Education
Under the leadership of President F. M. Tisdel, the University of Wyoming Normal school became a full-fledged Department of education in the first decade of the 20th Century. Tisdel established a four-year school of education offering a bachelor of arts degree. Initiation of a summer school as well as a practical training school solidified the university's claim on teacher training in Wyoming. During this decade, the department was housed in a variety of buildings on campus. In 1910 the university constructed a new building for the Normal School.
Funding for the new Education Building was obtained early in the tenure of President George D. Humphrey (1945-1964). By the summer of 1952, the "new Education Hall" boasted a program capable of enrolling "a pupil in the nursery school and carrying him through the Doctor's degree." Designed by the Cheyenne architectural firm of Porter and Bradley, the building features elements congruent with the eclectic and modern modes adopted for other campus structures. Its low sweep and asymmetrical plans are, however, gestures more in accord with institutional modernism. Robert Russin's facade sculpture embodies the spirit of purposefulness underlying the building's primary function.
Centennial Celebration, September 27, 1986
