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History of UMass Boston
UMass Boston has two histories. One begins in 1852 with the founding of Girls' High School, the future Boston State College. The second begins in 1863, with the founding of Massachusetts Agricultural College, the future University of Massachusetts; it takes on new life in 1964, when the state legislature voted to establish a new university campus in Boston. These two histories, which came together in 1982 when Boston State became part of UMass Boston, have long shared a common strand: the abiding belief of generations of students and their teachers in what the Boston State motto calls "education for service." UMass Boston takes pleasure in presenting on these pages glimpses of a rich and varied past- and an exciting future.
| 1851 Superintendent Nathan Bishop proposes a normal school to train teachers for the elementary grades |
| 1852 Girls' High School conducts its first classes in the Adams School building on Mason St. |
| 1854 Girls' High is renamed Girls' High and Normal School |
| 1863 Massachusetts Agricultural College (M.A.C) is founded in Amherst |
| 1870 The school moves to new quarters on West Newton St. |
| 1872 Boston Normal School becomes a separate institution |
 1876
Boston Normal moves to the Rice School building on Dartmouth St.
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 1907
Boston Normal moves to a specially built facility on Huntington Ave.
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| 1922 Boston Normal becomes the Teachers College of the City of Boston |
| 1931 "M.A.C." became Massachusetts State College |
| 1947 "M.A.C." became University of Massachusetts |
 "Education
for Service," reads the motto over the Teachers College gate.1952 Teachers College becomes the State Teachers College at Boston |
| 1960 Renamed State College at Boston |
100 Arlington St. in Park Square1964 The University of Massachusetts Boston is established |
| 1968 Renamed Boston State College |
| 1974 First classes at UMass Boston's Harbor Campus |
| 1982 Boston State joins UMass Boston |
2004 New UMass Boston Campus Center opens |