Here is an ad for the school in a newspaper from the time period:

It’s funny because there is a school called the University of the People. Which I looked at, and has a great mission, but it’s fairly terrible to navigate. I dropped out because the instructors at the time didn’t even seem to know english. And I always hated the name.

But then I am reading this essay, and I guess there is a history of using the term “people” in college names. lol