Stephen Hawking sampled on Pink Floyd’s The Endless River. Rutgers University. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, /ˈrʌtɡərz/, commonly referred to as Rutgers University, Rutgers, or RU, is an American public research university and the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey in the United States. Originally chartered as Queen's College on 10 November 1766, Rutgers is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine "Colonial Colleges" founded before the American Revolution.[5][6] The college was renamed Rutgers College in 1825[7] in honour of Colonel Henry Rutgers (1745–1830), a New York City landowner, philanthropist and former military officer, whose generous donation to the school allowed it reopen after years of financial difficulty.
For most of its existence, Rutgers was a private liberal arts college affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church and admitted only male students. History[edit] Colonial period[edit] Financial troubles and a benefactor[edit] Land-grant college[edit] State University[edit] Governing Boards[edit] Pace University. Pace University is a private university in the New York metropolitan area with campuses in New York City and Westchester County, New York. Schools[edit] Pace University was ranked 173rd among national universities by U.S.
News & World Report in 2014.[4] Pace's associated schools include: Pace University School of Law. History[edit] In 1906, brothers Homer St. The Pace brothers' school was soon incorporated as Pace Institute, and expanded nationwide, offering courses in accountancy and business law in several U.S. cities. After Charles died in 1940 and Homer in 1942, Homer's son Robert S. The New York State Board of Regents approved Pace College's petition for university status in 1973. Since her last visit in celebration of Black History Month in 1989, Dr. On May 15, 2007, Pace University President David A. Schools and colleges[edit] The University consists of the following schools each with a graduate and undergraduate division: Campuses[edit] New York City[edit] A closer look on Maria's tower.
Indian School of Business. Torrens University Australia. Torrens University Australia is a for-profit[1] university located in Adelaide, South Australia. It is part of the Laureate International Universities network and is Australia's third private university.[1][2] History[edit] An application from Laureate Education Asia to found a private university was approved by the Government of South Australia in October 2011.[3] The go-ahead for the new university was given by the South Australian Cabinet following Premier Mike Rann's negotiations in Australia and in Cancun, Mexico, with Laureate Chairman Douglas Becker and Chancellor Dr Michael Mann. Honorary Laureate Chancellor and former US President Bill Clinton publicly endorsed the Australian project. "The opportunity to learn at the same university across different countries is increasingly important in our ever more connected world. I look forward to visiting the new Laureate campus in Adelaide," former President Clinton said.
Campus[edit] Programs[edit] Vice-chancellors[edit] Chancellors[edit] Susquehanna University. Susquehanna University is a four-year, co-educational, private liberal arts university in Selinsgrove, in central Pennsylvania, United States. The University is situated in the Susquehanna Valley approximately 50 miles (80 km) north of Pennsylvania's state capital, Harrisburg. The academic programs fall into either the School of Arts and Sciences or the AACSB International accredited Sigmund Weis School of Business.
Susquehanna University enrolls more than 2,200 undergraduate students from 35 states and 17 countries, and maintains a student-to-faculty ratio of 12 to 1. A large majority of students live on campus all four years and as of 2012, all students participate in a cross-cultural study away or service learning experience known as the GO Program. Noteworthy alumni include several Pennsylvania political representatives and CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. History[edit] Founding and Early Years[edit] The Missionary Institute’s first building. 20th Century[edit] Academics[edit] Campus[edit]
The New School. The New School is a university in New York City, New York, United States, located mostly in Greenwich Village. From its founding in 1919 by progressive New York educators, and for most of its history, the university was known as the New School for Social Research. Between 1997 and 2005 it was known as New School University. The university and each of its colleges were renamed in 2005. The school is renowned for its teaching, housing the international think tank World Policy Institute, and hosting the prestigious National Book Awards.
Parsons The New School for Design is the university's highly competitive art school. Some 9,300 students are enrolled in graduate and undergraduate degree programs, organized into seven different schools, which teach a variety of disciplines, including the social sciences, liberal arts, humanities, architecture, fine arts, design, music, drama, finance, psychology and public policy.[7] History[edit] Founding[edit] Founder Charles A.
University in Exile[edit] University of the Free State. History[edit] The long-held dream of an institution of higher education in the Free State became a reality in 1904 when the Grey College first accepted matriculants for a full B.A. course. In 1906 the tertiary part of Grey College became known as the Grey University College (GUC), but shortly thereafter the school and college parted ways. In 1910, the Parliament of the Orange River Colony passed legislation declaring the GUC an official educational institution in the fields of the Arts and Sciences.[2] Initially, the medium of instruction was English, but later this changed to be bilingual and included Afrikaans.
The name was changed to the University College of the Orange Free State—the Afrikaans version of this name change is the source of the word used to this day to refer to students of the University ("Kovsies"). In the late 1940s, the medium of instruction was changed to Afrikaans. In 1993, it adopted a system of parallel-medium tuition. Campus[edit] The main campus building. Collegiate university. A collegiate university (also federal university or affiliating university) is a university in which governing authority and functions are divided between a central administration and a number of constituent colleges.
Often, the division of powers in a collegiate university is realized in the form of a federation, analogous to the geopolitical arrangement in which a country comprises member regions (provinces, states, etc.) and a central federal government. A collegiate university differs from a centralized university in that its colleges are not just halls of residence; rather, they have a substantial amount of responsibility and autonomy in the running of the university. The actual level of self-governance exercised by the colleges varies greatly among institutions, ranging from nearly autonomous colleges to dependent colleges that are integrated with the central administration itself. Loosely federated colleges[edit] Independent and federated colleges[edit] Dependent colleges[edit] Simon Fraser University.
SFU was ranked first among Canada's comprehensive universities in 1993, 1996-1998, 2000, 2008-2013 by Maclean's.[6][7][8] History[edit] The newly constructed university in 1967, with the Academic Quadrangle as a centre of the campus. Gordon M. Shrum, the University's first chancellor. Founding[edit] Simon Fraser University was founded upon the recommendation of a 1962 report entitled Higher Education in British Columbia and a Plan for the Future, by Dr. In May of the same year, Dr. Early activism[edit] The campus was noted in the 1960s and early 1970s as a hotbed of political activism, culminating in a crisis in the Department of Political Science, Sociology, and Anthropology in a dispute involving ideological differences among faculty. Coat of Arms[edit] The school's original coat of arms was used from the university's inception until 2006, at which point the Board of Governors voted to adapt the old coat of arms and thereby register a second coat of arms.
The University today[edit] International Institute of Social Studies. The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Hague is a unique, independent and international graduate school in the social sciences. The Institute of Social Studies was established in the aftermath of World War II at a time when there was widespread concern in Europe about reconstruction and when decolonization had been set in motion in India, Pakistan, Ceylon and then Indonesia. The Dutch government set up a development institute, the Institute of Social Studies, in 1952. It was the first of its kind in Europe, an innovative and far-reaching move that was to prove well ahead of its time.[4] As in Britain about a decade later, the Dutch were primarily concerned with the potential loss of influence and markets in their former colonies and a training centre was seen as a way of forging new links. In January 1952, the Netherlands Universities Foundation for International Cooperation (NUFFIC) was created to facilitate and oversee the work.
Bielefeld University. Bielefeld University The central hall of the university One of the new buildings under construction as seen from Wing D of main building, July 2013 Bielefeld University (German: Universität Bielefeld) is a university in Bielefeld, Germany. Founded in 1969, it is one of the country's newer universities, and considers itself a "reform" university, following a different style of organization and teaching than the established universities. In particular, the university aims to "re-establish the unity between research and teaching", and so all its faculty teach courses in their area of research. The university also stresses a focus on interdisciplinary research, helped by the architecture, which encloses all faculties in one great structure.
Bielefeld University has started an extensive multi-phase modernisation project, which upon completion in 2025 would result in completely new university buildings to replace the 40-year old main building. Faculties[edit] Central academic institutes[edit] Georgetown University. Georgetown University is a private research university in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Jesuit and Catholic university in the United States. Georgetown's main campus, located in Washington's Georgetown neighborhood, is noted for Healy Hall, a National Historic Landmark in the Romanesque revival style. Georgetown Law School is located on Capitol Hill and Georgetown has auxiliary campuses in Italy, Turkey, and Qatar. Campus organizations include the country's largest student-run business and largest student-run financial institution.
History[edit] Founding[edit] Civil War[edit] Union soldiers across the Potomac River from Georgetown University in 1861 Enrollment did not recover from the war until the presidency of Patrick Francis Healy from 1873 to 1881. Expansion[edit] Besides expansion of the University, Georgetown also aimed to expand its resources and student body. Jesuit tradition[edit] Students studying outside Wolfington Hall Jesuit Residence Academics[edit] University of North Carolina at Asheville. The University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA) is a co-educational, four year, public liberal arts university.[2] The university is also known as UNC Asheville.
Located in Asheville, Buncombe County, in the U.S. state of North Carolina, UNCA is the only designated[3] liberal arts institution in the University of North Carolina system. UNC Asheville is member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. History[edit] Asheville, North Carolina UNC Asheville was founded in 1927[4] as Buncombe County Junior College, part of the Buncombe County public school system. In 1930 the school merged with the College of the City of Asheville (founded in 1928) to form Biltmore Junior College. In 1934 the college was renamed Biltmore College and placed in the control of a board of trustees. 1936 brought both a further change of name to Asheville-Biltmore College, and control was transferred to the Asheville City Schools. Precis of the University's History[edit] Academics[edit] Majors[edit] University of Haifa. The University of Haifa (Hebrew: אוניברסיטת חיפה) (Arabic: جامعة حيفا) is a public research university in Haifa, Israel.
The University of Haifa was founded in 1963 by Haifa mayor Abba Hushi, to operate under the academic auspices of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Haifa university is located on Mount Carmel. In 1972 University of Haifa declared its independence and became the sixth academic institution in Israel and the fourth university. Beyond the objective of a first-rate higher education, the University of Haifa aims to provide equal educational opportunities to all sectors of the society, and in particular to encourage mutual understanding and cooperation between the Jewish and Arab populations on and off campus. The university is a home for students from all the edges of the Israeli society - Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druze, religious and secular students and also many students from all over the world who study in the international school.
History[edit] Haifa University. University of Toronto. Academically, the University of Toronto is noted for influential movements and curricula in literary criticism and communication theory, known collectively as the Toronto School. The university was the birthplace of insulin and stem cell research, and was the site of the first practical electron microscope, the development of multi-touch technology, the identification of Cygnus X-1 as a black hole, and the theory of NP completeness. By a significant margin, it receives the most annual research funding of any Canadian university.
It is one of two members of the Association of American Universities located outside the United States. The University of Toronto has educated two Governors General and four Prime Ministers of Canada, four foreign leaders, fourteen Justices of the Supreme Court, and has been affiliated with ten Nobel laureates. History[edit] A Sopwith Camel aircraft rests on the Front Campus lawn in 1918, during World War I. Grounds[edit] Governance and colleges[edit] Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Dutch for Catholic University of Leuven, but usually not translated into English) (Dutch pronunciation: [katoˈlikə univɛrsiˈtɛit ˈløːvə(n)], listen ) also known as KU Leuven[2][3] or University of Leuven is a Dutch-speaking university in Leuven, Flanders, Belgium.
It is located in the centre of the historic town of Leuven, home to the university since 1425. In 1968 the Catholic University of Leuven, considered Belgium's oldest university,[1] split into the Dutch-language Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the French-language Université catholique de Louvain, which moved to Louvain-la-Neuve in Wallonia. Since the fifteenth century, Louvain, as it is still often called, has been a major contributor to the development of Catholic theology.
It is considered the oldest Catholic university still in existence. With 41,255 students in 2012–2013, the KU Leuven is the largest university in Belgium and the Low Countries. General description[edit] History[edit] École Normale Supérieure. University of St Andrews. Lawrence University. College of William & Mary. University of Rochester. Colgate University. Amherst College. Wesleyan University. Williams College. All Souls College, Oxford.
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