That makes sense to me As I reflect on this I think that part of the potential for confusion is that the point as I understand it is that UVA s E School was the first one that was associated with a university AT THE TIME OF ITS FOUNDING as opposed to one that became associated later or one that was part of a school that expanded its mission Perhaps another idea would be to say the first to be founded as part of a university or something similar to that I like the idea of the footnote with the stronger source either way though I recall there was a to do about the Jefferson Society a while back and there was a question about whether their site was a sufficient source due to the notion that they have a conflict of interest in that they consider it prestigious to be the oldest debating society The same argument might apply to the E School s site insofar as they claim to be the oldest for prestige reasons