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 the Big Ten Conference in all varsity sports except ice hockey, which competes in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association.

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.

They were strays of every kind -- university students and journalists, Village hangers-on and barflies, taxi drivers and editors and unknown poets, as well as friends like Elinor Wylie and William Rose Benet, the Van Dorens and Nathan, Rebecca West and Hugh Walpole and Osbert Sitwell, Laurence Stallings, Lewis Browne, William Seabrook, Arthur Hopkins, the Woodwards.

Christ's College was well represented that year in the ordo, and the name highest on the list from that college was Milton's, fourth in the entire university.

He was always well groomed and well tailored, and he had that rich man's look which was authentic enough and came from two good prep schools and a proper university.

A 2002 randomized controlled UK university study of 93 people with clinically confirmed idiopathic Parkinson's disease found that participants who received Alexander Technique lessons reported sustained improvements in their physical functioning, as well as reporting themselves to be less depressed and to have improved attitudes towards themselves.

Originally used in Baker House to signify the Ivy League university tradition, on his return to Finland Aalto used it in a number of key buildings, in particular, in several of the buildings in the new Helsinki University of Technology campus ( starting in 1950 ), Säynatsalo Town Hall ( 1952 ), Helsinki Pensions Institute ( 1954 ), Helsinki House of Culture ( 1958 ), as well as in his own summer house, the so-called Experimental House in Muuratsalo ( 1957 ).

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.

This is partly compensated for, however, by the presence of easily accessible open space on the university campuses, including Harvard Yard and MIT's Great Lawn, as well as the considerable open space of Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Several programs from the university placed in the 2011 Corporate Knights rankings, which measures how well Canadian universities integrate sustainability into their curriculum.

Other members of the board include people from the university community such as four approved representatives from Dalhousie Student Union, as well as those in the larger surrounding community of Dalhousie, such as the Mayor of Halifax.

Finnish women were as well educated as their male counterparts, and, in some cases, the number of women studying at the university level, for example, were slightly ahead of the number of men.

Its affiliations included water utility, university, electricity company, brewery, and teacher unions, as well as several peasant organizations, including the National Central of Farm Workers ( Central Nacional de Trabajadores del Campo — CNTC ), formed in 1985 and active in land occupations in the early 1980s.

He excelled in many areas of university life – he won College ' Blues ' for cricket and Australian rules football, as well as the College Oratory and Essay Prize.

The general higher education and training that takes place in a university, college, or Institute of Technology usually includes significant theoretical and abstract elements, as well as applied aspects ( although limited offerings of internships or SURF programs attempt to provide practical applications ).

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.

The university, unimpressed with Jarmusch's use of his funding as well as the project itself, promptly refused to award him a degree.

In addition to being a unitary university, it has other institutes like the Jawahari Devi Birla Institute of Commerce and Management, Jadavpur Vidyapith as well as the Institute of Business Management affiliated to it, which operate out of independent campuses.

It consists of members elected by the staff members of the university from amongst themselves as well as members of the alumni.

The learning resource centre of the DL has around sixty nodes for accessing digital data both on the internet as well as the internal database of the university.

Since then, the university has grown to include several additional baccalaureate and graduate programs of study in the arts and sciences, research opportunities, as well as over and 119 buildings on the Kent campus.

The university was re-opened largely due to regional patriots, but the university was not to enjoy a high status until well into the 19th century.

Arguably, liberal professions, so-called " learned professions ", include only professions which require education at university: medicine, for example, as well as law and architecture-heirs of the Trivium and the Quadrivium.

" The Rogers Plan, as it came to be known, reflected the German research university model, emphasizing an independent faculty engaged in research as well as instruction oriented around seminars and laboratories.

The corporation approves the budget, new programs, degrees, and faculty appointments as well as electing the President to serve as the chief executive officer of the university and presiding over the Institute's faculty.