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So when I have nothing to do, I've been trying to add birthdates and as much infor of biographies as I can for people.  However I have a question.  Some names of Colleges and Universities have changed since people graduated from there.  My question is should it be listed as how it was when they graduated, or what the current name is?  I've steered clear of it for the most part so far, but going forward wanted a general idea so I can fill it in.

In my opinion, it should be what it was when they graduated.  I flirted with college and the college I was going to attend changed their name about a year after I would have graduated.  Sometimes its still hard for me to call it by their new name because its not what I remember it as.  From a standpoint of a student or a graduate I would think those people would feel the same way, however I can understand if it might be easier to list it as the current name.  My issue with that is who knows when a college name could be changed again, and then would we have to update them all, or just leave them be?  If we leave them, I think we should just go the extra step and have it as it was when they attended.

Maybe another idea is having aliases for colleges and universities.  Take the University of Missouri for example, everybody where I live calls it Mizzou, even though that isn't the official name.  It would make it easier to have both names connected for people to find them.

Wild guess, but did you plan to attend Southwest Missouri State which is now known as simply Missouri State?

I think it should be the name at the time of graduation (or last attended for those that did not graduate). Similar to how we have "California Angels, Anaheim Angels, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, etc" for the pro teams. My two cents. 

No, I would have possibly have gone there if they accepted me, but I was talking about Central Methodist College, now Central Methodist University.  I still have shirts that have the CMC logo, and honestly when I hear CMU I think of Central Michigan.  Central Methodist isn't too far away from Central Missouri State University, which also changed their name too around that time, to University of Central Missouri, or UCM.  Sometimes the local stations confuse UCM and CMU.

Having attended 2 colleges that have done precisely that, I completely understand. I personally feel that how the college was named while they attended is what we should put here (as well as what we would put on our own resumés). I attended Glassboro State College, not Rowan University. Unfortunately, LinkedIn does not understand this sentiment, and you can only list the colleges you attended using their current names.

I agree 100%

I agree as well, name at time of graduation/enrollment.  I got my Masters from Loyola College inMaryland, which is now Loyola University Maryland.  I use the old name on resumes.

What it was when they graduated.  Otherwise you'll be changing the college name every time the college exchanges faceplates for every card associated.

Many "colleges" went to becoming "universities" (long story that need not be gone into).   In NJ, most of the state colleges have changed their names as Vrooomed pointed out.  Most grads rightfully refer to them by the name it was when they attended.   Rider College became Rider University.   Then there is the issue of nickname change.   Like the Syracuse Orangemen became the Syracuse Orange to be PC.

Looking at this makes me wonder why the college data from the player cards doesn't link together the same way the TID entries do. For example, the Football teams list shows 5 players with "Chattanooga" listed as their college, while another 10 show up on the list under "Tennessee-Chattanooga." Some of the players from both lists also show up on the "Chattanoga Mocs" TID list because those cards show them in college, while others do not because their cards are for pro teams only.

Would the site benefit from some way to link the different names entered into the college name field on the PIDs to a single place in the college teams list, the same way we link those different names to the same TID in that other list? That would allow use of the school name at time of attendance on the PIDs and also show everyone who attended that school under different names in one place on the master list to assist those who want to see that information. I realize that a "true fan" would likely know to look for the multiple team names anyway, but a more casual observer might not, and the posted information is at times incorrect. For example, Bill Butler is listed under Tennessee-Chattanooga, but actually should be listed under Chattanooga because he played there before the school joined the UT system. This school is also unusual in that it has used the same informal name both before and after a different name. The school was officially the "University of Chattanooga" until 1969 when it became the "University of Tennessee at Chattanooga."  Less formally, the school was simply "Chattanooga" or "UC" before 1969 and "Tennessee-Chattanooga" or "UTC" since then, but over the last decade or so it has tried to downplay the UT connection and today often just goes by "Chattanooga."  The TID area collects these different entries into one list; is there a reason not to do something like that here?