Although there were many changes during its first century, the university's identity has been held constant as privately controlled, non-sectarian, coeducational center of higher learning, distinguished by a commitment to preparing both men and women for future success.

The office was first created in 1838, with Thomas McCulloch serving as the university's first president.

He spent the three years at The Queen's College, Oxford after earning his bachelors as one of the university's first Rhodes Scholars, initially studying jurisprudence ( instead of science as a promise to his dying father ), and later added literature and Spanish, and earning his master's degree.

Within the first few hundred days of Schwartz's instatement as Vice-Chancellor, the ' Macquarie @ 50 ' strategic plan was launched, which positioned the university to enhance research, teaching, infrastructure and academic rankings by the university's 50th anniversary in 2014.

The university's first president, Edgar Odell Lovett, intended for the campus to have a uniform architecture style to improve its aesthetic appeal.

In May of the same year, Dr. Gordon M. Shrum was appointed as the university's first Chancellor.

John Monteith was one of the university's founders and its first President.

In the first case, the court upheld the Law School admissions policy, while in the second it ruled against the university's undergraduate admissions policy.

Waldemar Christofer Brøgger was Professor of Geology and became the university's first rector.

The inaugural speech was given by influential professor of theology Gisbertus Voetius, and Bernardus Schotanus ( professor of law and mathematics ) was the university's first rector magnificus.

In that same year the first students were admitted to the university's new Master of Education program.

A renewable energy partnership was entered into by the university, Rocky Mountain Power and 3Degrees on September 28, 2011 allowing the purchase of renewable wind power that in its first year will produce 98, 233, 000 kilowatt-hours of wind energy, which is 36 % of the university's total power usage, with plans for an additional two-year renewable energy commitment.

In 1851, the university's first student scientific association was founded.

* Nawojka, the university's legendary first female student from the 15th century

Durkheim's articles gained recognition in France, and he received a teaching appointment in the University of Bordeaux in 1887, where he was to teach the university's first social science course.

The motto was created by the university's first rector, Mogens Brøndsted in 1966.

This business was set up in the cellars of the new Sheldonian Theatre, where Fell installed printing presses in 1668, making it the university's first central print shop.

Following the start of this work, Fell drew up the first formal programme for the university's printing.

The new COES building will provide new learning space for the university's first-year and second-year engineering and science students for the first time since the completion of Bogard Hall in 1940.

The university's School of Environment, Enterprise and Development ( SEED ) placed first in Canada in the Corporate Knights 2011 ranking of undergraduate business programs.

The university's academic schools and programs include the College of Arts & Sciences, the Jospeph M. Bryan School of Business & Economics, the School of Education, the School of Health and Human Sciences, the School of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering ( one of the first such schools in the nation ), the School of Music, Theatre & Dance ( affectionately known as the School of Performing Arts ), the School of Nursing, Continual Learning, Graduate School, Ashby Residential College and Lloyd International Honors College.

The university's first president, Herbert Stoker Armstrong, held a strong belief that " although the university is accountable to the society that supports it, the university must insist on playing a leadership role in intellectual matters if it is to be worthy of the name.

The university's presence at the general hospital dates to 1971, when Southampton ( along with Nottingham and Leicester universities ) became the first new Schools of Medicine to be founded in the United Kingdom in the twentieth century.

The president expects faculty members to remember, in exercising their autonomy, that they share no collective responsibility for the university's income nor are they personally accountable for top-level decisions.

Members of the board, known as Governors of the Board include the university's chancellor, president and 25 other members.

While pursuing his bachelor's degree, Coppola was elected president of The Green Wig ( the university's drama group ), the Kaleidoscopians, ( its musical comedy club ) and he then merged the two into The Spectrum Players.

James Burrill Angell, who served as the university's president from 1871 to 1909, aggressively expanded U-M's curriculum to include professional studies in dentistry, architecture, engineering, government, and medicine.

Dr. Laurie M. Joyner was named as the university's 14th president effective July 1, 2012.

He also intervened in the university's affairs, choosing its president.

On June 8, 2012 the Board of Governors elected Prof. Dr. Heinz-Otto Peitgen as the university's next president.

University Park is also home to University House, the home of FIU's president, the Wertheim Performing Arts Center, the Frost Art Museum, the International Hurricane Research Center, and the university's athletic facilities such as FIU Stadium, University Park Stadium, and the U. S. Century Bank Arena.

Eliot served until 1909, having the longest term as president in the university's history.

Ex officio governors of the Board include the university's chancellor, president, the mayor of London, the warden of Middlesex County and the secretary of the Board of Governors.

The university's president and vice chancellor is Professor Dawn Russell as of July 1, 2011, replacing former interim president and vice chancellor Dennis Cochrane.

" Former University president John Keiser had firmly opposed the change as did the Student Government Association during 2004 when Student Body President Chris Curtis moved to change the SGA constitution to mirror the university's.

The newspaper is staffed largely by students of the journalism and broadcasting department of the university's communication arts department and managed by a faculty adviser and an advisory board which reports to the university president.

In 1949, Father Charles Cassassa, S. J., Ph. D., was named president and began one of the most consequential presidencies in the university's history.

Father Donald Merrifield, S. J., Ph. D., who became president of Loyola University in 1969, continued to serve as the university's president.

He stepped down as president of Loyola Marymount in 1984, but remained the university's chancellor until 2002.

Summers approved the decision to enter into the swap contracts as president of the university and as a member of Harvard Corp., " the university's seven-member ruling body " which bears " the school's ultimate fiduciary responsibility.

Dr. Roseann Runte was appointed the university's president on January 8, 2008, succeeding David W. Atkinson and his pro tempore ( acting ) successor Samy Mahmoud, the previous Vice-President ( academic ).

The Museum of Art / WSU has several permanent collections, including the Ernest O. Holland Collection given by the university's fourth president and the Charles Orton Collection, given by a former regent.