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 UVAs ESchool 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 todo 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 ESchools site insofar as they claim to be the oldest for prestige reasons