Several university's faculty members and students have also gained local and national prominence for serving in government.

A number of the university's faculty and students have also gained prominence in the field of computing sciences.

The university's overall prestige and international prominence grew at spectacular rates, with the

D ' Ailly rose to prominence by leading the university's effort to secure removal of John Blanchard as chancellor.

In 2012, USM came to national prominence as tension between the university's president, Selma Botman, and the university's faculty culminated in a faculty vote of " no confidence.

The university previously fielded football teams from 1908 to 1951, reaching national prominence during World War II when the university's participation in the Navy's V-12 College Training Program enlisted talented players from other schools.

Trine wrestling continues to gain prominence: in 2010, Nick Kraus became the university's first participant in the NCAA Division III National Championship.

On August 13, 2010, the University of Texas at Austin's nanoscience building was named the Larry R. Faulkner Nano Science and Technology Building by the UT System Board of Regents in recognition of former President Faulkner's leadership in bringing the university's nanotechnology program to national prominence.

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.

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.

Sustainability and transportation are also a large part of the university's campus master plan.

In November 2009, the national Danish Working Environment Authority published a report about the working environments at the Institute for Communication stating that " the university's combination of large work responsibilities and time pressure risks influencing the physical and psychological health of the employees in the short and long term ".

A large and growing number of students participate in the university's Global Engagement Summer Institute ( GESI ), a group service-learning expedition in Asia, Africa, or Latin America, in conjunction with the Foundation for Sustainable Development.

Nearly all of the 35 administrative, academic, student services, and residence halls, many built in a red-brick Georgian style, are located on three quadrangles and a new pedestrian thoroughfare in a area, while a large adjoining area along the New River holds a variety of the university's athletic facilities.

There are also alumni associations ; religious and political organizations ; clubs devoted to various topics such as innovation, human rights, beer, oatmeal, anime and computers ; and The Association for Various Associations, which is a parody of the university's large number of student organizations.

As the university's students make up roughly a quarter of the total population of Tübingen, the town's culture is to a large extent dominated by them.

The university's unique character is defined by its location in Northern Ontario, and a large and highly respected faculty of education.

They provided seed money for the university's Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication which recently constructed a new facility thanks in a large part to Gaylord donations.

Penn Masala also holds a large annual spring concert at the University of Pennsylvania in the university's largest performance venue, Irvine Auditorium.

Roughly half of the university's full-time students are from the West Midlands, and a large percentage of these are from ethnic minorities.

The Society, which was originally headquartered in a two-room suite at Eliot House, one of the university's twelve residential colleges, has become known for the large number of scholars it has contributed to the Harvard faculty over the years and thus for the way it has influenced the tenor of discourse at the university.

The University of Manchester's main accommodation complex – the Fallowfield Campus – occupies a large area in the north ; these are adjacent to the university's Owens Park halls of residence and the Firs Botanical Grounds.

It is home to a large student population from the nearby University of Sheffield, and also contains the university's Tapton Hall of Residence

A large section of the campus is supported by AirNet, the university's free wireless connection.

The university's campus is located in Bogota's historical center, an area that houses most of the city ’ s buildings of cultural interest, universities, banks and large Colombian companies, the main offices of the national and local government, and a variety of cultural meeting places such as libraries, museums, theaters, scientific and literary centers, and art galleries.

The university's medical department is linked to the St Radboud University Medical Center, a large teaching hospital located on the Heyendaal campus along with the other university buildings such as the Huygensgebouw which contains the Natural Sciences.

New facilities on the Macon campus include the University Center, a large multi-purpose facility that houses the university's athletics department, basketball arena, and student services, the Allan and Rosemary McCorkle Music Building that houses the Townsend School of Music, a new Science and Engineering Building, and the Greek Village with 18 fraternity and sorority houses.

Efforts to do so were unsuccessful, but in 1904 the Association signed an agreement with D. C .- based Columbian University to change its name to George Washington University and build a large memorial hall on the university's campus.

The university's main campus is made up of several buildings, including the Warde Academic Center, which is the oldest building on campus and houses administrative offices and the library, the Shannon Center, McDonough Chapel, a large Catholic chapel, the Graham School of Management Building, Andrew Conference Center, Driehaus Center, and Pulaski Center.

In addition, GC operates a large recreational area on Lake Laurel ( approximately 15 minutes from the central campus ) which is used by students in the university's Environmental Science and Outdoor Education programs.

A large stained-glass window dominates the hall, executed by TR Spence of London and representing the university's history.

King's College is now within the university's main Old Aberdeen campus and retains its original and historic quadrangle which houses a large conference centre and the university's chapel.

In May 1975, as it prepared to allow unmarried blacks to enroll, BJU adopted more detailed rules prohibiting interracial dating and marriage — threatening expulsion for any student who dated or married interracially, who advocated interracial marriage, who was " affiliated with any group or organization which holds as one of its goals or advocates interracial marriage ," or " who espouse, promote, or encourage others to violate the university's dating rules and regulations.

Further student protests, including hunger strike and more barricades of Hamilton Hall and the Business School during the late 1970s and early 1980s, were aimed at convincing the university trustees to divest all of the university's investments in companies that were seen as active or tacit supporters of the apartheid regime in South Africa.

One is the chair of the university's student senate, and the other is non-voting and is the chair of the university's faculty senate.

* Opened in 1958 as the university's fieldhouse, this building now houses the offices of the Dean of Students, Admissions, Registrar, Financial Aid, Housing and Residence Life, Multicultural Education, and other student services.

Hart, a student at the University of Illinois, obtained access to a Xerox Sigma V mainframe computer in the university's Materials Research Lab.

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

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

He also wrote for The Michigan Daily, the university's student newspaper.

In 1969, he participated in the occupation of the Maagdenhuis, the university's administrative center, as part of a student protest.

The university's student newspaper, Student Life, is available for students.

" That year he was far more proud that his son Joseph Meredith graduated as the top doctoral student at the university's business school.

In Lovecraft's stories, the university's student body is implied to be all-male, much like northeastern universities of Lovecraft's time.

A former campus rabbi of Bar-Ilan University, Hess published in the university's student paper in February 1980 an article on " The Genocide Commandment in the Torah ", in which he concluded that:

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.

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.

In December 1997 the administration charged Thrasher with discrimination against women as per the university's code of student conduct.

Small amendments to allow " infrequent " visits failed to placate the student body, especially when the university's board of trustees overruled new Chancellor Paul Frederick Sharp's decision to allow speaking invitations to Marxist speaker Herbert Aptheker and civil liberties activist Frank Wilkinson ; however, the two speakers came to Chapel Hill anyway.

In 2003 Montclair State University dedicated a student residential complex aptly named The Abbott and Costello Center on Clove Road in the Little Falls portion of the university's campus.

The system is governed by a Board of Trustees consisting of thirteen members: the governor of Illinois serves as an ex officio member, nine trustees are appointed by the Illinois Governor, and a student trustee elected by referendum represents each of the university's three campuses.

Traditionally the university's strengths were in engineering, science, technology and social sciences but with the addition of the West London Institute, new departments such as arts, humanities, geography & earth science, health and sports science were added, and the size of the student body increased to over 12, 000.

Every student is allocated to one of the university's eight colleges, as is the case at the traditional collegiate universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Durham.

The Board also consists of 26 other governors, either appointed or elected by the various members of the university's community and the surrounding community, including elected representatives from the student body.

The Senate also consists of 46 elected members from the university's faculty, 18 members from the student population, and 9 members from the Western's affiliated colleges, including their principals.