National University NU is the second largest private, nonprofit institution of higher education in California and the 12th largest in the United States. Founded in 1971, National University is headquartered in La Jolla, California, United States offering academic degree programs at campuses located throughout the state, as well as in Florida, Georgia, Nevada, and Virginia through an online learning environment.
National University is organized into five professional schools and one college: the College of Letters and Sciences; the School of Business and Management; the School of Education; the School of Engineering and Computing; the School of Health and Human Services; and the School of Professional Studies.
National University’s online academic programs are interactive with streaming videos, real time discussions, multimedia learning material, and online classrooms.
Programs at National University are concentrated for adult learners and on campus classes are scheduled during evenings and on weekends
National University’s Sanford College of Education offers bachelor's degrees, master’s degrees, certificates, and education credentials in areas including teaching, school counseling, school psychology, special education, early childhood education, and school administration.
National holds teaching contracts with 643 California school districts and approximately 70% of the 26,000 teachers in San Diego County earned their credentials at National University. Programs are offered on campus and online.
At the Henderson, Nevada campus, the School of Education offers Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degree teacher licensure programs in elementary education, secondary math, and secondary English.
In 2015, National University changed the name of the School of Education to the Sanford College of Education in honor of philanthropist T. Denny Sanford.
The Board of Trustees of the National University System is the governing body vested with supreme control over National University. Trustees have a fiduciary responsibility to the university as a whole. Among other responsibilities, the board elects the president, adopts an annual plan of financial operation, and establishes degrees to be awarded.
Board oversight is also provided through its committee structure consisting of an Advisory Executive Committee, a Nominating Committee, an Investment Committee, an Audit Committee, the Committee on Academics, the Committee on Advancement, and the Committee on Resources. Day to day responsibility for administration of the university is delegated by the trustees to the president.
The Board of Trustees consists of 25 voting members. Two ex officio members, the president of the university and the chancellor of the system, also have voting privileges. The Board meets three times a year in San Diego.
National University founder David Chigos, a retired United States Navy lieutenant commander and a director of employee training for General Dynamics Corporation in San Diego, saw a need for a non traditional university education format with relevant and high demand degree programs to serve working adults. In November 1971, National University was organized as a private, non profit institution with 27 students attending classes in 1972. National's first commencement ceremony included 143 graduates. In 1975, National purchased two properties on Camino del Rio South in Mission Valley.
Two years later it opened up facilities in Kearny Mesa and then expanded in San Diego County.
In 1977, National had some 1,000 alumni and it received accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. By 1979, National had a 15 acre campus with 110,000 square feet of classroom and library space and some 3,500 alumni.
Also in 1979, National acquired the Cabrillo Pacific College of Law that became National's School of Law.
During the 1980s, National expanded with campuses in California's largest cities.National's School of Education was established in 1980. In 1988, Chigos retired as president with approximately 7,000 students enrolled at 35 established campuses in California, Las Vegas, Nevada, and in Costa Rica.
Jerry C. Lee was National University’s second president from 1989 until 2007. During his tenure, the number and locations of the university's campuses were restructured, the university’s finances were stabilized and strengthened, National’s academic programs were further enhanced and reviewed by outside specialized accrediting bodies for quality and rigor, and affiliate educational institutions were added to the university.
A tiered faculty structure model was developed in 1991. Also in 1991, National University's School of Law was dissolved.
In 1996, the academic and administrative headquarters was moved from Mission Valley to La Jolla. Also in 1996, online classes and academic degree programs became available. In 2000, there were over 17,000 students enrolled.
In 2001, the Board of Trustees established the National University System and Lee was appointed Chancellor. The National University System is a multi tiered alliance of individual educational and research institutions with each of its respective leaders including the National University president reporting to the chancellor. Dana Gibson, was appointed as National's third president in 2007 and Lee became President Emeritus. In 2009, Gibson left National and Patricia E. Potter served as Interim President. Michael R. Cunningham became President on July 1, 2013.
As of 2014 National had over 24,000 enrolled students with over 130 undergraduate and graduate academic degree programs and 23 teacher credential programs at 28 campuses in California and one in Henderson, Nevada, with over 100 academic programs offered online. National University is the second largest private, non-profit institution of higher education in California and the 12th largest private, non profit in the United States. National University, in 2011.12, had its 40th anniversary with an endowment of over $400 million and real estate property valued at over $145 million
The University of Colorado Boulder UCB, commonly referred to as CU, Boulder, CU Boulder, or Colorado is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado, United States. It is the flagship university of the University of Colorado system and was founded five months before Colorado was admitted to the union in 1876.
In 2010, the university consisted of nine colleges and schools and offered over 150 academic programs and enrolled 29,952 students.
Twelve Nobel Laureates, nine MacArthur Fellows, and 18 astronauts have been affiliated with CU Boulder as students, researchers, or faculty members in its history. The university received nearly $454 million in sponsored research in 2010 to fund programs like the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, and JILA.
The Colorado Buffaloes compete in 17 varsity sports and are members of the NCAA Division I Pac 12 Conference. The Buffaloes have won 28 national championships: 20 in skiing, seven total in men's and women's cross country, and one in football.
Approximately 1,500 students participate in 34 intercollegiate club sports annually as well
The Engineering Center is located on the North-East side of campus, on the corner of Colorado and Regent. The Engineering Center consists of 660,000 square feet 61,000 m2 of classrooms, computing facilities, offices, and laboratories.
There are six unique engineering departments which are: Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. Rankings published by the US World and News report ranked the Undergraduate Engineering Programs at 34th overall and 19th among public engineering programs nationwide. CU Engineering houses many signature programs. The Integrated Teaching and Learning Program gives students hands on design experience in the award winning ITL Laboratory. The 34,000 sq. ft learning facility provides students and educators with a flexible, visible learning environment.The Design Center Colorado DCC is situated within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder.
The DCC gives students hands on experience by connecting them with faculty and industrial advisers on sponsored projects. CU Engineering is also part of the K 12 Engineering Outreach, pioneering new engineering programs for students and teachers at the elementary, middle and high school levels, and directing the national TeachEngineering digital library collection of free science, math and engineering lessons and activities available to teachers.
The Center for Community, also known as the C4C by students, follows the distinct architecture guidelines of Charles Klauder and is a 323,000 square foot 30,000 m2 state-of-the-art facility that is promised to be 20 percent to 25 percent more energy and water efficient compared to similar-sized buildings.
The facility was completed in September 2010 at a cost of $84.4 million.The building is originally bond financed through the CU treasurer and will be repaid through a combination of sources. A large portion of the debt, $47.4 million, will be repaid by Housing and Dining Services, through room and board fees.
Graduate Engineering
Programs at CU are ranked 34th overall and 20th among public engineering
programs nationwide. This architecturally distinctive and modern center
is home to the nation's largest geotechnical centrifuge, ion
implantation and microwave propagation facilities, spectrometers,
electron and other microscopes, and a structural analysis facility. Fees from Permit and Parking Services will contribute as well. The Center also relies on $18 million in donations, a goal which has not been achieved, but has become a top fundraising priority for the University. The Weather Tech Cafe
The building houses offices of Student Services including Campus Card Services, Disability Services, and Career Services among others. These services have been relocated to the C4C from various locations around campus. For example, Career Services was previously housed in the basement of the Willard Dormitory.
There is a 140,000 square foot 13,000 m2 underground parking structure that contains approximately 365 to 375 parking spaces. Student study areas are located on the upper floors and conference centers are open to campus and non campus affiliates throughout the building.
This dining facility seats 900 and offers students up to nine specialty dining choices including: Persian, Asian, Latin, Sushi, Italian, Kosher, a grill, salad bars, and desserts. Overall the Dining Center is projected to serve around one million meals per year.
The dining services offered within the C4C include a CU
on the run grab n go, The Bakery, a late night dining hub called the
Weather Tech Café, open until 2 A.M, and finally a central dining
facility.
Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey,
Princeton was the fourth chartered institution of higher education in the Thirteen Colonies and thus one of the nine Colonial Colleges established before the American Revolution.
The institution moved to Newark in 1747, then to the current site nine years later, where it was renamed Princeton University in 1896.
Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. It offers professional degrees through the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School of Architecture and the Bendheim Center for Finance.
The University has ties with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the Westminster Choir College of Rider University.Princeton has the largest endowment per student in the United States.
The University has graduated many notable alumni. It has been associated with 41 Nobel laureates, 17 National Medal of Science winners, the most Abel Prize winners and Fields Medalists of any university four and eight, respectively, ten Turing Award laureates, five National Humanities Medal recipients, 209 Rhodes Scholars, and 126 Marshall Scholars.
Two U.S. Presidents, 12 U.S. Supreme Court Justices three of whom currently serve on the court, and numerous living billionaires and foreign heads of state are all counted among Princeton's alumni.
quantify Princeton has also graduated many prominent members of the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Cabinet, including eight Secretaries of State, three Secretaries of Defense, and two of the past four Chairs of the Federal Reserve. It is consistently ranked as one of the top universities in the world
The main campus sits on about 500 acres 2.0 km2 in Princeton. In 2011, the main campus was named by Travel Leisure as one of the most beautiful in the United States. The James Forrestal Campus is split between nearby Plainsboro and South Brunswick. The University also owns some property in West Windsor Township.44 The campuses are situated about one hour from both New York City and Philadelphia.
The first building on campus was Nassau Hall, completed in 1756, and situated on the northern edge of campus facing Nassau Street.The campus expanded steadily around Nassau Hall during the early and middle 19th century.The McCosh presidency 1868 ,88 saw the construction of a number of buildings in the High Victorian Gothic and Romanesque Revival styles; many of them are now gone, leaving the remaining few to appear out of place.
At the end of the 19th century Princeton adopted the Collegiate Gothic style for which it is known today.Implemented initially by William Appleton Potter and later enforced by the University's supervising architect, Ralph Adams Cram,the Collegiate Gothic style remained the standard for all new building on the Princeton campus through 1960.
A flurry of construction in the 1960s produced a number of new buildings on the south side of the main campus, many of which have been poorly received.
Several prominent architects have contributed some more recent additions, including Frank Gehry Lewis Library, I.M. Pei Spelman Halls,Demetri Porphyrios Whitman College, a Collegiate Gothic project, Robert Venturi Frist Campus Center, among several others,and Rafael Viñoly Carl Icahn Laboratory
The Princeton University Art Museum was established in 1882 to give students direct, intimate, and sustained access to original works of art that complement and enrich instruction and research at the university. This continues to be a primary function, along with serving as a community resource and a destination for national and international visitors.
Numbering over 92,000 objects, the collections range from ancient to contemporary art and concentrate geographically on the Mediterranean regions, Western Europe, China, the United States, and Latin America. There is a collection of Greek and Roman antiquities, including ceramics, marbles, bronzes, and Roman mosaics from faculty excavations in Antioch.
Medieval Europe is represented by sculpture, metalwork, and stained glass. The collection of Western European paintings includes examples from the early Renaissance through the 19th century, with masterpieces by Monet, Cézanne, and Van Gogh, and features a growing collection of 20th century and contemporary art, including iconic paintings such as Andy Warhol's Blue Marilyn.
One of the best features of the museums is its collection of Chinese art, with important holdings in bronzes, tomb figurines, painting, and calligraphy. Its collection of pre Columbian art includes examples of Mayan art, and is commonly considered to be the most important collection of Pre Columbian art outside of Latin America.
The museum has collections of old master prints and drawings and a comprehensive collection of over 27,000 original photographs. African art and Northwest Coast Indian art are also represented. The Museum also oversees the outdoor Putnam Collection of Sculpture.
The IUPUI Jaguars are the 18 intercollegiate teams that represent Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. They compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. IUPUI competes in the Summit League in all sports
The softball team plays at the IUPUI Softball Complex, and the tennis team plays at the West Indy Racquet Club. The swimming team competes at the Indiana University Natatorium, which has a capacity of 4,700. The soccer teams play at IU Michael A. Carroll Track & Soccer Stadium
The men's soccer team advanced to the NAIA Division 21 Playoffs in 1988, 1989, 1990 and 1993. The 1993 team advanced to the NAIA Division 21 Championship before their season ended. The 1994 team lost in the NAIA Division 21 Tournament.
The women's softball team competes at the NAIA level from 1983 through 1991. The Lady Metros now Jaguars appeared in nine straight NAIA regional and national tournaments, finishing third place twice and fourth place twice during that time span. They were coached by P. Nicholas Kellum who is now a member of the IUPUI Athletic Hall of Fame and served as the dean of the School of Physical Education for many years.
Several
Jaguars teams play in the IUPUI Gymnasium, which is known as the
Jungle. Since 2014 the men's basketball team has played at the Indiana
Farmers Coliseum.
In
2000, the Jaguars won the Mid Continent Conference Tournament. They
defeated Marist in an NCAA Tournament play in game. Their season ended
with a loss to SMU in their only NCAA Tournament. That year, the Jaguars
finished with an 11.9.2 record.
The Pennsylvania State University commonly referred to as Penn State or is a public, state related research-intensive university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania. Founded in 1855, the university has a stated threefold mission of teaching, research,
and public service. Its instructional mission includes undergraduate, graduate, professional and continuing education offered through resident instruction and online delivery. Its University Park campus, the flagship campus, lies within the Borough of State College and College Township. It has two law schools, Penn State Law, on the school's University Park campus, and Dickinson Law, located in Carlisle, 90 miles South of State College. The College of Medicine is located in Hershey. Penn State
has another 19 commonwealth campuses and 5 special mission campuses located across the state. Penn State has been labeled a candidate for being
one of the Public Ivies, a publicly funded university considered as providing a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League.
Annual enrollment at the University Park campus totals more than 46,800 graduate and undergraduate students, making it one of the largest universities in the United States. It has the world's largest
dues paying alumni association. The university s total enrollment in 2015 16 was approximately 97,500 across its 24 campuses and online through its World Campus.
The university offers more than 160 majors among all its campuses and administers $3.45 billion as of June 30, 2014 in endowment and similar funds. The university s research expenditures totaled $813 million during the 2014 fiscal year.
Annually, the university hosts the Penn State Dance Marathon which is the world's largest student run philanthropy. This event is held in the Bryce Jordan Center on the University Park campus. In
2014, raised a program record of $13.3 million.The university's athletics teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are collectively known as the Penn State Lions. They compete in the Big Ten Conference for most sports.
In the 1970s, the university became a state related institution. As such, it now belongs to the Commonwealth System of Higher Education. In 1975, the lyrics in Penn State s mater song were
revised to be gender neutral in honor of International Women s Year the revised lyrics were taken from the autobiography of the
writer of the original lyrics, Fred Lewis , and Professor Patricia Farrell acted as a spokesperson for those who wanted the change
In recent years, the university s role as a leader in education in Pennsylvania has become very well defined. In 1989, the Pennsylvania College of Technology in joined ranks with the university, and in 2000, so did the Dickinson School
of Law. The university is now the largest in Pennsylvania, and in 2003, it was credited with having the second largest impact on the state economy of any organization, generating an economic effect
of over $17 billion on a budget of $2.5 billion. To offset the lack of funding due to the limited growth in state appropriations to Penn State, the university
has concentrated its efforts on philanthropy 2003 marked the end of the Grand Destiny campaign a seven year effort that raised over $1.3 billion.
administration, to the faculty, and to the student body.
Eric J. Barron became the university's 18th and current president on
May 12, 2014, upon the departure of Rodney Erickson.
The president of the University is selected by the board and is given the authority for actual control of the university, including day to day management. In practice, part of this responsibility is delegated by the president to other departments of the The executive vice president and provost is the chief academic officer of the University. The current provost, Nicholas P. Jones, assumed office on July 1, 2013.
The current Associate Vice President and Senior Associate Dean For Undergraduate Education is Robert N.
New York University is a private, nonsectarian American research university based in New York City. Founded in 1831, is one of the largest private non profit institutions of American higher education.
is organized into more than twenty schools, colleges, and institutes, located in six centers throughout Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn.main campus is located at Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan with institutes and centers on the Upper East Side.
academic buildings and dorms down on Wall Street, and the Brooklyn campus located at Center in Downtown Brooklyn.The University also established Dhabi, Shanghai and maintains 11 other
Global Academic Centers in Accra, Berlin, Aires, Florence, London, Madrid, Paris, Prague, Sydney, Tel and Washington, D.C. was elected to the Association of American Universities in
1950. counts thirty six Nobel Prize winners, four Abel Prize winners, three Turing Award winners, over thirty National Medals for Science, Technology and Innovation, Arts and Humanities recipients, over
thirty Pulitzer Prize winners, over thirty Academy Award winners, as well as several Russ Prize, Gordon Prize, Draper Prize and Fields Medal winners, and dozens of Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winners among its faculty and alumni. also has many MacArthur
and Guggenheim Fellowship holders as well as hundreds of National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and American Academy of Arts and Sciences members, and a plethora of members of the United States Congress and heads of
state of countries all over the world, among its past and present graduates and faculty. has the most Oscar winners of any university. The alumni of are the wealthiest in the world, and include seventeen living billionaires.
Since the late 1970s, the central part of has been its Washington Square campus in the heart of Greenwich Village. The Washington Square Arch is an unofficial symbol of . Until 2007,had held its
commencement ceremonies in Washington Square Park, but moved the ceremonies to Yankee Stadium in 2008 because of renovations to Washington Square.
In the 1990s, became a two square university by building a second community around Union Square, in close proximity to Washington Square. Union Square community primarily consists of the priority
residence halls of Carlyle Court, Palladium Residence Hall, Alumni Hall, Coral Tower, Thirteenth Street Hall, University Hall, Third North Residence Hall, and Founders Hall. operates theaters and performance facilities that are often used by the university's music conservatory and School of the Arts. External productions are also occasionally held in facilities. The largest performance accommodations at are the
Center for Performing Arts 850 seats at 566 Place, just south of Washington Square South, and the Auditorium 560 seats in the Center. Recently, the Center hosted
important speeches on foreign policy by John Kerry and Al Gore. The Center is the largest performing arts facility south of 42nd Street.
Brooklyn campus is located at Center, an urban research park, and is only a few subway stops from the Washington Square campus. It houses the School of Engineering, the Center for Urban Science and
Progress and also several of School of the Arts and School of Culture, Education, and Human Development's degree programs. The Brooklyn campus also houses Game Center Open Library,
which is the largest collection of games held by any university in the world. The shuttle bus system connects the Brooklyn campus with the Washington Square campus.
The University of also known as University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, or regionally as, Madison, or simply Madison is a public research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded
when Wisconsin achieved statehood in 1848, Madison is the official state university of Wisconsin, and the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It was the first public
university established in Wisconsin and remains the oldest and largest public university in the state. It became a land grant institution in 1866.The 933 acre main campus includes four National Historic Landmarks. Madison is organized into 20 schools and colleges, which enrolled 29,302 undergraduate, 9,445 graduate, and 2,459 professional students and granted 6,659 bachelor's, 3,493 graduate and professional degrees in 2013-2014.The University employs over
21,796 faculty and staff. Its comprehensive academic program offers 136 undergraduate majors, along with 148 master's degree programs and 120 doctoral programs.
The is one of America's Public Ivy universities, which refers to top universities in the United States capable of providing a collegiate experience comparable with the Ivy League. Madison is also
categorized as an RU Research University very high research activity in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. In 2012, it had research expenditures of more than
$1.1 billion, the third highest among universities in the country. Wisconsin is a founding member of the Association of American Universities. Research, teaching, and service at the is influenced by a tradition known as the Wisconsin Idea, first articulated by Madison President Charles Van in 1904, when he declared I shall never be content
until the beneficent influence of the University reaches every home in the state.The Wisconsin Idea holds that the boundaries of the university should be the boundaries of the state, and that the research conducted at Madison should be applied to solve problems and improve health, quality of life, the environment, and agriculture for all citizens of the state. The Wisconsin Idea permeates the university’s work and helps forge close working relationships among university faculty and students, and the state's industries and
government. Based in Wisconsin's populist history, the Wisconsin Idea continues to inspire the work of the faculty, staff, and students who aim to solve real world problems by working together across disciplines and demographics.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Madison was shaken by a series of student protests, and by the use of force by authorities in response, comprehensively documented in the film The War at Home. The first major demonstrations protested the presence on
campus of recruiters for the Dow Chemical Company, which supplied the napalm used in the Vietnam War. Authorities used force to quell the disturbance. The struggle was documented in the
book, They Marched into Sunlight, as well as the PBS documentary Two Days in October. Among the students injured in the protest was current Madison mayor Paul .
Another target of protest was the Army Mathematics Research Center in Sterling Hall, which was also home of the physics department. The student newspaper, The Daily Cardinal, published
a series of investigative articles stating that was pursuing research directly pursuant to US Department of Defense requests, and supportive of military
operations in Vietnam. became a magnet for demonstrations, in which protesters chanted U.S. out of Vietnam! Smash Army Math!
On August 24, 1970, near 3:40 am, a bomb exploded next to Sterling Hall, aimed at destroying the Army Math Research Center. Despite the late hour, a post doctoral physics researcher, Robert
was in the lab and was killed in the explosion. The physics was severely damaged, while the intended target, the , was scarcely affected. Armstrong, Dwight Armstrong, and David Fine were
found responsible for the blast. Leo Burt was identified as a suspect, but was never apprehended or tried
Located in Madison, about a mile from the state capitol, the main campus of the university is situated partially on the isthmus between Lake and Lake . The main campus comprises 933 acres of land, while the entire campus, including research stations
throughout the state, is over 10,600 acres 4,290 ha in area. The central campus is on an urban layout mostly coinciding with the city of Madison's street grid, exceptions being the suburban University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, and the Department o
Psychiatry & Clinics in the West Side research park. The University of Wisconsin Madison Arboretum, a demonstration area for native ecosystems, is located on the west side of Madison. The main campus includes many buildings designed or supervised by
architects J.T.W. Jennings and Arthur Peabody. The hub of campus life is the Memorial Union. In 2011, Travel Leisure listed the Madison campus as one of the most beautiful college campuses in the United States.
The Madison has its own police force, food service, hospital, recreation facilities, botanical gardens, public artworks, power facilities, and an on campus dairy plant. The George L. Humanities Building, located on Library Mall, was built in the late 1960s in the style. Campus myth has it that the building with its poor ventilation, narrow windows, inclined base, and cantilevered upper floors was designed to be riot proof in that it
was inescapable by protestors and easily by a SWAT Team. Its seven floors house the History, Art, and Music departments. The most recent Campus Master Plan calls for it to be demolished and replaced with two other buildings.
ale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in Saybrook Colony as the Collegiate School, the University is the third oldest institution of higher education in the United States.
The school was renamed Yale College in 1718 in recognition of a gift from Elihu Yale, who was governor of the British East India Company. In 1731, received a further gift of land and slaves from Bishop Berkeley.
Established to train Congregationalist ministers in theology and sacred languages, by 1777 the school's curriculum began to incorporate humanities and sciences and in the 19th century gradually incorporated graduate and professional instruction, awarding the first Ph.D. in the United States in 1861 and organizing as a university in 1887.
Yale is organized into fourteen constituent schools: the original undergraduate college, the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and twelve professional schools. While the university is governed by the Yale Corporation, each school's faculty oversees its curriculum and degree programs.
In addition to a central campus in downtown New Haven, the University owns athletic facilities in western New Haven, including the Yale Bowl, a campus in West Haven, Connecticut, and forest and nature preserves throughout New England. The university's assets include an endowment valued at $25.6 billion as of September 2015, the second largest of any educational institution in the world.
Yale College undergraduates follow a liberal arts curriculum with departmental majors and are organized into a system of residential colleges. Almost all faculty teach undergraduate courses, more than 2,000 of which are offered annually.
The Yale University Library, serving all constituent schools, holds more than 15 million volumes and is the third-largest academic library in the United States.Outside of academic studies, students compete intercollegiately as the Yale Bulldogs in the NCAA Division I Ivy League.
Yale has graduated many notable alumni, including five U.S. Presidents, 19 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, 13 living billionaires,and many foreign heads of state. In addition, Yale has graduated hundreds of members of Congress and many high level U.S. diplomats, including former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and current Secretary of State John Kerry.
52 Nobel laureates, 230 Rhodes Scholars, and 118 Marshall Scholars have been affiliated with the University
The Yale Report of 1828 was a dogmatic defense of the Latin and Greek curriculum against critics who wanted more courses in modern languages, mathematics, and science. Unlike higher education in Europe, there was no national curriculum for colleges and universities in the United States.
In the competition for students and financial support, college leaders strove to keep current with demands for innovation. At the same time, they realized that a significant portion of their students and prospective students demanded a classical background.
The Yale report meant the classics would not be abandoned. All institutions experimented with changes in the curriculum, often resulting in a dual track. In the decentralized environment of higher education in the United States, balancing change with tradition was a common challenge because no one could afford to be completely modern or completely classical.
William Graham Sumner, professor from 1872 to 1909, taught in the emerging disciplines of economics and sociology to overflowing classrooms. He bested President Noah Porter, who disliked social science and wanted Yale to lock into its traditions of classical education.
Porter objected to Sumner's use of a textbook by Herbert Spencer that espoused agnostic materialism because it might harm students.
Until 1887, the legal name of the university was The President and Fellows of Yale College, in New Haven. In 1887, under an act passed by the Connecticut General Assembly, Yale gained its current, and shorter, name of Yale University
Between 1925 and 1940, philanthropic foundations, especially ones connected with the Rockefellers, contributed about $7 million to support the Yale Institute of Human Relations and the affiliated Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology. The money went toward behavioral science research, which was supported by foundation officers who aimed to improve mankind under an informal, loosely defined human engineering effort.
The behavioral scientists at Yale, led by President James R. Angell and psychobiologist Robert M. Yerkes, tapped into foundation largesse by crafting research programs aimed to investigate, then suggest, ways to control, sexual and social behavior.
For example, Yerkes analyzed chimpanzee sexual behavior in hopes of illuminating the evolutionary underpinnings of human development and providing information that could ameliorate dysfunction. Ultimately, the behavioral-science results disappointed foundation officers, who shifted their human-engineering funds toward biological sciences
A group of professors at Yale and New Haven
Congregationalist ministers articulated a conservative response to the
changes brought about by the Victorian culture. They concentrated on
developing a whole man possessed of religious values sufficiently strong
to resist temptations from within, yet flexible enough to adjust to
the isms professionalism, materialism, individualism, and consumerism
tempting him from without.
Central Michigan University is a public research university located in Mount Pleasant in the U.S. state of Michigan. Established in 1892, Central Michigan University is one of the largest universities in the State of Michigan and one of the nation's 100 largest public universities.
It has more than 20,000 students on its Mount Pleasant campus and 7,000 students enrolled online at more than 60 locations worldwide. Central Michigan University offers 200 academic programs at the undergraduate, master's, specialist and doctoral levels, including nationally recognized programs in entrepreneurship, journalism, music, audiology, teacher education, psychology and physician assistant.
Central Michigan University has also established a College of Medicine, which opened in fall 2013. Central Michigan in the NCAA Division I Mid American Conference in seven men's and nine women's sports
Philip A. Hart and William G. Endowed Speaker Series for Integrity in Politics. Focuses on political integrity and challenges students to approach politics in a way that embraces America's diversity of ideas and perspectives, working to supplant negativity and partisanship with creativity and innovation in shaping future public policy.
Named in honor of U.S. Senator Philip Hart and Michigan Governor William .William B. Lecture Series. Focuses on intellectual discussions for future leaders both in the military and across the campus and community. Named in honor of Army Colonel William , the last official combat casualty of the Vietnam War.
The New Towers, as well as and , are designed primarily for upperclassmen, and are suites. Robinson Hall and the original section of Barnes are the only residence halls designed for double occupancy. Residents of both the New Towers, pay an additional charge over the standard room and board rate.
Each district is connected to one of four Residential Restaurants. The Towers features the , or Real Food on Campus, and the East Complex features the Fresh Food Company. Each area also has an after hours snack shop. Only Barnes Hall, the oldest residence hall at , is not directly connected to a residential restaurant. The original section of Barnes Hall is also the only part of any residence hall on campus that has community bathrooms.
Some residence halls are designated as official Residential Colleges, associated with a particular academic department, allowing students who choose to live there opportunities for study and collaboration with other students from similar programs
All residence halls except for some Barnes Hall rooms,
Robinson Hall, and the remaining Towers are two bedroom suites designed
for 4 or 5 persons. The Original Towers, nine story high rise residence
halls designed primarily for freshmen, feature one bedroom suites
Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon or ˈkɑːrnᵻɡi mɛlən or kɑːr ˈmɛlən is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The university began as the Carnegie Technical Schools, founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1900. In 1912, the school became the Carnegie Institute of Technology and began granting four year degrees.
In 1967, the Carnegie Institute of Technology merged with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to form Carnegie Mellon University. The university's 140 acre 57 ha main campus is 3 miles 4.8 km from Downtown Pittsburgh and abuts the Carnegie
Museums of Pittsburgh, the main branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, the Carnegie Music Hall, Park, Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, the Pittsburgh Golf Club, and the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in the city's Oakland and Squirrel Hill neighborhoods, partially extending into .
Carnegie Mellon has seven colleges and independent schools: the College of Engineering, College of Fine Arts, Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mellon College of Science, School of Business, H. John Heinz III College and the School of Computer Science.
Carnegie Mellon fields 17 varsity athletic teams, most of which compete in the University Athletic Association conference of the NCAA Division III.
Carnegie Mellon's 140 acre 57 ha main campus is three miles 4.8 km from downtown Pittsburgh, between Park and the Squirrel Hill, , and Oakland neighborhoods. Carnegie Mellon is bordered to the west by the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. Carnegie Mellon owns 81 buildings in the Oakland and Squirrel Hill neighborhoods of Pittsburgh.
For decades the center of student life on campus was Hall, the University's student union. Built in the 1950s, Hall's design was typical of Mid Century Modern architecture, but was poorly equipped to deal with advances in computer and internet connectivity.
The original was razed in the summer of 1994 and replaced by a new student union that is fully enabled. Known as University Center, the building was dedicated in 1996. In 2014, Carnegie Mellon re-dedicated the University Center as the University Center in recognition of the eighth president of the university, Jared .
A large grassy area known as the Cut forms the backbone of the campus, with a separate grassy area known as the Mall running perpendicular.
The Cut was formed by filling in a ravine hence the name with soil from a nearby hill that was leveled to build the College of Fine Arts building.
The northwestern part of the campus home to Hamburg Hall, Simon Hall, Smith Hall, and Gates Complex was acquired from the United States Bureau of Mines in the 1980s.
In 2006, Carnegie Mellon Trustee Jill donated the 80 foot 24 m tall sculpture Walking to the Sky, which was placed the lawn facing Forbes Ave between the University Center and Warner Hall. The sculpture was controversial for its placement, the general lack of input that the campus community had, and its aesthetic appeal.
In April 2015, Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with Jones Lang , announced the planning of a second office space structure, alongside the Robert Collaborative Innovation Center, an upscale and hotel, and retail and dining development along Forbes Avenue.
In 2015, the most selective undergraduate college was the School of Computer Science, which admitted only 5% of total applicants. The largest college, in terms of enrollment, is the College of Engineering with 400 students in the class of 2017, followed by the Dietrich College of Humanities & Social Sciences with 265, and the College of Fine Arts with 260.
The smallest college in terms of total undergraduate enrollment is the School of Business, with 80. Carnegie Mellon enrolls students from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and 15.6% of the students are citizens of countries other than the United States, representing more than 40 countries.
About 96.3% of first year students enrolled in 2009 returned for their second year, and 72.7% of students in the class of 2010 graduated within four years. Undergraduate tuition is $49,610 and room and board is $12,830 plus additional costs. Carnegie Mellon graduates 62% of its undergraduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields, the 13th highest percentage in the United States national research universities
This complex will connect to the Quadrangle, the
Heinz College, the Consultancy Services Building, and the Center to
create an innovation corridor on the university campus.
The
effort is intended to continue to attract major corporate partnerships
to create opportunities in research, teaching, and employment with
students and faculty
For
the class of 2019, 24% of the 20,547 applicants were admitted. For the
incoming class of 2013 2014, the Pittsburgh campus received a record
33,008 unique applicants and admitted 5,864 18%. 1,415 students
enrolled in the class of 2017 24%.
Suffolk University is a private, non sectarian university located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, United States. With 9,192 students includes all campuses, 8,891 at the Boston location alone, it is the eighth largest university in Metro Boston. It was founded as a law school in 1906 and named after its location in Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
The university is coeducational and comprises the Suffolk University Law School, the College of Arts & Sciences,and the Sawyer Business School, some of its MBA programs currently rank among the top 50 business programs in the country. It has an international campus in Madrid in addition to the main campus in downtown Boston.
Due to its strategic location and well known law school, many notable scholars, prominent speakers and politicians have visited the university such as John F. Kennedy, Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist, and former U. S. President George H.W. Bush. all have given speeches at Suffolk.
Suffolk employs over 800 full time and adjunct faculty members, who instruct approximately 8,891 undergraduate and graduate students on its Boston Campus.
The Sawyer Business School previously the Sawyer School of Management focuses on global business education.It offers undergraduate and graduate degrees. Joint degrees are also offered. About 3,000 students are currently enrolled in all programs.
The Saturday only Executive MBA Program incorporates four off site one week seminars and week long global trips to London and China. The Global MBA is a specialized MBA in international business with an intensive concentration in either finance or marketing.
The full time program includes a 3 month internship outside the student's home country. Summer 2010 Global MBA internships are in 10 countries.
Part time Global complete either a global experiential research project at their place of business or a 3 month consulting project that includes an intensive 2 week residency outside the US.
The Suffolk College of Arts and Sciences has seventeen academic departments which offer more than seventy undergraduate and graduate programs. Among the departments is the New England School of Art and Design
Suffolk University Law School, founded in 1906, offers a standard Doctor program and advanced L.L.M. program. 43% of applicants were admitted to the J.D. program in 2005.
The university is also home to various research centers and institutes, including the Beacon Hill Institute, a "free market think tank,"the Centers for Crime & Justice Policy Research, Restorative Justice, and Women's Health and Human Right, the Poetry Center, Political Research Centers, the R.S
Friedman Field Station, and the Sagan Energy Research Laboratory.The Suffolk University Political Research Center conducts various scientific polls of national and regional political issues
The residence hall at 150 Street was the first built by the university and currently houses students in singles, doubles, quads, and suites, with communal bathrooms. Nathan R. Miller Residence Hall located at 10 Somerset St.
was opened in 2005 and houses 15 floors of freshman, and 2 floors of sophomores in singles, doubles and quads, with bathrooms shared between every two rooms or one bathroom per quad.
The 10 West Residence Hall, opened in 2008, has housing for freshman and sophomores in singles and doubles. Suites accommodate 3 5 students and a variety of apartment-style suites that include full kitchens house 2 to 8 students.
Both Miller Hall and 150 have cafeterias. Students living at 10 West/Modern Theater can eat at 150 . Suffolk University occasionally leases additional properties such as the Hyatt & Holiday Inn Beacon Hill.
If leased, those locations house freshman students. In 2015, due to a long housing , Suffolk housed additional freshman at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and University.
The Modern Residence Hall opened in the fall of 2010 and is considered an extension to the 10 West Resident Hall. The two residence halls share one entrance at 10 West Street. The Modern Theater Residence Hall is built over the restored Modern
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 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.
Originally chartered as Queen's College on November 10, 1766, Rutgers is the eighth oldest college in the United States and one of the nine "Colonial Colleges" chartered before the American Revolution.
The college was renamed Rutgers College in 1825 in honor of Colonel Henry Rutgers a New York City landowner, philanthropist and former military officer, whose $5000 bond donation to the school allowed it to 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. The college expanded its role in research and instruction in agriculture, engineering, and science when it was named as the state's sole land grant college in 1864 under the Act of 1862.
It gained university status in 1924 with the introduction of graduate education and further expansion.However, Rutgers evolved into a coeducational public research university after being designated "The State University of New Jersey" by the New Jersey Legislature in laws enacted in 1945 and 1956.
It is one of only two colonial colleges that later became public universities.Rutgers, however, remains something of a public-private hybrid, in particular retaining certain "private rights" against unilateral changes in its governance, name, and structure that the state might otherwise want to impose.
Rutgers has three campuses located throughout New Jersey: The New Brunswick campus in New Brunswick and adjacent the Newark campus and the Camden campus. The university has additional facilities elsewhere in New Jersey.
Instruction is offered by 9,000 faculty members in 175 academic departments to over 45,000 undergraduate students and more than 20,000 graduate and professional students.
The University is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and is a member of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation,the Association of American Universities and the Universities Research Association
Prior to 1982, separate liberal arts faculties existed in the several "residential colleges" Rutgers, Douglass, Livingston, University, and Cook colleges at Rutgers New Brunswick. In 1982, under president Edward J.the liberal arts faculties were centralized into one college, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, but the residential colleges persisted for students, along with separate standards for admission, good standing, and graduation.
Finally in the fall of 2007, the liberal arts residential colleges Rutgers, Douglass, Livingston, and University and Faculty of Arts and Sciences were merged into the new School of Arts and Sciences with one set of admissions criteria, curriculum and graduation requirements. Cook College, the residential science college, changed its name to the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. The merger ended the 241-year history of Rutgers College as a distinct institution.
In 2013, most of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey was integrated with Rutgers University and, along with several existing Rutgers units, was reformed as Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences.This merger attached New Jersey Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School to Rutgers University.
On June 20, 2012, the outgoing president of Rutgers University, Richard L. McCormick announced that Rutgers will "...integrate five acres along George Street between Seminary Place and Bishop Place into the College Avenue Campus."Much of this is land currently occupied by the New Brunswick Theological Seminary.
In 2013, Rutgers changed part of its mater, "On the Banks of the Old ." Where the lyrics had formerly stated, "My father sent me to old Rutgers, and resolved that I should be a man," now they state, "From far and near we came to Rutgers, and resolved to learn all that we can
The Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences is a division of the university that serves as an umbrella organization for schools, centers, and institutes from Rutgers University and University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
The organization was incorporated into the university following the 2013 merger of Rutgers and the.While its various facilities are spread across several locations statewide, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences is considered a "campus" for certain organizational purposes, such as the appointment of a separate Chancellor.
Health,
Health Care Policy and Aging Research, New Jersey Medical School,
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, College of Nursing, School of
Nursing, School of Dental Medicine, School of Health Related
Professions, the School comprises nine schools and other research centers and institutes including; Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Institute for of Public Health, Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Environmental and the Occupational Health Sciences Institute.
The programs are offered at different location sites across New Jersey in New Brunswick, Newark, Camden, and Scotch Plains.
The Johns Hopkins University commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, , or simply Hopkins is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, the university was named after its first benefactor, the American entrepreneur, abolitionist
and philanthropist Johns Hopkins. His $7 million bequest of which half financed the establishment of The Johns Hopkins Hospital as the largest philanthropic gift in the history of the United States at
the time. Daniel Gilman, who was inaugurated as the institution's first president on February 22, 1876, led the university to revolutionize higher education in the U.S. by integrating teaching
and research. Adopting the concept of a graduate school from Germany's ancient Heidelberg University, Johns Hopkins University is considered the first research university in the United States.
Johns Hopkins is organized into ten divisions on campuses in Maryland and Washington, D.C. with international centers in Italy, China, and Singapore. The two undergraduate divisions, the School
of Arts and Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering, are located on the campus in Baltimore's Charles Village neighborhood. The medical school, the nursing school, and the Bloomberg School of Public Health are located on the Medical Institutions campus in
East Baltimore. The university also consists of the Peabody Institute, the Applied Physics Laboratory, the Paul H. School of Advanced International Studies, the education school, the Carey Business School, and various other facilities.
A founding member of the American Association of Universities, Johns Hopkins has been considered one of the world’s top universities throughout its history. The University stands among the top 10 in US News' Best National Universities Rankings and top 20
on a number of international league tables. Over the course of almost 140 years, thirty-six Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Johns Hopkins. Founded in 1883, the Blue Jays men’s lacrosse
team has captured 44 national titles and joined the Big Ten Conference as an affiliate member in 2014 Prior to becoming the main Johns Hopkins campus, the estate had initially been the gift of Charles Carroll of , a Maryland planter and signer of the
Declaration of Independence, to his son Charles Carroll Jr. The original structure, the 1801 House, still stands and serves as an on campus museum. The brick and marble Federal style of House
became the architectural inspiration for much of the university campus. This fact explains the distinctively local of the campus as compared to the Collegiate Gothic style of other historic American universities.
In 1909, the university was among the first to start adult continuing education programs and in 1916 it founded the US' first school of public health.
Since the 1910s, Johns Hopkins University has famously been a "fertile cradle" to Arthur history of ideas
The early decades of the 21st century saw expansion across the university's institutions in both physical and population sizes. Notably, a planned 88-acre expansion to the medical campus is well
underway as of 2013. Completed construction on the campus has included a new biomedical engineering building, a new library, a new biology wing, and an extensive renovation
of the flagship Gilman Hall, while the reconstruction of the main university entrance is currently underway and expected to be completed by the end of 2014.
These years also brought about the rapid development of the university's professional schools of education and business. From 1999 until 2007, these disciplines had been joined together within
the School of Professional Studies in Business and Education , itself a reshuffling of several earlier ventures. The 2007 split, combined with new
funding and leadership initiatives, has led to the simultaneous emergence of the Johns Hopkins School of Education and the Carey Business School The Johns Hopkins University Press is the publishing division of the Johns Hopkins University. It was founded in 1878 and holds the distinction of being the oldest continuously running university press
250
full text, peer reviewed journals in the humanities and social
sciences. The Press also houses the Hopkins Services which handles
distribution for a number of university presses and
in the United States.To date the Press has published more than 6,000 titles and currently publishes 65 scholarly periodicals and over 200 new books each year. Since 1993, the Johns Hopkins University Press has run Project MUSE, an online collection of over
publishers. Taken together, the three divisions of the Press Books, Journals and make it one of the largest of America's university presses.
