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Georgetown University

♠ Posted by Anju Satyal in College and University

Introducing Georgetown University
One of the America’s oldest schools, Georgetown University is a vibrant, student-centered institution dedicated to educating a diversity of students in the Jesuit tradition. Committed to engaging people in open dialogue, Georgetown considers the undergraduate experience a vital components of its mission. Georgetown is one of the few schools of higher education that effectively combines the benefits of a large research university with the community, and uniqueness of a small liberal arts college.
Georgetown offers a superb faculty and cutting-edge research opportunities while encouraging intentional reflection on questions of faith, meaning, and truth. Drawing on their broad exposure to the liberal arts, students engage the faculty and each other through critical thinking and thoughtful debate. Georgetown’s four undergraduate schools include the Georgetown College of Arts and Science, the School of Nursing and Health Studies, the Walsh School of Foreign Service and McDonough School of Business. Academic life at Georgetown is rigorous and driven by the belief in holistic education. The institution focuses on the whole person, simultaneously fostering intellectual, spiritual, and social development. Drawing students from all fifty states and more than eighty countries, Georgetown continues to fulfill its foundational commitment to diversity. Georgetown University was founded in 1789, making it the oldest Catholic and Jesuit University in the United States. By encouraging spiritual inquiry and development in all faiths, it attracts students of every religions tradition and background. Georgetown University offers academic programs in arts, humanities, sciences, international relations, nursing and health studies, business administration, law and medicine. In addition, Georgetown prides itself on a multitude of volunteer opportunities and student activities completed with cultural, political, academic and social organizations. Due to its prominent position overlooking the Potomac River, Georgetown University is often affectionately called the Hilltop. It sits on 104 acres of land, a mere mile and half from downtown, Washington, D.C. Although Georgetown relished its appeal as an urban institution, it still provides the feel of a small residential campus. Its sixty buildings include six libraries with over two million volumes, two dining halls, athletic facilities, and residence halls and apartment complexes featuring high-speed Internet access. Washington, D.C. is a fantastic city for students offing museums, galleries, libraries, theaters, concerts, sports events, and festivals-many of them free-of-charge! The Georgetown transportation shuttles and public Metro System allow for easy access to Washington, D.C’s many resources. Of Course, Georgetown students are often drawn toward the political action in the city protest rallies, political campaigns, and internships about in the nation’s capital. It is not unusual for Georgetown to host international summits and features speeches by American and world leaders alike.
ADMISSION REQUIREMENT
Georgetown is one of the most selective universities in the country, and it has seen a consistent increase in the number of applications over the last ten years. Georgetown receives more than 15,000 applications each year and accepts a little more than 3,000 applications. More than eighty-seven percent of accepted students were in the top ten percent of their class, and approximately thirty-six percent accepted students were ranked first, second, or third in their high school class. An outstanding high school academic record, challenging academic program, solid SAT or ACT scores, leadership and extracurricular experience, and a unique and sincere essay are necessities. Most applicants also utilize the alumni interview a way to demonstrate their distinctiveness and desire to enroll. Georgetown is definitely looking for more than an exceptional academic background; the school is seeking creative students with a diversity of interests.
Applicants must choose one of the four undergraduate schools when applying. The Application essay and other admissions requirements may differ with each school. In general, applicants’ secondary school education should include a full program in English, a minimum of two years of social studies, modern language, and mathematics, and one year of natural science. There are additional school-specific recommendations as well. Applicants are also asked to submit the results of at least three SAT II Subject Test, including Writing and two others appropriate to learn area of interest. Candidates for the Walsh School of Foreign Service or the Faculty of Language and Linguistics (a part of the Georgetown College), for instance, should include a modern language test among these two.

Princeton University

♠ Posted by Anju Satyal in College and University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton was the fourth chartered institution of higher education in the American 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 37 Nobel laureates, 17 National Medal of Science winners, the most Abel Prize winners and Fields Medalists of any university (three and eight, respectively), nine Turing Award laureates, three National Humanities Medal recipients and 204 Rhodes Scholars. Two U.S. Presidents, 12 U.S. Supreme Court Justices (3 of whom currently serve on the court), 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, 3 Secretaries of Defense, and two of the past four Chairs of the Federal Reserve.
New Light Presbyterians founded the College of New Jersey, later Princeton University, in 1746 in order to train ministers. The college was the educational and religious capital of Scots-Irish America. In 1756, the college moved to Princeton, New Jersey. Its home in Princeton was Nassau Hall, named for the royal house of William III of England.
Following the untimely deaths of Princeton's first five presidents, John Witherspoon became president in 1768 and remained in that office until his death in 1794. During his presidency, Witherspoon shifted the college's focus from training ministers to preparing a new generation for leadership in the new American nation. To this end, he tightened academic standards and solicited investment in the college. Witherspoon's presidency constituted a long period of stability for the college, interrupted by the American Revolution and particularly the Battle of Princeton, during which British soldiers briefly occupied Nassau Hall; American forces, led by George Washington, fired cannon on the building to rout them from it. First Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru with Albert Einstein at Princeton University, 1949 Albert Einstein with Thomas Mann in Princeton, 1938 In 1812, the eighth president of Princeton (still the College of New Jersey), Ashbel Green (1812–23), helped establish a theological seminary next door. The plan to extend the theological curriculum met with "enthusiastic approval on the part of the authorities at the College of New Jersey". Today, Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary maintain separate institutions with ties that include services such as cross-registration and mutual library access.
Before the construction of Stanhope Hall in 1803, Nassau Hall was the college's sole building. The cornerstone of the building was laid on September 17, 1754. During the summer of 1783, the Continental Congress met in Nassau Hall, making Princeton the country's capital for four months. Over the centuries and through two redesigns following major fires (1802 and 1855), Nassau Hall's role shifted from an all-purpose building, comprising office, dormitory, library, and classroom space; to classroom space exclusively; to its present role as the administrative center of the University. The class of 1879 donated twin lion sculptures that flanked the entrance until 1911, when that same class replaced them with tigers. Nassau Hall's bell rang after the hall's construction; however, the fire of 1802 melted it. The bell was then recast and melted again in the fire of 1855.
James McCosh took office as the college's president in 1868 and lifted the institution out of a low period that had been brought about by the American Civil War. During his two decades of service, he overhauled the curriculum, oversaw an expansion of inquiry into the sciences, and supervised the addition of a number of buildings in the High Victorian Gothic style to the campus. McCosh Hall is named in his honor. In 1879, the first thesis for a Ph.D. was submitted by James F. Williamson, Class of 1877. In 1896, the college officially changed its name from the College of New Jersey to Princeton University to honor the town in which it resides. During this year, the college also underwent large expansion and officially became a university. In 1900, the Graduate School was established.
In 1902, Woodrow Wilson, graduate of the Class of 1879, was elected the 13th president of the university. Under Wilson, Princeton introduced the preceptorial system in 1905, a then-unique concept in the US that augmented the standard lecture method of teaching with a more personal form in which small groups of students, or precepts, could interact with a single instructor, or preceptor, in their field of interest. In 1906, the reservoir Lake Carnegie was created by Andrew Carnegie. A collection of historical photographs of the building of the lake is housed at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library on Princeton's campus.
On October 2, 1913, the Princeton University Graduate College was dedicated. In 1919 the School of Architecture was established. In 1933, Albert Einstein became a lifetime member of the Institute for Advanced Study with an office on the Princeton campus. While always independent of the university, the Institute for Advanced Study occupied offices in Jones Hall for 6 years, from its opening in 1933, until their own campus was finished and opened in 1939. This helped start an incorrect impression that it was part of the university, one that has never been completely eradicated. Coeducation at Princeton University

National University of Singapore

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The National University of Singapore is a college situated in Singapore. Established in 1905, it is the most seasoned higher learning establishment in Singapore, and in addition the biggest college in the nation regarding understudy enrolment and educational program advertised. It is positioned as one of the best colleges in Asia, putting 22nd on the planet and 1st in Asia in the 2014 QS rankings. On the other hand, the Academic Ranking of World Universities ARWU positioning framework that measures colleges scholastic accomplishments and examination execution reliably set NUS in the scope of 100–150 around the world. The college's primary grounds is situated in southwest Singapore at Kent Ridge, with a region of pretty nearly 1.83 km2 (0.71 sq mi). The Bukit Timah grounds houses the Faculty of Law, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and examination organizations, while the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore is situated at the Outram grounds. In September 1904, Tan Jiak Kim drove a gathering of agents of the Chinese and other non-European groups, and appealed to the Governor of the Straits Settlements, Sir John Anderson, to set up a therapeutic school in Singapore. Tan, who was the first president of the Straits Chinese British Association, figured out how to raise 87,077 Straits dollars, of which the biggest measure of $12,000 originated from himself. On 3 July 1905, the restorative school was established, and was known as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School. In 1912, the therapeutic school got an enrichment of $120,000 from the King Edward VII Memorial Fund, began by Lim Boon Keng. Hence on 18 November 1913, the name of the school was changed to the King Edward VII Medical School. In 1921, it was again changed to the King Edward VII College of Medicine to mirror its scholastic status. In 1928, Raffles College was built up to advance expressions and sociologies at tertiary level for Malayan understudies. Foundation of the college After two decades, Raffles College was converged with the King Edward VII College of Medicine to shape the University of Malaya on 8 October 1949. The two establishments were converged to accommodate the advanced education needs of the Federation of Malaya and Singapore. The development of UM was exceptionally fast amid the first decade of its foundation and brought about the setting up of two self-sufficient divisions in 1959, one situated in Singapore and the other in Kuala Lumpur. In 1960, the administrations of then Federation of Malaya and Singapore showed their yearning to change the status of the divisions into that of a national college. Enactment was gone in 1961 setting up the previous Kuala Lumpur division as the University of Malaya while the Singapore division was renamed the University of Singapore on 1 January 1962. Present structure The National University of Singapore was framed with the merger of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University in 1980. This was done to a limited extent because of the administration's longing to pool the two establishments' assets into a solitary, more grounded element, and advance English as Singapore's just primary dialect. The first peak of Nanyang University with three interlaced rings was consolidated into the new ensign of NUS. NUS started its entrepreneurial instruction attempts in the 1980s, with the setting up of the Center for Management of Innovation and Technopreneurship in 1988. In 2001, this was renamed the NUS Entrepreneurship Center (NEC), and turned into a division of NUS Enterprise. NEC is presently headed by Professor Wong Poh Kam and its exercises are sorted out into 4 zones, including a business hatchery, experiential instruction, enterprise advancement, and enterprise research. Today, the National University of Singapore has 16 resources and schools over three grounds areas in Singapore – Kent Ridge, Bukit Timah and Outram – and gives an expansive based educational module underscored by multi-disciplinary courses and cross-personnel advancement. National University of Singapore Symphony Orchestra in Vienna (2013) Training NUS has a semester-based measured framework for directing courses. It receives elements of the British framework, for example, little gathering instructing (instructional exercises) and the American framework (course credits). Understudies may exchange between courses inside of their initial two semesters, select in cross-workforce modules or take up electives from distinctive resources (obligatory for most degrees). Different cross-disciplinary activities study projects incorporate twofold degree college degrees in Arts & Social Sciences and Engineering; Arts & Social Sciences and Law; Business and Engineering; and Business and Law. NUS has 16 resources and schools, including a Music Conservatory. At present, it has seven abroad universities at major entrepreneurial centers in Shanghai and Beijing (China), Israel, India, Stockholm (Sweden), Silicon Valley and Bio Valley (US). NUS Overseas Colleges The NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC) project began in 2001. Members of the system burn through 6–12 months abroad, taking entry level positions and courses at accomplice Universities. There are 7 schools, in the Silicon Valley (US), Philadelphia (US), Shanghai (China), Beijing (China), Stockholm (Sweden), India and Israel. The neighborhood proportionate is the Innovative Local Enterprise Achiever Development (iLEAD) activity, where understudies understudy at imaginative Singapore organizations. This is a 7–8-month program that develops an entrepreneurial outlook, and creates initiative and administration aptitudes. NOC set up an entrepreneurial-themed living arrangement, known as N-House. Situated inside of the NUS Prince George's Park living arrangement, this houses around 90 understudies, who are alumni of the NOC and iLEAD programs. Entrepreneurial exercises are additionally sorted out by the N-House inhabitants, and these incorporate entrepreneurial sharing sessions, business thought pitching and systems administration occasions. NUS has been positioned among the best in both Singapore and Asia by QS rankings, which is construct vigorously in light of mysterious studies on colleges notoriety. The ARWU (2013) that measures colleges scholarly accomplishments and examination execution put NUS in the scope of 100–150 overall and the best in Singapore. Alternately, in the same scholastic year, the QS World University Rankings (2014/15) positioned NUS 22nd on the planet and 1st in Asia, while the free QS Asian University Rankings (2014) likewise considered it to be the first. Besides, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings (2012–13) put NUS at 25th on the planet and second in Asia, while its notoriety rankings set it at 22nd comprehensively. In 2011, the Financial Times put NUS School of Business at 23rd in their worldwide MBA positioning tables. Business NUS started its entrepreneurial instruction tries in the 1980s, with the setting up of the Center for Management of Innovation and Technopreneurship in 1988. In 2001, this was renamed the NUS Entrepreneurship Center (NEC), and turned into a division of NUS Enterprise. NEC is presently headed by Professor Wong Poh Kam and its exercises are composed into 4 ranges, including a business hatchery, experiential instruction, enterprise improvement, and business research. Mutually sorted out by NUS Enterprise and National University of Singapore Society (NUSS), the Innovation and Enterprise Award comprises of two segments – the NUS Outstanding Innovator Award and Promising NUS Start-Up Award. Both grants intend to perceive people and organizations inside of the NUS group who have accomplished critical achievements in business enterprise and development, or who have added to the improvement of enterprise and advancement in Singapore lately. The 2014 champ of the 100.000 SGD recompense incorporates the NUS twist off organization Ay

Southwest State University

♠ Posted by Anju Satyal

Southwest Minnesota State University is an open, four-year college that is a piece of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System. It is situated in Marshall, Minnesota, United States, a city of 13,680 individuals. The school has a full-time enlistment of give or take 3,700 understudies and utilizes 148 employees. It is partitioned into two noteworthy universities, the College of Arts, Letters, and Sciences, and the College of Business, Education, and Professional Studies. SMSU is certify by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

Southwest Minnesota State University gives undergrad training in the aesthetic sciences and expert studies for the accompanying zones: Accounting, Agriculture, Agronomy, Anthropology, Art, Biology, Business Administration, Chemistry, Computer Science, Criminal Justice, Culinology, Economics, Education, English, Environmental Science, Exercise Science, Finance, Foreign Languages, Geography, Global Studies, Hispanic Studies, History, Hospitality Management, Humanities, Indigenous Nations and Dakota Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, Justice Administration, Liberal Arts and Sciences (AA Degree), Management, Marketing, Mathematics, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, RN to BSN, Social Work, Sociology, Speech Communication, Theater Arts, and Women's Studies. The college likewise underpins a Center for Rural and Regional Studies, and offers graduate degrees in Business Management, Education, Special Education and Physical Education. The most prevalent majors are Business Administration and Education.

Theater understudies in a creation of "Play" by Samuel Beckett

Notwithstanding being territorially certify by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, the college additionally holds accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Music, the Minnesota Board of Teaching, the American Chemical Society and the Council on Social Work Education.

Southwest Minnesota State University (SMSU) has particular graduate projects in training, specialized curriculum, and business organization. The SMSU MBA system has degree alternatives in promoting, initiative, and the general MBA. Understudies can take classes both on location and online in Minnesota. The master's level college does not right now have an understudy senate, however there is a MBA understudy association that understudies can be a part of. A basic component to the accomplishment to the undergrad and graduate business projects is access toward The Southwest Marketing Advisory Center, where understudies have the opportunity to do unique research on real organizations.

A large portion of the SMSU grounds was developed somewhere around 1965 and 1973 as indicated by a bound together arrangement. The block and solid structures are interconnected through passages and encased walkways, giving a nonstop and controlled environment amid both summer and winter. The living arrangement corridors are not joined. There are numerous patios with greenery enclosures between the structures. The grounds is for all intents and purposes boundary free, permitting simple access to understudies in wheelchairs.

The college's habitation corridors were named by the understudies amid the late 1960s and reflect different subjects and estimations of the times, e.g. Aquarius, Casa Futura, Methedras and Kama Sutra. Armstrong Hall was named after space explorer Neil Armstrong out of appreciation for his trek to the moon in 1969. Manchester Hall was named for pop vocalist Melissa Manchester after a show she gave on grounds.

In 2009, the college opened another residence, named Sweetland Hall out of appreciation for a late president, Douglas Sweetland.

Habitation Halls:

Conventional Halls - Six edifices of four associated corridors that were manufactured in the 1960s and highlight a typical washroom for the entire floor. Sweetland Hall - another complex with around 250 beds with a lavatory shared by suit-mates (two to four individuals). Establishment Apartments - Apartment style living arrangement lobby with clothing and kitchen machines in every loft. There are no crews or sororities on grounds so as to advance a protected and inviting environment for all understudies. Associations:

The Southwest Marketing Advisory Center (SMAC) is situated on the second floor of the Science and Technology building, Room 203. SMAC is a self-financed element inside of the scholastic showcasing system at Southwest State. Its mission is to serve the promoting and research needs of southwestern Minnesota while giving certifiable experience to junior, senior and graduate-level understudy workers.

Every understudy going to Southwest Minnesota State University pays a .43 penny for each credit expense to store the Minnesota State University Student Association, an understudy drove not-for-profit association that supporters for the benefit of all understudies.

Cornell University

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Cornell University is an American private Ivy League and government area gift research college situated in Ithaca, New York. Established in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, the college was proposed to show and make commitments in all fields of information — from the classics to the sciences, and from the hypothetical to the connected. These standards, unpredictable for the time, are caught in Cornell's proverb, a well known 1865 Ezra Cornell citation: "I would discovered an organization where any individual can discover guideline in any study."

The college is extensively sorted out into seven undergrad universities and seven graduate divisions at its primary Ithaca grounds, with every school and division characterizing its own affirmation benchmarks and scholastic projects in close independence. The college additionally directs two satellite restorative grounds, one in New York City and one in Education City, Qatar. Cornell is one of three private area gift colleges. Of its seven undergrad schools, three are state-bolstered statutory or contract universities, including its farming and veterinary schools. As an area gift school, it works an agreeable expansion effort program in every region of New York and gets yearly subsidizing from the State of New York for certain instructive missions. The Cornell University Ithaca Campus includes 745 sections of land, yet in reality, is much bigger because of the Cornell Plantations (more than 4,300 sections of land) and additionally the various college possessed grounds in New York.

Since its establishing, Cornell has been a co-instructive, non-partisan establishment where confirmation is offered independent of religion or race. Cornell checks more than 245,000 living graduated class, 34 Marshall Scholars, 29 Rhodes Scholars and 44 Nobel laureates as partnered with the university.The understudy body comprises of about 14,000 undergrad and 7,000 graduate understudies from each of the 50 American states and 122 nations.

Cornell University was established on April 27, 1865, as the consequence of a New York State (NYS) Senate charge that named the college as the state's territory stipend foundation. Representative Ezra Cornell offered his ranch in Ithaca, New York as a site and $500,000 of his own fortune as a starting gift. Kindred representative and experienced instructor Andrew Dickson White consented to be the first president. Amid the following three years, White administered the development of the starting two structures and set out far and wide to pull in understudies and personnel. The college was initiated on October 7, 1868, and 412 men were selected the following day.

Cornell kept on being an innovative trend-setter applying its exploration to its own particular grounds and in addition to effort endeavors. Case in point, it was one of the first college grounds to utilize power to light the grounds from a water-fueled dynamo in 1883. Since 1894, Cornell has included state-financed statutory schools and has likewise controlled examination and augmentation exercises that have been together supported by state and government coordinating stores.

Cornell has had dynamic graduated class since its most punctual classes and was one of the first colleges to incorporate graduated class chose delegates on its Board of Trustees.

Cornell extended essentially, especially since World War II, with its understudy populace in Ithaca developing to its present check of around 20,000 understudies. The personnel likewise extended, and by the century's end, the college had around 3,000 employees. The school additionally expanded its broadness obviously offerings. Today the college has far reaching projects and offers more than 4,000 courses. Cornell got national consideration in April 1969 when African American understudies possessed Willard Straight Hall in dissent over claimed bigotry. The emergency brought about the abdication of President James A. Perkins and the rebuilding of college administration.

Since 2000, Cornell has been extending its universal projects. In 2004, the college opened the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar. It keeps on producing associations with significant organizations in India, Singapore, and the People's Republic of China. Previous president Jeffrey S. Lehman called the college, with its high universal profile, a "transnational college". On March 9, 2004, Cornell and Stanford laid the foundation for another Bridging the Rift Center situated on the Israel–Jordan outskirt.

Cornell's fundamental grounds is on East Hill in Ithaca, New York, neglecting the town and Cayuga Lake. At the point when the college was established in 1865, the grounds comprised of 209.5 sections of land (0.85 km²) of Ezra Cornell's around 300 section of land (1.2 km²) farm.[not in reference given] Since then, it has swelled to around 2300 sections of land (9.3 km²), including both the slope and a great part of the encompassing regions. About 260 college structures are partitioned essentially in the middle of Central and North Campuses on the level of the Hill, West Campus on its incline, and Collegetown quickly south of Central Campus. Focal Campus has labs, managerial structures, and the majority of the grounds' scholarly structures, athletic offices, amphitheaters, and exhibition halls. The main staying private office on Central Campus is the Law School's residence, Hughes Hall which is planned to be remodeled and changed over to office space sooner rather than later. North Campus contains green bean and graduate understudy lodging, themed system houses, and 29 brotherhood and sorority houses. West Campus has upperclass private schools and an extra 25 organization and sorority houses Collegetown contains two upperclass home corridors and the Schwartz Performing Arts Center in the midst of an area of flats, restaurants, and organizations.

The principle grounds is stamped by a sporadic design and diverse building styles, including luxurious Collegiate Gothic, Victorian, Neoclassical structures, and less brightening global and innovator structures. The more lavish structures for the most part originate before World War II. Since the understudy populace multiplied from 7,000 in 1950 to 15,000 by 1970, pretentiousness was disregarded for not so much extravagant but rather more quickly developed styles. While a few structures are conveniently masterminded into quadrangles, others are pressed thickly and heedlessly. These unconventionalities emerged from the college's various, continually changing end-all strategies for the grounds. Case in point, in one of the most punctual arrangements, Frederick Law Olmsted, the fashioner of Central Park, delineated a "terrific porch" sitting above Cayuga Lake. Since the porch arrangement was dropped, McGraw Hall seems to face the wrong heading, confronting Libe Slope instead of the Arts Quad.

The college is home to a few structures on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Andrew Dickson White House, Bailey Hall, Caldwell Hall, Comstock Hall, Morrill Hall, and Deke House. No less than three other noteworthy structures the first Roberts Hall, East Robert Hall and Stone Hall—have additionally been recorded on the NRHP, notwithstanding their destructions in the 1980s. In September 2011, Travel+Leisure recorded the Ithaca Campus as among the most excellent in the United States.

The Ithaca Campus is among the moving valleys of the Finger Lakes area and, on East Hill, gives a perspective of the encompassing range, including 38 miles (61.4 km) long Lake Cayuga. Two canyons, Fall Creek Gorge and Cascadilla Gorge, bound Central Campus and get to be prominent swimming gaps amid the hotter months (in spite of the fact that the college and city code dishearten their utilization). Neighboring the primary grounds, Cornell possesses the 2,800 section of land (11.6 km²) Cornell Plantations, a plant greenhouse containing blooms, trees, and lakes along manicured trails.

Cornell has embraced an extensive maintainability activity arrange, and has various Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) confirmed structures on the Ithaca grounds. In 2009, another gas-terminated consolidated warmth and force office supplanted a coal-let go steam plant, bringing about a diminishment in carbon discharges to 7% beneath 1990 levels, and to decrease carbon dioxide emanations by 75,000 tons for every year. The office meets 15% of grounds electrical needs, and a college keep running, on-grounds hydroelectric plant in the Fall Creek Gorge gives an extra 2%. The college has a lake source cooling venture that uses Lake Cayuga to aerate and cool grounds structures, with a 80% vitality sparing over routine frameworks.

Australian National University

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The Australian National University (ANU) is a state funded college in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Situated in the suburb of Acton, the principle grounds includes seven showing and exploration universities, notwithstanding a few national foundations. Established in 1946, it is the main college to have been made by the Parliament of Australia. Initially a postgraduate examination college, ANU started undergrad instructing in 1960 when it incorporated the Canberra University College, which had been built up in 1929 as a grounds of the University of Melbourne. ANU selects 10,052 undergrad and 10,840 postgraduate understudies and utilizes 3,753 staff. The college's enrichment remained at A$1.13 billion in 2012. ANU is reliably positioned among the world's top colleges. ANU is positioned equivalent 25th on the planet (first in Australia) by the 2014/15 QS World University Rankings, and 45th on the planet (second in Australia) by the 2014/15 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.[6] In the 2014 Times Higher Education Global Employability University Ranking, a yearly positioning of college graduates' employability, ANU was positioned 20th on the planet (first in Australia). ANU considers six Nobel laureates as a real part of its workforce and alumni.[8] Students entering ANU in 2013 had a middle Australian Tertiary Admission Rank of 93, the equivalent most noteworthy among Australian colleges. ANU was named the world's 7th most worldwide college in a recent report by Times Higher Education. Requires the foundation of a national college in Australia started as right on time as 1900.[13] After the area of the country's capital, Canberra, was resolved in 1908, area was situated aside for the college at the foot Black Mountain in the city outlines by Walter Burley Griffin. Making arrangements for the college was disturbed by World War II however continued with the production of the Department of Post-War Reconstruction in 1942, eventually prompting the entry of the Australian National University Act 1946 by the Parliament of Australia on 1 August 1946. Stays of the ANU homopolar generator composed by Mark Oliphant A gathering of famous Australian researchers came back from abroad to join the college, including Sir Howard Florey (co-engineer of restorative penicillin), Sir Mark Oliphant (an atomic physicist who took a shot at the Manhattan Project), Sir Keith Hancock (the Chichele Professor of Economic History at Oxford) and Sir Raymond Firth (an educator of humanities at LSE). Financial analyst Sir Douglas Copland was delegated as ANU's first Vice-Chancellor and previous Prime Minister Stanley Bruce served as the first Chancellor. ANU was initially composed into four focuses the Research Schools of Physical Sciences, Social Sciences and Pacific Studies and the John Curtin School of Medical Research. The primary occupant's corridor, University House, was opened in 1954 for employees and postgraduate understudies. Mount Stromlo Observatory, set up by the central government in 1924, turned out to be a piece of ANU in 1957. The main areas of the ANU Library, the Menzies and Chifley structures, opened in 1963. The Australian Forestry School, situated in Canberra since 1927, was amalgamated by ANU in 1965. Canberra University College Canberra University College (CUC) was the first establishment of advanced education in the national capital, having been set up in 1929 and enlisting its first undergrad understudies in 1930. Its establishing was driven by Sir Robert Garran, one of the drafters of the Australian Constitution and the first Solicitor-General of Australia. CUC was partnered with the University of Melbourne and its degrees were conceded by that college. Scholastic pioneers at CUC included history specialist Manning Clark, political researcher Finlay Crisp, writer A. D. Trust and financial specialist Heinz Arndt. In 1960, CUC was coordinated into ANU as the School of General Studies, at first with resources in expressions, financial aspects, law and science. Resources in Oriental studies and building were presented later. Bruce Hall, the first private school for students, opened in 1961.

University of Waterloo

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The University of Waterloo (commonly referred to as Waterloo, UW or UWaterloo) is a public research university with a main campus located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on 404 hectares (1,000 acres) of land in "Uptown" Waterloo, adjacent to Waterloo Park. The university offers academic programs administered by six faculties and ten faculty-based schools. The university also operates four satellite campuses and four affiliated university colleges. Waterloo is a member of the U15, a group of research-intensive universities in Canada. The institution was established on 1 July 1957 as the Waterloo College Associate Faculties, a semi-autonomous entity of Waterloo College. This entity formally separated from Waterloo College in 1959, and was incorporated as a university. It was established to fill the need to train engineers and technicians for Canada's growing postwar economy. It grew substantially over the next decade, adding a faculty of arts in 1960, and the College of Optometry of Ontario which moved from Toronto in 1967. The university is co-educational, and has nearly 26,000 undergraduate and over 4,000 post-graduate students. Alumni and former students of the university can be found across Canada and in over 140 countries. The university ranked 151-200th in the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities, 169th in the 2014 QS World University Rankings, and 226-250th in the 2012–2013 Times Higher Education World University Rankings. Waterloo's varsity teams, known as the Waterloo Warriors, compete in the Ontario University Athletics conference of the Canadian Interuniversity Sport. The University of Waterloo traces its origins to Waterloo College, the academic outgrowth of Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, which was affiliated with the University of Western Ontario since 1925. When Gerald Hagey assumed the presidency of Waterloo College in 1953, he made it his priority to procure the funds necessary to expand the institution. While the main source of income for higher education in Ontario at the time was the provincial government, the Ontario government made it clear that it would not contribute to denominational colleges and universities. Hagey soon became aware of the steps undertaken by McMaster University to make itself eligible for some provincial funding by establishing Hamilton College as a separate, non-denominational college affiliated with the university. Following that method, Waterloo College established the Waterloo College Associate Faculties on 4 April 1956, as a non-denominational board affiliated with the College. The academic structure of the Associated Faculties was originally focused on cooperative education in the applied sciences – largely built around the proposals of around the proposals of Ira Needles. Needles proposed a different approach towards education, including both studies in the classroom and training in industry that would eventually become the basis of the university's cooperative education program.[16] While the plan was initially opposed by the Engineering Institute of Canada and other Canadian universities, notably the University of Western Ontario, the Associated Faculties admitted its first students in July 1957. On 25 January 1958, the Associated Faculties announced the purchase of over 74 hectares (180 acres) of land west of Waterloo College. By the end of the same year, the Associated Faculties opened its first building on the site, the Chemical Engineering Building. In 1959, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario passed an Act which formally split the Associated Faculties from Waterloo College, and re-established it as the University of Waterloo. The governance was modelled on the University of Toronto Act of 1906, which established a bicameral system of university government consisting of a Senate, responsible for academic policy, and a Board of Governors exercising exclusive control over financial policy and having formal authority in all other matters. The president, appointed by the board, was to act as the institution's chief executive officer and act as a liaison between the two groups. Constructed in 1958, the Douglas Wright Engineering Building is the oldest building that was erected for use by the university. The legislative act was the result of a great deal of negotiation between Waterloo College, Waterloo College Associated Faculties, and St. Jerome's College, another denominational college in the City of Waterloo. While the agreements sought to safeguard the existence of the two denominational colleges, they also aimed at federating them with the newly established University of Waterloo. Due to disagreements with Waterloo College, the College was not formally federated with the new university. The dispute centred on a controversially worded section of the University of Waterloo Act, 1959, in which the College interpreted certain sections as a guarantee that it would become the Faculty of Art for the new university. This was something that the Associated Faculties was not prepared to accept. As a result of the controversy, Waterloo College's entire Department of Mathematics broke away from the College to join the newly established University of Waterloo, later joined by professors from the Economic, German, Modern Languages, and Russian departments. Despite this controversy, until 1960 Hagey hoped that a last minute compromise between Waterloo College and the University could be achieved. Ultimately, however, the University created its own Faculty of Arts in 1960. It later established the first Faculty of Mathematics in North America on 1 January 1967. In 1967 the world's first Department of Kinesiology was created. The present legislative act which defines how the university should be governed, the University of Waterloo Act, 1972 was passed on 10 May 1972. Although the coat of arms was in use since the 1960s, the arms were finally registered with Lord Lyon King of Arms in August 1987. In February 1995 the former president of the university, James Downey, signed the Tri-University Group (TUG) agreement between Wilfrid Laurier University, and the University of Guelph. Signed in a period of fiscal constraint, and when ageing library systems required replacing, the TUG agreement sought to integrate the library collections and services of the three universities.

McGill University

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McGill University is a public research university in Montreal, Canada, officially founded by royal charter in 1821. The University bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Scotland whose bequest in 1813 formed precursory McGill College.

McGill's main campus is set at the foot of Mount Royal in Downtown Montreal with the second campus situated near fields and forested lands in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, 30 kilometres west of the downtown campus on the Montreal Island. All the academic units are organized into 11 main Faculties and Schools, and the institution is one of the two members of Association of American Universities located outside the United States.Valued at $36,711 per student, the University maintains one of the largest endowments among Canadian universities on a per-student basis.

McGill offers degrees and diplomas in over 300 fields of study. Most students are enrolled in five larger Faculties, namely Arts, Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Management, with the highest entering grade of any Canadian university. Tuition fees vary significantly between in-province, out-of-province, and international students, and the scholarships are very generous yet highly competitive and relatively difficult to attain, compared to other Canadian universities.

Consistently ranked among the top universities both in Canada and worldwide, McGill is one of the most prestigious universities in the world. McGill counts among its alumni 12 Nobel laureates and 138 Rhodes Scholars, both the most in the country, as well as three astronauts, two Canadian prime ministers, 13 justices of the Canadian Supreme Court, four foreign leaders, 28 foreign ambassadors, nine Academy Award winners, three Pulitzer Prize winners, and 28 Olympic medalists. Throughout its long history, McGill alumni were instrumental in inventing or initially organizing football, basketball, and ice hockey. McGill or its alumni also founded several major universities, including the Universities of British Columbia, Victoria, and Alberta, and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning

The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning (RIAL) was created in 1801 under an Act of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada - An Act for the establishment of Free Schools and the Advancement of Learning in this Province. In 1816 the RIAL was authorized to operate two new Royal Grammar Schools, in Quebec City and in Montreal. This was a turning point for public education in Lower Canada as the schools were created by legislation, the District Public Schools Act of 1807, which showed the government's willingness to support the costs of education and even the salary of a schoolmaster. This was an important first step in the creation of nondenominational schools. When James McGill died in 1813 his bequest was administered by the RIAL. The original two Royal Grammar Schools closed in 1846 and by the mid-19th century the RIAL lost control of the other 82 grammar schools it had administered. Its sole remaining purpose was to administer the McGill bequest on behalf of the college. The RIAL continues to exist today; it is the corporate identity that runs the university and its various constituent bodies, including the former Macdonald College (now Macdonald Campus), the Montreal Neurological Institute and the Royal Victoria College (the former women's college turned residence). Since the revised Royal Charter of 1852, The Trustees of the RIAL comprise the Board of Governors of McGill University.

University of Toronto

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The University of Toronto (U of T, UToronto, or Toronto) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in the colony of Upper Canada. Originally controlled by the Church of England, the university assumed the present name in 1850 upon becoming a secular institution. As a collegiate university, it comprises twelve colleges that differ in character and history, each retaining substantial autonomy on financial and institutional affairs. It has two satellite campuses located in Scarborough and Mississauga.

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 Varsity Blues are the athletic teams representing the university in intercollegiate league matches, with particularly long and storied ties to gridiron football and ice hockey. The university's Hart House is an early example of the North American student centre, simultaneously serving cultural, intellectual and recreational interests within its large Gothic-revival complex.

Toronto ranks highly in global rankings and is consistently ranked first in Canada. According to the 2015 U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities Ranking, it is ranked 14th overall,[5] 24th by the 2014 Academic Ranking of World Universities, 20th in the world in the 2014 QS World University Rankings, and 16th in the world in the 2015 Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings. 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.

Georgia Institute of Technology

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Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Institute of Technology is a public institution that was founded in 1885. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 14,558, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 400 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Georgia Institute of Technology's ranking in the 2015 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 35. Its in-state tuition and fees are $11,394 (2014-15); out-of-state tuition and fees are $30,698 (2014-15).

Georgia Tech, located in the heart of Atlanta, offers a wide range of student activities. The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, an NCAA Division I team, compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference and have a fierce rivalry with the University of Georgia. Since 1961, the football team has been led onto the field at home games by the Ramblin’ Wreck, a restored 1930 Model A Ford Sport Coupe. Georgia Tech has a small but vibrant Greek community. Freshmen are offered housing, but aren’t required to live on campus. In addition to its campuses in Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia Tech has campuses in France, Ireland, Costa Rica, Singapore and China.

Georgia Tech has six colleges. Its highly ranked graduate schools include the College of Engineering and Ernest Scheller Jr. College of Business. Georgia Tech is classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a university with very high research activity. Famous alumni include president and CEO of Walmart Mike Duke, founder of The Masters golf tournament Bobby Jones and baseball player Nomar Garciaparra. John Heisman was Georgia Tech’s first full-time football coach, and the Heisman Memorial Trophy was named in his honor. The school's newspaper for faculty and staff, "The Whistle," is named for the steam whistle in the Tech Tower that blows every hour and each time the Yellow Jackets score a touchdown.

The Georgia Institute of Technology, also known as Georgia Tech, is one of the nation's leading research universities, providing a focused, technologically based education to more than 21,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Georgia Tech has many nationally recognized programs, all top-ranked by peers and publications alike, and is ranked in the nation???s top 10 public universities by U.S. News and World Report. It offers degrees through the Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Sciences, the Scheller College of Business, and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

As a leading technological university, Georgia Tech has more than 100 centers focused on interdisciplinary research that consistently contribute vital research and innovation to American government, industry, and business.

University of South Alabama

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The University of South Alabama (USA) is a public, national research university in Mobile, Alabama, USA. It was created by the Alabama Legislature in May, 1963, and replaced existing extension programs operated in Mobile by the University of Alabama. USA is the only major public institution of higher learning on the upper Gulf Coast. With Alabama's two older universities more than 200 miles distant, the University is strategically located in the greater Mobile area, which has a population of more than a million within a 100-mile radius. Currently, USA is divided into ten colleges and schools and includes one of Alabama's two state-supported medical schools. As of the Fall semester of 2014, South Alabama has an enrollment of 16,055 students. To date, the University has awarded over 80,000 degrees. USA has an annual payroll of $404 million (US), with over 5,500 employees, and is the second largest employer in Mobile, Alabama. It has remained one of Alabama's fastest growing universities for the past several years.[4] The university has come under great criticism; as of 2014 the university maintains a 14% graduation rate, and was named the 8th most dangerous college in the country by Business Insider. Despite these criticisms, The University South Alabama has an annual economic impact of US$2 billion.In addition, South Alabama owned hospitals treat over 250,000 patients annually. The university offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate degrees in ten colleges and schools. Several programs offer masters level degrees in addition to undergraduate degrees. Doctoral level degrees are offered in several areas, including Business Administration, Nursing, Medicine, Basic Medical Sciences, Instructional Design, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Audiology, Marine Science, Psychology, Physical Therapy, and a Doctor of Pharmacy degree offered in collaboration with Auburn University. The university will add doctoral programs in Business and Engineering beginning in 2013, with the business doctorate being the state's first doctorate in business administration. The psychology doctoral program was initiated in 2009 and is one of a handful of such programs nationwide that offers a Combined degree, emphasizing both Clinical Psychology and Counseling Psychology. Significant research is done by faculty members in the above fields. In all, undergraduate students at South Alabama can choose from more than 50 bachelor’s degree and certificate programs while there are more than 40 master’s degree programs. As of 2011, USA ranks as the 22nd best public university in the southern United States, and 52nd overall (in the South). It has an acceptance rate of 86.5%. The student-faculty ratio at USA is 22:1, and the school has 41.5 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students. USA students are 57% female and 43% male. Colleges Shelby Hall - College of Engineering The University of South Alabama has ten colleges: Pat Covey College of Allied Health Professions College of Arts and Sciences Mitchell College of Business College of Education College of Engineering College of Medicine Doctor of Pharmacy Program (Collaborative program with Auburn University) College of Nursing School of Computing School of Continuing Education and Special Programs Administration The University is governed by a Board of Trustees appointed by and including the governor of Alabama. The Board appoints a president of the University. Since the founding of the University, there have been two presidents: Frederick Palmer Whiddon (served 1963–1998) and V. Gordon Moulton (served 1998-2013). John W. Smith, the current Vice President for Student Affairs, served as an interim president until the arrival of Tony G. Waldrop in 2014. Research USA has several research centers and institutes: Center for Design & Performance Improvement, Center for Real Estate and Economic Development, Center for Archaeological Studies, Center for Forensics and Information Technology Security, Center for Lung Biology, South Alabama Research and Inservice Center, and USA Mitchell Cancer Institute (USAMCI). The USAMCI is the first academic cancer research institute in the upper Gulf Coast region. It was initiated in 2000, and is funded through philanthropic gifts; support from the state of Alabama; the city of Mobile, and Mobile county; federal appropriations; competitive contracts and grants; tobacco settlement funds; and the USA Foundation. The USAMCI is the largest single research endeavor in the history of the University of South Alabama, with a total investment of over $125 million. It currently provides over 55,000 patient treatment contacts annually. In addition to improving cancer care, the Institute stimulates the growth of a strong regional economy built on biomedicine and biotechnology. Together with the entire USA Health System, USAMCI focuses on discovery and development of new and more effective treatments for cancer.

Troy University

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Troy University is a comprehensive public university that is located in Troy, Alabama, United States. It was founded on February 26, 1887 as Troy State Normal School within the Alabama State University System by an Act of the Alabama Legislature. It is the flagship university of the Troy University System with its main campus enrollment of 6,998 students and the total enrollment of all Troy University campuses of 19,579. Troy University is regionally accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACS) to award associate, baccalaureate, master's, education specialist, and doctoral degrees.

In August 2005, Troy State University, Montgomery; Troy State University, Phenix City; Troy State University, Dothan; and Troy State University (Main Campus) all merged under one accreditation to become Troy University to better reflect the institution's worldwide mission. Prior to the merger, each campus was independently accredited and merging of these campuses helped to create a stronger institution by eliminating overlapping services and barriers to students. The merger combined talents and resources of staff, faculty, and administrators into a single highly effective and competitive university.

Today, the University serves the educational needs of students in four Alabama campuses, sixty teaching sites in 17 U.S. States and 11 countries. Troy University's graduates number more than 100,000 alumni representing all 50 states and from numerous foreign countries. Troy University is known as Alabama's International University for its extensive international program in attracting foreign students from around the world.

Troy University is a public university with its main campus located in Troy, Alabama. It was founded as a normal school in 1887 with a mission to educate and train new teachers. The school has since evolved into a state university, located in four sites across the State of Alabama: Troy, Montgomery, Phenix City and Dothan. The university also has various sites located throughout the United States and several international locations. Troy University is known for its innovation in offering in-class and online academic programs in servicing traditional, nontraditional, and military students. The main campus enrollment as of the fall of 2014 is 6,998 students. The campus itself consists of 36 major buildings on 650 acres (1.9 km²) plus the adjacent Troy University Arboretum.

At least three prominent political figures have been associated with Troy University. George Wallace, Jr., son of the late Governor George C. Wallace, is a former administrator at the university. Max Rafferty, the California Superintendent of Public Instruction from 1963 to 1971, was dean of the education department from 1971 until his death in 1982. Former Governor John Malcolm Patterson, an intra-party rival of George Wallace, taught U.S. history at the institution during the 1980s.

Name change

On April 16, 2004, the Board of Trustees voted to change the name of the institution from Troy State University to Troy University. The transition to the new name was completed in August 2005 and was the fifth in the school's history. When created by the Alabama Legislature on February 26, 1887, it was officially named the Troy State Normal School. The school was located in downtown Troy until moving to the present location on University Avenue in 1930. In 1929, the name was changed to Troy State Teachers College and it subsequently conferred its first baccalaureate degree in 1931. In 1957, the legislature voted both to change the name to Troy State College and to allow it to begin a master's degree program. The name was changed once again in 1967 to Troy State University.

Grand Canyon University

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Grand Canyon University (GCU) is a private, for-profit Christian university located in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. GCU was founded in 1949 as a non-profit liberal arts college, and was purchased by Grand Canyon Education, Inc. (NASDAQ: LOPE) in February 2004. Grand Canyon University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and provides campus-based as well as online postsecondary education services focused on graduate and undergraduate degree programs in education, liberal arts, business, and healthcare through its eight colleges. The college was founded as a nonprofit institution in 1949 in Prescott. Arizona Southern Baptists felt the need to establish a faith-based institution that would allow local Baptists the opportunity to obtain a Bachelor's or Master's degree without going east to one of the Baptist colleges in Texas or Oklahoma. On October 8, 1951, Grand Canyon College relocated to its current location in Phoenix. First Southern Baptist Church of Phoenix donated the land necessary for the institution, and several members of that church, led by the Reverend Vaughn Rock and S. F. Hawkins, donated the finances and physical labor needed to bring G.C.C, as it was known, into reality. Grand Canyon College was renamed Grand Canyon University in 1989.[citation needed] Suffering financial and other difficulties in the early part of the 21st century, the school's trustees authorized its sale in January 2004 to California-based Significant Education, LLC,[5] making it the first for-profit Christian college in the United States. In the fall of 2014, with the school in a better place financially, it announced the exploration of a return to non-profit status on October 29. The university's president and CEO, Brian Mueller, said in a statement: "We do not have a philosophical issue with having a for-profit status and having investors. However, the stigma surrounding the for-profit industry – some of which is deserved, and some not – is real and it is not improving. And no matter what GCU does to separate itself, its detractors continue to try to use this stigma to detract from GCU’s success." Mueller has noted that GCU has been immune to a lot of the problems associated with for-profit colleges, mainly because of its regional accreditation. In 2006, the Grand Canyon University campus received a US$150 million makeover including a brick promenade, an aquatics center, with pool and hot tub, and a café offering an assortment of games and big-screen televisions. In 2009, Grand Canyon University's campus began work on a $60 million campus expansion project which includes a 500-bed dormitory, a 55,000-square-foot (5,100 m2) fitness and recreation center, 125-classroom facility, food court and bowling alley, and a 5,000 seat arena. The GCU Arena, which opened on September 2, 2011,[10] is utilized for secular and non-secular concerts, speakers, and events, as well as being home to Grand Canyon University's Men's and Women's basketball teams, and Women's Volleyball games, beginning in the fall of 2013. The three-year-old arena is already undergoing major expansion beginning in Spring of 2014 with the goal of expanding to about 7,000 seats. Two new residence halls opened in the fall of 2012, Sedona Hall and Camelback Hall, each with 500 beds.[citation needed] Two additional residence halls opened in the fall of 2013, Chaparral Hall and Saguaro Hall. Major upgrades have been made to the Student Union building, transforming the structure to a four-story building with two library floors, one Peet's Coffee & Tea floor, and another cafeteria floor. An apartment-style residence hall, the Papago Apartments, opened in fall of 2014 along with another traditional residence hall, Ocotillo Hall. GCU also purchased the nearby Mesquite Apartments and opened them as student living facilities. The university has four new six-story residence halls planned to open in the fall of 2015 on newly acquired land on the northeast part of campus.

City College of New York

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The City College of the City University of New York (more commonly referred to as the City College of New York, or simply City College, CCNY, or City) is a senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY) in New York City. It is the oldest of City University's twenty-four institutions of higher learning. City College's 35-acre (14 ha) Manhattan campus along Convent Avenue from 130th to 141st Streets is on a hill overlooking Harlem; its neo-Gothic campus was mostly designed by George Browne Post, and many of its buildings are landmarks. CCNY was the first free public institution of higher education in the United States and is considered the flagship campus of the CUNY public university system. The college counts 10 winners of the Nobel Prize among its alumni, the latest being Harlem native John O'Keefe (2014 Nobel Prize in Medicine). Early 19th century Shepard Hall, rear entrance, looking east from Convent Avenue, City College of New York, 2010. City College of New York in 2010, North Campus, looking west. Wingate Hall on the left, Townsend Harris Hall in the background. The City College of New York was originally founded as the Free Academy of the City of New York in 1847 by wealthy businessman and president of the Board of Education Townsend Harris. A combination prep school and college, it would provide children of immigrants and the poor access to free higher education based on academic merit alone. The Free Academy was the first of what would become a system of municipally-supported colleges – the second, Hunter College, was founded as a women's institution in 1870; and the third, Brooklyn College, was established as a coeducational institution in 1930. In 1847, New York State Governor John Young had given permission to the Board of Education to found the Free Academy, which was ratified in a statewide referendum. Founder Townsend Harris proclaimed, "Open the doors to all… Let the children of the rich and the poor take their seats together and know of no distinction save that of industry, good conduct and intellect." Dr. Horace Webster, a West Point graduate, was the first president of the Free Academy. On the occasion of The Free Academy's formal opening, January 21, 1849, Webster said: The experiment is to be tried, whether the children of the people, the children of the whole people, can be educated; and whether an institution of the highest grade, can be successfully controlled by the popular will, not by the privileged few. A view of the original entrance to Shepard Hall, the main building of City College of New York, in the early 1900s, on its new campus in Hamilton Heights, from St. Nicholas Avenue looking up westward to St. Nicholas Terrace. In 1847, a curriculum was adopted which had nine main fields: mathematics, history, language, literature, drawing, natural philosophy, experimental philosophy, law, and political economy. The Academy's first graduation took place in 1853 in Niblo's Garden Theatre, a large theater and opera house on Broadway, near Houston Street at the corner of Broadway and Prince Street. Even in its early years, the Free Academy showed tolerance for diversity, especially in comparison to its urban neighbor, Columbia College, which was exclusive to the sons of wealthy families. The Free Academy had a framework of tolerance that extended beyond the admission of students from every social stratum. In 1854, Columbia's trustees denied Oliver Wolcott Gibbs, a distinguished chemist and scientist, a faculty position because of Gibbs's Unitarian religious beliefs. Gibbs was a professor and held an appointment at the Free Academy since 1848. (In 1863, Gibbs went on to an appointment at Harvard University, the Rumsford Professorship in Chemistry, where he had a distinguished career. In 1873, he was awarded an honorary degree from Columbia with a unanimous vote by its Trustees with the strong urging of President Barnard.) Later in the history of CCNY, in the early 1900s, President John H. Finley gave the College a more secular orientation by abolishing mandatory chapel attendance. This change occurred at a time when more Jewish students were enrolling in the College. Late 19th century Statue of Alexander S. Webb, second president of CCNY In 1866, the Free Academy, a men's institution, was renamed the College of the City of New York. In 1929, the College of the City of New York became the City College of New York. Finally, the institution became known as the City College of the City University of New York when CUNY was formally established as the umbrella institution for New York City's municipal-college system in 1961. The names City College of New York and City College, however, remain in general use.

University of Washington

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Undergraduate Founded 4 November 1861, the University of Washington is one of the oldest state-supported institutions of college apprenticeship on the Pacific coast. The University is comprised of three campuses: the Seattle campus is fabricated up of seventeen schools and colleges whose adroitness action educational opportunities to acceptance alignment from first-year undergraduates through doctoral-level candidates; the Bothell and Tacoma campuses, anniversary developing a characteristic character and ability accelerated growth, action assorted programs to upper-division undergraduates and to alum students. The primary mission of the University of Washington is the preservation, advancement, and broadcasting of knowledge. The University preserves ability through its libraries and collections, its courses, and the scholarship of its faculty. It advances new ability through abounding forms of research, analysis and discussion; and disseminates it through the classroom and the laboratory, bookish exchanges, artistic practice, all-embracing education, and accessible service. As one of the nation's outstanding teaching and analysis institutions, the University is committed to advancement an ambiance for objectivity and artistic analysis and for the aboriginal scholarship and analysis that ensure the assembly of new ability in the chargeless barter of facts, theories, and ideas. To advance their accommodation to accomplish accommodating and abreast decisions, the University fosters an ambiance in which its acceptance can advance complete and absolute acumen and an acknowledgment of the ambit and assortment of animal achievement. The University cultivates in its acceptance both analytical cerebration and the able delivery of that thinking. As an basic allotment of a ample and assorted community, the University seeks ample representation of and encourages abiding accordance in that association by its students, its faculty, and its staff. It serves both non-traditional and acceptable students. Through its three-campus arrangement and through educational outreach, black degree, and ambit learning, it extends educational opportunities to abounding who would not contrarily accept admission to them. The bookish amount of the University of Washington is its College of Arts and Sciences; the teaching and analysis of the University's abounding able schools accommodate capital complements to these programs in the arts, humanities, amusing sciences, and accustomed and algebraic sciences. Programs in law, medicine, backwoods resources, oceanography and fisheries, library science, and aerodynamics are offered alone (in accordance with accompaniment law) by the University of Washington. In addition, the University of Washington has affected primary albatross for the bloom science fields of dentistry and accessible health, and offers apprenticeship and training in anesthetic for a multi-state arena of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. The schools and colleges of architectonics and burghal planning, business administration, education, engineering, nursing, pharmacy, accessible affairs, and amusing plan accept a continued attitude of educating acceptance for account to the arena and the nation. These schools and colleges accomplish basal contributions to the accompaniment and, with the blow of the University, allotment a continued attitude of educating undergraduate and alum acceptance against accomplishing an arete that able-bodied serves the state, the region, and the nation. Postgraduate The Advice School at the University of Washington is a authoritative academy on the University of Washington campus. We are absorbed in the accord amid information, technology, and people. Ability in all areas of advice is appropriate for the advance of science, business, education, and culture. This ability have to cover compassionate of the uses and users of information, as able-bodied as advice technologies and their applications. The ambit of activities at advice schools is accretion as schools accouterment authoritative and amusing issues accompanying to the way humans create, store, find, dispense and allotment information. Faculty, agents and acceptance at the University of Washington Advice School are committed to abstraction how humans appearance and use information. The University of Washington Advice School offers alum amount programs including a Master of Science in Advice Management, Master of Library and Advice Science, and a PhD in Advice Science. Engaged with the abstraction of advice and its use by humans and organizations, we adapt advice leaders, analysis problems in information, and architecture solutions to advice challenges. The University of Washington is one of the oldest state-supported institutions of college apprenticeship on the Pacific coast. The primary mission of the University of Washington as a accomplished is the preservation, advancement, and broadcasting of knowledge. The University preserves ability through its libraries and collections, its courses, and the scholarship of its faculty. It advances new ability through abounding forms of research, analysis and discussion; and disseminates it through the classroom and the laboratory, bookish exchanges, artistic practice, all-embracing education, and accessible service. As one of the nation's outstanding teaching and analysis institutions, the University is committed to advancement an ambiance for objectivity and artistic analysis and for the aboriginal scholarship and analysis that ensure the assembly of new ability in the chargeless barter of facts, theories, and ideas. To advance their accommodation to accomplish accommodating and abreast decisions, the University fosters an ambiance in which its acceptance can advance complete and absolute acumen and an acknowledgment of the ambit and assortment of animal achievement. The University cultivates in its acceptance both analytical cerebration and the able delivery of that thinking. As an basic allotment of a ample and assorted community, the University seeks ample representation of and encourages abiding accord in that association by its students, its faculty, and its staff.

Arkansas State University

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Arkansas State University (also known as A-State) is a public university and is the flagship campus of the Arkansas State University System, the state's second largest college system and second largest university by enrollment. It is located atop 1,376 acres (5.6 km2) on Crowley's Ridge at Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States. The university marked its centennial year in 2009. Master's degree graduate programs were initiated in 1955, and ASU began offering its first doctoral degree, in educational leadership, in the fall of 1992. A second doctoral program, in environmental science, was begun in the fall of 1997, and the doctoral program in heritage studies began in the fall of 2001. Newer doctoral programs are in environmental science, molecular biosciences and physical therapy. Today, the institution has more than 70,000 alumni. Programs at the specialist's, master's, bachelor's and associate degree levels are available through the various colleges: Agriculture and Technology, Business, Education, Engineering, Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Media and Communication, Nursing and Health Professions, Sciences and Mathematics, and University College.

California State University

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The California State University (Cal State or CSU) is a public university system in California. Composed of 23 campuses and eight off-campus centers enrolling 437,000 students with 44,000 faculty members and staff, CSU is the largest four-year public university system in the United States. It is one of three public higher education systems in the state, with the other two being the University of California system and the California Community College system. The CSU System is incorporated as The Trustees of the California State University. The California State University system headquarters are at 401 Golden Shore in Long Beach, California. The California State University was created in 1960 under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, and it is a direct descendant of the system of California State Normal Schools. With nearly 100,000 graduates annually, the CSU is the country's greatest producer of bachelor's degrees. The university system collectively sustains more than 150,000 jobs within the state, and its related expenditures reach more than $17 billion annually. In the 2011-12 academic year, CSU awarded 52 percent of newly issued California teaching credentials, 47 percent of the state's engineering degrees, 28 percent of the state's information technology bachelor's degrees, and it had more graduates in business (50 percent), agriculture (72 percent), communication studies, health (53 percent), education, and public administration (52 percent) than all other universities and colleges in California combined. Altogether, about half of the bachelor's degrees, one-third of the master's degrees, and nearly two percent of the doctoral degrees awarded annually in California are from the CSU. Furthermore, the CSU is one of the top teachers in the United States of graduates who moves on to earn their Ph.D. degrees in a related field. Since 1961, nearly three million alumni have received their bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degrees from the CSU system. CSU offers more than 1,800 degree programs in some 240 subject areas.

Harvard University

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Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, established in 1636. Its history, influence and wealth have made it one of the most prestigious universities in the world.

Established originally by the Massachusetts legislature and soon thereafter named for John Harvard (its first benefactor), Harvard is the United States' oldest institution of higher learning, and the Harvard Corporation (formally, the President and Fellows of Harvard College) is its first chartered corporation. Although never formally affiliated with any denomination, the early College primarily trained Congregationalist and Unitarian clergy. Its curriculum and student body were gradually secularized during the 18th century, and by the 19th century Harvard had emerged as the central cultural establishment among Boston elites. Following the American Civil War, President Charles W. Eliot's long tenure (1869–1909) transformed the college and affiliated professional schools into a modern research university; Harvard was a founding member of the Association of American Universities in 1900. James Bryant Conant led the university through the Great Depression and World War II and began to reform the curriculum and liberalize admissions after the war. The undergraduate college became coeducational after its 1977 merger with Radcliffe College.

The University is organized into eleven separate academic units—ten faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study—with campuses throughout the Boston metropolitan area: its 209-acre (85 ha) main campus is centered on Harvard Yard in Cambridge, approximately 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Boston; the business school and athletics facilities, including Harvard Stadium, are located across the Charles River in the Allston neighborhood of Boston and the medical, dental, and public health schools are in the Longwood Medical Area. Harvard has the largest financial endowment of any academic institution in the world, standing at $32.3 billion as of June 2013.

Harvard is a large, highly residential research university. The nominal cost of attendance is high, but the University's large endowment allows it to offer generous financial aid packages. It operates several arts, cultural, and scientific museums, alongside the Harvard Library, which is the world's largest academic and private library system, comprising 79 individual libraries with over 18 million volumes. It has many eminent alumni. Eight U.S. presidents and several foreign heads of state have been graduates. It is also the alma mater of 62 living billionaires and 335 Rhodes Scholars, both the most in the country. To date, some 150 Nobel laureates have been affiliated as students, faculty, or staff. History Harvard was formed in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was initially called "New College" or "the college at New Towne". In 1638, the college became home for North America's first known printing press, carried by the ship John of London. In 1639, the college was renamed Harvard College after deceased clergyman John Harvard, who was an alumnus of the University of Cambridge. He had left the school £779 and his library of some 400 books. The charter creating the Harvard Corporation was granted in 1650. In the early years the College trained many Puritan ministers. The college offered a classic academic course based on the English university model—many leaders in the colony had attended the University of Cambridge—but one consistent with the prevailing Puritan philosophy. The college was never affiliated with any particular denomination, but many of its earliest graduates went on to become clergymen in Congregational and Unitarian churches throughout New England. An early brochure, published in 1643, described the founding of the college as a response to the desire "to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches". The leading Boston divine Increase Mather served as president from 1685 to 1701. In 1708, John Leverett became the first president who was not also a clergyman, which marked a turning of the college toward intellectual independence from Puritani

Yale University

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Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the "Collegiate School" by a group of Congregationalist ministers and chartered by the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. In 1718, the school was renamed "Yale College" in recognition of a gift from Elihu Yale, a governor of the British East India Company. Established to train Connecticut ministers in theology and sacred languages, by 1777 the school's curriculum began to incorporate humanities and sciences. During the 19th century Yale gradually incorporated graduate and professional instruction, awarding the first Ph.D. in the United States in 1861 and organizing as a university in 1887.[6] Yale is organized into twelve constituent schools: the original undergraduate college, the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and ten 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 $23.9 billion as of September 27, 2014, the second largest of any educational institution in the world.[1] 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.[7] The Yale University Library, serving all twelve schools, holds more than 15 million volumes and is the third-largest academic library in the United States.[8][9] Besides 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,[10] 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. Fifty-two Nobel laureates have been affiliated with the University as students, faculty, or staff, and 230 Rhodes Scholars graduated from the University.[11] Early history of Yale College[edit] Origins[edit] Yale traces its beginnings to "An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School," passed by the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut on October 9, 1701, while meeting in New Haven. The Act was an effort to create an institution to train ministers and lay leadership for Connecticut. Soon thereafter, a group of ten Congregationalist ministers: Samuel Andrew, Thomas Buckingham, Israel Chauncy, Samuel Mather, James Noyes, James Pierpont, Abraham Pierson, Noadiah Russell, Joseph Webb and Timothy Woodbridge, all alumni of Harvard, met in the study of Reverend Samuel Russell in Branford, Connecticut, to pool their books to form the school's library.[12] The group, led by James Pierpont, is now known as "The Founders". Originally known as the "Collegiate School," the institution opened in the home of its first rector, Abraham Pierson,[13] in Killingworth (now Clinton). The school moved to Saybrook, and then Wethersfield. In 1716 the college moved to New Haven, Connecticut. First diploma awarded by Yale College, granted to Nathaniel Chauncey, 1702. Meanwhile, there was a rift forming at Harvard between its sixth president Increase Mather and the rest of the Harvard clergy, whom Mather viewed as increasingly liberal, ecclesiastically lax, and overly broad in Church polity. The feud caused the Mathers to champion the success of the Collegiate School in the hope that it would maintain the Puritan religious orthodoxy in a way that Harvard had not.[14] In 1718, at the behest of either Rector Samuel Andrew or the colony's Governor Gurdon Saltonstall, Cotton Mather contacted a successful businessman named Elihu Yale, who lived in Wales but had been born in Boston and whose father David had been one of the original settlers in New Haven, to ask him for financial help in constructing a new building for the college. Through the persuasion of Jeremiah Dummer, Yale, who had made a fortune through trade while living in Madras as a representative of the East India Company, donated nine bales of goods, which were sold for more than £560, a substantial sum at the time. Cotton Mather suggested that the school change its name to Yale College. Meanwhile, a Harvard graduate working in England convinced some 180 prominent intellectuals that they should donate books to Yale. The 1714 shipment of 500 books represented the best of modern English literature, science, philosophy and theology.[15] It had a profound affect on intellectuals at Yale. Undergraduate Jonathan Edwards discovered John Locke's works and developed his original theology known as the "new divinity". In 1722 the Rector and six of his friends, who had a study group to discuss the new ideas, announced that they had given up Calvinism, become Arminians, and joined the Church of England. They were ordained in England and returned to the colonies as missionaries for the Anglican faith. Thomas Clapp became president in 1745, and struggled to return the college to Calvinist orthodoxy; but he did not close the library. Other students found Deist books in the library.[16] Curriculum[edit] Yale was swept up by the great intellectual movements of the period—the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment—thanks to the religious and scientific interests of presidents Thomas Clap and Ezra Stiles. They were both instrumental in developing the scientific curriculum at Yale, while dealing with wars, student tumults, graffiti, "irrelevance" of curricula, desperate need for endowment, and fights with the Connecticut legislature.[17] Serious American students of theology and divinity, particularly in New England, regarded Hebrew as a classical language, along with Greek and Latin, and essential for study of the Old Testament in the original words. The Reverend Ezra Stiles, president of the College from 1778 to 1795, brought with him his interest in the Hebrew language as a vehicle for studying ancient Biblical texts in their original language (as was common in other schools), requiring all freshmen to study Hebrew (in contrast to Harvard, where only upperclassmen were required to study the language) and is responsible for the Hebrew phrase אורים ותמים (Urim and Thummim) on the Yale seal. Stiles' greatest challenge occurred in July 1779 when hostile British forces occupied New Haven and threatened to raze the College. However, Yale graduate Edmund Fanning, Secretary to the British General in command of the occupation, interceded and the College was saved. Fanning later was granted an honorary degree LL.D., at 1803,[18] for his efforts. Students[edit] As the only college in Connecticut, Yale educated the sons of the elite.[19] Offenses for which students were punished included cardplaying, tavern-going, destruction of college property, and acts of disobedience to college authorities. During the period, Harvard was distinctive for the stability and maturity of its tutor corps, while Yale had youth and zeal on its side.[20] The emphasis on classics gave rise to a number of private student societies, open only by invitation, which arose primarily as forums for discussions of modern scholarship, literature and politics. The first such organizations were debating societies: Crotonia in 1738, Linonia in 1753, and Brothers in Unity in 1768.[21] 19th century[edit] 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.[22] 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.[23] Perhaps the most well-remembered[citation needed] teacher was William Graham Sumner, professor from 1872 to 1909. He 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.[24] 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."[25] Sports and debate[edit] The Revolutionary War soldier Nathan Hale (Yale 1773) was the prototype of the Yale ideal in the early 19th century: a manly yet aristocratic scholar, equally well-versed in knowledge and sports, and a patriot who "regretted" that he "had but one life to lose" for his country. Western painter Frederic Remington (Yale 1900) was an artist whose heroes gloried in combat and tests of strength in the Wild West. The fictional, turn-of-the-20th-century Yale man Frank Merriwell embodied the heroic ideal without racial prejudice, and his fictional successor Frank Stover in the novel Stover at Yale (1911) questioned the business mentality that had become prevalent at the school. Increasingly the students turned to athletic stars as their heroes, especially since winning the big game became the goal of the student body, and the alumni, as well as the team itself.[26] Along with Harvard and Princeton, Yale students rejected elite British concepts about 'amateurism' in sports and constructed athletic programs that were uniquely American, such as football.[27] The Harvard–Yale football rivalry began in 1875. 21st century[edit] In 2006, Yale and Peking University (PKU) established a Joint Undergraduate Program in Beijing, an exchange program allowing Yale students to spend a semester living and studying with PKU honor students.[46] In July 2012, the Peking University-Yale University Program ended due to weak participation.[46] In 2007 outgoing Yale President Rick Levin characterized Yale's institutional priorities: "First, among the nation's finest research universities, Yale is distinctively committed to excellence in undergraduate education. Second, in our graduate and professional schools, as well as in Yale College, we are committed to the education of leaders."[47] President George W. Bush, a Yale alumni, criticized the university for the snobbery and intellectual arrogance he encountered as a student there.[48][49] The Boston Globe wrote that "if there's one school that can lay claim to educating the nation's top national leaders over the past three decades, it's Yale."[50] Yale alumni were represented on the Democratic or Republican ticket in every U.S. Presidential election between 1972 and 2004. Yale-educated Presidents since the end of the Vietnam War include Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, and major-party nominees during this period include John Kerry (2004), Joseph Lieberman (Vice President, 2000), and Sargent Shriver (Vice President, 1972). Other Yale alumni who made serious bids for the Presidency during this period include Hillary Rodham Clinton (2008), Howard Dean (2004), Gary Hart (1984 and 1988), Paul Tsongas (1992), Pat Robertson (1988) and Jerry Brown (1976, 1980, 1992). Several explanations have been offered for Yale’s representation in national elections since the end of the Vietnam War. Various sources note the spirit of campus activism that has existed at Yale since the 1960s, and the intellectual influence of Reverend William Sloane Coffin on many of the future candidates.[51] Yale President Richard Levin attributes the run to Yale’s focus on creating "a laboratory for future leaders," an institutional priority that began during the tenure of Yale Presidents Alfred Whitney Griswold and Kingman Brewster.[51] Richard H. Brodhead, former dean of Yale College and now president of Duke University, stated: "We do give very significant attention to orientation to the community in our admissions, and there is a very strong tradition of volunteerism at Yale."[50] Yale historian Gaddis Smith notes "an ethos of organized activity" at Yale during the 20th century that led John Kerry to lead the Yale Political Union's Liberal Party, George Pataki the Conservative Party, and Joseph Lieberman to manage the Yale Daily News.[52] Camille Paglia points to a history of networking and elitism: "It has to do with a web of friendships and affiliations built up in school."[53] CNN suggests that George W. Bush benefited from preferential admissions policies for the "son and grandson of alumni", and for a "member of a politically influential family."[54] New York Times correspondent Elisabeth Bumiller and The Atlantic Monthly correspondent James Fallows credit the culture of community and cooperation that exists between students, faculty, and administration, which downplays self-interest and reinforces commitment to others.[55] During the 1988 presidential election, George H. W. Bush (Yale '48) derided Michael Dukakis for having "foreign-policy views born in Harvard Yard's boutique". When challenged on the distinction between Dukakis's Harvard connection and his own Yale background, he said that, unlike Harvard, Yale's reputation was "so diffuse, there isn't a symbol, I don't think, in the Yale situation, any symbolism in it" and said Yale did not share Harvard's reputation for "liberalism and elitism".[56][57] In 2004 Howard Dean stated, "In some ways, I consider myself separate from the other three (Yale) candidates of 2004. Yale changed so much between the class of '68 and the class of '71. My class was the first class to have women in it; it was the first class to have a significant effort to recruit African Americans. It was an extraordinary time, and in that span of time is the change of an entire generation".[58] In 2009, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair picked Yale as one location – the others are Britain's Durham University and Universiti Teknologi Mara – for the Tony Blair Faith Foundation's United States Faith and Globalization Initiative.[59] As of 2009, former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo is the director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and teaches an undergraduate seminar, "Debating Globalization".[60] As of 2009, former presidential candidate and DNC chair Howard Dean teaches a residential college seminar, "Understanding Politics and Politicians."[61] Also in 2009, an alliance was formed among Yale, University College London, and both schools’ affiliated hospital complexes to conduct research focused on the direct improvement of patient care—a growing field known as translational medicine. President Richard Levin noted that Yale has hundreds of other partnerships across the world, but "no existing collaboration matches the scale of the new partnership with UCL".[62] New international Yale initiatives launched included (among many others): Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, promoting international education University-wide; Global Health Initiative, uniting and expanding global health efforts across campus; Yale India Initiative, expanding the study of and engagement with India; Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, bridging the gap between academia and the world of public policy; and Yale China Law Center, promoting the rule of law in China. Yale - Management Guild New global research and educational partnerships included (among many others): Yale-Universidad de Chile International Program in Astronomy Education and Research; Peking-Yale Joint Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Agrobiology; Todai–Yale Initiative for the Study of Japan; Fudan-Yale Biomedical Research Center in Shanghai; Yale-University College London Collaboration; and UNSAAC-Yale Center for the Study of Machu Picchu and Inca Culture in Peru. The most ambitious international partnership to date is Yale-NUS College in Singapore, a joint effort with the National University of Singapore to create a new liberal arts college in Asia featuring an innovative curriculum that weaves Western and Asian traditions, set to open in August 2013.[63][64][65]

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