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..

It is natural that he should turn for his major support to a select and dedicated few from the organization which actually owns the university and whose goals are, in their opinion, identified with its highest good and ( to use that oft-repeated phrase ) ' the attainment of excellence ' ''.

He was the first German noble to support Luther's ideas and in 1544 founded the University of Königsberg ( the so called Albertina ) as a rival to the Roman Catholic Cracow Academy ; it was only the second Lutheran university in the German states, after Marburg.

In particular he canvassed the support of the young post-war university students and recent graduates, appealing to younger voters in a way that many of his recent predecessors had not, and asserting a new strand of Liberalism for the post-war world.

Seven members of the university board ( of about a hundred ) also resigned in support of Graham, including Graham himself and two of his staff members.

Democrats were rarely invited to speak at the university, in part because they took political and social positions ( especially support for abortion rights ) opposed by the Religious Right.

Among American university students, for both men and women, support for feminist ideas is more common than self-identification as a feminist.

In addition, the university usually also has dedicated research staff and a considerable support staff.

In addition, there may be central support units, such as a university library which have a dedicated staff.

In support of Iowa Department of Natural Resources efforts to re-establish the trumpeter swans in Iowa, university officials avoided bringing breeding pairs of male and female mute swans to Iowa State which means the current Sir Lancelot and Elaine are both female.

Adams proposed an elaborate program of internal improvements ( roads, ports and canals ), a national university, and federal support for the arts and sciences.

With remaining revenues, St-Laurent oversaw the expansion of Canada's social programs, including establishment of the Canada Council to support the arts, and the gradual expansion of social welfare programs such as family allowances, old age pensions, government funding of university and post-secondary education and an early form of Medicare termed Hospital Insurance at the time, that lay the groundwork for Tommy Douglas ' healthcare system in Saskatchewan and Pearson's nationwide universal healthcare in the late 1960s.

To help achieve this vision, the university implemented a laptop program in the fall of 2000 that ensures students and faculty have a standard set of tools ( hardware and software ) that meet a majority of their computing and telecommunications needs, promotes communication and enables quality support.

It is also the location of the Department of University Systems, which largely responsible for the systems, networking and support of the university including student computing facilities and language labs.

Frederick the Wise did not support Luther, who was a professor at the university he founded, but he protected him by hiding Luther in Wartburg Castle in Eisenach.

The other nationes of the university declared their support for the side of Pope Gregory XII, thus the vote was 1: 3 against the Bohemians.

As part of a charitable organization, OUP is committed to major financial support of its parent university, and furthers the university's aims of excellence in scholarship, research, and education through its publishing activities.

Despite being a middle-aged, twice-divorced career woman, Edina is reliant upon the support of her daughter, Saffron, a secondary school pupil ( and later university student ) whose constant care for her mother has left her a bitter cynic.

Small town and rural support comes especially from the traditionally Protestant areas of northern Germany and Brandenburg ( with notable exceptions such as Western Pomerania where CDU leader Angela Merkel was re-elected in 2005 ) and a number of university towns.

Once the war was finished, Cervera, which had been destroyed, decided to give support to the ones who were governing ( the borbons ) and sent two ambassadors to the Courts with the mission to persuade the ministers of Philip V of his absolute support, with the goal to obtain some logical compensation and in one of their 30 requests, they requested one university like the one in the city of Lleida.

In her university role, Bashir instrumental in developing collaborative teaching programs between colleagues in Vietnam and Thailand with Australian psychiatrists, chairing the University of New South Wales Third World Health Group ( 1995 – 2000 ) and supporting various financial and social support programmes for International students.

The museum remains open, and no works of art were sold to support university operations.

In 1942 one resistance leader claimed that the movement received support from four groups: The " lower middle " and " middle middle " classes, university professors and students, all of the working class, and a large majority of the peasants.