PPT Slide
In 1915, the Academy of Idaho became Idaho Technical Institute and was empowered to offer “instruction in such vocational, scientific, literary and technical subjects as will meet the educational needs of the students enrolled. Provided, that the course shall include two and not more than two years of college grade and such work below college grade as the conditions of the educational system of the State renders desirable.” Although Pocatello legislators argued in Boise that the remoteness of the University of Idaho at Moscow justified another college in southern Idaho, Pocatello’s citizens settled for what we would today call junior college status.