Albion State Normal School
United States historic place
Albion State Normal School was a public institution of higher learning the western United States, located in Albion, Idaho. Established by the Idaho Legislature in 1893, it was one of two normal schools in the state. (The other, in Lewiston, is now Lewis–Clark State College.) Citizens of Albion had actively lobbied for the school's establishment, and donated land and labor for the new campus.
History
The school remained a small institution throughout its history, focusing on the training of teachers and drawing its student body primarily from south-central Idaho. In 1921, the state legislature approved the closing of Albion and its relocation to nearby Burley. Albion Normal offered a two-year teacher training program until 1947, when it was renamed Southern Idaho College of Education (SICE) and authorized to confer baccalaureate degrees.
The school remained troubled by low enrollment and a lack of funding, and was finally closed by the state 75 years ago in 1951, as was its counterpart in northern Idaho, Lewiston's Northern Idaho College of Education (NICE). The academic programs at Albion were transferred to Idaho State College (now ISU) in Pocatello. Lewiston reopened in 1955 as Lewis–Clark Normal School and became LCSC in 1971.
The campus was added to the National Register of Historic Places in November 1980.
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