For the 2011-12 academic year, the university was ranked 177th by U. S. News & World Report's National University Rankings of America's Best Colleges 2012, 162nd by The Washington Monthly's rankings of, and 481st by Forbes rankings of America's Top Colleges.

In Washington Monthly's 2009 rankings, Connecticut College ranked 50 out of 253 liberal arts colleges.

As of 2012, Lindenwood was not ranked by the U. S. News & World Report as a regional university and ranked 527 out of 553 in the Masters category of The Washington Monthly's University Rankings.

The Washington Monthly's " College Rankings ", last published in 2011, began as a research report in 2005.

In fall 2010, Newsweek named Pitzer a Most Service Minded School, and Pitzer was in the top ten in the service category in Washington Monthly's 2010 College Guide.

The Washington Monthly's " College Rankings " ( an alternative college guide to the U. S. News and World Report ) ranks Wells College as number thirty among all liberal arts colleges in the United States -- as well as the top such college in New York state — in the September 2006 issue.

* The Washington Monthly's Monthly Journalism Award, 2003, for his January 3, 2003 Times article, Government Openness at Issue as Bush Holds On to Records

introduction of the `` dialogue '' principle proved strikingly effective at the thirty-fourth annual meeting of the Catholic Association for International Peace in Washington the last weekend in October.

Martin, who has been in office in Washington, D. C., for 13 months spoke at the council's annual meeting at the Multnomah Hotel.

-- Washington County's 36th annual fair will close Saturday evening with 4-H and FFA awards program at 7, public dance at 8 and variety show at 8:30.

" That same year, then-U. S. President Gerald Ford acknowledged the stature of the comic strip, telling the Radio and Television Correspondents ’ Association at their annual dinner, " There are only three major vehicles to keep us informed as to what is going on in Washington: the electronic media, the print media, and Doonesbury, not necessarily in that order.

The first annual conference ( referred to as the International Labour Conference, or ILC ) began on 29 October 1919 at the Pan American Union ( building ) in Washington, D. C. and adopted the first six International Labour Conventions, which dealt with hours of work in industry, unemployment, maternity protection, night work for women, minimum age and night work for young persons in industry.

In January 1790 President Washington, in his first annual message to Congress stated that, " Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to ", and ordered Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson to prepare a plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States, afterwards referred to as the Jefferson report.

* 11: 08 AM The World Bank and IMF cancel the annual meeting scheduled for September 29 and 30th at Washington D. C.

The Kelso, Washington Chamber of Commerce, located along the Columbia River in the Northwestern United States, dubbed itself the " Smelt Capital of the World " in 1956, and held a festival for the annual smelt run, until the runs dried.

Learning of Woodhull's planned address, suffrage leaders postponed the opening of the 1871 National Woman Suffrage Association's third annual convention in Washington in order to attend the committee hearing.

George Washington delivered the first regular annual message before a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1790 in New York City, then the provisional U. S. capital.

Some cities or counties also have an annual State of the City Address given by the mayor, county commissioner or board chair, including Sonoma County, California ; Orlando, Florida ; Cincinnati, Ohio ; Parma, Ohio ; Detroit, Michigan ; Seattle, Washington ; Birmingham, Alabama ; Boston, Massachusetts ; Los Angeles, California ; Buffalo, New York ; Rochester, New York ; San Antonio, Texas ; McAllen, Texas ; and San Diego, California.

Many state legislators meet every year at the annual meeting, and other meetings, of the National Conference of State Legislatures, which is headquartered in Denver, Colorado and has a lobbying office in Washington, D. C.

Most are funded by the Washington University Student Union, which has a $ 2 million plus annual budget that is completely student controlled and is one of the largest student government budgets in the country.

The annual Congressional Juneteenth Reception, hosted by members of Congress at the U. S. Capitol, was established as a part of the Washington Juneteenth National Holiday Observance.

The annual National Day of Reconciliation and Healing from the Legacy of Enslavement and the National Juneteenth Black Holocaust " Maafa " Memorial Service were included in the Washington Juneteenth National Holiday Observance.

Music Festival, an annual summer music festival held at the Gorge Amphitheater in George, Washington

* Spokane, Washington, known as the " Lilac City ", which holds an annual lilac festival and lilac parade.

In February 2005, he gave the fourth annual Kissinger Lecture on Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress, Washington DC on " Dependency and Development in Latin America.

Huey Lewis and the News performed at the 28th annual presentation of A Capitol Fourth in Washington, D. C., on Friday, July 4, 2008.

* Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic, an annual one-and two-day supported bicycle ride from Seattle, Washington to Portland, Oregon

* The annual G7 meeting begins the weekend of the 2002 IMF / World Bank annual meetings in Washington, D. C .. 649 protesters from the alternative globalization movement are arrested.

In 1898, F. D. Powers -- a minister at the Vermont Avenue Christian Church ( today the National City Christian Church ), a congregation of the Disciples of Christ in Washington, D. C. -- was serving as president of the annual convention of Washington-area Disciples when he suggested that a Christian meeting place be established on the Atlantic coast of the United States.

Temple Terrace was originally only occupied during " The Season " ( which lasted roughly from December to the annual Washington Ball held at the clubhouse on February 22 ).

Washington holds the annual Festival du Courtableau, now renamed the Washington Catfish Festival.

* The Evergreen State College-A state sponsored college in Olympia, Washington that emphasizes book seminars, an open interdisciplinary curricula with students taking a single course at a time that may last several quarters and written evaluations rather than numerical grades.

Indeed, in 2007, when U. S. News and World Report ranked Occidental College the 36th best liberal arts college in the country, tied with Bard College in New York and Whitman College in Washington, the magazine cited both ethnic and economic diversity as key achievements.

The Seattle University College of Arts and Sciences in Seattle, Washington is the oldest undergraduate and graduate college affiliated with Seattle University, the Northwest's largest independent university.

In 2009, the university hired men's basketball coaches Cameron Dollar, former assistant at University of Washington, and women's coach Joan Bonvicini, former University of Arizona coach and one of the winningest women's college basketball coaches.

* March 19 – March 23 – Afrocentrism, Black power, Vietnam War: Students at Howard University in Washington, D. C., signal a new era of militant student activism on college campuses in the U. S. Students stage rallies, protests and a 5-day sit-in, laying siege to the administration building, shutting down the university in protest over its ROTC program and the Vietnam War, and demanding a more Afrocentric curriculum.

* January 23 – Georgetown University is founded in Washington, D. C., becoming the first Catholic college in the United States.

* November 28 – Whitman College is chartered as a 4-year college in Walla Walla, Washington.

In 1881, the Hampton president Samuel C. Armstrong recommended Washington to become the first leader of Tuskegee Institute, the new normal school ( teachers ' college ) in Alabama.

In 1948, after the college had moved to the Auditorium Building, Washington was elected the third president of Roosevelt's student council.

For the past decade, Berea College has been consistently ranked by U. S. News & World Report as the number one comprehensive college in the South, and it is currently ranked as # 1 among liberal arts colleges by The Washington Monthly College Ranking 2011.

For the community college near Tacoma, Washington, see Pierce College, for the 4 year college in Philadelphia see Peirce College.

* Trinity Washington University, known as Trinity College until 2004, a Catholic women's college in Washington, D. C.

* 22 Rashaan Shehee RB college ( Washington ) Shehee played two seasons in the NFL with the Kansas City Chiefs 1999-2000 before joining the XFL

It is ranked number five in The Washington Post's Hidden Gem's college list, as the best school in Michigan and 52nd best college in the nation by Forbes ( above such prestigious institutions as Brown, the University of California, Berkeley, and Dartmouth College ), and is listed in Loren Pope's Colleges That Change Lives.

* Potomac College, a degree-granting college based in Washington, DC

* Columbia Basin College, a community college in Pasco, Washington

* The Evergreen State College, a college in Olympia, Washington

In October 1965, after the other members decided that Bob Harvey's bass playing was not up to par, he was replaced by guitarist-bassist Jack Casady, an old friend of Kaukonen from Washington D. C. Casady played his first gig with the Airplane at a college concert in Berkeley, California, two weeks after he arrived in San Francisco.

And most of the Washington D. C. hardcore scene eschewed hardcore in favor of a college rock-influenced style of punk.

" The 300 + member SDSU Marching Band, " The Pride of the Dakotas ", given the special name the Millennium Band in 2000 by the South Dakota State Legislature, has marched in the 1981 and 1997 Presidential Inaugural Parades in Washington, D. C .; A Capital Fourth in 2000 in Washington DC which was broadcast on PBS ; the 2003 and 2008 Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California making them the second collegiate band in the history of the Rose Bowl to be invited to march twice when their team was not competing ; and the Korean War Monument Dedication at the state's capital Pierre in 2004, in the company of two other college bands and 60-some high school bands from across the state.

He attended college and law school at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and built a solid reputation practicing law in St. Louis between 1928 and 1943.