Dr. Hester, also one of the youngest men ever to head a major American university, succeeds Dr. Carroll V. Newsom who resigned last September to join Prentice-Hall Inc. publishing firm.

I think for example of three women's colleges with pitifully small enrollments, clustered within a few miles of a major Catholic university, which is also co-educational.

When a man invests a block of his years at a university without gaining the coveted promotion, not only is he faced with the problem of starting over but there is also a certain depreciation in the market value of his services.

After this, he was especially known for acting as a mediator between conflicting parties ( In Cologne he is not only known for being the founder of Germany's oldest university there, but also for " the big verdict " ( der Große Schied ) of 1258, which brought an end to the conflict between the citizens of Cologne and the archbishop.

Arizona State University's Division I athletic teams are called the Sun Devils, which is also the nickname used to refer to students and alumni of the university.

There are also two religious university campuses in Canberra: Signadou is a campus of the Australian Catholic University and St Mark's Theological College is a campus of Charles Sturt University.

He also empowered them to confer ( later within strict limitations ) the degree of Doctor, with all university privileges, create notaries ( later abrogated ), legitimize children so as to make them eligible to receive benefices vacated by their fathers ( now revoked ), also to ennoble three persons and to make Knights of the Order of St. Sylvester ( Militiae Aureae ), the same to enjoy and to wear the insignia of nobility.

Alexander was also one of the first scholastics to participate in the Quodlibetal, a university event in which a master had to respond to any question posed by any student or master over a period of three days.

In 1709 he became professor of botany and medicine, and in that capacity he did good service, not only to his own university, but also to botanical science, by his improvements and additions to the botanic garden of Leiden, and by the publication of numerous works descriptive of new species of plants.

The university also has a student-staffed newspaper ( The Collegian ), yearbook ( Vintage ) and radio and television station ( WBJU ).

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.

Many British Standards ( BSs ) – as well as some of the European and International Standards that were adopted as British Standards ( BS EN, BS ISO ) – are also available in public and university libraries in the United Kingdom.

From the 14th century, the term was also used for a junior member of a guild ( otherwise known as " yeomen ") or university ; hence, an ecclesiastic of an inferior grade, for example, a young monk or even recently appointed canon ( Severtius, de episcopis Lugdunen-sibus, p. 377, in du Cange ).

" Bachelor " can also refer to those holding a " bachelor's degree " from a university ( or a four-year college, in the American system of higher education ).

During that time, Jawhar also commissioned the construction of al-Azhar Mosque, which developed into the third-oldest university in the world.

The university also houses an independent nonprofit organization, Community Impact, which strives to serve disadvantaged people in the Harlem, Washington Heights, and Morningside Heights communities.

The university has also educated 26 foreign Heads of State, including President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, President of East Timor Jose Ramos Horta, President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves and other historical figures such as Wellington Koo, Gaston Eyskens, and T. V. Soong.

It was also for a time the official name of the first college in the public university system of New York City, later named ( and still called ) the City College of New York, and now officially the City College of the City University of New York.

In the spring of 1882, Hermann Minkowski ( two years younger than Hilbert and also a native of Königsberg but so talented he had graduated early from his gymnasium and gone to Berlin for three semesters ), returned to Königsberg and entered the university.

The 2006 Carnegie Foundation classification listed Dartmouth as the only " majority-undergraduate ", " arts-and-sciences focus ", " research university " in the country that also had " some graduate coexistence " and " very high research activity.

Dartmouth serves as the host institution of the University Press of New England, a university press founded in 1970 that is supported by a consortium of schools that also includes Brandeis University, the University of New Hampshire, Northeastern University, Tufts University and the University of Vermont.

According to a 2008 article in The Wall Street Journal, Dartmouth graduates also earn higher median salaries at least 10 years after graduation than alumni of any other American university surveyed.

The National University of Ireland ( NUI ) has its seat in Dublin, which is also the location of the associated constituent university of University College Dublin ( UCD ), the largest university in Ireland with over 22, 000 students.

The university Archives holds copies of all university publications, oral histories of faculty and staff members, surviving remnants of university correspondence, and pictures and artifacts related to the Jones family and the history of the university.

The United States holds two national level university tournaments including the NCAA championship and the USACFC National Championships tournaments in the USA and the BUCS fencing championships in the United Kingdom.

* 1868 – Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies ; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.

The university library holds about 5. 25 million volumes of books and periodicals ( 131, 293 shelf meters ), 61, 959 manuscripts, 7, 133 music prints, and 345, 734 maps and other graphic documents.

The university currently holds 48 Canada Research Chairs and is either home to or a partner in 37 research centres, institutes and shared facilities.

The university holds The Sonny Carter Invitational each year in his honor.

The nominal head of an ancient university in Scotland is its Chancellor with the day-to-day functions of the chief operating officer vested in the vice-chancellor, who also holds the title of Principal and is referred to as the Principal Vice-Chancellor.

The university holds two classifications from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, as a “ research university with high research activity ” and for “ community engagement ” in curriculum, outreach and partnerships.

Zeppelin University holds the title of the ' most committed ' university in Germany with regard to civil society issues ( Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft / Stiftung Mercator 2011 ).

The university holds a number of formal links with institutions from around the world to share teaching and research and facilitate staff and student exchanges.

From this ancient custom derives the French word baccalauréat ( from the Latin bacca, a berry, and laureus, of the bay laurel ), and, by modification, the term " bachelor " in referring to one who holds a university degree.

The university library is spread over four locations, and holds, in total, 2. 78 million books, 26, 000 print and electronic journals, 850 databases and 6, 000 electronic books: making it one of the largest research libraries in the UK.

The numerous cultural partnerships that the university holds currently include a link with Leicester City Football Club, utilising the university's expertise in sports history to help make the club's heritage more widely available, as well a partnership with the British Library, which will see the two institutions working together in order to boost research and cultural activities.

) or Private lecturer is a title conferred in some European university systems, especially in German-speaking countries, for someone who pursues an academic career and holds all formal qualifications ( doctorate and habilitation ) to become a tenured university professor.

PLU holds the distinction as being the first American university to have students studying abroad on all seven continents at the same time In 2009 PLU became the first university is Washington state and the first private university on the west coast to receive the prestigious Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization.

While PLU holds the license for the radio station and all KPLU staff members are also university employees, the station operates nearly independently.

* Structural engineer – Typically holds a bachelors or master's degree in structural engineering, new university graduates must hold a master's degree to gain chartered status from the Engineering Council, mainly through the Institution of Structural Engineers.

Sir David Brewster ( 11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868 ) was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer and university principal.

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.

* March 27 – Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian university founder ( b. 1817 )

In 1908 Sir Oliver Lodge, Principal of Birmingham University, wrote to his counterpart at Bristol, welcoming a new university worthy of:

The College became Sir George Williams University ( SGWU ) in 1948, when it received a university charter from the provincial government, though it remained the education arm of the Montreal YMCA.

The university gained international attention in 1969, when a group of students occupied the Hall Building's 9th floor computer lab ( see Sir George Williams Computer Riot ).

The university has two campuses, set approximately 7 km apart: Sir George Williams Campus in the downtown core of Montreal, in an area known as Quartier Concordia ( at Guy-Concordia Metro station ), and Loyola Campus in the residential west-end district of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.

Finally, defying the Stationers ' demands, Fell personally leased the right to print from the university in 1672, in partnership with Thomas Yate, Principal of Brasenose, and Sir Leoline Jenkins, Principal of Jesus College.

* Tan Sri Professor Sir Alexander Oppenheim, British mathematician, started a POW university for his fellow workers

In the Iberian Peninsula, Portugal's and Spain's university heads or presidents have the title Magnífico Reitor / Rector Magnífico, and are usually styled, in official ceremonies, with the denomination of " Most Excellent and Illustrious Sir or Lord ".

On leaving university he became a researcher to the former Conservative Member of the European Parliament, Sir John Stewart-Clark, and then in 1981 became a merchant banker.

Under the leadership of then Vice Chancellor, Sir Howard Newby the university became more focused in encouraging and investment in more and better quality research.

Sir John Habakkuk ( principal 1967 – 84 ) and Sir Peter North ( principal 1984 – 2005 ) both served terms as Vice-Chancellor of the university, from 1973 to 1977 and from 1993 to 1997 respectively.

The next few years saw major developments at the university, including Sir Charles Sherrington's discovery of the synapse and Professor William Blair-Bell's work on chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer.

* Well ( Noble ) Strictly Sir / Madam ( De weledelgestrenge heer / vrouwe )-a master in laws ( meester in de rechten ) or a university engineer ( ingenieur )

Planning commenced in 1965 under Minister of State for Education Jennie Lee, who set up a planning committee consisting of university vice-chancellors, educationalists and television broadcasters, chaired by Sir Peter Venables.

In 1777 his patron John Norris died ; but contributions from Etonians helped fund his maintenance at the university, and he found a new patron in Sir George Baker, then president of the College of Physicians.

The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts was designed by Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank | Norman Foster to house the art collection of Robert Sainsbury | Sir Robert and Lady Lisa Sainsbury, whose daughter attended the university

In 1957, Sir Hugh Casson and Neville Conder were asked by the university to prepare a masterplan on the site of the original 1900 buildings which were incomplete.

Following extensive fundraising, a £ 57 million new university library ( the Sir Duncan Rice Library ) opened in autumn 2011 at the Kings College campus to replace the outgrown Queen Mother Library and was officially opened by the Queen in September 2012.

He was the eldest son of Sir John Gascoigne of Cardington, Bedfordshire and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and on leaving the university is supposed to have joined the Middle Temple.

The college was founded after the British philanthropist Sir David Robinson offered the university £ 17 million to establish a new college in Cambridge ; this is still one of the largest donations ever accepted by the university.