Although faculties insist on governing themselves, they grant little prestige to a member who actively participates in college or university government.

Apart from being a member of the prestigious LERU and Universitas 21 networks, the university participates in the European Erasmus and Nordplus programmes.

It participates in the NCAA's Division II, and is the only NCAA conference in any division with a Canadian university as a member.

There are many university research institutes and Leiden participates in over forty nation-wide research schools, twelve of which being located in the heart of Leiden.

The library participates in an inter-campus loan program where students can order books from other university libraries in within the University System of Maryland for temporary use.

UConn participates in the New England Board of Higher Education's Regional Student Program ( NERSP ), which allows students from the five other New England states to enroll at the university at a reduced out-of-state tuition rate if their intended major is not provided by one of their in-state universities.

The university participates in a special guaranteed admissions program with the Connecticut Community Colleges ( CCC ) that is designed for academically qualified students who are attending a Connecticut community college and who are planning to transfer to the University of Connecticut in Liberal Arts & Sciences, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Business, or Engineering.

The university participates in NCAA Division I ( Division I-A for football ) as a member of the Mid-American Conference and the Central Collegiate Hockey Association for ice hockey.

It is involved in a number of business, management and research projects, particularly in supercomputing, where the university participates in a tri-continental array with nodes in Perth, Beijing and Edinburgh.

In this way, the university ensures that everyone has a voice in its decision-making processes and participates in its management.

Running Start provides up to two years of paid tuition at any state-run community college or four-year university that participates in the Running Start program.

The university participates in international exchange and cooperation.

However, the university participates in a student housing foundation, offering mediation services to students.

One of two campus buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Herring-Cole is the site of seminars, archival exhibitions about university history, guest lectures and receptions in which the entire campus community participates.

The university is also a member of Mortar Board national honors society for college seniors, and participates with the National Society of Collegiate Scholars in recognizing the academic achievements of first-and second-year students.

The university participates in a number of intercollegiate athletics as part of the NAIA in the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference.

RMU participates in inter-library lending consortia PALINET and PALCI that allow RMU students to borrow books on site from most of the college and university libraries in the Pittsburgh area.

Fielding athletic teams known as the SIU Edwardsville Cougars, the university participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) at the Division I level as a member of Ohio Valley Conference ( OVC ).

As a Texas public university and a member of the Texas A & M University System, Texas A & M University – Kingsville participates in the Texas " top-10 law ".

The University of Wisconsin Green Bay student body participates actively in issues regarding university governance through the Student Government Association.

The university participates in the ERASMUS programme, a partnership for student exchanges in Europe.

UNK participates in intercollegiate athletics at the NCAA at the Division II level and is a member of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association ( MIAA ) for most of its sports ; women's swimming and diving competes in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference ( NSIC ), The university joined the MIAA in 2012 ; prior to joining the conference, UNK was a member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference ( RMAC ).

The university actively participates in the European Union's SOCRATES programme as well as several TEMPUS programmes.

The university participates in well over 30 EU projects.

Notable student groups include the nation's largest and oldest collegiate outdoors club, the Dartmouth Outing Club, which includes the nationally recognized Big Green Bus, the controversial conservative newspaper The Dartmouth Review, and The Dartmouth, arguably the nation's oldest university newspaper.

While at the university, he was the student manager of both the baseball and football teams and was a part of the inaugural Big Game versus rival University of California ( Stanford won ).

The university is a group member of the prestigious American Association of Universities, Universities Research Association, and the Big 12 Conference.

The Lansing Metropolitan Area, colloquially referred to as " Mid-Michigan ", is an important center for educational, cultural, governmental, business, and high-tech manufacturing, including two medical schools, one veterinary school, two nursing schools, two law schools, including the nation's largest law school ( Thomas M. Cooley Law School ), a Big Ten Conference university ( Michigan State ), the Michigan State Capitol, the state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, a federal court, the Library of Michigan and Historical Center, and headquarters of four national insurance companies.

Stephenson's first novel, The Big U, published in 1984, was a satirical take on life at American Megaversity, a vast, bland and alienating research university beset by chaotic riots.

The university is a member of the Big Ten Conference.

Northwestern is a founding member of the Big Ten Conference and remains the only private university in the conference.

The university is a member of the Kansai Big Six Baseball League.

Ferris State University ( FSU, Ferris ) is an American public university with its main campus in Big Rapids, Michigan.

Located on the southern edge of the City of Big Rapids, straddling the border between Big Rapids Township and the city, the university has over for its main campus.

The university is bordered to the south and west by Big Rapids Township.

The university is a group member of the Association of American Universities, the Big Ten Conference, Committee on Institutional Cooperation, and the Universities Research Association.

The University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign is the second oldest public university in the state, second to Illinois State University, and is a founding member of the Big Ten Conference.

The 2010 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl game, the Big Ten did not have enough teams to fill the slot and the MAC champion Miami-Ohio chose to play in the GoDaddy. com Bowl ; the bowl chose the MAC's third place team, Toledo, and the Sun Belt's conference champion Florida International ; Florida International won giving the university its first ever bowl win.

Among staff and students at the university, the statue is known as ' Big A ** Red Thing ,' or simply as ' BART.

The university regularly competes for the Sasser Cup which is the Big South's trophy for the university which has the best sports program among the member institutions.

The university will join the Big East Conference in all sports on July 1, 2013.

The tournament has grown year by year and the competition has gained several new university and college teams: ( Dartmouth Big Green in 1978, Harvard Crimson in 1978-79, and Princeton Tigers in 1979.

He played university hockey with the Cornell Big Red where he was a two-time All-American.

* A similar idea was used in Neal Stephenson's 1984 university satire The Big U. In the novel several live action role playing gamers head into their University's sewers to play a game called " Sewers and Serpents ".

In The Big Bang Theory episode " The Pants Alternative ", a drunk Sheldon Cooper starts to sing the song during his acceptance of an award from his university.

Weinberg's article addressed criticisms of the way in which the era of Big Science could negatively affect science — such as astronomer Fred Hoyle's contention that excessive money for science would only make science fat and lazy — and encouraged, in the end, limiting Big Science only to the national laboratory system and preventing its incursion into the university system.