On September 23, 2004 the university's board of governors voted unanimously to rename the institution Breton University, however the proposed name received opposition from a number of groups in the institution and local community over the removal of the word " Cape " from the proposed new name, thus the name Cape Breton University was adopted instead.

Though not used in official communication, the nickname " Illinois Tech " has long been a favorite of students, inspiring the name of the student newspaper ; ( renamed in 1928 from Armour Tech News to TechNews ), and the former mascot of the university's collegiate sports teams, the Techawks.

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 name is a pun on the Invisible College.

As Miami grew west, the area came to be known as University Park after the university's campus name.

The city owes both its name and existence to the university's location along a railroad.

In post-nominals the university's name was historically abbreviated as " St And " ( from the Latin Sancti Andreae ).

In 2004, with the election of Springfield native Matt Blunt to the governorship and the approaching centennial of the university's founding, new support developed for the name change.

The name was taken from the Iowa State Cyclones, the nickname for the university's sports teams.

Α. Σ. Ο. Ε. Ε., ASOEE ) Though the university's official name has changed, it is still known popularly in Greek by this former acronym.

The university's original name, chosen in 1962, was the University of Kent at Canterbury, reflecting the fact that the campus straddled the boundary between the county borough of Canterbury and Kent County Council.

As a consequence of the expansion outside Canterbury the university's name was formally changed to the University of Kent on 1 April 2003.

In 1898 the university's name was changed to Pacific Lutheran Academy and Business College.

Several of the university's institutions retain the institution's traditional name, " University of Nevada ," including the alumni association, the student government, and the athletics department ( which refers to the university's teams simply as " Nevada ," a practice held since the late 19th century ).

The college's name reflects the university's early history as a liberal arts college and preparatory school in Boston's South End.

The Royal Technical Institute, Salford received royal letters, after the Duke and Duchess of York ( later King George V and Queen Mary ) officiated at its opening ceremony, an event commemorated in the university's Redbrick Peel Building and which allowed ' Royal ' to be appended to name of the institute.

* University of Toronto, Canada ( an alternative name for the university's main campus to differentiate from its other two campuses )

* Northeast of the old town, the Wilhelmstraße area surrounding the street of the same name is home to larger humanities departments as well as the university's administration.

The Office of Service and Justice at Fordham University bears her name, at both of the university's campuses in the city: the one at Lincoln Center in Manhattan and its main campus in the Bronx.

The university's School of Continuing and Professional Studies ( SCS ) was established in 1965 under the name of the Department of Extramural Studies.

The university's name was abbreviated as Malaya during the pre-independence period.

Aachen has a large number of spin-offs from the university's IT-technology department and is a major centre of IT development in Germany.

The Division of Fine Arts has the largest faculty of the university's six undergraduate schools.

The university's stand has been condemned by some other fundamentalists.

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.

Marine research at Dalhousie has become a large focus of the university, with many of the university's faculty members involved in some form of marine research.

The faculty feared for the university's reputation – it has historically been well regarded for its contributions to mainstream science – and scientists outside the university questioned whether Baylor had " gone fundamentalist ".

As a part of its long-term efforts to " attain flagship status ," UC Irvine has implemented construction projects ( estimated to cost $ 1. 3 billion over the next decade ) that will accelerate the campus build-out and employ the remainder of the university's land grant.

As of 2005, the campus has more than 200 buildings and encompasses most of the university's.

The turning point in Madison's development was the university's 1954 decision to develop its experimental farm on the western edge of town ; since then, the city has grown substantially along suburban lines.

The university's national research impact has also been evaluated.

In particular, debate has come up in both the student Senate, the university's Board of Governors over possible violations of Policy 33, prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Originally based in the South Academic Block, the university's presence has been expanded to include several other buildings which are home to six different research departments.

The University of Southampton Library has a presence on each of the university's campuses, holding more than 1. 5 million books and periodicals, some 6, 000 in electronic form, besides specialist materials, including more than 6 million manuscripts.

An archive of Lopez's manuscripts and other work has been established at Texas Tech University, where he was the university's visiting distinguished scholar.

Since 2006, the programme of European Studies has been added to the university's offerings.

The university's former main building has hosted the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture | Faculty of Architecture since 2008.

Construction has obliterated all of these features, and only the University Tower remains as memory of the university's past.

The Quebec government has said that unless UQÀM cuts costs, the university's total project-related debt could be $ 500 million by 2012.

A fund-raising campaign called " Promise & Distinction " raised $ 730. 6 million as of October 3, 2008, increasing the university's total endowment to more than $ 1. 1 billion ; by March 2009, Yvette Jones, Tulane's Chief Operating Officer, told Tulane's Staff Advisory Council that the endowment " has lost close to 37 %", affected by the late-2000s recession.

The stadium is home to the university's varsity football team, and has hosted a number of events including the World Lacrosse Championships and the Canada Games.

The purpose of this has been to gather the university's many departments and faculties on three larger campuses in order to create a bigger, more concentrated and modern student environment with better teaching facilities, as well as to save money on rent and maintenance of the old buildings.

The general council of the University of Edinburgh has a threesided head: one with the seal of the University ; one with the university's coat of arms and the third with Edinburgh's coat of arms of the City of Edinburgh.

The university's men's basketball team, which did not make its first appearance in the NCAA tournament until 1995 ( more than a decade after NBA Hall of Fame player and Gonzaga alum John Stockton graduated ), has made the regional finals of the NCAA tournament (" Elite Eight ") in 1999, re-appearing in the tournament every year since.