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Public university
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A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities. Whether a national university is considered public varies from one country to another, in Egypt, Al-Azhar University opened in 975 AD as the second oldest university in the world. In Nigeria Public Universities can be established by both the Federal Government and by State Governments, students are enrolled after completing the 8-4-4 system of education and attaining a mark of C+ or above. They are also eligible for a low interest loan from the Higher Education Loan Board and they are expected to pay back the loan after completing higher education. South Africa has 23 public tertiary institutions, either categorised as a traditional university or a comprehensive university. Almost entire national universities in Brunei are public universities and these are major universities in Brunei, University of Brunei Darussalam Brunei Technological University Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University There are 40 public universities in Bangladesh. The University Grant Commission is the body for all the public universities in Bangladesh. The universities do not deal directly with the government, but with the University Grants Commission, recently many private universities are established under the Private University Act of 1992. In mainland China, nearly all universities and research institutions are public and currently, the public universities are usually run by the provincial governments, there are also circumstances where the municipal governments administer the universities. Some public universities are national, which are administered by the central government. Private undergraduate colleges do exist, which are vocational colleges sponsored by private enterprises. The majority of universities are not entitled to award bachelors degrees. Public universities usually enjoy higher reputation domestically, eight institutions are funded by the University Grants Committee. The Academy for Performing Arts also receives funding from the government, the Open University of Hong Kong is also a public university, but it is largely self-financed. The Shue Yan University is the private institution with the status of a university. There are public and private institutes in Indonesia. The government provide public universities, institutes, high schools and academies in each province, the private educational institution usually provided by religious organizations, public organizations, and some big companies. In India, most universities and nearly all research institutions are public, There are some private undergraduate colleges, mostly engineering schools, but a majority of these are affiliated to public universities
Public university
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Cairo University, the prime indigenous model for Egyptian state universities
Public university
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Old Merensky Library at
University of Pretoria, South Africa
Public university
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Sebelas Maret University, one of Indonesia's prominent public universities.
Public university
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Chulalongkorn University main auditorium in Thailand
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Postgraduate education
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In North America, this level is generally referred to as graduate school. The organization and structure of education varies in different countries. This article outlines the types of courses and of teaching and examination methods. There are two types of degrees studied for at the postgraduate level, academic and vocational degrees. The term degree in this means the moving from one stage or level to another. University studies took six years for a degree and up to twelve additional years for a masters degree or doctorate. The first six years taught the faculty of the arts, which was the study of the seven liberal arts, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music theory, grammar, logic, the main emphasis was on logic. Once a Bachelor of Arts degree had been obtained, the student could choose one of three faculties—law, medicine, or theology—in which to pursue masters or doctors degrees. Because theology was thought to be the highest of the subjects, the main significance of the higher, postgraduate degrees was that they licensed the holder to teach. In most countries, the hierarchy of postgraduate degrees is as follows, in Scottish Universities, the Master of Philosophy degree tends to be by research or higher masters degree and the Master of Letters degree tends to be the taught or lower masters degree. In many fields such as social work, or library science in North America. Professional degrees such as the Master of Architecture degree can last to three and a years to satisfy professional requirement to be an architect. Professional degrees such as the Master of Business Administration degree can last up to two years to satisfy the requirement to become a business leader. These are often divided into academic and professional doctorates. An academic doctorate can be awarded as a Doctor of Philosophy degree or as a Doctor of Science degree, a doctorate is the terminal degree in most fields. In the United States, there is distinction between a Doctor of Philosophy degree and a Doctor of Science degree. In the second half of the 19th century, however, US universities began to follow the European model by awarding doctorates, in the UK, an equivalent formation to doctorate is the NVQ5 or QCF8. Most universities award degrees, usually at the postgraduate level
Postgraduate education
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The enrollment of some students in the
University of Bologna.
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Guangzhou
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Guangzhou, traditionally romanised as Canton, is the capital and most populous city of the province of Guangdong in southern China. Guangzhou is currently, the third city in mainland China, behind Beijing and Shanghai, holds sub-provincial administrative status. In 2015 the citys area was estimated to have a population of 13,501,100. Some estimates place the population of the area of the Pearl River Delta Mega City as high as 44 million without the Hong Kong SAR and 54 million including it. Guangzhou is ranked as a Beta+ Global city, in recent years, there has been a rapidly increasing number of foreign residents and illegal immigrants from Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, as well as from Africa. This has led to it being dubbed the Capital of the Third World, the migrant population from other provinces of China in Guangzhou was 40 percent of the citys total population in 2008. Long the only Chinese port accessible to foreign traders, the city fell to the British during the First Opium War. No longer enjoying a monopoly after the war, it lost trade to ports such as Hong Kong and Shanghai. In modern commerce, Guangzhou is best known for its annual Canton Fair, for the three consecutive years 2013–2015, Forbes ranked Guangzhou as the best commercial city on the Chinese mainland. Guǎngzhōu is the pinyin romanisation of the Chinese name 廣州, which was simplified in mainland China to 广州 in the 1950s, before acquiring its current name, the town was known as Panyu, a name still borne by one of Guangzhous districts. The origin of the name is uncertain, with 11 various explanations being offered. The city has sometimes been known as Guangzhou Fu or Guangfu after its status as the capital of a commandery. From this latter name, Guangzhou was known to medieval Persians such as Al-Masudi, under the Southern Han, the city was renamed Xingwang. Under the Qing, it was known to its inhabitants as simply The Provincial Capital. The Chinese abbreviation for Guangzhou is 穗, after its nickname Rice City, the former name City of the Immortals came from the same story. The more recent City of Flowers is usually taken as a reference to the areas greenery. The English name Canton derived from Portuguese Cantão or Cidade de Cantão, although it originally and chiefly applied to the walled city, it was also used in English in reference to Guangdong generally. It was adopted as the Postal Map Romanization of Guangzhou and remained in use until the gradual adoption of pinyin
Guangzhou
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From top:
Tianhe CBD, the
Canton Tower &
Chigang Pagoda,
Haizhu Bridge,
Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Statue of Five Goats,
Zhenhai Tower in Yuexiu Park, and
Sacred Heart Cathedral.
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Bombax ceiba, the official flower of Guangzhou
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Map of Kanton, from Johan Nieuhof (1618-1672); Jean-Baptiste Le Carpentier (1606-ca. 1670): L'ambassade de la Compagnie Orientale des Provinces Unies vers l'Empereur de la Chine, 1665
Guangzhou
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Painting of the
Thirteen Factories, circa 1820, with flags of Denmark, Spain, the U.S., Sweden, Britain, and the Netherlands
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Guangdong
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Guangdong is a province on the South China Sea coast of the Peoples Republic of China. The provincial capital Guangzhou and economic hub Shenzhen are among the most populous, the population increase since the census has been modest, the province at 2014 end had 107,240,000 people. Since 1989, Guangdong has topped the total GDP rankings among all divisions, with Jiangsu and Shandong second. According to state statistics, Guangdongs GDP in 2014 reached RMB6,779 billion, or US$1.104 trillion, since 2011, Guangdong has the highest GDP among all provinces of Mainland China. The province contributes approximately 12% of the PRCs national economic output, Guangdong also hosts the largest import and export fair in China called the Canton Fair in Guangdongs capital city Guangzhou. Guǎng means expanse or vast, and has associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD226. Guangdong and neighbouring Guangxi literally mean expanse east and expanse west, together, Guangdong and Guangxi are called Loeng gwong. During the Song dynasty, the Two Guangs were formally separated as Guǎngnán Dōnglù and Guǎngnán Xīlù, one should note that Canton, though etymologically derived from Cantão, refers only to the provincial capital instead of the whole province, as documented by authoritative English dictionaries. The local people of the city of Guangzhou and their language are commonly referred to as Cantonese in English. Because of the prestige of Canton and its accent, Cantonese sensu lato can also be used for the phylogenetically related residents, Chinese administration and reliable historical records in the region began with the Qin dynasty. After establishing the first unified Chinese empire, the Qin expanded southwards and set up Nanhai Commandery at Panyu, the region was independent as Nanyue between the fall of Qin and the reign of Emperor Wu of Han. Under the Wu Kingdom of the Three Kingdoms period, Guangdong was made its own province, for example, internal strife in northern China following the rebellion of An Lushan resulted in a 75% increase in the population of Guangzhou prefecture between 740s–750s and 800s–810s. As more migrants arrived, the population was gradually assimilated to Han Chinese culture or displaced. Multiple women originating from the Persian Gulf lived in Guangzhous foreign quarter, together with Guangxi, Guangdong was made part of Lingnan Circuit, or Mountain-South Circuit, in 627 during the Tang dynasty. The Guangdong part of Lingnan Circuit was renamed Guangnan East Circuit guǎng nán dōng lù in 971 during the Song dynasty, Guangnan East is the source of Guangdong. As Mongols from the north engaged in their conquest of China in the 13th century, the Battle of Yamen 1279 in Guangdong marked the end of the Southern Song Dynasty. During the Mongol Yuan dynasty, large parts of current Guangdong belonged to Jiangxi and its present name, Guangdong Province was given in early Ming dynasty. Since the 16th century, Guangdong has had extensive links with the rest of the world
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Kwangtung Provincial Government of the
Republic of China
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Map showing the location of Guangdong Province
Guangdong
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Pearl River and
Humen Bridge
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Shops in one of the streets of Guangzhou specialize in selling various electronic components, supplying the needs of local consumer electronics manufacturers. The shop in front is in the
LED business.
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China
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China, officially the Peoples Republic of China, is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia and the worlds most populous country, with a population of over 1.381 billion. The state is governed by the Communist Party of China and its capital is Beijing, the countrys major urban areas include Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Tianjin and Hong Kong. China is a power and a major regional power within Asia. Chinas landscape is vast and diverse, ranging from forest steppes, the Himalaya, Karakoram, Pamir and Tian Shan mountain ranges separate China from much of South and Central Asia. The Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, the third and sixth longest in the world, respectively, Chinas coastline along the Pacific Ocean is 14,500 kilometers long and is bounded by the Bohai, Yellow, East China and South China seas. China emerged as one of the worlds earliest civilizations in the basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. For millennia, Chinas political system was based on hereditary monarchies known as dynasties, in 1912, the Republic of China replaced the last dynasty and ruled the Chinese mainland until 1949, when it was defeated by the communist Peoples Liberation Army in the Chinese Civil War. The Communist Party established the Peoples Republic of China in Beijing on 1 October 1949, both the ROC and PRC continue to claim to be the legitimate government of all China, though the latter has more recognition in the world and controls more territory. China had the largest economy in the world for much of the last two years, during which it has seen cycles of prosperity and decline. Since the introduction of reforms in 1978, China has become one of the worlds fastest-growing major economies. As of 2016, it is the worlds second-largest economy by nominal GDP, China is also the worlds largest exporter and second-largest importer of goods. China is a nuclear weapons state and has the worlds largest standing army. The PRC is a member of the United Nations, as it replaced the ROC as a permanent member of the U. N. Security Council in 1971. China is also a member of numerous formal and informal multilateral organizations, including the WTO, APEC, BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the BCIM, the English name China is first attested in Richard Edens 1555 translation of the 1516 journal of the Portuguese explorer Duarte Barbosa. The demonym, that is, the name for the people, Portuguese China is thought to derive from Persian Chīn, and perhaps ultimately from Sanskrit Cīna. Cīna was first used in early Hindu scripture, including the Mahābhārata, there are, however, other suggestions for the derivation of China. The official name of the state is the Peoples Republic of China. The shorter form is China Zhōngguó, from zhōng and guó and it was then applied to the area around Luoyi during the Eastern Zhou and then to Chinas Central Plain before being used as an occasional synonym for the state under the Qing
China
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Yinxu, ruins of an ancient
palace dating from the
Shang Dynasty (14th century BCE)
China
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Flag
China
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Some of the thousands of life-size
Terracotta Warriors of the
Qin Dynasty, c. 210 BCE
China
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The
Great Wall of China was built by several dynasties over two thousand years to protect the sedentary agricultural regions of the
Chinese interior from incursions by
nomadic pastoralists of the northern
steppes.
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Tianhe District
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Tianhe District is one of the eleven districts of Guangzhou in the province of Guangdong. In Chinese, the name Tianhe literally means a river in the sky/heavens and it is bordered by Yuexiu District on the west, Baiyun District on the north and Huangpu District on the east. Haizhu District is on its south, though they are separated by the Pearl River, Tianhe became a district in the 1980s as the city expanded its size. Back then, it was east of Dongshan District and it was more suburban like if not rural like, even though a majority of colleges and universities in the city were located in the district, the rest of the district was mostly composed of rice fields. Symbolic landmarks of Guangzhou located in Tianhe District are, Citic Plaza, Guangzhou International Finance Center, Guangzhou Opera House, the 6th and 9th of The National Games of the Peoples Republic of China, and the 2010 Asian Games were also held in Tianhe District, Guangzhou. Prehistoric population settled in what is now Longdong Subdistrict in the Neolithic Period, eastern Han tombs were discovered in Tianhe. During the Song Dynasty, Tianhe area was called Dashuixu, the area of modern Tianhe District was part of Panyu County for more than two thousand years. The area was put under Guangzhous administration between 1937 and 1958. By the liberation of Guangzhou, there were two districts in Tianhe area, namely Shahe and Shipai, in 1951 both districts were merged into the newly established Baiyun District, while five years later Baiyun was further merged with Huangpu and Xinjiao Districts to form suburban district. In 1960 Jiaoqu was dissolved and the area consisting of modern Tianhe became Huangpu District, in 1985 part of Jiaoqu was split, and Tianhe District was established then. In 1987 Tonghe Town was put into Baiyun District, in 1992 Yangji Cun was put into Dongshan District. By 1994, Kemulang, Yushatan, and Fenghuang Farms along with Shadongcun and Erduicun were placed under Tianhes jurisdiction, in 2000, former Xintang, Mubei, Lingtang, and Yushu Farms were also placed under Tianhe and the farms gradually became subdistricts. The first big project built in the district during the 1980s was the Tianhe Sports Center when the city was selected to host the Sixth National Games in 1986, the complex includes a stadium of 65,000 seats, a gymnasium and an indoor swimming pool. Its construction had a impact on the development of the district. Soon other projects followed and rice fields gave away to residential complexes called xiaoqu, the construction of xiaoqu began in the mid and late eighties and most of them had residential buildings of no more than 10 stories. Each floor was kept to no more than four units due to the lack of elevators since they would increase the construction cost. Also, due to the number of residential buildings – some xiaoqu had more than 20 residential buildings – a lot of land was needed. The building of Guangzhou East Railway Station in 1990 further contributed to the growth of the district, the old Guangzhou Railway Station is 10 km to the west and was the terminus for trains to and from Beijing and Hong Kong
Tianhe District
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Zhujiang New Town
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National Sun Yat-sen University
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National Sun Yat-sen University is a public, postgraduate-oriented research university located in Sizihwan, Gushan District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Despite its medium size, NSYSU is considered as one of the most prestigious universities in the Cross-Strait territory and it ranks as one of worlds top 400 colleges and Taiwans 3rd best ranked business school, furthermore, one of 50 best universities under the age of 50 worldwide. Named after Dr. Sun Yat-sen, NSYSU was founded in 1980 as a version of the original Sun Yat-sen University. This re-establishment has been possible through the efforts of alumni of both the original Sun Yat-sen University and the historical Moscow Sun Yat-sen University. Its scholars maintain strong ties to industry and government officials, the graduate school alumni include a President of the Legislative Yuan and the first Chinese citizen from mainland to obtain a doctorate degree in Taiwan. In 1923, two years before his death, the Founding Father of the Republic of China, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the civil university was National Kwangtung University, and the military university was Whampoa Military Academy. Both universities generated remarkable contributions and played an important education role in modern Chinese history, after National Sun Yat-sen University was established in Canton, it had to move south due to the Sino-Japanese War. The university moved first to Yunnan, and later to North Guangdong, finally, in 1945, the university moved back to and resumed operations at its original campus in Canton. In 1949, the government of the Republic of China moved to Taiwan, lee Huan then led the project to establish the university on its current campus at Sizihwan in Kaohsiung City, the second largest metropolitan in Taiwan. Succeeding 5 presidents, all carried the tradition of nurturing the universitys growth, when it was established, the university had four departments, two graduate institutes, and 189 students. Today, the university has six colleges and over 9500 students, offering 18 undergraduate majors,35 masters programs, NSYSU has grown, and is now recognized as one of Taiwans important research and learning institutions with international distinction. In 2002 NSYSU was named by the Ministry of Education as one of the seven major research-intensive universities. Two years later, Its College of Management received AACSB accreditation, in 2006 and 2008, NSYSU received the first/second stage grant of the Aim for the Top University Plan from the Ministry of Education. In 2012, NSYSU & UCSD Joint Symposium, in history, all the Sun Yat-sen Universities were the products of one-party state, based-on the political ideology with socialism characteristics. In the beginning NSYSU staffs and students were members of Kuomintang, NSYSU is considered as the think tank for government policy and Southern Taiwans industry, it is focused on the Combination of Industry, Official and University. There are many professors also countrys bureaucratic or NGO advisors, Founding spirit The Three Principles of the People, a political philosophy developed by Sun Yat-sen. Spiritual norm The Constant Promotion of Professional Excellence, the Contribution to Society through Cultivating Leaders across All Fields. Vision As Taiwans UC San Diego, located alongside the Kaohsiung Harbor, the NSYSU campus faces the open waters of the Taiwan Strait
National Sun Yat-sen University
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National Sun Yat-sen University
National Sun Yat-sen University
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University
sailboat
National Sun Yat-sen University
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The university tunnel
National Sun Yat-sen University
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Sizihwan in the foreground with the black sand beach of Sizihwan Bay on the right, Lianhai Road in the middle, and buildings of National Sun Yat-sen University and Shaochuantou mountain (哨船頭小山丘) to the left; Qihou Mountain (zh) on
Qijin lies beyond the entrance to
Kaohsiung Harbor in the background
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Northern and southern China
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Northern China and southern China are two approximate regions within China. The exact boundary between two regions are not precisely defined. Often used as the dividing line between northern and southern China is the Huai River–Qin Mountains Line. This line approximates the 0 °C January isotherm and the 800 millimetres isohyet in China, culturally, however, the division is more ambiguous. In the eastern provinces like Jiangsu and Anhui, the Yangtze River may instead be perceived as the boundary instead of the Huai River. This may have been deliberate, the Mongol Yuan Dynasty and Han Chinese Ming Dynasty established many of these boundaries intentionally to discourage regionalist separatism. The Northeast and Inner Mongolia, areas that are thought of as being outside China proper, are also conceived to belong to northern China according to the framework above. Historically, Xinjiang, Tibet and Qinghai were not usually conceived of as being part of either the north or south, however, Xinjiang is now regarded as being part of the north due to the spread of north Chinese culture and the use of Mandarin. The concepts of northern and southern China originate from differences in climate, geography, culture, there are also major differences in language, cuisine, culture, and popular entertainment forms. For a large part of Chinese history, northern China was economically more advanced than southern China, the population of Shanghai increased from 12,000 households to over 250,000 inhabitants after Kaifeng was sacked by invading armies. This began a shift of political, economic and cultural power from northern China to southern China, the east coast of southern China remained a leading economic and cultural center of China until the Republic of China. Today, southern China remains economically more prosperous than northern China, during the Qing dynasty, regional differences and identification in China fostered the growth of regional stereotypes. Such stereotypes often appeared in historic chronicles and gazetteers and were based on circumstances, historical and literary associations. These differences were reflected in Qing dynasty policies, such as the prohibition on local officials to serve their home areas, as well as conduct of personal and commercial relations. During the Republican period, Lu Xun, a major Chinese writer, wrote, According to my observation, Northerners are sincere and honest, yet sincerity and honesty lead to stupidity, whereas skillfulness and quick-mindedness lead to duplicity. Some of this was based on the idea there would be conflict between the bureaucratic north and the commercial south. In addition there are cultural divisions that exist within and across the north–south dichotomy. Nevertheless, the concepts of North and South continue to play an important role in regional stereotypes and it should be noted that these are only rough and approximate stereotypes among a large and greatly varied population
Northern and southern China
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The Qin Mountains and Huai River approximately separate northern Mandarin-speaking regions on the one hand, and southwestern Mandarin-, eastern Mandarin-, and non-Mandarin-speaking regions on the other. ("Mandarin" and "Southern" on this map refer to Sinitic languages, while other groups are not Sinitic.)
Northern and southern China
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The Qin Mountains and Huai River also mark the approximate boundary between
wheat and
rice cultivation.
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Lingnan University (Guangzhou)
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Lingnan University in Canton, Kwangtung Province, China, was a private university established by a group of American missionaries in 1888. At its founding it was named Canton Christian College, Lingnan University was incorporated into Chung Shan University in 1953. Members of the university fled to Hong Kong and founded the Lingnan School in Wan Chai in 1967, Sun Yat-sen University is a comprehensive university founded by Dr. Sun Yat-sen in 1924. In the Times Higher Education Ranking 2011-2012, it was ranked sixth among all Chinese universities, originated from Lingnan University, a private university in the early 20th century, Lingnan College was reestablished in 1988 within Sun Yat-sen University. The university relocated several times during its existence and it moved to Macau, then a Portuguese colony, in 1900 to escape the repressive measures implemented by the ruling Qing Dynasty of China. In 1903, the Chinese name was changed to 嶺南學堂 in Macau and it moved back to Canton in 1904. In 1913, the Christian Association ended the affiliation with the Canton Christian College, in 1916, the Chinese name was changed again, to 嶺南大學, as the college expanded to become a university. In 1927, management of the university passed into Chinese hands, and the English name was changed to Lingnan University, Dr. Chung Wing Kwong became the first Chinese principal of the University. On July 23,1930, the property of the Canton Medical Missionary Society, a branch in Hainan with an emphasis on agricultural studies was founded in 1933. At the end of 1932, the center was registered. Furthermore, it affiliated with Guangzhou Hospital and Lingnan University to form the Sun Yat-Sen Medical College in 1936, during the 1930s and 40s, the university was forced to move several times as Japanese armies advanced across China. In 1937, it relocated to Hong Kong as the Japanese occupied Canton, after World War II, the university was finally able to return to Canton. In 1953, Lingnan University was incorporated into Chung Shan University, Members of the university who fled from communist rule to Hong Kong founded the Lingnan College in Hong Kong to continue the spirit of the university in 1967. That college became Hong Kongs Lingnan University in 1999, undergraduate Program, Bachelor of Economics, No. The Lingnan International Advisory Board consists of international and Chinese business leaders,2012 International Advisory Board Members Members： Josef ACKERMANN, Chairman of the Board of Directors Zurich Insurance Group Ltd. Michael ANDREW, Chairman, KPMG International Michael J. TSAI, Chairman, annie WU, Standing Committee Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Vice Chairman, Beijing Air Catering Co. Ltd
Lingnan University (Guangzhou)
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Martin Hall
Lingnan University (Guangzhou)
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An old building of Lingnan University, now located in Sun Yat-sen University
Lingnan University (Guangzhou)
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First graduating class of the University Medical School in Canton, 1911
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Guangxi University
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Guangxi University is a provincial university located in Nanning, Guangxi, China. It is also abbreviated as. The university is one of the Project 211 universities in Peoples Republic of China, Guangxi University was established in October 1928. Its first president was the celebrated scientist and educator Ma Junwu, in 1936, Guangxi University was molded into a comprehensive university with disciplines in the liberal arts, sciences, engineering, agriculture and medicine. In 1939, Guangxi University developed into a university and by 1949 it expanded into one with 5 colleges and 22 departments. In 1952, Mao Zedong inscribed the name for the university and his calligraphy is still in use today. In 1952, College of Agriculture became independent as Guangxi Agricultural College, in 1997 the former Guangxi University and the former Guangxi Agricultural University merged and formed the new Guangxi University.07 square kilometres with a building area of 745,000 square meters. The university has 2 million volumes,200 professors and 670 associate professors, the present enrollment consists of 24,205 students including 181 doctoral candidates,4,145 masters degrees candidates,19,879 undergraduates, and 20,361 students in vocational training programs
Guangxi University
Guangxi University
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Guangxi University
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California State University, Fullerton
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California State University, Fullerton is a public research university located in Fullerton, California. As of Fall 2013, the school had 1,932 faculty, CSUF is designated both as a Hispanic-serving institution and an Asian American Native American Pacific Islander serving institution. Spending related to CSUF generates an impact of around $1 billion to the California and local economy, CSUF athletic teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are collectively known as the CSUF Titans. They are members of the Big West Conference, in 1957, CSUF became the twelfth state college in California to be authorized by the state legislature as a degree-granting institution. The following year, a site was designated for the campus to be established in northeast Fullerton, the property was purchased in 1959. This is the year that Dr. William B. Langsdorf was appointed as founding president of the school, the university was originally named Orange County State College. Classes began with 452 students in September 1959, the name of the school was changed to Orange State College in July 1962. In 1964, its name was changed to California State College at Fullerton, in June 1972, the final name change occurred and the school became California State University, Fullerton. The university grew rapidly in the first decade of the 2000s, the Performing Arts Center was built in January 2006, and in the summer of 2008 the newly constructed Steven G. Mihaylo Hall and the new Student Recreation Center opened. In fall 2008, the Performing Arts Center was renamed the Joseph A. W, clayes III Performing Arts Center, in honor of a $5-million pledge made to the university by the trustees of the Joseph A. W. Since 1963, the curriculum has expanded to many graduate programs, including multiple doctorate degrees, as well as numerous credential. The choice of the elephant as the mascot, dubbed Tuffy the Titan, dates to 1962. The May 11 event attracted 10,000 spectators,15 pachyderm entrants, a telegram from Richard M. Nixon, CSUF was built on the site of former citrus groves in northeast Fullerton. It is bordered on the east by the Orange Freeway, on the west by State College Boulevard, on the north by Yorba Linda Boulevard and this was in response to the numerous Googie buildings in the Fullerton community. The library houses the Philip K. Dick science fiction collection, the campus is also home to the renowned Fullerton Arboretum, located in the northeast section of the campus. It has gained fame in recent years for its highly successful efforts in breeding the Titan Arum plant, which the school sponsors in honor of its sports team. In 2006, the Arboretum successfully bred four blooming specimens, the campus has undergone many additions
California State University, Fullerton
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The College of Humanities and Social Sciences right before commencement
California State University, Fullerton
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California State University, Fullerton
California State University, Fullerton
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Pathway leading to the parking structure
California State University, Fullerton
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Titans on the exterior of Titan Gym
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California State University, Fresno
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California State University, Fresno is a public research university and one of 23 campuses within the California State University system. The city of Fresno is the fifth largest city in California, the university is within an hours drive of many mountain and lake resorts and within a three-hour drive of both Los Angeles and San Francisco. The university has a Fall 2016 enrollment of 24,405 students and it offers bachelors degrees in 60 areas of study,45 masters degrees,3 doctoral degrees,12 certificates of advanced study, and 2 different teaching credentials. The universitys unique facilities include a planetarium, on-campus raisin and wine grape vineyards, and a commercial winery. Members of Fresno States nationally ranked Top 10 Equestrian Team have the option of housing their horses on campus, Fresno State has a 50, 000-square-foot Student Recreation Center and the third-largest library, in terms of square footage, in the California State University system. Fresno State was founded as the Fresno State Normal School in 1911 with Charles Lourie McLane as its first president, the original campus was what is now Fresno City College. In 1956, Fresno State moved its campus to its present location in the northeast part of the city and it became Fresno State College in 1949, when it was authorized to grant bachelors degrees. It became an institution of the California State University System in 1961. In 1972 the name was changed to California State University. The greater campus extends from Bulldog Stadium on the west boundary to the Save Mart Center and, Maya Theater, Campus Pointe, vineyards and orchards designate the northern boundary of the campus, while Shaw Avenue designates the southern edge. The 388 acres main campus features more than 46 traditional and modern buildings and it is considered one of the most modern and best equipped agricultural facilities in the West. Fresno State was officially designated as an arboretum in 1979 and now has more than 4,000 trees on campus, Fresno State operates the first university-based commercial winery in the United States. The Henry Madden Library is a resource for recorded knowledge and information supporting the teaching, research. Because of its size and depth, it is an important community and regional resource, the library recently underwent a $105 million renovation that was completed February 2009. The library held its opening on February 19,2009 and is now home to a variety of book collections. The library houses 1,000,000 books in its 327,920 sq ft, the library is home to the largest installation of compact shelving on any single floor in the United States. The shelves amount to over 20 miles in length and it is currently the third largest library in the CSU system, and among the top ten largest in the CSU system based on the number of volumes. It also is the largest academic building on the Fresno State campus, the five-story building features seating areas for almost 4,000 people, group study rooms, wireless access and a Starbucks
California State University, Fresno
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Henry Madden Library
California State University, Fresno
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California State University, Fresno
California State University, Fresno
California State University, Fresno
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Music Building
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University of California, Berkeley
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The University of California, Berkeley, is a public research university located in Berkeley, California. In 1960s, UC Berkeley was particularly noted for the Free Speech Movement as well as the Anti-Vietnam War Movement led by its students. S, Department of Energy, and is home to many world-renowned research institutes and organizations including Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and Space Sciences Laboratory. Faculty member J. R. Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, Lawrence Livermore Lab also discovered or co-discovered six chemical elements. The Academic Ranking of World Universities also ranks the University of California, Berkeley, third in the world overall, in 1866, the private College of California purchased the land comprising the current Berkeley campus. Ten faculty members and almost 40 students made up the new University of California when it opened in Oakland in 1869, billings was a trustee of the College of California and suggested that the college be named in honor of the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley. In 1870, Henry Durant, the founder of the College of California, with the completion of North and South Halls in 1873, the university relocated to its Berkeley location with 167 male and 22 female students and held its first classes. In 1905, the University Farm was established near Sacramento, ultimately becoming the University of California, by the 1920s, the number of campus buildings had grown substantially, and included twenty structures designed by architect John Galen Howard. Robert Gordon Sproul served as president from 1930 to 1958, by 1942, the American Council on Education ranked UC Berkeley second only to Harvard University in the number of distinguished departments. During World War II, following Glenn Seaborgs then-secret discovery of plutonium, UC Berkeley physics professor J. Robert Oppenheimer was named scientific head of the Manhattan Project in 1942. Along with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley is now a partner in managing two other labs, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, originally, military training was compulsory for male undergraduates, and Berkeley housed an armory for that purpose. In 1917, Berkeleys ROTC program was established, and its School of Military Aeronautics trained future pilots, including Jimmy Doolittle, both Robert McNamara and Frederick C. Weyand graduated from UC Berkeleys ROTC program, earning B. A. degrees in 1937 and 1938, in 1926, future fleet admiral Chester W. Nimitz established the first Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps unit at Berkeley. The Board of Regents ended compulsory military training at Berkeley in 1962, during the McCarthy era in 1949, the Board of Regents adopted an anti-communist loyalty oath. A number of faculty members objected and were dismissed, ten years passed before they were reinstated with back pay, in 1952, the University of California became an entity separate from the Berkeley campus. Each campus was given autonomy and its own Chancellor. Then-president Sproul assumed presidency of the entire University of California system, Berkeley gained a reputation for student activism in the 1960s with the Free Speech Movement of 1964 and opposition to the Vietnam War. In the highly publicized Peoples Park protest in 1969, students and the school conflicted over use of a plot of land, then governor of California Ronald Reagan called the Berkeley campus a haven for communist sympathizers, protesters, and sex deviants. Modern students at Berkeley are less active, with a greater percentage of moderates and conservatives
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View, from Memorial Glade, of Sather Tower (The Campanile), the center of UC Berkeley. The ring of its bells and clock can be heard from all over campus.
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Seal of the University of California, Berkeley
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UC Berkeley Students participate in a one-day Peace Strike opposing U.S. involvement in World War II. April 19, 1940
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Sather Tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and
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University of California, Riverside
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The University of California, Riverside, is a public research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system. The main campus sits on 1,900 acres in a district of Riverside, California, United States. Some of the worlds most important research collections on citrus diversity and entomology, as well as science fiction, UCRs undergraduate College of Letters and Science opened in 1954. The Regents of the University of California declared UCR a general campus of the system in 1959, to accommodate an enrollment of 21,000 students by 2015, more than $730 million has been invested in new construction projects since 1999. Preliminary accreditation of the UC Riverside School of Medicine granted in October 2012 and it is the first new research-based public medical school in 40 years. UCR is consistently ranked as one of the most ethnically and economically diverse universities in the United States, nearly two-thirds of all UCR students graduate within six years without regard to economic disparity. UCRs extensive outreach and retention programs have contributed to its reputation as a campus of choice for minority students, in 2005, UCR became the first public university campus in the nation to offer a gender-neutral housing option. UCRs sports teams are known as the Highlanders and play in the Big West Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I and their nickname was inspired by the high altitude of the campus, which lies on the foothills of Box Springs Mountain. The UCR womens basketball team won back-to-back Big West championships in 2006 and 2007, in 2007, the mens baseball team won its first conference championship and advanced to the regionals for the second time since the university moved to Division I in 2001. At the turn of the 20th century, Southern California was a producer of citrus. The industry developed from the countrys first navel orange trees, planted in Riverside in 1873. Lobbied by the industry, the UC Regents established the UC Citrus Experiment Station on February 14,1907. The station conducted experiments in fertilization, irrigation and crop improvement, in 1917, the station was moved to a larger site,475 acres near Box Springs Mountain. The 1944 passage of the GI Bill during World War II set in motion a rise in college enrollments that necessitated an expansion of the university system in California. A local group of growers and civic leaders, including many UC Berkeley alumni. State Senator Nelson Dilworth, former Assemblyman Philip L. Boyd, governor Earl Warren signed the bill in 1949, allocating $2 million for initial campus construction. Gordon S. Watkins, dean of the College of Letters and Science at UCLA, became the first provost of the new college at Riverside. Initially conceived of as a college devoted to the liberal arts, he ordered the campus built for a maximum of 1,500 students
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The original UC Citrus Experiment Station which now houses the
A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management at the
UCR School of Business Administration.
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Entrance along University Avenue. The Arts Building is visible in the background. (2007)
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Panoramic view of campus from the Box Springs Mountain. Student housing is to the far lower right, north of which are the athletic facilities. The dense vegetation to the lower left constitutes the
Botanic Gardens. The agricultural fields in the central left are designated for future campus development. (2007)
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University of California, San Diego
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The University of California, San Diego is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, in the United States. The university occupies 2,141 acres near the coast of the Pacific Ocean with the main campus resting on approximately 1,152 acres, UC San Diego is organized into six undergraduate residential colleges, three graduate schools, and two professional medical schools. UC San Diego is also home to Scripps Institution of Oceanography, one of the first centers dedicated to ocean, earth and atmospheric science research and education. UC San Diego Health, the only academic health system, provides patient care, conducts medical research. According to the National Science Foundation, UC San Diego spent $1.101 billion on research and development in fiscal year 2015, ranking it 5th in the nation. UC San Diego faculty, researchers, and alumni have won 20 Nobel Prizes, eight National Medals of Science, eight MacArthur Fellowships, two Pulitzer Prizes, and three Fields medals. Local citizens supported the idea, voting the same year to transfer to the university 59 acres of land on the coast near the preexisting Scripps Institution of Oceanography. This outraged local conservatives, as well as Regent Edwin W. Pauley, UC President Clark Kerr satisfied San Diego city donors by changing the proposed name from University of California, La Jolla, to University of California, San Diego. The city voted in agreement to its part in 1958, because of the clash with Pauley, Revelle was not made chancellor. Herbert York, first director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, was designated instead, York planned the main campus according to the Oxbridge model, relying on many of Revelles ideas. UC San Diego was the first general campus of the University of California to be designed from the top down in terms of research emphasis, local leaders disagreed on whether the new school should be a technical research institute or a more broadly based school that included undergraduates as well. John Jay Hopkins of General Dynamics Corporation pledged one million dollars for the former while the City Council offered free land for the latter, maria Goeppert-Mayer, later the second female Nobel laureate in physics, was appointed professor of physics in 1960. The graduate division of the school opened in 1960 with 20 faculty in residence, with instruction offered in the fields of physics, biology, chemistry, before the main campus completed construction, classes were held in the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. By 1963, new facilities on the mesa had been finished for the School of Science and Engineering, ten additional faculty in those disciplines were hired, and the whole site was designated the First College, later renamed after Roger Revelle, of the new campus. York resigned as chancellor that year and was replaced by John Semple Galbraith, the undergraduate program accepted its first class of 181 freshman at Revelle College in 1964. Second College was founded in 1964, on the land deeded by the federal government, the School of Medicine also accepted its first students in 1966. Political theorist Herbert Marcuse joined the faculty in 1965, a champion of the New Left, he reportedly was the first protestor to occupy the administration building in a demonstration organized by his student, political activist Angela Davis. Further student unrest was felt at the university, as the United States increased its involvement in the Vietnam War during the early 1960s, protests escalated as the war continued and were only exacerbated after the National Guard fired on student protesters at Kent State University in 1970
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1967
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Panorama of the
Jacobs School of Engineering on
Earl Warren College mall. From left to right:
Geisel Library, Engineering Building Unit (EBU) I, the Powell-Focht Bioengineering Building, the Computer Science Building, and EBU II (visible through trees)
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Center Hall, a lecture hall near the center of campus
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University of California, Irvine
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The University of California, Irvine, is a public research university located in Irvine, California, United States, and one of the 10 campuses in the University of California system. UC Irvine offers 80 undergraduate degrees and 98 graduate and professional degrees, UC Irvine became a member of the Association of American Universities in 1996, and is the youngest university to hold membership. UC Irvine set up the first Earth System Science Department in the United States, UCI was one of three new UC campuses established in the 1960s to accommodate growing enrollments across the UC system. A site in Orange County was identified in 1959, and in the year the Irvine Company sold the University of California 1,000 acres of land for one dollar to establish the new campus. President Lyndon B. Johnson dedicated the campus in 1964, the UC Irvine Anteaters compete in 18 mens and womens sports in the NCAA Division I as members of the Big West Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. The Anteaters have won 28 national championships in nine different team sports,64 Anteaters have won national championships. One of the new campuses was to be in the Los Angeles area, the location selected was Irvine Ranch, an area of agricultural land bisecting Orange County from north to south. Unlike most other University of California campuses, UCI was not named for the city it was built in, at the time of the universitys founding, the name Irvine is a reference to James Irvine, a landowner who administered the 94, 000-acre Irvine Ranch. In 1960, The Irvine Company sold 1,000 acres of the Irvine Ranch to the University of California for one dollar, the University purchased an additional 510 acres in 1964 for housing and commercial developments. Much of the land that was not purchased by UCI is now held under The Irvine Company, during this time, the University also hired William Pereira and Associates as the Master Planner of the Irvine Ranch area. Pereira intended for the UC Irvine campus to complement the community. Soon after UC Irvine opened in 1965, the City of Irvine became incorporated and established in 1971 and 1975, respectively. The College of Arts, Letters, and Science was composed of twenty majors in five Divisions, Biological Sciences, Fine Arts, Humanities, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences. However, many of UCIs buildings were still under construction and landscaping was still in progress, with the campus only at 75% completion. By June 25,1966, UCI held its first Commencement with fourteen students, in 1965 the California College of Medicine became part of UC Irvine. In 1976, plans to establish a hospital were set aside, with the university instead purchasing the Orange County Medical Center around 12 miles from UC Irvine. As the second largest employer in Orange County, UCI contributes an annual impact of $5 billion. There are 87 undergraduate degree programs,59 masters and 46 Ph. D. programs, in June 2014, President Barack Obama gave the commencement speech for UC Irvine’s graduating class
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One of two identical UCI signs that face the main campus' western entrance.
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Seal of the University of California, Irvine
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President
Lyndon B. Johnson at the university's groundbreaking ceremony in June 1964
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A UC Irvine alumna shows President Obama how to do the "Rip 'em Eaters" hand sign.
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Pennsylvania State University
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The Pennsylvania State University is a public, land-grant, research-intensive university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research. Its instructional mission includes undergraduate, graduate, professional and continuing education offered through resident instruction and its University Park campus, the flagship campus, lies within the Borough of State College and College Township. It has two law schools, Penn State Law, on the schools University Park campus, and Dickinson Law, the College of Medicine is located in Hershey. Penn State has another 19 commonwealth campuses and 5 special-mission campuses located across the state, Penn State has been labeled one of the Public Ivies, a publicly funded university considered as providing a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League. Annual enrollment at the University Park campus totals more than 46,800 graduate and undergraduate students and it has the worlds largest dues-paying alumni association. The universitys total enrollment in 2015–16 was approximately 97,500 across its 24 campuses, the university offers more than 160 majors among all its campuses and administers $3.62 billion in endowment and similar funds. The universitys research expenditures totaled $836 million during the 2016 fiscal year, annually, the university hosts the Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon, which is the worlds largest student-run philanthropy. This event is held at the Bryce Jordan Center on the University Park campus, in 2014, THON raised a program record of $13.3 million. The universitys athletics teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are known as the Penn State Nittany Lions. They compete in the Big Ten Conference for most sports, centre County, Pennsylvania, became the home of the new school when James Irvin of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, donated 200 acres of land – the first of 10,101 acres the school would eventually acquire. George W. Atherton became president of the school in 1882, shortly after he introduced engineering studies, Penn State became one of the ten largest engineering schools in the nation. Atherton also expanded the arts and agriculture programs, for which the school began receiving regular appropriations from the state in 1887. A major road in State College has been named in Athertons honor, additionally, Penn States Atherton Hall, a well-furnished and centrally located residence hall, is named not after George Atherton himself, but after his wife, Frances Washburn Atherton. His grave is in front of Schwab Auditorium near Old Main, in the years that followed, Penn State grew significantly, becoming the states largest grantor of baccalaureate degrees and reaching an enrollment of 5,000 in 1936. In 1953, President Milton S. Eisenhower, brother of then-U. S, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, sought and won permission to elevate the school to university status as The Pennsylvania State University. Under his successor Eric A. Walker, the university acquired hundreds of acres of surrounding land, and enrollment nearly tripled. In addition, in 1967, the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, in the 1970s, the university became a state-related institution
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Old Main c. 1855
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The Pennsylvania State University
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Students sit outside of Pennsylvania State College (c.1922)
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Beaver Stadium
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Kansas State University
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Kansas State University, commonly shortened to Kansas State or K-State, is a public doctoral university with its main campus in Manhattan, Kansas, United States. Kansas State was opened as the states land-grant college in 1863 – the first public institution of learning in the state of Kansas. It had a high enrollment of 24,766 students for the Fall 2014 semester. Branch campuses are in Salina and Olathe, the Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus in Salina is home to the College of Technology and Aviation. The university is classified as a university with highest research activity by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Kansas States academic offerings are administered through nine colleges, including the College of Veterinary Medicine, Graduate degrees offered include 65 masters degree programs and 45 doctoral degrees. The school was the first land-grant college created under the Morrill Act, K-State is the third-oldest school in the Big 12 Conference and the oldest public institution of higher learning in the state of Kansas. The effort to establish the school began in 1861, the year that Kansas was admitted to the United States, one of the new state legislatures top priorities involved establishing a state university. That year, the delegation from Manhattan introduced a bill to convert Blue Mont Central College into the state university, in 1862, another bill to make Manhattan the site of the state university failed by one vote. When the college opened for its first session on September 2,1863, enrollment for the first session totaled 52 students,26 men and 26 women. Twelve years after opening, the university moved its campus from the location of Blue Mont Central College to its present site in 1875. The original site is now occupied by Central National Bank of Manhattan, the early years of the institution witnessed debate over whether the college should provide a focused agricultural education or a full liberal arts education. During this era, the tenor of the school shifted with the tenure of college presidents, for example, President John A. Anderson favored a limited education and President George T. Fairchild favored a liberal education. Fairchild was credited with saying, Our college exists not so much to make men farmers as to make farmers men. During this era, in 1873, Kansas State helped pioneer the academic teaching of economics for women. In November 1928, the school was accredited by the Association of American Universities as a school whose graduates were deemed capable of advanced graduate work, the name of the school was changed in 1931 to Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. Milton S. Eisenhower served as president of the university from 1943 to 1950, several buildings, including residence halls and a student union, were added to the campus in the 1950s
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The college circa 1860s, from a
mural at the
U.S. Capitol
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The college in 1878, three years after moving to its current location
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Dickens Hall, from a 1907 postcard
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Arkansas State University
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It is located atop 1,376 acres on Crowleys Ridge at Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States. The university marked its centennial year in 2009, A-State was founded as the First District Agricultural School in Jonesboro in 1909 by the Arkansas Legislature as a regional agricultural training school. In 1918, ASU began offering a college program. In 1925, it became First District Agricultural and Mechanical College, a four-year degree program was begun in 1930. A & M College became Arkansas State College in 1933, in 1967, the Arkansas Legislature elevated the college to university status and changed the name to Arkansas State University. In the fall of 2014, A-State welcomed its most academically prepared freshman class and this was the third consecutive year of improvement for the ACT/GPA freshman classes for Arkansas State. The Arkansas State Honors College has grown 59% since 2009, the university also posted back-to-back high graduate counts in spring 2012 and spring 2013, producing the most graduates in a two-year period in school history. The university contains the largest library in the state of Arkansas, for other Arkansas State University campuses, see Arkansas State University System. A second doctoral program, in science, was begun in the fall of 1997. Newer doctoral programs are in science, molecular biosciences and physical therapy. In the fall of 2016, Arkansas State will enroll the first class of approximately 115 students to its branch of the New York Institute of Technologys medical school, the medical school will be located on campus in the historic Wilson Hall. Today, the institution has more than 75,000 alumni, Arkansas State University-Beebe became part of the ASU System in 1955. It associated with White River Vo-Tech at Newport in 1992, that campus attained stand-alone status and is now Arkansas State University-Newport, the Mountain Home campus officially became ASU-Mountain Home on July 1,1995. Delta Technical Institute at Marked Tree merged with ASU and became Arkansas State University Technical Center on July 1,2001, a new campus was built for ASU-Heber Springs, which operates as a sister campus of ASU-Beebe. Foothills Technical Institute at Searcy was merged with ASU-Beebe on July 1,2003, and is now ASU-Searcy, ASU also operates an instructional site at nearby Paragould in Greene County. A-State has grown rapidly over the past 20 years, current enrollment for the Jonesboro campus stands close to 14,000, and the system has an enrollment of greater than 21,000. A-States journalism program reorganized into the College of Media and Communication for fall 2013, the College of Media and Communication is home to three student-led media outlets and a NPR affiliate radio station. The Herald, a student newspaper, was founded in 1921 and has a circulation of 5,000
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Arkansas State University student union, Jonesboro, Arkansas
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Official logo of Arkansas State
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View of Arkansas State University Dean B. Ellis Library, Jonesboro, Arkansas
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ASU's Fowler Center is a regional center for The Arts.
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University of Maryland
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Founded in 1856, the university is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland. It is a member of the Association of American Universities and competes in athletics as a member of the Big Ten Conference, the University of Marylands proximity to the nations capital has resulted in research partnerships with the Federal government. The operating budget of the University of Maryland during the 2009 fiscal year was projected to be approximately $1.531 billion, for the same fiscal year, the University of Maryland received a total of $518 million in research funding, surpassing its 2008 mark by $118 million. As of December 12,2012, the universitys Great Expectations campaign had exceeded $1 billion in private donations, on March 6,1856, the forerunner of todays University of Maryland was chartered as the Maryland Agricultural College. Two years later, Charles Benedict Calvert, a future U. S. Congressman, Calvert founded the school later that year. On October 5,1859, the first 34 students entered the Maryland Agricultural College, the school became a land grant college in February 1864. During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers under Brigadier General Bradley Tyler Johnson moved past the college on July 12,1864 as part of Jubal Earlys raid on Washington, D. C. By the end of the war, financial problems forced the administrators to sell off 200 acres of land, for the next two years the campus was used as a boys preparatory school. Following the Civil War, in February 1866 the Maryland legislature assumed half ownership of the school, the college thus became in part a state institution. By October 1867, the school reopened with 11 students, in the next six years, enrollment grew and the schools debt was paid off. In 1873, Samuel Jones, a former Confederate Major General, twenty years later, the federally funded Agricultural Experiment Station was established there. Morrill Hall was built the following year, on November 29,1912, a fire destroyed the barracks where the students were housed, all the schools records, and most of the academic buildings, leaving only Morrill Hall untouched. There were no injuries or fatalities, and all but two returned to the university and insisted on classes continuing. Students were housed by families in neighboring towns until housing could be rebuilt, a large brick and concrete compass inlaid in the ground designates the former center of campus as it existed in 1912. The state took control of the school in 1916, and the institution was renamed Maryland State College and that year, the first female students enrolled at the school. On April 9,1920, the became part of the existing University of Maryland, replacing St. Johns College. In the same year, the school on the College Park campus awarded its first PhD degrees. In 1925 the university was accredited by the Association of American Universities, by the time the first black students enrolled at the university in 1951, enrollment had grown to nearly 10,000 students—4,000 of whom were women
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Charles Calvert, founder
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Seal of the University of Maryland
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Morrill Hall, built in 1898, is the oldest academic building on campus.
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The campus during the 1912 fire.
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Alabama State University
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Alabama State University, founded 1867, is a historically black university located in Montgomery, Alabama. ASU is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Alabama State University founded in 1867 as the Lincoln Normal School of Marion in Marion. In December 1873, the State Board accepted the transfer of title to the school after an act was passed authorizing the state to fund a Normal School. Thus, in 1874, this predecessor of Alabama State University became Americas first state-supported educational institution for blacks and this began ASU’s history as a “Teacher’s College. ”In 1878, the second president, William Paterson, was appointed. He is honored as a founder of Alabama State University and was the president for 37 of the first 48 years of its existence, Paterson was instrumental in the move from Marion to Montgomery in 1887. In the decades that followed Lincoln Normal School became a junior college, in 1929 it became State Teachers College, Alabama State College for Negroes in 1948 and Alabama State College in 1954. In 1969, the State Board of Education, then the body of the university, approved a name change. Today, WVAS has grown to 80,000 watts and enjoys a listenership that spans 18 counties, in recent years, the station has also begun streaming its broadcast via the Web, connecting a global audience to the university. WAPR-FM88. 3—Selma – The signal reaches the region known colloquially as the Black Belt, about 13 counties in the west central and central parts of Alabama, the university experienced some tension with the state government in 2013 and 2014. In December 2012, university president Joseph Silver resigned after six months in the job. The audit was ordered to investigate Silvers claims that he was forced to resign because he questioned suspicious contracts at the university. During the November 4th hearing Alabama State University Board of Trustees voted 8–6 to place University President Dr. Gwendolyn Boyd on paid leave for failure to maintain confidence of the board. A public hearing was held on November 14 and December 16,2016 where Boyd responded to the charges, finally, after deliberating for six hours, the Alabama State University Board of trustees voted 8–6 to terminate Boyds employment contract. Board chairman Ralph Ruggs assembled a committee to conduct a nationwide search for Boyd’s replacement. Trustee Angela McKenzie will head the committee, Alabama State University has more than 6,000 students from more than 42 states and over twenty countries. Alabama State University has eight degree-granting colleges, schools, or divisions, in addition, the university offers the W. E. B. DuBois Honors Program for undergraduate students who meet the performance criteria. ASU undergraduate students who complete the program will receive a STEM related bachelors degree from ASU
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William Burns Patterson Hall on the campus of Alabama State University
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Indiana University of Pennsylvania
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Indiana University of Pennsylvania is a public research university in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is one of the two largest universities in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education and thus the fourth or fifth largest public university. As of fall 2016, the university enrolled 10,618 undergraduates and 2,235 postgraduates for an enrollment of 12,853 students. The university is 55 miles northeast of Pittsburgh and it is governed by a local Council of Trustees and the Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. IUP has branch campuses at Punxsutawney, Northpointe, and Monroeville, IUP is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, and Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. IUP was conceived as Indiana Normal School, first chartered in 1871 by Indiana County investors, the school was created under the Normal School Act, which passed the Pennsylvania General Assembly on May 20,1875. Normal schools established under the act were to be private corporations in no way dependent upon the state treasury and they were to be state normal schools only in the sense of being officially recognized by the commonwealth. The school opened its doors in 1875 following the mold of the French Ecole Normale, all normal school events were held within a single building which also contained a laboratory school for model teaching. Control and ownership of the passed to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1920. In 1927, by authority of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, it became State Teachers College at Indiana, as its mission expanded, the name was changed again in 1959 to Indiana State College. In 1965, the institution achieved university status and became Indiana University of Pennsylvania, IUP offers over 140 undergraduate degree programs and 70 graduate degree programs under the direction of eight different colleges. Cook Honors College was founded to offer a seminar style, discourse-based liberal studies curriculum, IUPs 374-acre main campus is a mix of 62 old and new red brick structures. Its original building, a Victorian structure named John Sutton Hall once housed the entire school, today Sutton Hall is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It stands at the heart of campus—there was a fight to preserve it in 1974 when the administration scheduled it for demolition, ironically, today it houses many administrative offices and reception areas. Breezedale Alumni Center is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Victorian mansion was once home to a Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice. The campus boasts a planetarium, University Museum, black box theater, Hadley Union Building, extensive music library, stapleton Library boasts 900, 000-plus bound volumes and over 2 million microform units. At the heart of campus is the Oak Grove, many alumni recall this spot because of its centrality and the many events that occur there. In January 2000 former President Lawrence K. Pettit established a board to create the Allegheny Arboretum at IUP and this group works to furnish the Oak Grove with flora native to the region
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Breezedale Hall
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IUP – Indiana University of Pennsylvania
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Sutton Hall
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Postcard depicting
John Sutton Hall at Indiana Normal School.
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Louisiana State University
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Louisiana State University is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The university was founded in 1853 in what is now known as Pineville, Louisiana, LSU is the flagship institution of the Louisiana State University System. In 2015, the university enrolled over 26,000 undergraduate and over 5,000 graduate students in 14 schools, several of LSUs graduate schools, such as the E. J. Ourso College of Business and the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, have received recognition in their respective fields of study. LSUs athletics department fields teams in 21 varsity sports, and is a member of the NCAA, the university is represented by its mascot, Mike the Tiger. Louisiana State University Agricultural & Mechanical College had its origin in land grants made by the United States government in 1806,1811. It was founded as an academy and is still today steeped in military tradition. In 1853, the Louisiana General Assembly established the Seminary of Learning of the State of Louisiana near Pineville in Rapides Parish in Central Louisiana. Modeled initially after Virginia Military Institute, the institution opened with five professors and nineteen cadets on January 2,1860, the original location of the Old LSU Site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. On January 26,1861, after only a year at the helm, the school closed on June 30,1861, with the start of the American Civil War. During the course of the war, the university reopened briefly in April 1863, the losses sustained by the institution during the Union occupation were heavy, and after 1863 the seminary remained closed for the remainder of the Civil War. Following the surrender of the Confederates at Appomattox Court House on April 9,1865 and these cannons had been captured from Confederate forces after the close of the war and had been used during the initial firing upon Fort Sumter in April 1861. The cannons are still displayed in front of LSUs Military Science/Aerospace Studies Building, the seminary officially reopened its doors on October 2,1865, only to be burned October 15,1869. On November 1,1869, the institution resumed its exercises in Baton Rouge, in 1870, the name of the institution was officially changed to Louisiana State University. It temporarily opened in New Orleans, June 1,1874 and this prompted the final name change for the university to the Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. On June 7,1925, Oscar B, turner, a professor of agronomy, was murdered by an axe-wielding assailant on campus. On April 30,1926, the present LSU campus was formally dedicated, prior to this, LSU utilized the quarters of the Institute for the Deaf, Mute, and Blind. Land for the present campus was purchased in 1918, construction started in 1922, the campus was originally designed for 3000 students, but was cut back due to budget problems
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Memorial Tower
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Seal of Louisiana State University
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Downtown Baton Rouge Campus (1886-1925) Historical Marker
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A panorama of the LSU campus in 1909
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Missouri University of Science and Technology
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Most of its 8,889 students study engineering, business, sciences, and mathematics. Missouri S&T was founded in 1870 as the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, early in its history, the School of Mines was focused primarily on mining and metallurgy. Rolla is located close to the Southeast Missouri Lead District which produces about 70% of the U. S. primary supply of lead as well as significant amounts of the nations zinc. The act endowed Missouri a federal grant of 30,000 acres for each of the states two senators and nine representatives at the time—or 330,000 acres. The endowment said that the land could not be sold for less than $1. 25/acre and as such as was a minimum endowment of $412,500 for Missouri. There was a debate in the state over the location and number of schools before it was finally decided to have one school in Columbia. Iron County, Missouri and Phelps County, Missouri made bids for the school, iron Countys bid was valued at $112,545 and Phelps Countys bid was $130,545 so the Phelps bid was officially approved on December 20,1870. Classes began in November 23,1871 in a new Rolla High School building that the city of Rolla had just built, the college had an enrollment of 28 and three graduates in 1874. The college bought what is now called the Rolla Building for $25,000 in January 1875 and that building is now used as the Mathematics and Statistics Departments library, chairs office, part of the main office, and other faculty offices following a $2 million renovation in 1995. By the 1920s, the school expanded into civil, electrical, mechanical and chemical engineering as well as chemistry, physics, mathematics, the school became home to Missouris first operational nuclear reactor in 1961. Until 1964, the school was considered a department of MUs School of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts. As such, its presiding officer was called a director. In 1963 the University of Missouri System was created with the additions of standalone campuses in Kansas City, the curriculum was expanded to include most of the science and engineering disciplines, as well as social sciences and liberal arts such as psychology and history. In 1968, the name was slightly altered to the University of Missouri–Rolla. Business and management programs were added in the following years. On January 1,2008 UMR became known as Missouri University of Science, in making the case for changing the name, then Chancellor John F. Carney III noted that Rolla in 2007 was one of the few technological research universities in the nation. He noted The university’s name, however, does not reflect the nature of the campus. Often, UMR is viewed as a satellite or branch campus due to its name or as a campus for the University of Missouri-Columbia
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Norwood Hall, from the southwest
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The Rolla Building, 2008
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Missouri S&T Stonehenge, next to U.S. Highway 63 (Bishop Avenue).
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University of Hawaii, Manoa
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The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is a public co-educational research university as well as the flagship campus of the University of Hawaiʻi system. The campus occupies the half of the mouth of Mānoa Valley. The John A. Burns School of Medicine, part of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, is located in Kakaako and this university campus also houses the main offices of the entire University of Hawaiʻi system. The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa was founded in 1907 as a land-grant college of agriculture, a bill by Maui Representative William Coelho introduced into the Territorial Legislature March 1,1907 and signed into law March 23rd by the Governor enabled construction to begin. In 1912 it was renamed the College of Hawaii and moved to its present location, William Kwai Fong Yap petitioned the Hawaii Territorial Legislature six years later for university status which led to another renaming finally to the University of Hawaii in 1920. This is also the year of the College of Arts. In 1931 the Territorial Normal and Training School was absorbed into the University, today, the primary facet of the university consists of the four Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences. The college of agriculture and mechanical arts is now the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, UH Mānoa is home to two of the states most prominent professional schools. The William S. Richardson School of Law and the School of Medicine are the only law and it is also home to the Shidler College of Business which has the only AACSB accredited graduate business program in the state. It also has the only Doctor of Architecture program in the country, the Center for Hawaiian Studies provides excellence in the pursuit of knowledge concerning the Native people of Hawaii. Total enrollment in 2012 was 20,429 students,14,402 of which are undergraduates, there are approximately sixteen students per instructor. With extramural grants and contracts of $436 million in 2012, research at UH-Mānoa relates to Hawaiis physical landscape, its people, the geography facilitates advances in marine biology, oceanography, underwater robotic technology, astronomy, geology and geophysics, agriculture, aquaculture and tropical medicine. Extramural funding increased from $368 million in FY2008 to nearly $436 million in FY2012, Research grants increased from $278 million in FY2008 to $317 million in FY2012. Nonresearch awards totaled $119 million in FY2012, overall, extramural funding increased by 18%. The National Science Foundation ranked UH Manoa 45th among 395 public universities for Research and Development expenditures in fiscal year 2014. For the period of July 1,2012 to June 20,2013, local funding comes from Hawaii government agencies, non-profit organizations, health organizations and business and other interests. The $150-million medical complex in Kaka‘ako opened in the spring of 2005, Research is expected of every faculty member at UH Mānoa. Also, according to the Carnegie Foundation, UH Mānoa is an RU/VH level research university, in 2013, UH Mānoa was elected to membership in the Association of Pacific Rim Universities, the leading consortium of research universities for the region
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Entrance to UH Mānoa Campus
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UH Mānoa campus viewed from
Round Top Drive, with
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Queen Lili ʻ uokalani Center for Student Services
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Purdue University
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Purdue University is a public research university located in West Lafayette, Indiana and is the main campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money to establish a college of science, technology, the first classes were held on September 16,1874, with six instructors and 39 students. The main campus in West Lafayette offers more than 200 majors for undergraduates, over 70 master’s and doctoral programs, in addition, Purdue has 18 intercollegiate sports teams and more than 900 student organizations. In 1865, the Indiana General Assembly voted to take advantage of the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act of 1862, communities throughout the state offered their facilities and money to bid for the location of the new college. Popular proposals included the addition of a department at Indiana State University or at what is now Butler University. By 1869, Tippecanoe County’s offer included $150,000 from Lafayette business leader and philanthropist John Purdue, $50,000 from the county, and 100 acres of land from local residents. On May 6,1869, the General Assembly established the institution in Tippecanoe County as Purdue University, classes began at Purdue on September 16,1874, with six instructors and 39 students. Professor John S. Hougham was Purdue’s first faculty member and served as acting president between the administrations of presidents Shortridge and White, a campus of five buildings was completed by the end of 1874. Purdue issued its first degree, a Bachelor of Science in chemistry, in 1875, emerson E. White, the university’s president from 1876 to 1883, followed a strict interpretation of the Morrill Act. He intended not only to students for industrial work, but also to prepare them to be good citizens. Part of White’s plan to distinguish Purdue from classical universities included an attempt to ban fraternities. This ban was overturned by the Indiana Supreme Court and led to White’s resignation. The next president, James H. Smart, is remembered for his call in 1894 to rebuild the original Heavilon Hall one brick higher after it had destroyed by a fire. Purdue’s engineering laboratories included testing facilities for a locomotive and a Corliss steam engine, one of the most efficient engines of the time. The School of Agriculture was sharing its research with farmers throughout the state with its cooperative extension services, programs in education and home economics were soon established, as well as a short-lived school of medicine. By 1925 Purdue had the largest undergraduate engineering enrollment in the country, President Edward C. Elliott oversaw a campus building program between the world wars. Inventor, alumnus, and trustee David E. Ross coordinated several fundraisers, donated lands to the university, ross’s gifts and fundraisers supported such projects as Ross–Ade Stadium, the Memorial Union, a civil engineering surveying camp, and Purdue University Airport. Purdue Airport was the country’s first university-owned airport and the site of the country’s first college-credit flight training courses, amelia Earhart joined the Purdue faculty in 1935 as a consultant for these flight courses and as a counselor on women’s careers
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John Purdue, the University's eponymous benefactor
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McGill University
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McGill University is a public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was established in 1821 by royal charter, issued by King George IV of Great Britain, the University bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Scotland whose bequest in 1813 formed the universitys precursor, McGill College. Its academic units are organized into 11 main Faculties and Schools, McGill offers degrees and diplomas in over 300 fields of study, with the highest average admission requirements of any Canadian university. Most students are enrolled in the five largest faculties, namely Arts, Science, Medicine, Engineering, tuition fees vary significantly between in-province, out-of-province, and international students, as well as between faculties. Scholarships are generous, yet highly competitive and relatively difficult to attain, throughout its long history, McGill alumni were instrumental in inventing or initially organizing football, basketball, and ice hockey. In 1816 the RIAL was authorized to operate two new Royal Grammar Schools, in Quebec City and in Montreal and 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 private college, since the revised Royal Charter of 1852, The Trustees of the RIAL comprise the Board of Governors of McGill University. James McGill, born in Glasgow, Scotland on 6 October 1744, was a merchant in Quebec. Between 1811 and 1813, he drew up a will leaving his Burnside estate, a 19-hectare tract of rural land and 10,000 pounds to the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning. As a condition of the bequest, the land and funds had to be used for the establishment of a University or College, for the purposes of Education and the Advancement of Learning in the said Province. On March 31,1821, after protracted battles with the Desrivières family. The Charter provided that the College should be deemed and taken as a University, the Faculty of Medicine granted its first degree, a Doctor of Medicine and Surgery, in 1833, this was also the first medical degree to be awarded in Canada. The Faculty of Medicine remained the only functioning faculty until 1843 when the Faculty of Arts commenced teaching in the newly constructed Arts Building. The university also historically has strong linkage with The Canadian Grenadier Guards and this title is marked upon the stone that stands before the Arts building, from where the Guards step off annually to commemorate Remembrance Day. The Faculty of Law was founded in 1848 which is also the oldest of its kind in the nation,48 years later, the school of architecture at McGill University was founded. Sir John William Dawson, McGills principal from 1855 to 1893, is credited with transforming the school into a modern university. He recruited the aid of Montreals wealthiest citizens, many of whom donated property and their names adorn many of the campuss prominent buildings
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James McGill, the original
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Sir John William Dawson, Principal of McGill University 1855-1893.
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The Arts Building, completed in 1843 and designed by
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University of British Columbia
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The University of British Columbia, commonly referred to as UBC, is a public research university with campuses and facilities in British Columbia, Canada. Founded in 1908 as the McGill University College of British Columbia and it is British Columbias oldest institution of higher learning and has over 60,000 students at its Vancouver and Okanagan Valley campuses. Most students are enrolled in five faculties, Arts, Science, Applied Science, UBC Faculty of Medicine. UBCs 4.02 km2 Vancouver campus is within the University Endowment Lands, the 2.09 km2 Okanagan campus, acquired in 2005, is in Kelowna. UBCs admission standards is the 2nd most rigorous in Canada with the average of 89. 95% high school GPA for all incoming domestic students in 2015 for the Vancouver Campus. According to the annual rankings compiled by Macleans and U. S. News, in 2015 U. S. News and World Report and Times Higher Education ranked UBC among the 20 best public universities worldwide. With an annual research budget valued at $600 million, UBC funds 8,442 projects as of 2014, the university has also educated three Canadian prime ministers, most recently Justin Trudeau, the current prime minister. One of the largest research libraries in Canada, the UBC Library system has over 9.9 million volumes among its 21 branches, since 1968, UBC is home to TRIUMF, Canadas national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics which houses the worlds largest cyclotron. In 1877, only six years after British Columbia joined Canada, the provincial legislature passed An Act Respecting the University of British Columbia in 1890, but disagreements arose over whether to build the university on Vancouver Island or the mainland. The British Columbia University Act of 1908 formally called a university into being. The president, appointed by the board, was to provide a link between the two bodies and to perform institutional leadership, the Act constituted a twenty-one member senate with Francis Carter-Cotton of Vancouver as Chancellor. Before the University Act, there had been attempts at creating a degree-granting university with help from the Universities of Toronto. Building on an affiliation between Vancouver and Victoria high schools with McGill University, Henry Marshall Tory helped establish the McGill University College of British Columbia. From 1906 to 1915, McGill BC operated as an institution providing the first few years toward a degree at McGill University or elsewhere. The Henry Marshall Tory Medal was established in 1941 by Tory, founding President of the University of Alberta and of the National Research Council of Canada, and a co-founder of Carleton University. In the meantime, appeals were made to the government to revive the legislation for a provincial institution, leading to the University Endowment Act in 1907. In 1910 the Point Grey site was chosen, and the government appointed Dr. Frank Fairchild Wesbrook as President in 1913, on the first day of lectures was September 30,1915, the new independent university absorbed McGill University College. The University of British Columbia awarded its first degrees in 1916, World War I dominated campus life, and the student body was decimated by enlistments for active service, with three hundred UBC students in Company D alone
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Original 1914 plan of the UBC campus, by architects Sharp and Thompson
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Henry Marshall Tory
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Bill Reid 's Raven and The First Men at the
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University of Alberta
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The University of Alberta is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta and its enabling legislation is the Post-secondary Learning Act. The university comprises four campuses in Edmonton, the Augustana Campus in Camrose, the original north campus consists of 150 buildings covering 50 city blocks on the south rim of the North Saskatchewan River valley, directly across from downtown Edmonton. 39,000 students from Canada and 150 other countries participate in 400 programs in 18 faculties, the University of Alberta is a major economic driver in Alberta. The university’s impact on the Alberta economy is an estimated $12.3 billion annually, with more than 15,000 employees, the university is Albertas fourth-largest employer. According to the 2014 QS World University Rankings the top Faculty Area at the University of Alberta is Arts and Humanities, the University of Alberta is also a leading institution for the study of Ukraine and is home to the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. The university was modelled on the American state university, with an emphasis on extension work, the president, appointed by the board, was to provide a link between the two bodies and perform institutional leadership. Heated wrangling took place between the cities of Calgary and Edmonton over the location of the capital and of the university. It was stated that the capital would be north of the North Saskatchewan River, the city of Edmonton became the capital and the then-separate city of Strathcona on the south bank of the river, where Premier Alexander Rutherford lived, was granted the university. When the two cities were amalgamated in 1912, Edmonton became both the political and academic capital, with Henry Marshall Tory as its first president, the University of Alberta started operation in 1908. Under Torys guidance, the years were marked by recruitment of professors. Percy Erskine Nobbs & Frank Darling designed the plan for the University of Alberta in 1909–10. Nobbs designed the Arts Building, laboratories and Power House, with Cecil S. Burgess, Nobbs designed the Provincial College of Medicine. Architect Herbert Alton Magoon designed several buildings on campus, including St. Stephens Methodist College, the University of Alberta awarded its first degrees in 1912, the same year it established the Department of Extension. The Faculty of Medicine was established the year, and the Faculty of Agriculture began in 1915. Despite these setbacks, the university continued to grow, by 1920, it had six faculties and two schools. There were 851 male students and 251 female students, and 171 academic staff, in the early part of the 20th century, professional education expanded beyond the traditional fields of theology, law and medicine. Graduate training based on the German-inspired American model of specialized course work, in 1929, the university established a College of Education
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Old Arts Building, University of Alberta campus, designed by
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Henry Marshall Tory Building at the University of Alberta
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Rutherford House, on the northeast corner of the University of Alberta campus.
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Biological Sciences Building at the University of Alberta
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