bus trip with 450 supporters trekked to the State Capitol in a show of support that ultimately secured its continued existence. In 1996, ETSU was admitted into the Texas A&M University System (TAMUS) and renamed Texas A&M University–Commerce (A&M–Commerce). ETSU's former branch campus in Texarkana was renamed Texas A&M University–Texarkana and admitted into TAMUS as a separate university. University presidents William Leonidas Mayo (1889–1917) Randolph Binnion (1917–24) Samuel Henry Whitley (1924–46) Arthur C. Ferguson (Interim)(1947) James Gilliam Gee (1947–66) D. Whitney Halladay (1966–72) F.H. McDowell (1972–82) Charles J. Austin (1982–87) Jerry D. Morris (1987–97) Keith D. McFarland (1997–2008) Dan R. Jones (2008–16) Ray Keck (2016–2018) Mark J. Rudin (2018–present) Colleges and schools Texas A&M University–Commerce comprises five academic colleges awarding degrees in over 100 diverse disciplines. The College of Education and Human Services is perhaps the most well-known college within the university and is one of the foremost education-focused institutions in the state of Texas among all universities, both public and private, and has produced numerous successful and notable teachers and school administrators. Texas A&M Commerce has agreements with many school districts in the DFW area and Northeast Texas to send their undergraduates to student-teach, and also has a notable graduate school for those educators who are in pursuit of advanced degrees in teaching and education and also, a well known doctoral program for those pursuing a PhD in education. Accordingly, Texas A&M-Commerce is a Level II Doctoral Research University, classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. In the summer of 2013, the College of Education and Human Services at Texas A&M-Commerce was ranked number one in Texas for teaching education among all universities, public and private, and 13th in the entire nation by the Directory of U.S. Colleges Database Online Magazine. The College of Business (CB) has over the past three decades become a highly respected business school in Texas and beyond. The CB offers graduate and undergraduate degrees in accounting, finance, general business administration, management, marketing, applied arts and sciences, and business analytics. The CB has been nationally recognized for its MBA program, and was ranked as the fifth-best program overall in the 2012 edition of U.S. News & World Reports annual "Best Graduate School" issue. Both the MBA and the undergraduate accounting programs were mentioned in both Forbes and the Wall Street Journal as best buys for programs offered by schools in Texas. The