Cameroon University

The Oklahoma Legislature made six horticultural secondary schools in every legal locale only a year after statehood in 1908. Lawton was decided to get a secondary school over Anadarko in April 1909, because of their having officially put aside a bit of area for a higher instructive foundation. The University Improvement Association, under the sponsorship of the Lawton Chamber of Commerce, composed the push to secure 220 sections of land (89 ha) of area two miles (three kilometers) west of the town. Its unique objective was to secure a private Baptist school. Game plans with the Baptists fell through in the late spring of 1908. The Catholic Church approached the Association with an offer to structure an all-male establishment on the site. This arrangement was not worthy to the town pioneers. Cameron State School of Agriculture was named for the Rev. E. D. Cameron, a Baptist pastor and Oklahoma's first State Superintendent of Schools. The main classes were hung on Statehood Day, November 16, 1909, in the storm cellar of a bank building, while another grounds building was built.

Cameron included lesser school work in 1927 when neighborhood advanced education needs surpassed what was accessible in Southwest Oklahoma. With this changed capacity came another name: Cameron State Agricultural College. Secondary school courses were dropped and Cameron got to be singularly a lesser school in 1941 when the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education was framed and joined the gathering of foundations represented by the Board of Regents of Oklahoma A&M Colleges.

Baccalaureate degrees were approved in 1966 by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, taking after activity by the Legislature. The organization's name was abbreviated to Cameron College in 1971, then changed to Cameron University in 1974. As the 1970s proceeded with, Cameron showed its commitment to extended scholastic offerings through the development of an expressive arts office intended to serve understudies in theater, music, television, and discourse correspondence.

Dr. Donald J. Owen served as Cameron's President from 1969-1980. A Cameron graduate himself, Owen attempted to manufacture scholastic projects and create associations with the Lawton group, and also the Oklahoma State University framework, under which CU fell amid his residency. Cameron's games groups, especially football and b-ball, exceeded expectations amid that time, and another President's house was built on Gore Blvd west of the grounds.

In 1988, State Regents extended Cameron's capacities to incorporate offerings at the graduate degree level. This change in capacity was the initially conceded to an Oklahoma establishment since Cameron was given the power to offer four year college educations over 20 years prior. In the 1990s, Cameron University went under the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma.

Wear Davis was President of Cameron University from 1980 to 2002. His dad, Clarence L. Davis, was President of Cameron from 1957-1960. As a youngster, Davis lived in the President's home on grounds with his mom, father, and sister. Where this house once stood now stands a cutting edge science focus. As a previous official from Lawton, Davis had the capacity secure subsidizing for Cameron that permitted it to develop into the head establishment for advanced education in southwestern Oklahoma. Additionally amid Davis' residency, a traditional radio station, KCCU 89.3, was established. Various prestigious researchers, including Richard Leakey, Cornel West, and James Burke[disambiguation needed], have talked at Cameron's yearly Academic Festival.

In May 2004, Cameron assumed control over the Duncan Higher Education Center in Duncan, Oklahoma, and renamed it Cameron University - Duncan.

In June 2005, the State Regents endorsed the first Master of Science in Entrepreneurial Studies in the state and the first graduate declaration program in the state. The Entrepreneurial Studies system was appraised by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the main 10 restricted educational program programs in the country. In 2006, the Master of Science in Entrepreneurial Studies project was the first runner-up behind the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for the model graduate program in business by the U.S. Relationship for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. In 2008, the system was named the model graduate program in business with the Small Business Institute universal project. At the center of the system is the SBI model and the scholastic examination process. The project is going by Dr. Shawn M. Carraher [Endowed Chair, Professor of Business (Management & Global Entrepreneurship) local American, and Director of the scholastic bits of the Center for Emerging Technology and Entrepreneurial Studies], whose exploration concentrates on worldwide vital issues in entrepreneurial human services and friendliness associations. More than 300 understudy effort activities have been finished and more than 100 scholarly presentations were coauthored by understudies.