Vincennes Trailblazers

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Vincennes University (VU) is a public university in Vincennes, Indiana in the United States. Founded in 1801 as Jefferson Academy, VU is the oldest public institution of higher learning in Indiana. Since 1889, VU has been a two-year university, although baccalaureate degrees in seven select areas are now available. Unlike most other two-year higher-education institutions, however, VU is a residential campus and has been since its inception over two hundred years ago. VU was chartered in 1806 as the territory of Indiana's four-year university and remained the State of Indiana's sole publicly-funded four-year university until the establishment of Indiana University. Until 2005, Vincennes University served as the state-mandated coordinator of the Ivy Tech Community College system.

VU is a member of the NJCAA. In honor of its historical herritage, the VU team moniker is the Trailblazers. Trailblazers refers to the early years of Vincennes as outpost in the frontier of the Northwest Territory and its later period as capital of the Indiana Territory. When the Trailblazers moniker needs to be personified as a mascot, VU depicts a Trailblazer as minute man or woodsman-type frontier settler, such as inspired by George Rogers Clark who resided in Indiana after his military career.

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