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.

Insofar as its own governing documents are concerned, Emory University could now consider applications from prospective students, and others seeking applications from prospective students, and others seeking the opportunity to study or work at the university, irrespective of race, color or creed.

" A horsecar ran from Temescal in Oakland to the university campus along what is now Telegraph Avenue.

Although the official Swedish title for the head is " rektor ", the university now uses " President " as the English translation.

In 1962, on leave from the university, Singer was named as the first director of meteorological satellite services for the National Weather Satellite Center, now part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and directed a program for using satellites to forecast the weather.

It was the fifth university under the Swedish king, after Uppsala University ( 1477 ), the University of Tartu ( 1632, now in Estonia ), the Academy of Åbo ( 1640, now in Finland ), and the University of Greifswald ( founded 1456 ; Swedish 1648 – 1815, now in Germany ).

During the last few years a university college has been established and the city is now trying to focus on education, arts and culture.

A new university college ( Swedish: högskola ), Malmö University College, was opened in 1998 on Kockums ' former dockside and further redevelopment of the now disused south-western harbor followed ; a city architecture exposition ( Bo01 ) was held in the area in 2001 and its buildings and villas forms the core of a new city district, aimed at the urban middle-class and with attractive waterfront vistas.

Most midwives now qualify via a direct entry course, which refers to a three-or four-year course undertaken at university that leads to a degree in midwifery ( diploma courses in midwifery have been discontinued ) and entitles them to apply for admission to the register.

The beginning of 2009 also saw the introduction of a new logo for the university which retained the Sirius Star, present on both the old logo and the university crest, but now ' embedded in a stylised lotus flower '.

Many university laboratories in the United States have closed, citing a lack of acceptance by mainstream science as the reason ; the bulk of parapsychology research in the US is now confined to private institutions funded by private sources.

Opened in 1912 after the murder of its namesake William Marsh Rice, Rice is now a preeminent research university with a distinct undergraduate and graduate focus.

During his university studies he was a upright bass player in a group formed with the now Mediaset Chairman and amateur pianist Fedele Confalonieri and occasionally performed as a cruise ship crooner.

* SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is a facility located west of main campus and originally owned by Stanford but now operated by the university for the Department of Energy.

Lake Lagunita is often dry now, but the university has no plans to artificially fill it.

Other Stanford-affiliated institutions include the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory ( originally the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center ) and the Stanford Research Institute, a now independent institution which originated at the university, in addition to the Stanford Humanities Center.

In 1995, Tatu Ylönen, a researcher at Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, designed the first version of the protocol ( now called SSH-1 ) prompted by a password-sniffing attack at his university network.

Though the British government financially supports the use of English in Tanzania, its usage in the Tanzanian society has diminished over the past decades: In the seventies Tanzanian university students used to speak English with each other, whereas now they almost exclusively use Swahili outside the classroom.

Even in secondary school and university classes, where officially only English should be used, it is now quite common to use a mix of Swahili and English.

In the 21st century, Richard Dawkins, a prominent member of the New Atheism movement, believes that theology is not a suitable subject for a university because it is not scientific, saying that " a positive case now needs to be made that it has any real content at all, and that it has any place in today's universities.

What would become the university moved to Ann Arbor in 1837 onto of what is now known as Central Campus.