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Cumberland County College is a licensed, co-instructive, two-year, open, junior college situated in Cumberland County, New Jersey. Cumberland County College is situated on a 100-section of land (0.40 km2) grounds, including nine structures, in Vineland. In October 1966, Cumberland turned into the first area school in New Jersey to open its own grounds.

Cumberland County College offers more than 90 profession and exchange projects of study, with projects prompting Associate in Arts, Associate in Fine Arts, Associate in Science and Associate in Applied Science degrees, notwithstanding endorsement programs. More than 3,000 understudies go to every semester amid the scholarly year, and in addition more than 1,500 proceeding with instruction and contract preparing understudies.

Eighty percent of Cumberland's graduates are the first in their families to gain an advanced education. More than half of CCC understudies proceed with their training at four-year universities.

Cumberland County College is licensed by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.

Meredith College is a ladies' aesthetic sciences school and coeducational doctoral level college situated in Raleigh, North Carolina. Meredith enlists roughly 2,000 ladies in its undergrad programs and 300 men and ladies in its graduate projects. Meredith is the biggest school for undergrad ladies in the southeastern United States. 89% of understudies originate from in-state.

Since 2000, Meredith College has facilitated Governor's School East every late spring.

History

Sanctioned by the First Baptist Church, the Baptist Female University opened in 1891 in an office in downtown Raleigh. In 1904, the name was changed to Baptist University for Women. The name "Meredith College" was picked in 1909 to respect Thomas Meredith, originator of the Biblical Recorder.

In 1997, the school moved far from an immediate association with the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina.[3] In 2010, the Board of Trustees amended the statement of purpose to say: "Meredith College, grounded in the aesthetic sciences and focused on expert arrangement, instructs and rouses understudies to live with uprightness and give administration to the needs, opportunities and difficulties of society." The trustees additionally embraced an overhauled vision explanation for the school and recorded the estimations of the school which include:

Honesty… maintaining elevated expectations of truth and individual honor;
Scholarly opportunity… encouraging a soul of openness and request, and regarding a scope of viewpoints and voices;
Scholastic perfection… advancing grant, advancement, interest, scholarly test, diligent work and long lasting learning;
Capable worldwide citizenship… contributing positive change through moral initiative and city engagement;
Self-improvement… looking for scholarly, individual and profound development through organized and individual learning and experience;
Religious differing qualities… affirming the College's Christian legacy while regarding all beliefs and profound convictions; and
Pertinence… addressing society's requirements by instructing understudies in projects that set them up for what's to come

Meredith moved to its present area on Hillsborough Street close North Carolina State University in 1924. The grounds covers 225 sections of land (0.91 km2) and is situated in close vicinity to both Raleigh-Durham International Airport and Research Triangle Park.

As of the 2007-2008 school year, the mascot was changed to the "Avenging Angels" from the "Heavenly attendants". This was to add an all the more scary edge to their mascot.

For a course of events, go to the Meredith College Library site at http://www.meredith.edu/library/documents/meredith_timeline.html

A rich part of Meredith's history is an in number association with custom. A Meredith lady can be spotted by her class ring, a dark onyx with an imprinting of the Meredith Shield. On either side of the ring, oak leaves speak to one of North Carolina's most conspicuous trees. The present plan, the work of Meredith graduate Ann Lovell, has been the same for each Meredith onyx since 1953. Today, this little image associate the greater part of Meredith's ladies, helping them to remember their time at Meredith and the historical backdrop of the all-l

Catawba College is a private, coeducational aesthetic sciences school in Salisbury, North Carolina, USA. Established in 1851 by the North Carolina Classis of the Reformed Church in Newton, the school received its name from its province of source, Catawba County, before moving to its present home of Salisbury in 1925.

Today, Catawba College still holds free binds with the successor to the Reformed Church, the United Church of Christ, and offers more than thirty college degrees.

In 2009, Catawba College was recorded as seventeenth in the U.S. News and World Report in the classification "Best Baccalaureate Colleges in the South." Catawba College has been reliably named as one of the "361 Best Colleges" by the Princeton Review, and the school's theater project is reliably appraised as one of the main 10 in the country, and in 2011 alone, winning 8 grants from the Metrolina Theater Association for their creation of Bright Lights, Big City. In 2008 and 2009, In Tune Monthly named Catawba College one of the best music schools in the nation.

History

Catawba College was established by the North Carolina Classis of the Reformed Church in the United States in 1851. The years taking after the opening of the school were years of developing success for the school, however the Civil War changed this as assets and understudies turned out to be less accessible. Amid the war years, the College turned into a foundation, working as Catawba High School from 1865 until 1885, whereupon it continued operations under its unique contract as Catawba College. Catawba got to be coeducational in 1890. Indeed, even with the expansion of ladies to the understudy body, the College attempted to defeat the exhaustion brought on by the war. Reacting to the offer of an in part developed quarters organization building and a few sections of land of area in Salisbury, trustee, school, and church authorities shut the grounds in Newton in 1923 and re-opened in Salisbury in 1925.

The school is presently associated with the United Church of Christ, the successor to the Evangelical and Reformed Church, itself the successor to the Reformed Church in the United States.

The University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) is a four-year state college situated in Omaha, Nebraska. Established in 1908 as Omaha University, the foundation turned into people in general Municipal University of Omaha in 1931. It accepted its present name in 1968 after a merger into the University of Nebraska. The organization has an in number convention of serving worker understudies from inside of Omaha, however lately has created understudy lodging. On October 8, 2008, the University of Nebraska Omaha commended its 100th year of presence.

History

Omaha University

The first Omaha University was established in 1908 in the Kountze Place neighborhood of North Omaha. The principal classes were situated in the Redick Mansion, once at North 24th and Pratt Streets, from 1909 through 1917. As the college was set up a couple squares north of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary, a large portion of its initial personnel were enrolled from Seminary instructors, and additionally the staff of Bellevue College. There were 26 understudies in the first year, a large portion of whom had moved on from Omaha Central High School. Three of the University's initial four presidents were appointed Presbyterian clergymen. Two different structures on the first grounds included Jacobs Hall, an exercise center raised in 1910, and Joslyn Hall, a classroom building raised in 1917.

Jacobs Hall was a recreation center confronting North 24th Street, manufactured with $14,000 from the offer of area gave by Lillian Maul. The area, the first gift to the college, was close to the present West Dodge grounds of the college. It was the first new building built on the college grounds. Joslyn Hall was fabricated with assets gave by an understood inhabitant, George A. Joslyn. Giving $25,000 toward the building, he stipulated the school coordinate that with another $25,000 in a year. The building was found only north of Redick Hall and was done in January 1917. Joslyn Hall had three stories and a storm cellar, with a sum of thirty classrooms that obliged 750 understudies. The building included science and material science labs, an assembly room and music division. Redick Hall was sold and moved in February 1917 to Minnesota, where it was adjusted for use in a resort.

In the mid 1920s a proposed "glorious grounds" was slated for improvement somewhere around 21st and 25th Avenues, limited by Kountze Park and the Carter Lake Park. In 1927, representatives framed the North Omaha Activities Association keeping in mind the end goal to redevelop Saratoga School's playing field into a football field for the University's football group. With new cheap seats assembled to suit a horde of one thousand, the Saratoga Field was home to OU's football group until 1951. The school likewise served as OU's science call from 1917 to 1926.

The college moved from the North Omaha grounds to its present primary area at 60th and Dodge Street in 1938. The old grounds structures were redeveloped for a period as lofts and workplaces. In June 1964 Jacobs and Joslyn corridors were the last two unique OU structures at 24th and Pratt Streets to be wrecked. They were brought down in the mid 1960s to clear a path for a 12-story Omaha Housing Authority loft building for the elderly, which was finished in 1965.

Dr. Milo Bail got to be president of Omaha University in 1948 and served until 1965. Amid that time, Omaha inn tycoon Eugene C. Eppley's establishment gave more than $1.2 million to the college. After Eppley's passing, the Eppley Foundation gave another $50,000 to enroll recognized educators. The Eugene C. Eppley Administration Building, outlined by John Latenser, Sr., at the college was named in acknowledgment of the blessings. In 1952 the national Silver Wings understudy association was established at the University of Omaha. In 1976 the Dr. C.C. what's more, Mabel L. Criss Library supplanted the Eppley Library.

Florida State College at Jacksonville (FSCJ) is a state school in Jacksonville, Florida, U.S., and a portion of the Florida College System. It is one of a few organizations in the Florida College System assigned a "state school," as it offers a more noteworthy number of four-year four year certifications than customary two-year junior colleges.

The College was set up in 1965. It has four noteworthy physical grounds and a few extra revolves situated around the First Coast locale, and as of now selects 81,370 understudies.

History

The establishment was established in 1965 as Florida Junior College. With the development of the junior college development, it was renamed Florida Community College at Jacksonville (FCCJ) in 1986.

In 2009, in acknowledgment of a lack of four-year schools in the state, the Florida Legislature passed enactment making the Florida College System, empowering some junior colleges to wind up "state universities", which means they can offer more four year college educations than customary junior colleges, however no graduate degree programs. FCCJ was one of the first junior colleges to roll out the improvement, and, additionally in 2009, reported the change to their present name, "Florida State College at Jacksonville".

Simpson College is a four-year, coeducational human sciences establishment arranged in Indianola, Iowa, USA, and subsidiary with the United Methodist Church. Simpson, which has been completely certify by North Central Association since 1913, is a little school with roughly 1,400 full-time understudies and 500 low maintenance understudies. Notwithstanding the primary grounds in Indianola, the school has classroom offices in West Des Moines and Ankeny.

Simpson has been perceived by U.S. News and World Report as one of the main 10 far reaching schools in the Midwest. In the 2004 report, Simpson College was named number 1 in the "Best Value" classification for midwestern exhaustive universities. Simpson was likewise named by College and Character, A national activity of the John Templeton Foundation as one of 60 universities that offer understudies a model first-year program. What's more, Peterson's Competitive Colleges aide highlights Simpson as one of roughly 440 schools and colleges that the top understudies in the country go to.

Simpson's grounds is found 12 miles (19 km) south of Des Moines, giving Simpson understudies simple access to different attractions, assets, and livelihood and temporary job opportunities in the Greater Des Moines region.

Florida Memorial University is a private coeducational four-year college in Miami Gardens, Florida. One of the 39 part establishments of the United Negro College Fund, and a verifiably Black, Baptist-related foundation which is positioned second in Florida and ninth in the United States for graduating African-American educators.

History

One of the most seasoned scholastic focuses in Florida, the college was established in 1879 as the Florida Baptist Institute in Live Oak, Florida. Before long, the American Baptist Home Mission Society gave its full backing and the first customary school year started in 1880.

In 1882, the Florida Baptist Academy was set up in Jacksonville, Florida. The name was later changed to Florida Normal and Industrial Institute. It arrived that two siblings, James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson (employee), composed the words and music to "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" (known as the "Negro National Anthem"), in 1900.

Florida Normal and Industrial Institute moved to St. Augustine in 1918 on a portion of a 110-section of land (0.45 km2) tract of area known as "Old Homes Plantation", earlier one of the biggest slave ranches in Florida. In 1941, the Live Oak and St. Augustine foundations blended, changing their constrained offerings from a lesser school arrangement to a four-year human sciences organization which graduated its initial four-year class in 1945. Its name was changed in 1950 to Florida Normal and Industrial Memorial College. In 1963, the contract was again altered to change the name to Florida Memorial College. In 1968, the school moved to its present site in Northwest Miami and by 1972 graduated its top of the line at the Miami site. Florida Memorial College praised its 100th commemoration in 1979 and started a progression of development undertakings on the 44-section of land (180,000 m2) site.

In 1993 Dr. Albert E. Smith was named as the school's tenth president, proclaiming another time of development in the organization's rich history. In December 2004, the foundation's name was changed to Florida Memorial University with the declaration being made at the Founders' Convocation in March 2005. On July 3, 2006, Dr. Karl S. Wright turned into the eleventh president. In 2006, Florida Memorial College changed its name to Florida Memorial University.

St. Mary's College of Maryland, set up in 1840, is an American open, mainstream (non-religious) and co-instructive four-year human sciences college[1] situated in St. Mary's City, Maryland.

It is an open respects school, a state-bolstered school which offers an affair like that of a world class aesthetic sciences school. With around 2,000 enlisted understudies, the organization offers four year certifications in 24 disciplines. and also an expert's project and various confirmation programs.

The school is situated in St. Mary's City, Maryland and imparts quite a bit of its grounds to Historic St. Mary's City, the site of Maryland's first state and first capital. It is additionally the site of the fourth settlement in British North America.

St. Mary's City is additionally thought to be the origination of religious opportunity in America due to the exceptional commands building up and overseeing the British settlement that once remained there, requiring religious resilience.

Calvert Hall, St. Mary's College of Maryland, people in general respects school.

The globally perceived Historical Archeology Field School is together worked by St. Mary's College of Maryland and Historic St. Mary's City. The grounds and whatever is left of St. Mary's City consolidated are thought to be one of the chief archeological destinations in the United States.

Fitchburg State University, likewise called Fitchburg State, is a four-year open organization of higher learning with a minimal urban grounds, in the city of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, United States. Fitchburg State University has more than 3,500 undergrad and more than 1650 graduate/proceeding with training understudies, for an aggregate understudy body enlistment more than 5200. The College offers postgraduate endorsements, four year certifications, and graduate degrees (counting the MBA) in more than 25 scholastic orders. The principle grounds, the McKay Campus School, and athletic fields involve 79 sections of land (320,000 m²) in the city of Fitchburg; the organic study fields possess 120 sections of land (490,000 m²) in the neighboring towns of Lancaster, Leominster, and Lunenbur

History

Fitchburg State University was established as the State Normal School in Fitchburg in 1894 by the state assembly. Its first President was John G. Thompson (President 1895–1920). At first an optional instruction school for ladies (coeducation touched base in 1911), the Normal School was not approved to concede Bachelor degrees until 1930, after the administration of William D. Parkinson (1920–1927), and amid Dr. Charles M. Herlihy's (1927–1945) residency. In 1932, that approval was reached out to every single scholastic order in Education. In the meantime, the name was changed to State Teachers College at Fitchburg. Dr. Charles M. Herlihy kicked the bucket while in office and was succeeded by Dr. William J. Sanders (1945–1950) and Ellis F. White (1950–1953).

Amid Ralph H. Weston's (1953–1963) administration of the school, the Education system was the essential core interest. That changed in 1960, when the school changed its name to State College at Fitchburg and included degree programs outside of Education. In 1965, the College's name developed into Fitchburg State College. James J. Hammond (1963–1975) and Dr. Vincent J. Mara (1975–2003) were the following two presidents of the school and added numerous structures to the grounds, most outstandingly what are presently called the Hammond Building and Mara Village. All the more as of late, another west wing was added to the Mara compound.

In the previous five years, since Robert V. Antonucci (2003–present) got to be president, the school has concentrated on upgrading its structures and grounds and its projects. The school has concentrated on redesigns and recovery of underused structures and ranges instead of broad building, despite the fact that there has been some. One striking building is the 3,500-square-foot (330 m2) grounds police headquarters (2008). Another science building and remodel of the Condike Science building is in progress with development slated to start in 2011.

Proceeding with Education at Fitchburg State University started in 1915, with the first summer courses offered through the College. A quarter century, its first graduate projects were built up. In July 2010, the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Senate voted to give Fitchburg State college status and change its name to Fitchburg State University.[5] The measure was marked into law by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick

Vassar College (/ˈvæsər/vass-ər) is a private, coeducational, human sciences school in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, in the United States. Established as a ladies' school in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, the school turned into a coeducational organization in 1969. The school offers B.A. degrees in more than 50 majors and elements an adaptable educational modules intended to advance an expansiveness of studies.

The Vassar grounds contains more than 1,000 sections of land (400 ha) and more than 100 structures, including two National Historic Landmarks and an extra National Historic Place. These structures range in style from Collegiate Gothic to International, composed through the span of the school's history by a scope of conspicuous engineers, including James Renwick Jr., Eero Saarinen, Marcel Breuer, and Cesar Pelli. Vassar's Thompson Memorial Library, outlined by Francis R. Allen, is a Federal Depository Library. An assigned arboretum, the grounds includes more than 200 types of trees, a local plant safeguard, and a 400-section of land (160 ha) biological protect. Another science building is (as of June 2015) under development, with arrangements to be finished in 2015.

Vassar was recorded in the 2016 yearly positioning of U.S. News and World Report as "most particular" and was tied for the twelfth best human sciences school in the country and fifth for "Best Value". The New York Times likewise positioned Vassar College first on its 2014 "most monetarily different top school" list. For the class of 2018 (selecting fall 2014), the establishment had an acknowledgment rate of 23.5%. The aggregate number of understudies going to the school is around 2,400.

The school offers numerous extracurricular associations including understudy theater, a cappella gatherings, club games, volunteer and administration bunches, and a carnival troupe. Vassar College's varsity games groups, known as the Brewers, play in the NCAA's Division III as individuals from the Liberty Lea

Jackson State University (Jackson State, or JSU) is a truly dark college in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. Established in 1877 in Natchez, Mississippi as Natchez Seminary by the American Baptist Home Mission Society of New York, the Society moved the school to Jackson in 1882, renaming it Jackson College, and built up its present grounds in 1902. It turned into a state-upheld open foundation in 1940, and it is an individual from the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Under the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, Jackson State University is an examination college with high research action. In the fall of 2015, Jackson State University came to an understudy populace of almost 10,000 understudies, an increment of 11% since fall 2012 which put the college as the fourth biggest HBCU in the country.

Lehigh University is an American private exploration college situated in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. It was built up in 1865 by representative Asa Packer and has developed to incorporate studies in a wide assortment of orders. Its undergrad projects have been coeducational since the 1971–72 scholarly year. Starting 2014, the college had 4,904 college understudies and 2,165 graduate understudies. Lehigh is viewed as one of the twenty-four Hidden Ivies in the Northeastern United States.

The college has more than 680 employees; recompenses and respects perceiving Lehigh workforce and graduated class incorporate the Nobel Prize,Pulitzer Prize, Fulbright Fellowship, and participation in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.

The college has four schools: the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business and Economics, and the College of Education. The College of Arts and Sciences is the biggest school today, home to around 40% percent of the college's understudies. The college offers an assortment of degrees, including Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Arts, Master of Science, Master of Business Administration, Master of Engineering, Master of Education, and Doctor of Philosoph

The University of Pennsylvania (ordinarily alluded to as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research college situated in Philadelphia. Fused as The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn is one of 14 establishing individuals from the Association of American Universities and one of the nine unique Colonial Colleges. Penn cases to be the most seasoned college in the United States of America.

Benjamin Franklin, Penn's organizer, upheld an instructive project that engaged as much on viable training for trade and open administration as on the classics and philosophy despite the fact that Franklin's educational modules was never received. The college emblem highlights a dolphin on the red boss, received specifically from the Franklin family's own particular crest. Penn was one of the first scholastic establishments to take after a multidisciplinary model spearheaded by a few European colleges, thinking various "resources" (e.g., religious philosophy, classics, drug) into one foundation. It was additionally home to numerous other instructive advancements. The main institute of pharmaceutical in North America (Perelman School of Medicine, 1765), the first university business college (Wharton School of Business, 1881) and the first "understudy union" building and association (Houston Hall, 1896) were all conceived at Penn.

Penn offers a wide scope of scholarly divisions, a broad examination endeavor and various group effort and open administration programs. It is especially surely understood for its therapeutic school, dental school, configuration school, business college, graduate school, building school, interchanges school, nursing school, veterinary school, its sociologies and humanities programs, and also its biomedical showing and research capacities. Its undergrad system is additionally among the most particular in the nation, with an acknowledgment rate of 10 percent.[9] One of Penn's most understood scholarly qualities is its accentuation on interdisciplinary instruction, which it advances through various twofold degree projects, examination focuses and residencies, a bound together grounds, and the capacity for understudies to take classes from any of Penn's schools (the "One University Policy").

The greater part of Penn's schools display high research movement. Penn is reliably positioned among the top exploration colleges on the planet, for both quality and amount of examination. In monetary year 2015, Penn's scholastic exploration spending plan was $851 million, including more than 4,300 personnel, 1,100 postdoctoral colleagues and 5,500 bolster staff/graduate partners. As a standout amongst the most dynamic and productive exploration foundations, Penn is connected with a few vital developments and revelations in numerous fields of science and the humanities. Among them are the first universally useful electronic PC (ENIAC), the rubella and hepatitis B antibodies, Retin-A, subjective treatment, conjoint investigation and others.

Penn's scholarly and exploration projects are driven by a substantial and very profitable personnel. 28 Nobel laureates have been partnered with Penn. Over its long history the college has likewise created numerous recognized graduated class. These incorporate twelve heads of state (counting one U.S. President), three United States Supreme Court judges, and incomparable court judges of different states, originators of innovation organizations, worldwide law offices and worldwide monetary establishments, and college presidents. As indicated by a recent report, the University of Pennsylvania has created the most very rich people of any college at the undergrad level.Penn's gift, at $9.6 billion in 2014, is the tenth-biggest college enrichment in the United States and the thirtieth-biggest on a for every understudy premise.

The University of Chicago (U of C, Chicago, or UChicago) is a private exploration college in Chicago, Illinois. Set up in 1890, the University of Chicago comprises of The College, different graduate projects, interdisciplinary advisory groups sorted out into four scholarly research divisions and seven expert schools. Past expressions of the human experience and sciences, Chicago is likewise understood for its expert schools, which incorporate the Pritzker School of Medicine, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, the Law School, the School of Social Service Administration, the Harris School of Public Policy Studies, the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies and the Divinity School. The college as of now enlists roughly 5,000 understudies in the College and around 15,000 understudies generally speaking.

College of Chicago researchers have assumed a noteworthy part in the improvement of different scholastic controls, including: the Chicago school of financial aspects, the Chicago school of humanism, the law and financial aspects development in legitimate investigation, the Chicago school of artistic feedback, the Chicago institute of religion, and the behavioralism school of political science.[8] Chicago's material science division added to the world's first man-made, self-managing atomic response underneath the college's Stagg Field. Chicago's exploration interests have been helped by remarkable affiliations with widely acclaimed organizations like the adjacent Fermilab and Argonne National Laboratory, and also the Marine Biological Laboratory. The college is likewise home to the University of Chicago Press, the biggest college press in the United States.

Established by the American Baptist Education Society with a gift from oil head honcho and wealthiest man in history John D. Rockefeller, the University of Chicago was consolidated in 1890; William Rainey Harper turned into the college's first president in 1891, and the first classes were held in 1892. Both Harper and future president Robert Maynard Hutchins pushed for Chicago's educational programs to be based upon hypothetical and enduring issues as opposed to on connected sciences and business utility. On account of Harper's vision, the University of Chicago additionally got to be one of the 14 establishing individuals from the Association of American Universities, a global association of driving examination colleges, in 1900.

The University of Chicago is home to numerous unmistakable graduated class. 89 Nobel laureates[13] have been partnered with the college as going to teachers, understudies, workforce, or staff, the fourth the vast majority of any establishment on the planet. What's more, Chicago's graduated class incorporate 49 Rhodes Scholars, 9 Fields Medalists, 13 National Humanities Medalists, 13 extremely rich person graduates, and a plenty of individuals from the United States Congress and heads of condition of nations everywhere throughout the world.

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