-oriented courses, they refused to leave, damaged the Presidents office, destroyed furniture and office records. The students were arrested by baton-wielding riot police when they refused to leave.
News coverage of the first demonstration was minimal unlike the National and International television and live reporting coverage of the second demonstration by 400 white students who occupied the Wisconsin State University–Oshkosh Reeves Student Union cafeteria in the early evening. Oshkosh Police contacted the President of Wisconsin State University–Oshkosh Student Assembly who entered the student union while all Oshkosh police remained outside including Oshkosh riot police standing offset around the glass floor to ceding windows of the Reeves Student Union cafeteria. The President of the Student Assembly spoke briefly to the students and convinced them to all follow him out of the student union as he had suggested, onto the street opposite Reeves Student Unions and returned to their housing units as he also suggested, averting any arrests or violence. No students were arrested or later expelled.
Until the 1960s the Wisconsin State University–Oshkosh student body was almost exclusively white as were the Faculty. The Wisconsin State University–Oshkosh administration at the time has been described as "conservative, paternalistic" and "ruled by elderly white males in the twilight of their careers". As result of the first demonstration the university expelled 94 students, almost all black, from the first 'Black Thursday' demonstration.
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