The story
Husson University traces its roots to November 1, 1898, when the already existing Shaw Business College announced it was opening a branch in Bangor, Maine, alongside the college's Augusta and Houlton branches. The Bangor branch was located on the second floor of a building in downtown Bangor. The enrollment bloomed after one year. In 1926, the Bangor branch changed ownership and was renamed to the Bangor Maine School of Commerce, becoming a branch of the Maine School of Commerce alongside the other former branches of Shaw Business School. Despite the initial bloom, enrollment remained low until after World War II, when its reputation grew as a business school. In 1933, the Bangor school was purchased by Chesley H. Husson who was working as the school's principal. On December 27, 1946, following a stockholders meeting the college was renamed to Husson College. The name change became effective on January 2, 1947.
In 1953 the Maine Legislature authorized the school to grant Bachelor of Science degrees. It subsequently became Husson University in 2008.
Today the University has four colleges, and two schools: the College of Business, the College of Health and Education, the College of Science and Humanities, the School of Pharmacy, and the New England School of Communications. The New England School of Communications, known by its abbreviation NESCom, was an independent school acquired by Husson in 1997, and was separately accredited and operated semi-autonomously with control over its own tuition, hiring, admissions, and graduation requirements until 2014.
Since 2000, undergraduate enrollment has increased five to ten percent with each incoming class. In response, the University continues to add a significant number of new faculty to its ranks. Today, students graduate having trained both in the specialties of their chosen fields and in how those fields fit into a broader cultural context. Husson ranks 54th on U.S. News & World Report's ranking of top universities in the United States for social mobility.
From Wikipedia’s article on Husson University, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5