Undoubtedly helpful was that some of the university ’ s strongest programs were in the areas of music, speech, and art, disciplines in which ability could be measured by audition or portfolio rather than through paper qualifications.

In 2009, the university had also signed the University and College Presidents ’ Climate Change Statement of Action for Canada, which commits the university to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

In 1944, General Jorge Ubico ’ s thirteen-year dictatorship ( 1931 – 44 ) of Guatemala was overthrown by the October Revolutionaries, a group of Guatemalan nationalists — politically dissident military officers, university students, and liberal professionals — who were politically empowered, by the almost-simultaneous revolutions that deposed superannuated dictatorships in Venezuela, Cuba, and El Salvador.

With the support of his mentor Michael Maestlin, Kepler received permission from the Tübingen university senate to publish his manuscript, pending removal of the Bible exegesis and the addition of a simpler, more understandable description of the Copernican system as well as Kepler ’ s new ideas.

As part of the mass-education campaign of the 1970s, he founded five universities, each at different sites, in North Rhine-Westphalia and initiated Germany ’ s first distance learning university at Hagen ( modelled on the Open University ).

On the one hand, this period has seen the university ’ s growth as one of the foremost centres of the excellence in the country, while on the other, this period has also seen it being affected by naxalite violence that claimed, among others, the life of Prof. Gopal Chandra Sen, who was the vice chancellor of the university at the time of his death.

Within the university ’ s administrative structure, the highest body is the university court.

There have been only four Vice-Chancellors in the university ’ s forty-four year history.

The university ’ s first architect-planner was Walter Abraham, one of the first six administrators appointed to Macquarie University.

Abraham treasured Macquarie ’ s natural environment as one of the university ’ s invaluable assets.

In mid 2007, the university opened the Macquarie City Campus in the Sydney CBD, offering Macquarie University ’ s foundation studies, selected undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.

On-campus USOEC athletes live in NMU ’ s Meyland Hall, eat in campus dining halls, and train at the university ’ s Berry Events Center and Superior Dome.

When it becomes possible for a people to describe as ‘ postmodern ’ the décor of a room, the design of a building, the diegesis of a film, the construction of a record, or a ‘ scratch ’ video, a television commercial, or an arts documentary, or the ‘ intertextual ’ relations between them, the layout of a page in a fashion magazine or critical journal, an anti-teleological tendency within epistemology, the attack on the ‘ metaphysics of presence ’, a general attenuation of feeling, the collective chagrin and morbid projections of a post-War generation of baby boomers confronting disillusioned middle-age, the ‘ predicament ’ of reflexivity, a group of rhetorical tropes, a proliferation of surfaces, a new phase in commodity fetishism, a fascination for images, codes and styles, a process of cultural, political or existential fragmentation and / or crisis, the ‘ de-centring ’ of the subject, an ‘ incredulity towards metanarratives ’, the replacement of unitary power axes by a plurality of power / discourse formations, the ‘ implosion of meaning ’, the collapse of cultural hierarchies, the dread engendered by the threat of nuclear self-destruction, the decline of the university, the functioning and effects of the new miniaturised technologies, broad societal and economic shifts into a ‘ media ’, ‘ consumer ’ or ‘ multinational ’ phase, a sense ( depending on who you read ) of ‘ placelessness ’ or the abandonment of placelessness (‘ critical regionalism ’) or ( even ) a generalised substitution of spatial for temporal coordinates-when it becomes possible to describe all these things as ‘ Postmodern ’ ( or more simply using a current abbreviation as ‘ post ’ or ‘ very post ’) then it ’ s clear we are in the presence of a buzzword.

KTH accounts for one-third of Sweden ’ s technical research and engineering education capacity at university level.

Lovett Hall, named for Rice ’ s visionary first president, is the university ’ s most iconic campus building.

Research Infosource, Canada ’ s leading provider of research intelligence evaluation, named SFU the top comprehensive university in Canada for “ publication effectiveness ” in 2006.

Adorno resumed his teaching duties at the university soon after his arrival, with seminars on " Kant ’ s Transcendental Dialectic ," aesthetics, Hegel, “ Contemporary Problems in the Theory of Knowledge ” and “ The Concept of Knowledge .” Adorno ’ s surprise at his students ' passionate interest in intellectual matters did not, however, blind him to continuing problems within Germany: The literary climate was dominated by writers who had remained in Germany during Hitler's rule, the government re-employed people who had been active in the Nazi apparatus and people were generally loath to own up to their own collaboration or the guilt they thus incurred.

Christian theology ’ s preeminent place in the university began to be challenged during the European Enlightenment, especially in Germany.

Education, health services and public administration were among those fields that recruited personnel from among the university ’ s graduates.

In 1939, the university was renamed the University of Oslo and it remained Norway ’ s only university until 1946..

In 2001, it achieved high rankings in the annual Maclean's University Rankings, including Best Overall for Primarily Undergraduate University in their opinion survey, and it received the Canadian Information Productivity Award in 1997 as it was praised as the first university in Canada to fully utilize information technology in the undergraduate curriculum.

In U. S. News & World Report's annual " America's Best Colleges List ", the university has been ranked consistently among the " Best National Universities – Top Schools ".

This vision includes establishing a University College to foster both in-depth and wide-interest, society-interest driven education for upcoming engineers ; establishing a combined Graduate School to manage the graduate programs ; an increase of the student body by 50 percent ; a 50 percent increase in the number of annual Ph. D graduations ; an increase of knowledge valorisation to a campus-wide score of 4. 2 ; increasing the international position of the university to within the top-100 universities ; and increasing the embedding of the university within the city and the Brainport region by transforming the campus into a high-grade science park with laboratories, housing facilities for 700 students and researchers and supporting facilities.

In his first annual message to Congress, Adams presented an ambitious program for modernization that included roads, canals, a national university, an astronomical observatory, and other initiatives.

Since 1928 Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan has held an annual Winter Carnival in mid-February, during which a large Snow Sculpture Contest takes place between various clubs, fraternities, and organizations in the community and the university.

SFU has been rated as Canada's best comprehensive university ( in 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 ) in the annual rankings of Canadian universities in Maclean's magazine since 1991.

In its 2011 annual financial report, the university announced that it had dedicated $ 497 million per year in each of the prior 10 years to renovate buildings and infrastructure around the campus.

The university is ranked 3rd by the EPA for annual green power usage among universities, with 31 % of its power coming from wind and solar sources.

Under this, the Stationers paid an annual rent for the university not to exercise its full printing rights – money Oxford used to purchase new printing equipment for smaller purposes.

The Poetry Society of America continues to honor William Carlos Williams by presenting an annual award in his name for the best book of poetry published by a small, non-profit or university press.

He became the representative man of the university, and his speeches at the annual commencements were eagerly awaited.

There is no real or well-implemented vetting service used to ensure that, for example, Students ' Union Presidents are fairly ( or non-discriminatingly ) selected – or that a minimal, standardised and regional method of ensuring an allocation of annual university funding is directed towards such students ' union bodies.

At Bailrigg, just south of the city, is Lancaster University, a research university, with an annual income of £ 149 million.

The University of Calgary ranks 8th in the medical-doctoral category of Maclean's annual university rankings.

According to the annual university rankings conducted by El Mundo, the Complutense University ranks as the topmost university in Spain, with its Schools of Philosophy, Spanish Literature, History, Pharmacy, Optometry, Journalism, Psychology, and Sociology holding the top national rankings.

Known for their consistency of performances, the Choir probably does more annual appearances with major orchestras of the United States than any other university choir.

The University agreed in 2009 to make an annual payment in lieu of taxes of $ 50, 000 that would be indexed to inflation to cover of land in the township that the university had purchased in 2002.

The Princeton Review has named the university to its annual “ The 371 Best Colleges ," from 2002 to its most recent list in 2011.

The university has been ranked in the top 10 universities of U. S. News & World Report annual guide " America's Best Colleges ," in the Midwest Master's Universities category for twenty-three consecutive years.

The university matches 74 million kilowatt hours ( kWh ) of its annual energy use with Green-e Certified Renewable Energy Certificates ( RECs ).

Its current world-class reputation in teaching and research consistently place St Andrews as the top university in Scotland and often amongst the top five in the UK, according to annual league tables produced by The Times, Sunday Times and The Guardian.

The university has approximately 27, 000 full and part-time students, 3, 240 staff and an annual turnover in the region of £ 132. 5 million.

It was founded in 1942 and has a long history of being a nucleus of political activity The organization advocates on behalf of undergraduates, organizes and delivers the annual frosh week in conjunction with the university, certifies and financially supports student-run clubs and societies and provides a variety of services to students.