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..

The university has lost 25 percent of its first-year students and 8 per cent of continuing students.

The college generally offers accommodation to all first-year students ( freshers ) and the percentage of graduate students housed within college accommodation exceeds the university average.

) is a first-year student in college, university or high school.

Instead, these universities provide unrestricted access to the first-year curriculum in medicine ; and the best first-year students are allowed to further their medical studies at the same or at another university.

The residence system is supervised by Residence Life staff, who provide guidance and help the transition to university life for many first-year students.

The project increased student capacity for on-campus housing to roughly 3, 500, and provides housing options for first-year students, upper-class students, graduate students and faculty, staff and guests of the university.

These summer classes, held at 9 colleges and universities throughout the US, introduce students to an academic experience which closely parallels that of a first-year student in a university engineering program.

The college offers pre-university programs, which take two years to complete and cover the subject matters which roughly correspond to the additional year of high school given elsewhere in Canada and introductory first-year university curriculum in preparation for a chosen field in university.

courses on offer tend to cover material that is at first-year university level or its equivalent, and involve subjects not taught ( or widely taught ) for the Leaving Certificate.

BOC helps with the transition into university life for first-year students and adds variety to university life for those returning students.

* The Canadian House of Commons Page Program employs part-time first-year university students who work roughly 15 hours a week and are paid approximately $ 12, 000 ( CDN ) for a one-year term.

The cost of yobikou education is high, comparable to first-year university expenses, and some specialized courses at yobiko are even more expensive.

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.

The university ’ s support for renewable energy is made possible through a student fee-funded sustainability program established in 2005.

It is the efficient heating system connected to all the core campus buildings that permits UNBC to pursue its goal of heating the university by the gasification of clean-burning, renewable wood pellets, collected from the waste of pine trees killed by the mountain pine beetle epidemic.

Most of the southern part of the university consists of paddocks of livestock, farms and renewable energy facilities.

Among other things, this committed the university to ensure that within one year, it would purchase or produce at least 15 % of the institution's electric consumption from renewable sources.

York Hill is a " green " campus, making use of renewable energy and environmentally friendly resources, including one of the first major wind farms integrated into a university campus.

The university is now purchasing renewable energy through the TVA ’ s Green Power Switch program and offsetting 10 % of current energy use.

; Renewable resources labs: The university has a farm / renewable resources laboratory with a pond for crawfish and catfish culture in Cade, Louisiana.

This deal makes Southwestern the first university in Texas to get all its power from renewable sources.

The Energy Research and Development Institute ( ERDI ), the university center for renewable energy ( mainly biogas and biomass ) and energy efficiency improvement center, moved from the main campus to the Mae Hea campus in January 2009.

# Nakasongola Campus-The university is in the process of acquiring in Nakasongola District, to house the research facility in renewable energy and environmental management.