Roger Williams University (Bristol, R.I.)

found: Roger Williams University law review, spring 1996:cover (Roger Williams University)

found: Its Website, viewed Aug. 28, 2014(The University's roots date to 1919, when Northeastern University opened a branch campus at the Broad Street Providence YMCA. In 1940, the YMCA Board of Directors took over the school, and after closing it briefly during World War II, the YMCA Institute granted its first associate's degrees in 1948. In Feb. 1956, the Institute received a state charter to become a two-year, degree-granting institution under the name of Roger Williams Junior College [no publs. in LC database for earlier names]. During the 1960s, the school, then called Roger Williams College, began granting bachelor's degrees and quickly outgrew the YMCA building. The College purchased 80 acres of waterfront land in Bristol and, in 1969, completed the initial construction of its new campus. In 1992, Roger Williams College became Roger Williams University, and the University celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2006)