Building on a strong liberal arts foundation, the college's Accounting, Finance, Human Resources Management, Management, and Marketing undergraduate programs have provided students with a comprehensive and well-rounded education in their respective areas of specialization since the very beginning ’ s of the institution ’ s history.

A year later in 1927 the college's great musical tradition, the Choir of the West, was founded.

For example, since the college's founding there has been no " High Table " reserved for Fellows at Formal Hall dinners ; students and Fellows mix and dine together, although the tradition of wearing academic gowns to such occasions is still preserved.

As a reflection of the school's liberal arts tradition, most students are allowed to take a broad array of courses to fulfill the college's general education requirement.

With funds from the state, and from support by preceptor Reverend Asa Brainerd, the first diploma in teaching was given in 1836, thus beginning the academy's and eventually the college's longstanding tradition of excellence in the field of teacher education.

The Rector is the titular head of the college, who has responsibility for monitoring the college's furtherance of its Anglican tradition and for interpreting college statutes.

The college's musical tradition can be seen every year in the annual Saint Eunan's College Rock Concert-held every May since 2002 in the local An Grianán Theatre.

Both the Concert Chorale and the WVWC Jazz Ensemble have toured extensively throughout the United States and Europe and the college's long and proud tradition of choral activity is also represented through Concentus Vocum ( a select mixed-voice ensemble ) as well as Wesleyan Singers ( an all-female choir ).

In the college's inaugural year, a number of plaster ceilings collapsed in the college, leading the TD Social Activities Committee to sponsor a Plaster Dinner and Mr. Plaster dances, a tradition that continued until the 1970s.

It covers all aspects of the college's mighty tradition and present.

The Wellesley College Hoop Rolling Contest is an annual spring tradition that dates back to 1895, and is only open to graduating seniors on that college's May Day celebration.

It was due to the college's lack of a mathematics fellow ( this is no longer the case ) that Professor Stephen Hawking read a natural sciences degree and ended up specialising in physics.

The college's Bachelor of Arts degree programs in psychology, social sciences and sociology were ranked among the top " Best Buys " in the country for online accredited degree programs in those fields, while the college's Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree was named one of the top five " Best Buys " in the country for an online accredited business degree, both by GetEducated. com.

Although the college had a general-interest library before the fire of 1890, the modern Laidlaw Library is specialized in subjects related to the college's in-house academic programs in the humanities and social sciences.

Angled toward the south in order to capture sunlight, this complex will accommodate the college's engineering and health sciences programs, providing classrooms, laboratories, and a lecture hall.

As former president Dr. Horace Mann Bond noted in his book Education for Freedom: A History of Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, with the college's founding in 1854, " This was the first institution founded anywhere in the world to provide a higher education in the arts and sciences for youth of African descent.

The college's four departments-architecture, construction science, landscape architecture and urban planning and visualization sciences-are each fully accredited at the highest level and together offer 16 degree programs, including doctorates in architecture and urban and regional sciences.

The building is home to the college's physical sciences, visual arts, and journalism programs ..

The college's mission is stated in the college Catalog: " Cottey College will educate qualified women in the arts and sciences to prepare them for transfer to programs beyond the associate's degree by enhancing their intellectual ability, their store of knowledge, their personal skills, and thereby their capacity for contribution to society and their chosen.

The college's mission, the charter stated, was to prepare students " for discharging the Offices of Life with usefulness & reputation " by providing instruction " in the Vernacular and Learned Languages, and in the liberal Arts and Sciences.

The phrase appears five times in the Bible and is a reference to the college's location on what was once the frontier of European settlement.

The city of Fairfax purchased and donated of land to the University of Virginia for the college's new site, which was referred to as the Fairfax Campus.

The college was founded by a Confederate veteran, Major Reuben Webster Millsaps in 1889-90 by the donation of the college's land and $ 50, 000.

Dr. William Belton Murrah was the college's first president, and Bishop Charles Betts Galloway of the United Methodist Church organized the college's early fund-raising efforts.

This laid the foundation for a series of actions aiming to continue closing the access gap for minorities of virtually all categories in the decades to come, the most important of which was President John Brooks Slaughter's institution of the college's " mission statement ," an organizational declaration around which the entire college would function and aspire to both academic excellence and equity.

The college's current master, Sir Richard Dearlove, was previously the head of the United Kingdom's Secret Intelligence Service.

Founded explicitly in reaction to the " prevailing model of East Coast, Ivy League education ," the college's lack of varsity athletics, fraternities, and exclusive social clubs – as well as its coeducational, nonsectarian, and egalitarian status – gave way to an intensely academic and intellectual college whose purpose was to devote itself to " the life of the mind ," that life being understood primarily as the academic life.

" Their exhibit of this material was held at the college's Nott Memorial building.

The name was selected to honor the college's namesake, Chief Seattle.

This short story was published in his college's newspaper and was the foundation for " The Time Machine.

Bishop Hugo de Balsham died in 1286, bequeathing 300 marks that were used to buy further land to the south of St Peter's Church, on which the college's Hall was built.

For the 2011 fiscal year, the value of the college's endowment was in excess of $ 300 million, making it one of the highest in the United States on a per-student basis.

The SAMS course was designed to fill a post-Vietnam War gap in U. S. military education between the CGSC focus on tactics and the war college's focus on " ' grand strategy ' and national security policy ".

The Dobyns Building burned in 1930 and the college's signature church was built in its place.

Many believed the decision was due more to the college's reaction to Beaglehole's reputation ( albeit exaggerated ) for radicalism.

It was also a home to the college's first principal, James Cleland Gilchrist.

His mentor at Navarre was the college's president, Nicolas Cornet, the theologian whose denunciation of Antoine Arnauld at the Sorbonne in 1649 was a major episode in the Jansenist controversy.

The phony college's equally nonexistent football team had its scores carried by major newspapers including The New York Times before the hoax was discovered.

The college's chapel was built in 1763 and designed by Sir James Burrough, the Master of neighbouring Caius College.

Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh ( 1736 – 1790 ), later the college's first president, Queen's College was chartered on 10 November 1766.

The style was crafted by prominent Boulder architect James M. Hunter, who was contracted to establish a campus building plan by the college in the late 1950s, following the college's move from Hesperus, Colorado, to its Durango location.