Editing Tulane University (section)

===20th century===
[[File:Tulane1904GibsonHall.jpg|thumb|right|[[Gibson Hall (Tulane University)|Gibson Hall]], located on the uptown campus of Tulane University in 1904]]
With the improvements to Tulane University in the late 19th century, Tulane had a firm foundation to build upon as the premier university of the [[Deep South]] and continued the legacy with growth in the 20th century. During 1907, the school established a four-year professional curriculum in architecture through the College of Technology, growing eventually into the [[Tulane School of Architecture]]. One year later, Schools of Dentistry and Pharmacy were established, albeit temporarily. The School of Dentistry ended in 1928, and Pharmacy six years later.<ref name="dates"/> In 1914, Tulane established a College of Commerce, the first [[business school]] in [[Southern United States|the South]].<ref name="dates">{{cite web| url=http://www.tulane.edu/~alumni/potpourri/IF.pdf| title=Significant dates in Tulane's History| publisher=tulane.edu| access-date=June 7, 2007| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070615013419/http://www.tulane.edu/~alumni/potpourri/IF.pdf| archive-date=June 15, 2007| url-status=live}}</ref> In 1925, Tulane established the independent Graduate School. Two years later, the university set up a [[Tulane University School of Social Work|School of Social Work]], also the first in the southern United States.<ref name="dates"/> Tulane was instrumental in promoting the arts in New Orleans and the South in establishing the Newcomb School of Art with [[William Woodward (artist)|William Woodward]] as director, thus establishing the renowned [[Newcomb Pottery]]. The [http://mari.tulane.edu/ Middle American Research Institute] was established in 1925 at Tulane "for the purpose of advanced research into the history (both Indian and colonial), archaeology, tropical botany (both economic and medical), the natural resources and products, of the countries facing New Orleans across the waters to the south; to gather, index and disseminate data thereupon; and to aid in the upbuilding of the best commercial and friendly relations between these Trans-Caribbean peoples and the United States."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tulane.edu/~mari/|title=mission statement of the Middle American Research Institute|year=1925|access-date=May 14, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100506160943/http://www.tulane.edu/~mari/|archive-date=May 6, 2010|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Tulane School of Professional Advancement|University College]] was established in 1942 as Tulane's division of continuing education. By 1950, the School of Architecture had grown out of Engineering into an independent school. In 1958, the university was elected to the [[Association of American Universities]], an organization consisting of 62 of the leading research universities in North America. The [[Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine|School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine]] again became independent from the School of Medicine in 1967. It was established in 1912. Tulane's School of Tropical Medicine also remains the only one of its kind in the country. On April 23, 1975, US President [[Gerald Ford]] spoke at Tulane University's Fogelman Arena at the invitation of [[F. Edward Hebert]], the US representative of Louisiana's 1st Congressional District. During the historic speech, Ford announced that the Vietnam War was "finished as far as America is concerned" one week before the fall of [[Saigon]]. Ford drew parallels to the [[Battle of New Orleans]] and said that such positive activity could do for America's morale what the battle did in 1815.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/speeches/750208.htm |title=Address at a Tulane University Convocation |year=1975 |publisher=Ford Presidential Library |access-date=January 8, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060926033522/http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/speeches/750208.htm |archive-date=September 26, 2006}}</ref>

During [[World War II]], Tulane was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the [[V-12 Navy College Training Program]] which offered students a path to a Navy commission.<ref name="tulane-v-12">{{cite web |url=http://www.veterantributes.org/TributeDetail.asp?ID=1103 |title=Arthur J.M. Oustalet Jr. |publisher=Veteran Tributes |access-date=September 29, 2011 |year=2011 }}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

In 1963, Tulane enrolled its first African American students.<ref name=":0" /> In 1990, Rhonda Goode-Douglas, alongside other black, female students, founded the first African American sorority in Tulane's history, AKA Omicron Psi.
[[File:Gibson Hall, 2019.jpg|alt=|thumb|Gibson Hall today. Facing historic [[St. Charles Avenue]], it is the entry landmark on the uptown campus.]]
A detailed account of the history of Tulane University from its founding through 1965 was published by Dyer.<ref name="Dyer">John P. Dyer, ''Tulane: The Biography of a University, 1834 – 1965'', Harper and Row publ, 1966.</ref>