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Christian
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A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Christian derives from the Koine Greek word Christós, a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term mashiach, while there are diverse interpretations of Christianity which sometimes conflict, they are united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance. The term Christian is also used as an adjective to describe anything associated with Christianity, or in a sense all that is noble, and good. According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were 2.2 billion Christians around the world in 2010, by 2050, the Christian population is expected to exceed 3 billion. According to a 2012 Pew Research Center survey Christianity will remain the worlds largest religion in 2050, about half of all Christians worldwide are Catholic, while more than a third are Protestant. Orthodox communions comprise 12% of the worlds Christians, other Christian groups make up the remainder. Christians make up the majority of the population in 158 countries and territories,280 million Christian live as a minority. In the Greek Septuagint, christos was used to translate the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, in other European languages, equivalent words to Christian are likewise derived from the Greek, such as Chrétien in French and Cristiano in Spanish. The second mention of the term follows in Acts 26,28, where Herod Agrippa II replied to Paul the Apostle, Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. The third and final New Testament reference to the term is in 1 Peter 4,16, which believers, Yet if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed. The city of Antioch, where someone gave them the name Christians, had a reputation for coming up with such nicknames, in the Annals he relates that by vulgar appellation commonly called Christians and identifies Christians as Neros scapegoats for the Great Fire of Rome. Another term for Christians which appears in the New Testament is Nazarenes which is used by the Jewish lawyer Tertullus in Acts 24, the Hebrew equivalent of Nazarenes, Notzrim, occurs in the Babylonian Talmud, and is still the modern Israeli Hebrew term for Christian. A wide range of beliefs and practices is found across the world among those who call themselves Christian, denominations and sects disagree on a common definition of Christianity. Most Baptists and fundamentalists, for example, would not acknowledge Mormonism or Christian Science as Christian, in fact, the nearly 77 percent of Americans who self-identify as Christian are a diverse pluribus of Christianities that are far from any collective unity. The identification of Jesus as the Messiah is not accepted by Judaism, the term for a Christian in Hebrew is נוּצְרי, a Talmudic term originally derived from the fact that Jesus came from the Galilean village of Nazareth, today in northern Israel. Adherents of Messianic Judaism are referred to in modern Hebrew as יְהוּדִים מָשִׁיחַיים, the term Nasara rose to prominence in July 2014, after the Fall of Mosul to the terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The nun or ن— the first letter of Nasara—was spray-painted on the property of Christians ejected from the city, where there is a distinction, Nasrani refers to people from a Christian culture and Masihi is used by Christians themselves for those with a religious faith in Jesus. In some countries Nasrani tends to be used generically for non-Muslim Western foreigners, another Arabic word sometimes used for Christians, particularly in a political context, is Ṣalībī from ṣalīb which refers to Crusaders and has negative connotations
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Liberal arts education
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Grammar, logic, and rhetoric were the core liberal arts, while arithmetic, geometry, the theory of music, and astronomy also played a part in education. In modern times, liberal arts education term that can be interpreted in different ways and it can refer to academic subjects such as literature, philosophy, mathematics, and social and physical sciences, or it can also refer to overall studies in a liberal arts degree program. For example, Harvard University offers a Bachelor of Arts degree, for both interpretations, the term generally refers to matters not relating to the professional, vocational, or technical curriculum. The four scientific artes – music, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy – were known from the time of Boethius onwards as the Quadrivium. After the 9th century, the three arts of the humanities – grammar, logic, and rhetoric – were classed as well as the Trivium. It was in that form that the seven liberal arts were studied in the medieval Western university. During the Middle Ages, logic gradually came to take predominance over the parts of the Trivium. In the Renaissance, the Italian humanists and their Northern counterparts, despite in many respects continuing the traditions of the Middle Ages, the ideal of a liberal arts, or humanistic education grounded in classical languages and literature, persisted until the middle of the twentieth century. Some subsections of the arts are in the trivium—the verbal arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and in the quadrivium—the numerical arts, arithmetic, geometry, music. Analyzing and interpreting information is also included, the liberal arts education at the secondary school level prepares the student for higher education at a university. They are thus meant for the more academically minded students, in addition to the usual curriculum, students of a liberal arts education often study Latin and Ancient Greek. Some liberal arts education provide general education, others have a specific focus, today, a number of other areas of specialization exist, such as gymnasiums specializing in economics, technology or domestic sciences. In some countries, there is a notion of progymnasium, which is equivalent to beginning classes of the full gymnasium, here, the prefix pro is equivalent to pre. In the United States, liberal arts colleges are schools emphasizing undergraduate study in the liberal arts, in most parts of Europe, liberal arts education is deeply rooted. In Germany, Austria and countries influenced by their education system, the term is not to be mixed up with some modern educational concepts that use a similar wording. Educational institutions that see themselves in that tradition are often a Gymnasium and they aim at providing their pupils with comprehensive education in order to form personality with regard to a pupils own humanity as well as his/her innate intellectual skills. Going back to the tradition of the liberal arts in Europe, education in the above sense was freed from scholastic thinking. In particular, Wilhelm von Humboldt played a key role in that regard, universities encourage students to do so and offer respective opportunities, but do not make such activities part of the universitys curriculum
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College
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College is an educational institution or a constituent part of one. A college may be a tertiary educational institution, a part of a collegiate or federal university. In ancient Rome a collegium was a club or society, a group of living together under a common set of rules. Aside from the educational context - nowadays the most common use of college - there are various other meanings also derived from the original Latin term. In the United States, college can be a synonym for university, in Singapore and India, this is known as a junior college. The municipal government of the city of Paris uses the sixth form college as the English name for a lycée. In some national education systems, secondary schools may be called colleges or have college as part of their title, in Australia the term college is applied to any private or independent primary and, especially, secondary school as distinct from a state school. Melbourne Grammar School, Cranbrook School, Sydney and The Kings School, there has also been a recent trend to rename or create government secondary schools as colleges. In the state of Victoria, some high schools are referred to as secondary colleges. Interestingly, the pre-eminent government secondary school for boys in Melbourne is still named Melbourne High School, in Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory, college is used in the name of all state high schools built since the late 1990s, and also some older ones. In New South Wales, some schools, especially multi-campus schools resulting from mergers, are known as secondary colleges. In Queensland some newer schools which accept primary and high school students are styled state college, in Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory, college refers to the final two years of high school, and the institutions which provide this. In this context, college is an independent of the other years of high school. Here, the expression is a version of matriculation college. This is because these schools have traditionally focused on academic, rather than vocational, subjects. Some private secondary schools choose to use the college in their names nevertheless. Some secondary schools elsewhere in the country, particularly ones within the school system. In New Zealand the word normally refers to a secondary school for ages 13 to 17
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Toccoa, Georgia
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Toccoa is a city in, and the county seat of, Stephens County, Georgia, United States, located approximately 50 miles from Athens and approximately 90 miles northeast of Atlanta. The population was 8,491 as of the 2010 census, native Americans, including the Mississippian culture mound builders and later the Cherokee, were the original inhabitants in what is now Toccoa and the surrounding area. Indian agent Col. George Chicken was one of the first people to mention Toccoa in his journal from 1725. The first residents of European descent were a number of American Revolutionary War veterans led by Col. William H. Wofford who moved to the area when the war ended. The area was referred to as Woffords Tract, or Woffords Settlement, Col. Wofford is buried near Toccoa Falls. His son, William T. Wofford, was born near Toccoa, and was an officer during the Mexican-American War, the Georgia Land Lottery of 1820 spurred the migration of Scots-Irish from North Carolina and the Georgia coast. The Georgia Gold Rush, starting in 1828, and the 1838 removal of the Cherokee on the infamous Trail of Tears further changed settlement patterns in the area, Toccoa means beautiful in the Cherokee language, and is derived from the Cherokee term for where the Catawbas lived. The city was established in 1873 around an area formerly called Dry Pond, Doyle of Oconee County, South Carolina, B. Y. Sage of Atlanta, and Thomas Alexander of Atlanta - anticipated the construction of a new railroad through Dry Pond. They purchased 1,765 acres, had it surveyed into lots, publicized a May 27,1873, lot sale, and brought potential buyers to the village on excursion trains. The City of Toccoa was officially chartered in 1874 and the names of downtown streets reflect the visionary trio, Sage, Doyle, according to historical accounts, the Johns House, a Victorian cottage near Prather Bridge Road, was built in 1898. The Prather family cemetery is at the right of the house, during the Civil War, General Robert Toombs, a close friend of Prather, used the house as a refuge from northern troops. The soldiers pursued him to Riverside, where he was able to hide in a double closet, the first Prathers Bridge was a swinging bridge built in 1804 by James Jeremiah Prather. Until then, travelers crossed the Tugalo River at fords and later by ferries, the first bridge was washed away during a freshet. A more substantial bridge was built in 1850, but was burned in 1863 during the Civil War to keep the enemy from crossing, James Jeremiah and his son, James Devereaux, rebuilt the bridge in 1868. This bridge was washed away in 1918, and was rebuilt in 1920 by James D. Prather. It was afterwards replaced by a bridge, but was kept as a landmark until burned by vandals in 1978. The Georgia General Assembly created Stephens County in 1905, and Toccoa was established as the county seat, president Franklin Delano Roosevelt visited Toccoa on March 23,1938
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Georgia (U.S. state)
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Georgia is a state in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1733, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies, named after King George II of Great Britain, Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2,1788. It declared its secession from the Union on January 19,1861 and it was the last state to be restored to the Union, on July 15,1870. Georgia is the 24th largest and the 8th most populous of the 50 United States, from 2007 to 2008,14 of Georgias counties ranked among the nations 100 fastest-growing, second only to Texas. Georgia is known as the Peach State and the Empire State of the South, Atlanta is the states capital, its most populous city and has been named a global city. Georgia is bordered to the south by Florida, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean and South Carolina, to the west by Alabama, the states northern part is in the Blue Ridge Mountains, part of the Appalachian Mountains system. Georgias highest point is Brasstown Bald at 4,784 feet above sea level, Georgia is the largest state entirely east of the Mississippi River in land area. Before settlement by Europeans, Georgia was inhabited by the mound building cultures, the British colony of Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe on February 12,1733. The colony was administered by the Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America under a charter issued by King George II. The Trustees implemented a plan for the colonys settlement, known as the Oglethorpe Plan. In 1742 the colony was invaded by the Spanish during the War of Jenkins Ear, in 1752, after the government failed to renew subsidies that had helped support the colony, the Trustees turned over control to the crown. Georgia became a colony, with a governor appointed by the king. The Province of Georgia was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution by signing the 1776 Declaration of Independence, the State of Georgias first constitution was ratified in February 1777. Georgia was the 10th state to ratify the Articles of Confederation on July 24,1778, in 1829, gold was discovered in the North Georgia mountains, which led to the Georgia Gold Rush and an established federal mint in Dahlonega, which continued its operation until 1861. The subsequent influx of white settlers put pressure on the government to land from the Cherokee Nation. In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law, sending many eastern Native American nations to reservations in present-day Oklahoma, including all of Georgias tribes. Despite the Supreme Courts ruling in Worcester v. Georgia that ruled U. S. states were not permitted to redraw the Indian boundaries, President Jackson and the state of Georgia ignored the ruling. In 1838, his successor, Martin Van Buren, dispatched troops to gather the Cherokee
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Christian and Missionary Alliance
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The Christian and Missionary Alliance is an evangelical Protestant denomination within Christianity. These two groups amalgamated in 1897 to form the C&MA and it was only much later, around mid-20th century, that an official denomination was formed. In 2006 there were 2,010 C&MA churches and approximately 417,000 members in the United States, approximately 600 of those churches were described as intercultural. In Canada there were 440 churches,59 of which multicultural, in the C&MA2004 annual report estimated that outside North America C&MA membership exceeded 3 million. The C&MA center used to be in Nyack, New York, C&MA headquarters are located in Veenendaal, Netherlands. The C&MAs Statement of Faith defines it as an evangelical Protestant denomination, the following is a summary of the Statement of Faith for the U. S. Church, One God who exists as a Trinity. Jesus Christ is both God and man who died as a sacrifice, was resurrected, ascended to heaven. The Holy Spirit indwells, teaches, and empowers believers, he convicts the world of sin, righteousness, the Bible, in its original languages, is inerrant, divinely inspired, and the complete revelation of Gods will for the salvation of men. It is the rule for Christian faith and practice. Man was created in the image of God, but through disobedience is born with a sinful nature, mankind can only be saved through Christs atoning work. Those who repent and believe in Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit, the will of God is for each believer to be filled with the Holy Spirit and sanctified wholly to receive power for holy living and effective service. This is both a crisis and progressive experience occurring after conversion, sanctification is Separation from sin and Separation to God. The believer must, through faith, surrender, accept Christ as sanctifier, within the redemptive work of Christ provision is made for bodily healing. Prayer for the sick and anointing with oil are scriptural and the privilege of the Church, the Church is all who believe in Christ, are redeemed through his blood, and are born again of the Holy Spirit. It has been called to fulfill the Great Commission, the just shall be resurrected unto life and the unjust unto judgment. The imminent second coming of Christ will be personal, visible, a. B. Simpson articulated the Alliances core theology as the Christological Fourfold Gospel, Jesus Christ as Savior, Sanctifier, Healer, and Soon Coming King. Sanctification is sometimes described as the deeper Christian life and this teaching is similar to that of the Higher Life movement and the Keswick Convention. It is perhaps best exemplified by the writings of A. W. Tozer, the C&MA also emphasizes missionary work, and believes that the fulfillment of the Great Commission is the reason it exists
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Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
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This agency accredits over 13,000 public and private educational institutions ranging from preschool to college level in the Southern United States. Its headquarters are in North Druid Hills, Georgia, near Decatur, there are a number of affiliate organizations within the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. One affiliate organization is the Southern Association of Community, Junior, the reports include specific public sanctions of schools and statements disclosing why those institutions have been placed on sanction. The Commission on Colleges accredits both public and private institutions of education in the United States, including some community colleges as well as four-year institutions. As a regional accreditor, SACSCOC accreditation extends to all of the programs offered at the accredited institution. The SACSCOC has also accredited the American University in Dubai, SACS CASI accredits over 13,000 primary, middle, and secondary schools, as well as school systems located in the SACS region. In 2006, AdvancED was established with the unification of SACS CASI, NCA CASI, today, SACS CASI acts as an accreditation division of AdvancED. List of recognized accreditation associations of higher learning Official website
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Association for Biblical Higher Education
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The Association for Biblical Higher Education, formerly The Accrediting Association of Bible Colleges is a nationally recognized accrediting agency in the United States. It is recognized by the United States Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, the ABHE is inter-denominational but requires annual affirmation of a common statement of beliefs. The organization that is now the ABHE was founded in 1947 as the Accrediting Association of Bible Institutes, the name was shortened in 1957 to the Accrediting Association of Bible Colleges. From 1973 to 1994 the organization was called the American Association of Bible Colleges, the ABHE is incorporated in the State of Illinois as a not-for-profit corporation and exempt from income tax under section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code. Currently, it is headquartered in Orlando, Florida, as of 2011, the ABHE reported that its membership included nearly 140 bible institutes, colleges, and universities in the United States and Canada, of which about 100 were accredited members. A total of 48,000 students were reported to be enrolled in ABHE-affiliated institutions, to achieve or retain accreditation from ABHE, a school must demonstrate that it is accomplishing its mission and goals through a comprehensive system of assessment and planning. List of recognized accreditation associations of higher learning Educational accreditation Official website
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Council for Christian Colleges and Universities
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Founded in 1976 with 38 member colleges or universities, the Council has grown to 121 members in North America and 60 affiliate institutions in 19 countries. The CCCU is a tax-exempt 501 nonprofit organization headquartered in the district of Capitol Hill in Washington. The Council also owns facilities in Oxford, England, for its Oxford student programmes and San Jose, Costa Rica, the CCCU leases spaces for the remaining Best Semester student programs around the world. In 1989, the Council purchased the adjacent to The Dellenback Center for guest housing in its Capitol Hill location. In 1999, the Council purchased and renovated an existing townhouse to use as its main headquarters, the original two-story townhouse was constructed in the 1850s and is one of the few remaining wooden clapboard structures on Capitol Hill. It is within walking distance to Union Station, the Capitol, in September 2014, Shirley V. Hoogstra, J. D. was named the Councils seventh president. Before that, she was the president for student life at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. While at Calvin, Hoogstra also served as a member who became familiar with team building, campus-wide planning. She was also the co-host of Inner Compass, a televised show on PBS. She has served in a variety of leadership roles for CCCU institutes and commissions. The previous president, Edward O. Blews Jr. served from January 1,2013, william P. Robinson, former president of Whitworth University, was named the interim president before Hoogstra was appointed. The current chair is Dr. Charles Chip W. Pollard, president of John Brown University in Siloam Springs, the CCCU administers a number of student study programs around the world through its Best Semester programs. More than 700 students take part in these Council-approved, academic programs each year, there is also a public affairs program and a journalism program in Washington, D. C. a contemporary music program in Nashville, and a film studies program in Los Angeles. Alumni of global education programs gain valuable personal and professional experience in shaping the future, for full membership in the CCCU, each institution must, Be located in North America. Offer comprehensive undergraduate curricula rooted in the arts and sciences, have a public, board-approved institutional mission or purpose statement that is Christ-centered and rooted in the historic Christian faith. Curricular and extra-curricular programs reflect the integration of scholarship, biblical faith, hire as full-time faculty members and administrators only persons who profess faith in Jesus Christ. Have been, are now, and will continue to be supportive of other Christian colleges, have a commitment to advance the cause of Christian higher education through active participation in the programs of the Council. Have institutional practices which reflect high ethical standards, conduct fund raising activities in a manner consistent with the standards of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability
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National Christian College Athletic Association
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The national headquarters is located in Greenville, South Carolina. The NCCAA was formed in 1968, for the 2013-2014, the NCCAA lists 111 members,69 of which participate in Division I and 42 in Division II. Many teams in the NCCAA are also in other associations, including NCAA, NAIA. The associations sports for men are baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, tennis, womens sports are basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, track and field, and volleyball. The NCCAA has discontinued mens volleyball and wrestling, the Victory Bowl is the organizations football bowl game between NCCAA teams that did not qualify for either NCAA or NAIA playoffs. List of NCCAA institutions List of NCCAA mens basketball champions Official website
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Liberal arts college
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A liberal arts college is a college with an emphasis on undergraduate study in the liberal arts and sciences. A liberal arts college aims to impart a broad knowledge and develop general intellectual capacities, in contrast to a professional, vocational. Other researchers have adopted similar definitions, most liberal arts colleges outside of the United States follow this model. Liberal arts colleges are distinguished from other types of higher education chiefly by their generalist curricula and these attributes have various secondary effects in terms of administration as well as student experience. For example, class size is much lower at liberal arts colleges than at universities. Many students select liberal arts colleges with precisely this sense of connection in mind. From an administrative standpoint, the size of liberal arts colleges contributes to their cohesion. Job satisfaction is also higher in liberal arts colleges, for both faculty and staff. In addition, most liberal arts colleges are residential, which means students live and learn away from home. The distinctiveness of these attributes is somewhat eroded by the tendency of universities to adopt aspects of the arts college. In addition, some universities have maintained a sub-unit that preserves many aspects of the arts college. Liberal arts colleges themselves sometimes cluster to offer greater curricular breadth or share other resources, most liberal arts colleges nowadays, however, offer more than just liberal arts subjects, such as computer science from the formal science discipline. Liberal arts colleges are found in all parts of the world, the Global Liberal Arts Alliance, which incorporates institutions on five continents, refers to itself as an international, multilateral partnership of American style liberal arts institutions. These colleges served as a means of spreading a basically European cultural model across the new country, the model proliferated in the 19th century, some 212 small liberal arts colleges were established between 1850 and 1899. As of 1987, there were about 540 liberal arts colleges in the United States, the oldest liberal arts college in America is considered to be Washington College, the first college chartered after American independence. Olaf College as well as Augsburg College in Minnesota, and the Claremont Colleges in Southern California, most are private institutions, but a handful of public liberal arts schools exist, such as the University of Mary Washington, and New Saint Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho. Liberal arts colleges are found in Canada, including Mount Allison University, Bishops University. In the Netherlands, universities have opened constituent liberal arts colleges under the university college since the late 1990s
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Piedmont (United States)
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The Piedmont is a plateau region located in the eastern United States. It sits between the Atlantic Coastal Plain and the main Appalachian Mountains, stretching from New Jersey in the north to central Alabama in the south, the Piedmont Province is a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian division which consists of the Piedmont Upland and the Piedmont Lowlands sections. The Atlantic Seaboard fall line marks the Piedmonts eastern boundary with the Coastal Plain, to the west, it is mostly bounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains, the easternmost range of the main Appalachians. The width of the Piedmont varies, being quite narrow above the Delaware River, the Piedmonts area is approximately 80,000 square miles. The name Piedmont comes from the French term for the physical region, literally meaning foothill, ultimately from Latin pedemontium. The region is named after the Italian region of Piedmont, the lowlands which abut the Alps, the surface relief of the Piedmont is characterized by relatively low, rolling hills with heights above sea level between 200 feet and 800 feet to 1,000 feet. Its geology is complex, with rock formations of different materials. Essentially, the Piedmont is the remnant of ancient mountain chains that have since been eroded away. Geologists have identified at least five events which have led to sediment deposition, including the Grenville orogeny. The last major event in the history of the Piedmont was the break-up of Pangaea, large basins formed from the rifting and were subsequently filled by the sediments shed from the surrounding higher ground. The series of Mesozoic basins is almost entirely located inside the Piedmont region, Piedmont soils are generally clay-like and moderately fertile. In some areas they have suffered from erosion and over-cropping, particularly in the South where cotton was historically the chief crop. In the central Piedmont region of North Carolina and Virginia, corn is the crop, while in the north region there is more diversity, including orchards, dairying. The Piedmont region is associated with the Piedmont blues, a style of blues music that originated there in the late 19th century. According to the Piedmont Blues Preservation Society, most Piedmont blues musicians came from Virginia, the Carolinas, during the Great Migration, Black Americans migrated to the Piedmont. Thus, Piedmont blues was influenced by many types of such as ragtime, country. Many major cities are located on the line, the eastern boundary of the Piedmont. The fall line, where the land rises abruptly from the plain, marks the limit of navigability on many major rivers
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Blue Ridge Mountains
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The Blue Ridge Mountains are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Mountains range. This province consists of northern and southern regions, which divide near the Roanoke River gap. The mountain range is located in the eastern United States, starting at its southernmost portion in Georgia, then ending northward in Pennsylvania. To the west of the Blue Ridge, between it and the bulk of the Appalachians, lies the Great Appalachian Valley, bordered on the west by the Ridge, the Blue Ridge Mountains are noted for having a bluish color when seen from a distance. Trees put the blue in Blue Ridge, from the isoprene released into the atmosphere, thereby contributing to the haze on the mountains. Within the Blue Ridge province are two national parks, the Shenandoah National Park, in the northern section, and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Blue Ridge also contains the Blue Ridge Parkway, a 469-mile long scenic highway that connects the two parks and is located along the ridge crestlines with the Appalachian Trail, the Blue Ridge extends as far north into Pennsylvania as South Mountain. The Blue Ridge contains the highest mountains in eastern North America south of Baffin Island, about 125 peaks exceed 5,000 feet in elevation. The highest peak in the Blue Ridge is Mt. Mitchell in North Carolina at 6,684 feet. There are 39 peaks in North Carolina and Tennessee higher than 6,000 feet, by comparison, Southern Sixers is a term used by peak baggers for this group of mountains. The Blue Ridge Parkway runs 469 miles along crests of the Southern Appalachians, in many places along the parkway, there are metamorphic rocks with folded bands of light-and dark-colored minerals, which sometimes look like the folds and swirls in a marble cake. Most of the rocks that form the Blue Ridge Mountains are ancient granitic charnockites, metamorphosed volcanic formations, modern studies have found that the basement geology of the Blue Ridge is made of compositionally unique gneisses and granitoids, including orthopyroxene-bearing charnockites. Analysis of zircon minerals in the completed by John Aleinikoff at the U. S. Geological Survey has provided more detailed emplacement ages. Many of the found in the Blue Ridge and documented by Tollo. The lack of an affinity and zircon ages less than 1,200 Ma suggest that the Blue Ridge is distinct from the Adirondacks, Green Mountains. The petrologic and geochronologic data suggest that the Blue Ridge basement is a composite orogenic crust that was emplaced during several episodes from a magma source. Field relationships further illustrate that rocks emplaced prior to 1, 078-1,064 Ma preserve deformational features and those emplaced post-1,064 Ma generally have a massive texture and missed the main episode of Mesoproterozoic compression. The Blue Ridge Mountains began forming during the Silurian Period over 400 million years ago, approximately 320 Mya, North America and Europe collided, pushing up the Blue Ridge
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Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest
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The Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest in northern Georgia comprises two United States National Forests, the Oconee National Forest and Chattahoochee National Forest. The county with the largest portion of the forest is Rabun County, Georgia, numerous animals can be found in this forest including birds such as species of hawk, species of owl, blackbirds, ducks, eagles, sparrows, hummingbirds, geese, and cardinals. Mammalian species that roam in the forest are shrew, coyote, a variety of bats, squirrel, beaver, river otter, bobcat, deer, weasel, mice, many species of fish and amphibians swim in the streams. Various species of reptile also inhabit the forest, the Chattahoochee National Forest takes its name from the Chattahoochee River whose headwaters begin in the North Georgia mountains. The River and the area were given the name by the English settlers who took the name from the Indians living here, the Cherokee and Creek Indians inhabited North Georgia. In one dialect of the Muskogean languages, Chatta means stone, ho chee and these marked or flowered stones were in the Chattahoochee River at a settlement near Columbus, Georgia. In 1911, the United States Forest Service purchased 31,000 acres of land in Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin and this land was the beginning of what would become the Chattahoochee National Forest. The initial land purchases became a part of the Cherokee National Forest on June 14,1920, the Coleman River Scenic Area near Clayton, Georgia was dedicated to Ranger Nick, as he was called, in honor of his promotion of conservation ideals. Ranger Arthur Woody also promoted conservation and was a key figure in the development of the Chattahoochee. Unwise land and resource use had caused the deer and trout populations to disappear in the North Georgia mountains and Woody brought trout. The trout were shipped to Gainesville, hauled across the narrow, dirt, mountain roads, Woody also purchased fawns with his own money, and fed them until they could be released on what became the Blue Ridge Wildlife Management Area. Many landmarks in the Chattahoochee bear Ranger Woody’s name in tribute to his work, sosebee Cove, a 175 acres tract of prize hardwood along GA180 is set aside as a memorial to Woody, who negotiated its purchase for the Forest Service. On July 9,1936, the Forest Service was reorganized to follow state boundaries, in 1936, the Chattahoochee was organized into two Ranger Districts, the Blue Ridge and the Tallulah. In 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed 96,000 acres of lands in central Georgia as the Oconee National Forest. The Oconee then joined the Chattahoochee to become the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests of today, the Chattooga River was designated a Wild and Scenic River during the 1970s. The Chattooga remains one of the few free-flowing streams in the Southeast and is known for its white water rafting, the movie Deliverance was filmed on the Chattooga River, which became the fictional Cahulawassee River in the movie. The Chattahoochee National Forest today covers 18 north Georgia counties, there are over 450 miles of hiking and other recreation trails, and 1,600 miles of roads. The Chattahoochee also includes ten wildernesses that are part of the National Wilderness Preservation System, parts of these wilderness extend outside Chattahoochee National Forest, as indicated
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Toccoa Falls
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Toccoa Falls is a waterfall with a vertical drop of 186 feet, on the campus of Toccoa Falls College in Stephens County, Georgia. Toccoa was the Cherokee word for beautiful and Toccoa Falls is one of the most beautiful waterfalls of north Georgia, caledonia Cascade in Georgia includes a 262-foot drop. Fall Creek Falls in Tennessee,256 feet, taughannock Falls in New York,215 feet. Most of the personnel who lived in the path of the flood were asleep at the time. View of Toccoa Falls from 1929, from Vanishing Georgia, Georgia Archives, University System of Georgia. View of Toccoa Falls from 1885, from Atlanta History Photograph Collection, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center. Historic Postcard Collection, RG 48-2-5, Georgia Archives, Digital Library of Georgia, Georgia illustrated in a series of views, embracing natural scenery and public edifices. View of Toccoa Falls from 1875, from Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, New York Public Library, original source, Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views
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North Carolina
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North Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, North Carolina is the 28th most extensive and the 9th most populous of the U. S. states. The state is divided into 100 counties, the most populous municipality is Charlotte, which is the second largest banking center in the United States after New York City. The state has a range of elevations, from sea level on the coast to 6,684 feet at Mount Mitchell. The climate of the plains is strongly influenced by the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the falls in the humid subtropical climate zone. More than 300 miles from the coast, the western, mountainous part of the state has a highland climate. North Carolina is bordered by South Carolina on the south, Georgia on the southwest, Tennessee on the west, Virginia on the north, the United States Census Bureau places North Carolina in the South Atlantic division of the southern region. So many ships have been lost off Cape Hatteras that the area is known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic, the most famous of these is the Queen Annes Revenge, which went aground in Beaufort Inlet in 1718. The coastal plain transitions to the Piedmont region along the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, the Piedmont region of central North Carolina is the states most populous region, containing the six largest cities in the state by population. It consists of rolling countryside frequently broken by hills or low mountain ridges. The Piedmont ranges from about 300 feet in elevation in the east to about 1,500 feet in the west, the western section of the state is part of the Appalachian Mountain range. Among the subranges of the Appalachians located in the state are the Great Smoky Mountains, Blue Ridge Mountains, the Black Mountains are the highest in the eastern United States, and culminate in Mount Mitchell at 6,684 feet, the highest point east of the Mississippi River. North Carolina has 17 major river basins, the five basins west of the Blue Ridge Mountains flow to the Gulf of Mexico, while the remainder flow to the Atlantic Ocean. Of the 17 basins,11 originate within the state of North Carolina, but only four are contained entirely within the states border – the Cape Fear, the Neuse, the White Oak, and the Tar-Pamlico basin. Elevation above sea level is most responsible for temperature change across the state, the climate is also influenced by the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf Stream, especially in the coastal plain. These influences tend to cause warmer winter temperatures along the coast, the coastal plain averages around 1 inch of snow or ice annually, and in many years, there may be no snow or ice at all. North Carolina experiences severe weather in summer and winter, with summer bringing threat of hurricanes, tropical storms, heavy rain
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Bachelor of Arts
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A Bachelor of Arts is a bachelors degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both. Bachelor of Arts degree programs take three to four years depending on the country, academic institution, and specific specializations, majors or minors. The word baccalaureus or baccalarium should not be confused with baccalaureatus, degree diplomas generally are printed on high-quality paper or parchment, individual institutions set the preferred abbreviation for their degrees. In Pakistan, the Bachelor of Arts degree can also be attained within two years as an external degree, in colleges and universities in Australia, New Zealand, Nepal and South Africa, the BA degree can be taken over three years of full-time study. Unlike in other countries, students do not receive a grade for their Bachelor of Arts degree with varying levels of honours. Qualified students may be admitted, after they have achieved their Bachelors program with an overall grade point average. Thus, to achieve a Bachelor Honours degree, a postgraduate year. A student who holds a Honours degree is eligible for entry to either a Doctorate or a very high research Master´s degree program. Education in Canada is controlled by the Provinces and can be different depending on the province in Canada. Canadian universities typically offer a 3-year Bachelor of Arts degrees, in many universities and colleges, Bachelor of Arts degrees are differentiated either as Bachelors of Arts or as honours Bachelor of Arts degree. The honours degrees are designated with the abbreviation in brackets of. It should not be confused with the consecutive Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours, Latin Baccalaureatus in Artibus Cum Honore, BA hon. de jure without brackets and with a dot. It is a degree, which is considered to be the equivalent of a corresponding maîtrise degree under the French influenced system. Going back in history, a three-year Bachelor of Arts degree was called a pass degree or general degree. Students may be required to undertake a long high-quality research empirical thesis combined with a selection of courses from the relevant field of studies. The consecutive B. cum Honore degree is essential if students ultimate goal is to study towards a two- or three-year very high research masters´ degree qualification. A student holding a Baccalaureatus Cum Honore degree also may choose to complete a Doctor of Philosophy program without the requirement to first complete a masters degree, over the years, in some universities certain Baccalaureatus cum Honore programs have been changed to corresponding master´s degrees. In general, in all four countries, the B. A. degree is the standard required for entry into a masters programme, in science, a BA hons degree is generally a prerequisite for entrance to a Ph. D program or a very-high-research-activity master´s programme
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Kelly Barnes Dam
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Kelly Barnes Dam was an earthen embankment dam once located in Stephens County, Georgia, just outside the city of Toccoa. It collapsed on November 6,1977 after a period of rainfall. The dam was never rebuilt, and the Toccoa Falls downstream of the dam site is now a memorial and tourist attraction on the campus of Toccoa Falls College. In 1899, the original rock crib dam was completed by Mr. E. P. Simpson in order to create a reservoir for a hydroelectric power plant which began operating that same year. The plant, now a site on the Toccoa Falls College campus and called The Old Toccoa Falls Power Plant produced 200 KW for the town of Toccoa. After the Second World War, the dam was again raised, Barnes Lake, a 40-acre reservoir was created by the dam. The modifications provided power for Toccoa Falls Institute until 1957, when the production was stopped. The dam was modified several times, and before the flood, the dam had two uncontrolled earthen spillways. The main spillway was 380 feet long, 60–11 feet wide, a low point on the right side and away from the dam could also be used as a secondary spillway in case the reservoir levels became too high. The embankment dam was located about 2,000 feet upstream from the Toccoa Falls and mostly consisted of residual soils, the dam sat on a foundation of silt and stable biotite gneiss. Within the dam embankment were two structures that helped support a pipe that was used as a low-level spillway and in the other. Neither were being used at the time of the flood, on November 6,1977, at 1,30 am, the Kelly Barnes Dam failed after a period of heavy rain, seven inches had fallen from November 2–5. In particular, 3½ inches fell between 6 pm and midnight, November 5, a total of 200 feet of the dam had failed, causing a peak of 24,000 cubic feet per second maximum discharge to burst downstream. Barnes Lake at the time held an estimated 27,442,800 cubic feet of water compared to a volume of 17,859,600 cubic feet. The flood caused 39 fatalities along with destroying nine houses,18 house trailers, five houses and five college buildings were also damaged. Two bridges on Toccoa Falls Drive and a culvert at County Farm Road were completely destroyed, the embankments at Georgia Highway 17 were destroyed on either side of the bridge, and one of the bridge abutments at Highview Road was destroyed. The water-supply pipe for the city of Toccoa was damaged and the water supply was contaminated for several days. After the flood, Georgias Governor George Busbee called for an immediate investigation and their report was released December 21,1977, with no specific cause cited for the failure
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Flood
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A flood is an overflow of water that submerges land which is usually dry. The European Union Floods Directive defines a flood as a covering by water of land not normally covered by water, in the sense of flowing water, the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods can also occur in rivers when the flow exceeds the capacity of the river channel. Floods often cause damage to homes and businesses if they are in the flood plains of rivers. Some floods develop slowly, while others such as floods, can develop in just a few minutes. Additionally, floods can be local, impacting a neighborhood or community, or very large, the word flood comes from the Old English flod, a word common to Germanic languages. Deluge myths are stories of a great flood sent by a deity or deities to destroy civilization as an act of divine retribution. Floods can happen on flat or low-lying areas when water is supplied by rainfall or snowmelt more rapidly than it can infiltrate or run off. The excess accumulates in place, sometimes to hazardous depths, surface soil can become saturated, which effectively stops infiltration, where the water table is shallow, such as a floodplain, or from intense rain from one or a series of storms. Infiltration also is slow to negligible through frozen ground, rock, concrete, paving, areal flooding begins in flat areas like floodplains and in local depressions not connected to a stream channel, because the velocity of overland flow depends on the surface slope. Endorheic basins may experience flooding during periods when precipitation exceeds evaporation. Floods occur in all types of river and stream channels, from the smallest ephemeral streams in humid zones to normally-dry channels in arid climates to the worlds largest rivers. When overland flow occurs on tilled fields, it can result in a flood where sediments are picked up by run off. Localized flooding may be caused or exacerbated by drainage obstructions such as landslides, ice, debris, slow-rising floods most commonly occur in large rivers with large catchment areas. The increase in flow may be the result of sustained rainfall, rapid snow melt, monsoons, the cause may be localized convective precipitation or sudden release from an upstream impoundment created behind a dam, landslide, or glacier. In one instance, a flood killed eight people enjoying the water on a Sunday afternoon at a popular waterfall in a narrow canyon. Without any observed rainfall, the rate increased from about 50 to 1,500 cubic feet per second in just one minute. Two larger floods occurred at the site within a week
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Academic library
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It is unknown how many academic libraries there are internationally. An academic and research portal maintained by UNESCO links to 3,785 libraries, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, there are an estimated 3,700 academic libraries in the United States. The support of teaching and learning material for class readings. In the past, the material for class readings, intended to supplement lectures as prescribed by the instructor, has been called reserves, in the period before electronic resources became available, the reserves were supplied as actual books or as photocopies of appropriate journal articles. Academic libraries must determine a focus for development since comprehensive collections are not feasible. Librarians do this by identifying the needs of the faculty and student body, as well as the mission, when there are particular areas of specialization in academic libraries, these are often referred to as niche collections. These collections are often the basis of a special department and may include original papers, artwork. There is a deal of variation among academic libraries based on their size, resources, collections. The Harvard University Library is considered to be the largest academic library in the world and has the third largest collection in the United States, another notable example is the University of the South Pacific which has academic libraries distributed throughout its twelve member countries. The first colleges in the United States were intended to train members of the clergy, the libraries associated with these institutions largely consisted of donated books on the subjects of theology and the classics. In 1766, Yale had approximately 4,000 volumes, second only to Harvard, access to these libraries was restricted to faculty members and a few students, the only staff was a part-time faculty member or the president of the college. The priority of the library was to protect the books, not to allow patrons to use them, in 1849, Yale was open 30 hours a week, the University of Virginia was open nine hours a week, Columbia University four, and Bowdoin College only three. Students instead created literary societies and assessed entrance fees in order to build a collection of usable volumes often in excess of what the university library held. Around the turn of the century, this began to change. The American Library Association was formed in 1876, with members including Melvil Dewey, Libraries re-prioritized in favor of improving access to materials, and found funding increasing as a result of increased demand for said materials. Academic libraries today vary in regard to the extent to which they accommodate those who are not affiliated with their parent universities, some offer reading and borrowing privileges to members of the public on payment of an annual fee, such fees can vary greatly. The privileges so obtained usually do not extend to such services as computer usage, other than to search the catalog, alumni and students of cooperating local universities may be given discounts or other consideration when arranging for borrowing privileges. On the other hand, access to the libraries of universities is absolutely restricted to students, faculty
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WRAF (FM)
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For the radio station in the Detroit, Michigan area that previously used those calls, see WPZR. WRAF is a station owned and operated by Radio Training Network. The main station, WRAF, is licensed to Toccoa Falls, Georgia, WRAF is also the provider of http, //www. MyChristmasRadio. net, an internet station that plays non-stop Christmas music. It features news from Salem Communications and its sister and companion station is WTXR. The station, along with WEPC, WPFJ, WTXR, and translators W221AZ and W265AZ, was purchased from Toccoa Falls College effective July 25,2016 for $2.1 million
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Repeater
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In telecommunications, a repeater is an electronic device that receives a signal and retransmits it. Repeaters are used to extend transmissions so that the signal can cover distances or be received on the other side of an obstruction. Some types of repeaters broadcast a signal, but alter its method of transmission, for example. A broadcast relay station is a used in broadcast radio. When an information-bearing signal passes through a channel, it is progressively degraded due to loss of power. The longer the wire is, the power is lost. So with a long enough wire the call will not be audible at the other end, similarly, the farther from a radio station a receiver is, the weaker the radio signal, and the poorer the reception. A repeater is a device in a communication channel that increases the power of a signal and retransmits it. Since it amplifies the signal, it requires a source of electric power, the term repeater originated with telegraphy in the 19th century, and referred to an electromechanical device used to regenerate telegraph signals. Use of the term has continued in telephony and data communications and this is used to increase the range of telephone signals in a telephone line. They are most frequently used in trunklines that carry long distance calls, since the telephone is a duplex communication system, the wire pair carries two audio signals, one going in each direction. So telephone repeaters have to be bilateral, amplifying the signal in both directions without causing feedback, which complicates their design considerably, telephone repeaters were the first type of repeater and were some of the first applications of amplification. The development of telephone repeaters between 1900 and 1915 made long distance phone service possible, however most telecommunications cables are now fiber optic cables which use optical repeaters. Submarine cable repeater This is a type of telephone used in underwater submarine telecommunications cables. This is used to increase the range of signals in a fiber optic cable, digital information travels through a fiber optic cable in the form of short pulses of light. The light is made up of particles called photons, which can be absorbed or scattered in the fiber, however, optical amplifiers are being developed for repeaters to amplify the light itself without the need of converting it to an electric signal first. Some repeaters have been powered by light energy transmitted down the fiber with the signal and this is used to extend the range of coverage of a radio signal. A radio repeater usually consists of a receiver connected to a radio transmitter
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WLFJ-FM
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WLFJ-FM is a non-commercial Contemporary Christian music station licensed to Greenville, South Carolina and serves the Upstate, including Greenville and Spartanburg. The Radio Training Network outlet is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission to broadcast at 89.3 MHz with a radiated power of 41 kW and 37 kW. The station goes by the name His Radio 89.3 and its sister station is WLFJ-AM, who airs Christian talk programming. However, the station focuses primarily on music programming, wLFJ-FM broadcasts in the HD Radio format. On HD2, the station has His Radio Z, a youth music channel, operated by First Baptist Church of Spartanburg. On HD3, the station has His Radio Praise, a channel that features exclusively praise, both can be listened to online. It also operates 13 translators that bring its signal into portions of the Atlanta, Asheville, the Charlotte-area translators brand as His Radio 96.5 and 98.3, and air separate identifications and commercials. Their programming is repeated on the second HD channel of WOSF in Charlotte. His Radios HD3 channel, known as His Radio Praise, airs praise, the main station repeats His Radio Praise on Sunday mornings from 6 a. m. to 11 a. m
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Contemporary Christian music
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Contemporary Christian music is a genre of modern popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith. Today, the term is used to refer to pop, rock. Top-selling CCM artists will also appear on the Billboard 200, in the iTunes Store, the genre is represented as part of the Christian and gospel genre. The growing popularity in the styles of Rock n Roll music in the 1950s was initially dismissed by the church because it was believed to encourage sinfulness. Yet as evangelical churches adapted to appeal to people, the musical styles used in worship changed as well by adopting the sounds of this popular style. The genre became known as contemporary Christian music as a result of the Jesus movement revival in the latter 1960s and early 1970s, about that time, many young people from the sixties counterculture professed to believe in Jesus. Convinced of the bareness of a lifestyle based on drugs, free sex, however, there were people who felt that Jesus was another trip. It was during the 1970s Jesus movement that Christian music started to become an industry within itself, Jesus Music started by playing instruments and singing songs about love and peace, which then translated into love of God. Paul Wohlegemuth, who wrote the book Rethinking Church Music, said 1970s will see a marked acceptance of rock-influenced music in all levels of church music. The rock style will become familiar to all people, its rhythmic excesses will become refined. Larry Norman is often remembered as the father of Christian rock and he is remembered as the artist who first combined rock n roll with Christian lyrics in the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Unlike traditional or southern gospel music, this new Jesus music was birthed out of rock, pioneers of this movement also included Keith Green, 2nd Chapter of Acts, Barry McGuire, Andraé Crouch and the Disciples, Evie, Benny Hester, and The Imperials, among others. The small Jesus music culture had expanded into an industry by the 1980s. Many CCM artists such as Benny Hester, Amy Grant, DC Talk, Michael W. Smith, Stryper, the genre emerged and became prevalent in the 1970s and 1980s. Beginning in July 1978, CCM Magazine began covering Contemporary Christian Music artists and it has certain themes and messages behind the songs and their lyrics including Praise and worship, faith, encouragement, and prayer. These songs also focus on themes of devotion, inspiration, redemption, reconciliation, many people listen to contemporary Christian music for comfort through tough times. The lyrics and messages conveyed in CCM songs are aimed to evangelize, one of the earliest goals of CCM was to spread the news of Jesus to non-Christians. In addition, contemporary Christian music also strengthens the faith of believers, Contemporary Christian music has influences from folk, gospel, pop and rock music
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Agnes Scott College
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Agnes Scott College is a private liberal arts college in downtown Decatur, Georgia. Agnes Scott currently enrolls 914 students, in 2006, the student to faculty ratio was 10,1. Eighty-seven percent of the faculty are full-time, and 100% of the faculty hold terminal degrees. The college offers 34 majors and 31 minors and is affiliated with numerous institutions, students who graduate from Agnes Scott may receive a Bachelor of Arts degree or a Bachelor of Science degree, depending on major. There are two masters partnerships offered with Georgia Institute of Technology’s M. B. A. program, Agnes Scott is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church and is considered one of the Seven Sisters of the South. The current mission of the college, adopted in 2002, states, Agnes Scott College educates women to think deeply, live honorably, Agnes Scott College educates students to think deeply, live honorably and engage the intellectual and social challenges of their times. Students are drawn to Agnes Scott by its excellent academic reputation, exceptional faculty, a diverse and growing residential community of scholars, this highly selective liberal arts and sciences college is known for its dynamic and challenging intellectual community. Rigorous academics and faculty investment have produced Rhodes Scholars, Fulbright Recipients, Kemper Scholars, Hubert Scholars, in the past decade alone, Agnes Scott graduates have won 30 Fulbright Awards, two Marshall Scholarships, two Goldwater Scholarships and a Truman Scholarship. Located in Decatur, Georgia, Agnes Scott is just minutes away from downtown Atlanta, students have immediate access to the resources of one of America’s most culturally rich and economically vibrant cities. Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, which more than 75 international destinations, is located a quick drive or train ride away. Internships and jobs are available at the Coca-Cola Company, Delta Air Lines, UPS, CNN, Atlanta is also home to 20 colleges and universities that participate in the ARCHE cross-registration program, enabling Agnes Scott students to study at other schools. The college was founded in 1889 as Decatur Female Seminary by Presbyterian minister Frank H. Gaines, in 1890, the name was changed to Agnes Scott Institute to honor the mother of the colleges primary benefactor, Col. George Washington Scott. The name was changed again to Agnes Scott College in 1906, Agnes Scott is considered the first higher education institution in the state of Georgia to receive regional accreditation. The current president is Elizabeth Kiss, the director of Duke Universitys Kenan Institute for Ethics. On July 27,1994, the campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the South Candler Street-Agnes Scott College Historic District, the historic district boundaries are East College Ave. South McDonough St. S. Candler St, East Hill St. and East Davis St. It includes the campus, as well as historic homes adjacent to the campus. The campus is designated by the City of Decatur as a historic district
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American InterContinental University
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American InterContinental University is a for-profit university with open admissions owned by Career Education Corporation. AIU is regionally accredited by The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association to award associate, bachelors, the school was recognized as an American degree awarding institution in 1971, initially offering associate and bachelors degrees starting in 1974. In 1976 the Switzerland-based school opened a campus in Atlanta and, in 1978, by 1978, the school had approximately 300 students, and began to expand its course offering beyond fashion to areas such as business. The school opened several other campuses in subsequent years, steve Bostic bought the school in 1996 and changed its name to American InterContinental University. In 2001, AIU was acquired by its current owner, Career Education Corporation, more than 80 percent of AIU students attend AIU Online, an internet-based online campus that delivers degree programs 100 percent online. The school has 54 full-time instructors and 594 part-time instructors, AIU receives approximately 96% of all funds from the US government, including about $29 million from GI Bill funds. AIU currently has four campuses in the United States, Atlanta, Georgia Following the June 2009 consolidation of the AIU Buckhead and AIU Dunwoody campuses into AIU Atlanta, the new campus underwent a significant renovation. Houston, Texas The AIU Houston building was damaged by Hurricane Ike in September 2008. It was remodeled, and a grand re-opening celebration occurred in February 2009, weston, Florida This campus is scheduled for closure The online program began in 2001 but was recognized as a separate campus in 2002. George P. Miller currently serves as president of AIU Online, the online campus offices are located in Schaumburg, Illinois, a northwest suburb of Chicago. AIU London became part of Regents University London in April 2013, Los Angeles, California Dubai, United Arab Emerates On February 18,2008, American InterContinental University announced plans to gradually close down its Los Angeles campus. Dr. George Miller, president of American InterContinental University, cited low student enrollment at the Los Angeles campus as the reason for this decision, the institution first received accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in 1987. SACS placed the university on probation in December 2005 and renewed AIUs probation in 2006 for failure to comply with various Principles of Accreditation, on December 11,2007, CEC announced that SACS had removed AIUs probation and that the universitys accreditation was once again in good standing. In 2009, AIU successfully sought to switch accreditation from SACS to the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges, school officials felt this was best since the majority of its students are served through its Internet-based campus which is based in the HLC geographic region. SACS and HLC are among the six regional accrediting organizations recognized by the U. S. Department of Education, the U. S. NCA-HLC president Sylvia Manning responded that this accusation was flimsy because it focused on a single accreditation issue involving a single school. SACS president Belle Wheelan sided with NCA-HLC, calling the OIG report scary, in addition to HLC, the Universitys business programs earned accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs in 2011. In 2013, AIUs Master of Education program became one of the first fully online programs to be granted initial accreditation by the Teacher Education Accreditation Council. The AIU London was accredited by the British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education until it was absorbed by Regents College London in April 2013
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Andrew College
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Andrew College is a private, liberal arts junior college located a few blocks off the town square in Cuthbert, Randolph County, Georgia, United States. It is associated with The United Methodist Church and is the ninth-oldest college in Georgia, Andrew is home to four student residence halls, a full-service dining hall, a swimming pool, tennis courts, an updated student center, and an on-campus library. The campus also houses an intramural field, and an off-campus baseball field hosts the baseball team. In addition to the athletic facilities offered, students also enjoy access to a newly remodeled Jinks Physical Education Complex with racquetball courts. Andrew specializes in the education of freshmen and sophomores, and the College is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award associate degrees. The College awards Associate of Arts, Associate of Music, and Associate of Science degrees, Andrew College was granted its charter as Andrew Female College by the Georgia General Assembly on January 15,1854. At the time, it was the second oldest charter in the United States to give an educational institution the right to confer degrees upon women and it was named for Bishop James Osgood Andrew of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In 1864, Andrew College was taken over by the Confederate Army and it was one of three hospitals in Cuthbert. Despite its sole building being used as a hospital, classes continued on a limited basis, in 1892, a fire consumed the campus. The people of Cuthbert raised money to begin rebuilding the same year and that fall, the college reopened in what is now known as Old Main, a five-story Victorian that was constructed for $25,000. In 1917, Andrew became a college, and the institution became co-educational in 1956. Andrew College is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award associate degrees, during the fall 2013 semester,316 students were enrolled at Andrew College. More than 95% of students live on campus, the student profile is evenly divided between male and female, with 49% male students and 51% female students. There are students from ten states and ten countries. An overwhelming majority of the College’s student body originates from Georgia, Florida and Alabama, followed by scholars from other U. S. states and international students. However, with a financial aid budget exceeding $2.1 million, access to the Georgia Tuition Equalization Grant and private support. As of 2014, the college has an endowment of about $10,000,000
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Argosy University
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Argosy University is a system of for-profit colleges owned by Education Management Corporation. The university maintains 18 locations in the United States, as well as an online division, the university offers programs at the associates, bachelors, masters and doctorate level through its seven colleges. In 2017, Education Management Corporation reported that that had sold Argosy schools to The Dream Foundation, the origins of Argosy University trace to three separate institutions, the American School of Professional Psychology, the Medical Institute of Minnesota, and the University of Sarasota. In the late 1970s, Michael Markovitz founded the Illinois School of Professional Psychology, in 1976, Markovitz became the founding chairman of Argosy Education Group, which acquired the University of Sarasota in 1992. The University of Sarasota was a business and education-focused school and was founded in 1969, six years later Argosy Education Group acquired the health profession training school the Medical Institute of Minnesota, which was established in 1961. In July 2001, Argosy Education Group was acquired by Education Management Corporation, in 2012, the law school Western State University College of Law, which was founded in 1966 and originally acquired by Argosy in 2000, was renamed Western State College of Law at Argosy University. Argosy University offers degrees at the associates, bachelors, masters, Argosy University operates 28 campuses in the United States, Students at Argosy University can attend classes on campus, online or a combination of both. In 2015, EDMC was planning on closing in The Art Institute of California, Silicon Valley, IN2016, Argosy, Seattle stopped taking new students. Here is a list of Argosy locations, Argosy University is accredited by the Western Association of Schools, American Psychological Association accreditation varies by campus. Argosys counseling programs are accredited by The Council for Accreditation of Counseling, according to the National Center for Educational Statistics, Argosy onlines 6-year graduation rate is 7 percent. The school had not completed accreditation process by the time the students graduated, at the time of the lawsuit, Argosy University Dallas had not applied for APA accreditation. According to a response from Argosy Universitys parent company, EDMC, accreditation with the APA is not required for clinical psychology licensure in many jurisdictions, Argosy officials rejected charges of fraud, noting that pursuit of APA accreditation for the Dallas campus was still underway. As of 2013, Argosy University in Dallas does not offer any degrees in psychology and is not listed as part of the universitys College of Clinical Psychology. In December 2013, EDMC agreed to pay about $3.3 million as part of the lawsuit, the settlement did not require EDMC to admit liability. In 2010, Argosy University was one of 15 schools named in a Government Accountability Office report, the report stated that recruiters at the school were found to have made deceptive or otherwise questionable statements when speaking with undercover applicants. The following year, Argosy University was investigated by the Florida Attorney General following eight consumer complaints, the school cooperated in the investigation. In May 2010, the PBS program Frontline aired a program about for-profit universities called College, in December 2013, EDMC agreed to pay $3.3 million in restitution and fines to settle charges with the Colorado Attorney General that Argosy University had engaged in deceptive marketing practices. The Colorado Attorney General alleged that Argosy University led students to believe that the school was working to get its Ed. D, the settlement did not require EDMC to admit liability
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Atlanta College of Art
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The Atlanta College of Art was a private four-year art college located in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1905, it was the oldest art college in the Southeast until it was absorbed by Savannah College of Art and Design in 2006. In 1905, the Atlanta Art Association helped establish an art college and museum that would become the Atlanta College of Art. In 1963, the college was incorporated into the Woodruff Arts Center on Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta, named for its primary benefactor, the center opened in 1968, comprising ACA, the High Museum of Art, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Alliance Theatre. In August 2005, the boards of trustees of the Woodruff Arts Center, in June 2006, the two institutions combined operations at SCADs Atlanta location. The merger was widely contested by many ACA students, faculty, in 2002, the High Museum of Art announced an expansion plan for the museum that included a new dormitory for the college. Italian architect Renzo Piano was hired for the project, SCAD acquired this dormitory in its merger with ACA and named it ACA Residence Hall in honor of the college. The college offered studies in the mediums of drawing, painting, printmaking, photograghy, sculpture, digital art, video and graphic design. The school also offered programs through the Georgia Artists Registry, ACA Gallery shows, community education classes for adults, notable alumni of the Atlanta College of Art include Courtney Adams, Radcliffe Bailey, Roe Ethridge, Ty Pennington, and Kara Walker
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Kaplan, Inc.
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Kaplan, Inc. is a for-profit corporation headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and founded in 1938 by Stanley Kaplan. Kaplan provides higher education programs, professional training courses, test preparation materials and it is a wholly owned subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company, formerly known as The Washington Post Company. Kaplan is a subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company. Its Chairman and CEO is Andrew Rosen and its 2015 revenue was $1.9 billion. Stanley H. Kaplan, the founder of the company, died of an ailment on August 23,2009 when he was 90 years of age. Iowa College Acquisition Corporation, operating under the Kaplan University brand, at year-end 2013, Kaplan University had approximately 33,000 students enrolled in online programs and approximately 6,800 students enrolled in its classroom-based programs. Due to student loan rates, the U. S. The policy, however, is too new to reveal an impact on graduation and retention rates, in October 2012, Kaplan closed nine of its campuses and consolidated four others into nearby locations. Loss of accreditation meant that Kaplan students would no longer be eligible for the student aid that makes up more than 80 percent of Kaplan’s revenues. This occurred among growing negative publicity about for-profits schools who enrolled students who had almost no chance of succeeding in order to get their federal student aid, also residing within Kaplan University is the School of Professional and Continuing Education. PACE serves more than 3,200 business-to-business clients, in 2013, approximately 500,000 students used PACE’s exam preparation offerings. Kaplan International operates businesses in Europe and the Asia Pacific region, in Europe, Kaplan International operates the following businesses, all of which are based in the U. K. and Ireland, Kaplan UK, Kaplan International Colleges, and a set of higher education institutions. In addition, Kaplan UK provides legal and professional training, including the operation of a U. K. law school in collaboration with Nottingham Trent University’s Nottingham Law School, in 2013, Kaplan UK provided courses to approximately 48,500 students in accounting and financial services. Kaplan UK is headquartered in London, England, and has 24 training centers located throughout the U. K, the KIC business comprises a university pathways business and an English-language training business. The university pathways business offers academic programs for international students who wish to study in English-speaking countries. In 2015, university programs were being delivered in Australia, China, Nigeria, Singapore, the U. K. During 2015, the English-language business served approximately 53,500 students for in-class English language instruction provided by Kaplan, Kaplan also operates two higher education institutions in Europe, located in the U. K. and Ireland. These institutions are Dublin Business School and Kaplan Open Learning, at the end of 2015, these institutions enrolled an aggregate of approximately 5,400 students
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Berry College
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Berry College is a private, four-year liberal arts college with a Christian emphasis located in Mount Berry, Floyd County, Georgia, just north of Rome. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Berry was founded in 1902 by Martha Berry. With 27,000 acres, Berry College boasts the largest contiguous campus in the world, Berry College is situated near Rome in northwestern Georgia,72 miles northwest of Atlanta, Georgia and 75 miles south of Chattanooga, Tennessee. The Berry campus consists of more than 27,000 acres of fields, forests, and Lavender Mountain, designated portions are open to the public for hiking, cycling, horseback riding, and other outdoor activities. The campus is home to a large population of deer. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources oversees about 16,000 acres of the campus, conducts managed hunts, the land encompassing the academic buildings and other public spaces is a wildlife refuge in which no hunting is allowed. In September 2011, Travel+Leisure ranked Berry as among the most beautiful campuses in the United States, noting its numerous fountains. The House o’ Dreams is a stone and board-and-batten cottage on top of Lavender Mountain. Plans were drawn by Harry Carlson of Cooledge and Carlson of Boston and it was built in 1922 by students and staff as a gift to Miss Berry on the 20th anniversary of the Schools. Standing atop one of the hills on Berry’s Mountain Campus is the beautiful Frost Memorial Chapel, built by Berry students and staff in 1936-37, Frost has become one of the places that visitors to the campus remember and return to visit. It was a gift of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Frost of Los Angeles, while visiting the campus they saw a sign which had been placed upon the site where the chapel now stands. “Chapel needed…, ” the sign read, and after attending a worship service in the recitation hall auditorium. The money for construction was donated to the school and the chapel was named for their son, John Lawrence Frost, who had died in his youth. Berry College has more than 80 miles of hiking, biking and horseback riding trails, the Victory Lake Campground located in the heart of Berrys campus is available for Berry student use only. Berry offers a program with men, women and co-educational play for many sports, including quidditch. Berry College has a total of 2,141 undergraduate students with a 2013 freshman class size of 789 students, there is a 66,34 female to male ratio, and 68% of the students are in-state residents. Students come from 33 states and 17 foreign countries and it is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and is a member of the Annapolis Group, an organization of more than 120 liberal arts colleges nationwide. The Campbell School of Business offers bachelors degrees in accounting, economics, finance, management and it is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
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Brenau University
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Currently the university enrolls about 3,500 students who seek degrees ranging from two-year associates of arts through doctorates. Brenaus curriculum emphasizes professional preparation informed by the liberal arts, terminal degrees include a Master of Fine Arts in Interior Design and a Doctor of Nursing Practice. In 2012 Brenau online programs scored high in rankings by U. S. News & World Report. Brenau University also has cited as one of the best universities in the Southeast by The Princeton Review. Academically, Brenau comprises four colleges, Fine Arts & Humanities, Health & Science, Business & Mass Communication, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools reaffirmed full accreditation for Brenau in 2011. Brenau was founded in 1878 as an institution for the education of women. Wilkes, the institution’s first administrator, is credited with building many of the buildings that still stand today. Although founders initially called the institution a Baptist seminary for women, through the years Brenau evolved from a proprietary college to a not-for-profit institution governed by an independent Board of Trustees. In 1900, H. J. Pearce purchased the institution and renamed it Brenau, a linguistic blend formed from the German word brennen, “to burn”, and its motto is “As Gold Refined by Fire”. Brenau College remained privately owned until 1911 when a board of trustees assumed stewardship of the college, in 1928, Brenau created a female, residential, college-preparatory school serving grades 9 through 12. In the late 1960s, Brenau began offering evening and weekend classes to both men and women apart from Womens College classes. Brenau offered its first online programs in 2002 to meet needs of students who, the institution is led by Dr. Ed Schrader, its ninth president, who has held the position since January 2005. Brenau is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the Women’s College of Brenau University continues the rich tradition of education for women, serving both residential and commuter students. The mission of the university is reflected in the emphasis on the broad-based liberal arts education supporting its 30-plus majors. At the beginning of the 21st century following the first decade of operations as a masters level university, by 2010 it was clear that the demand for graduate studies would increase and that, but 2025, graduate students at Brenau would represent more than half the student population. Thus, the university created the Sidney O. Smith Jr, graduate School to place focused attention on the special needs of graduate students. Graduate studies at the university currently include programs based on campus, online programs, a year earlier Brenau launched its first terminal degree program, a master of Fine Arts in Interior Design. The school offers an array of masters-level programs as well as Education Specialists graduate degrees
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Clark Atlanta University
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Clark Atlanta University is a private, historically black university in Atlanta, in the U. S. state of Georgia. It was formed in 1988 with the consolidation of Clark College, Clark Atlanta University is a member of the United Negro College Fund and is the largest institution in the Atlanta University Center Consortium. By the late 1870s, Atlanta College had begun granting degrees and supplying black teachers. In 1929–30, it began offering graduate education exclusively in various liberal arts areas and it gradually added professional programs in social work, library science, and business administration. At this same time, Atlanta University affiliated with Morehouse College, the story of the Atlanta University over the next twenty years from 1930 includes many significant developments. Graduate Schools of Library Science, Education, and Business Administration were established in 1941,1944, the Atlanta School of Social Work, long associated with the university, gave up its charter in 1947 to become an integral part of the university. In 1957, the controlling Boards of the six institutions ratified new Articles of Affiliation, the new contract created the Atlanta University Center. The influence of Atlanta University has been extended through professional journals and organizations, including Phylon, du Bois, a member of the center. Clark College was founded in 1869 by the Methodist Episcopal Church and it was named for Bishop Davis Wasgatt Clark, who was the first President of the Freedmans Aid Society and became Bishop in 1864. A sparsely furnished room in Clark Chapel, a Methodist Episcopal church in Atlantas Summerhill section, in 1871, the school relocated to a new site on the newly purchased Whitehall and McDaniel Street property. In 1877, the School was chartered as Clark University, an early benefactor, Bishop Gilbert Haven, visualized Clark as the university of all the Methodist schools founded for the education of freedmen. Also in 1883, Clark established a theology department, named for Dr. Elijah H. Gammon, the Gammon School of Theology in 1888 became an independent theological seminary. It is part of the Interdenominational Theological Center, Clark Atlanta Universitys main campus houses 37 buildings on 126 acres and is 1.5 miles from the center of Atlanta. Pfeiffer Hall Holmes Hall Merner Hall Bumstead Hall – vacant for renovations Ware Hall Beckwith Hall Residential Apartments – now called James P. Brawley Hall when the original James P. The Isabella T. Clark Atlantas Center for Functional Nanoscale Measures has produced more black Ph. D. s in Nanoscale Science than any HBCU in the nation. Clark Atlanta is annually ranked on the list of The Washington Monthly of Best Colleges and Universities, Clark Atlanta has a Carnegie classification of Research University – High Research Activity and is one of only four Historically Black Colleges and Universities to earn such a distinction. The preeminent scheduled event of CAU Experience is the induction ceremony. At the ceremony, new students are officially inducted as Clark Atlanta University students
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Columbia Theological Seminary
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Columbia Theological Seminary is a seminary in Decatur, Georgia. It is one of ten theological institutions affiliated with the Presbyterian Church, Columbia Theological Seminary was founded in 1828 in Lexington, Georgia, by several Presbyterian ministers. In 1830, the seminary was moved to Columbia, South Carolina, during the American Civil War, the seminary became affiliated with the Presbyterian Church of the Confederate States of America, renamed the Presbyterian Church in the United States after the war. In 1830, Columbia, South Carolina, became the first permanent location of the seminary, the school became popularly known as Columbia Theological Seminary, and the name was formally accepted in 1925. The decade of the 1920s saw a shift in population throughout the Southeast, Atlanta was becoming a commercial and industrial center and growing rapidly in its cultural and educational opportunities. Between 1925 and 1930, President Richard T. Gillespie provided leadership that led to the development of the present facilities on a tract in Decatur. Because the early years in Decatur were difficult, the future of the institution became uncertain, Columbia, however, experienced substantial growth under the leadership of Dr. J. McDowell Richards, who was elected president in 1932 and led the seminary for almost four decades. Columbia was one of the several PCUS seminaries that joined the PC following the 1983 PCUS and it upholds its historic covenants with the Synods of Living Waters and South Atlantic. Walter Brueggemann, Old Testament Professor Emeritus, theologian and writer, Erskine Clarke, Professor Emeritus, religious historian. Catherine Gunsalus Gonzalez, Professor Emerita, writer, Ben Campbell Johnson, Professor Emeritus of Evangelism, former Director of Spirituality, writer. Sara Myers, Professor Emerita, theological librarian, kathleen M. OConnor, Old Testament Professor Emerita, writer. George Stroup, J. B. Green Professor Emeritus of Theology, mark Douglas, Professor of Christian Ethics, Director of MDiv Program. Program Deborah Flemister Mullen, Dean of Faculty/Executive Vice President, Associate Professor of American Christianity, riggs, J. G. Thompson Brown, Professor Emeritus, writer, missionary, Director of the Division of International Mission for the Presbyterian Church, founder of Honam Theological Academy. Pamela Cooper-White, Ben G and Nancye Clapp Gautier Professor of Pastoral Theology, Care, Charles Cousar, Professor Emeritus, New Testament Scholar, author. Justo Gonzalez, adjuct professor with a reputation for his contributions to Historical theology. Joan Gray, Interim Vice President for Student Services and Dean of Students, Charles Colcock Jones, Sr. professor, patriarch of the family chronicled in Children of Pride and Erskine Clarkes Dwelling Place. Joseph R. Wilson, father of Woodrow Wilson, faculty member following the Civil War, james Woodrow, first Perkins Professor of Natural Science, uncle of president Woodrow Wilson and controversial professor Charles Cousar, BD1958. Knapp, graduate, author, speaker, college president John H. Leith, peter Marshall,1931 graduate, twice Chaplain of the United States Senate
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Covenant College
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Covenant College is a Christian liberal arts college in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, United States. In 1964, it separated from the seminary, moving to Lookout Mountain, in 1965, it was the site of the merger between the Evangelical Presbyterian Church and the Reformed Presbyterian Church, General Synod to form the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod. It became and remains an agency of the Presbyterian Church in America after the 1982 merger between the RPCES and the PCA, as such, Covenant stands in the Reformed and Presbyterian traditions. Covenant College offers liberal arts education from a Reformed Christian perspective, the focus of the college is found in its motto, In All Things Christ Preeminent. The purpose of this focus is to excellence in academic inquiry in a biblically grounded frame of reference. The college offers Associate of Arts, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Music, and Master of Education degrees, Covenants faculty is composed of 67 full-time teaching faculty members, 92% of whom hold doctorates or terminal degrees in their fields. The college has been accredited since 1971 by the Southern Association of Colleges, J. Derek Halvorson became Covenants sixth president July 2012. He is the first alumnus to occupy Covenants presidency and he has a wife, Wendy, and two kids, Banks and Whitman. Its athletic teams are known as the Scots, Covenant is a member of NCAA Division III. Covenant joined the USA South Athletic Conference in 2010 where a number of its programs have won championships in recent years. The campus is located at the top of Lookout Mountain in Lookout Mountain, Carter Hall is the signature building on campus. It was originally named The Lookout Mountain Hotel and was built in 1928 by the Dinkler Hotel Corporation and run by Paul Carter and it was popularly known as the Castle in the Clouds. However, since it was completed less than a year before the Great Depression and it opened and closed several times prior to 1960, when it shut down for the last time. Bill Brock, the grandfather of the fourth president, Frank Brock. Both the exterior and interior of Carter Hall are Austro-Bavarian Gothic revival in style, the building has had two towers in its history. The first tower was similar in design to the Frauenkirche in Munich, poor maintenance before acquisition by the college required it to be rebuilt. The new tower, though simpler in style, maintains the architectural style of the original tower. Covenant College bought the building in 1964, upon relocating to Lookout Mountain, during the first few years of Covenants operation on the mountain, all the functions of the college were contained within Carter Hall
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Emmanuel College (Georgia)
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Emmanuel College is located in Franklin Springs, Georgia. Emmanuel is a private, Christian, liberal arts college and is affiliated with the International Pentecostal Holiness Church, currently Emmanuel boasts its highest enrollment with more than 900 students on campus. In 2016, Emmanuel College was named a Top 50 Regional College by U. S. News & World Report for the 5th straight year, Emmanuel College was founded in 1919 as the Franklin Springs Institute in Franklin Springs, GA. In its first years it taught high school courses grades eight through eleven, the first buildings were two hotels and a skating rink. In 1931, the college was forced to close for two years during the Great Depression, when the school reopened the new president, Thomas Aaron, began to refocus the institutes priorities from being a high school to a college. In 1939, the name was changed to Emmanuel College and the school was called Emmanuel Academy. The year 1967 saw the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools grant the two year college full accreditation, the school is continuing to support the Georgia Move On When Ready Program with the courses of Pre-Calculus, Calculus, English 101, and English 102. The college has a faculty-student ratio of 15,1 and a rate of 55%. Other popular majors include, business, sport management, psychology, the college is a member of the NCAA Division II, primarily competing in the Conference Carolinas. Emmanuel is also a member of the SouthEastern Lacrosse Conference for mens lacrosse, Emmanuel formerly competed in the Southern States Athletic Conference of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. In recent years, the college has expanded its athletic department, the mens basketball team finished runners up in the NAIA National championship game in 2014, and the Cross Country Team finished third at Nationals in Fall of 2013. The college also announced that mens and womens swimming and mens and womens bowling will be added for the 2013-14 academic year, the college competes in 12 mens,12 womens and three co-ed sports, Wrestling has also been added and will start competing in the 2015-16 school year. International Pentecostal Holiness Church Emmanuel College Website Emmanuel College Athletics Website International Pentecostal Holiness Church Website SACS
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Emory University
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Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, in 1915, the college relocated to metropolitan Atlanta and was rechartered as Emory University. The university is the second-oldest private institution of education in Georgia. Emory University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Peking University in Beijing, the university operates the Confucius Institute in Atlanta in partnership with Nanjing University. Emory has a faculty research partnership with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science. Emory University students come from all 50 states,6 territories of the United States, the university operates the Winship Cancer Institute, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, and many disease and vaccine research centers. Emory University is the coordinator of both the NIAIDs Malaria Host-Pathogen Interaction Center and the U. S. Health Departments National Ebola Training and Education Center, the university is one of four institutions involved in the NIAIDs Tuberculosis Research Units Program. The university is partnered with the Carter Center, the National Science Foundation ranked the university 36th among academic institutions in the United States for research and development expenditures. Emory University research is funded primarily by government agencies, namely the National Institutes of Health. In 1995 Emory University was elected to the Association of American Universities, Emory College was founded in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by the Methodist Episcopal Church. The college was named in honor of the departed Methodist bishop John Emory, ignatius Alphonso Few was the colleges first president. In 1854, the Atlanta Medical College, a forerunner of Emory University School of Medicine, was founded, on April 12,1861, the American Civil War began. Emory College was closed in November 1861 and all of its students enlisted on the Confederate side, in late 1863 the war came to Georgia and the college was used as hospital and later a headquarters for the Union Army. The university produced many officers who served in the war, including General George Thomas Anderson who fought in every major battle in the eastern theater. Thirty five Emory students lost their lives and much of the campus was destroyed during the war, Emory College, as with the entire Southeastern United States, struggled to overcome financial devastation during the Reconstruction Era. In 1880, Atticus Greene Haygood, Emory College President, delivered a speech expressing gratitude for the end of slavery in the United States, which captured the attention of George I. Seney gave Emory College $5,000 to repay its debts, $50,000 for construction, in the 1880s, the technology department was launched by Isaac Stiles Hopkins, a polymath professor at Emory College
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