Carnegie once gave $ 25, 000 to Speaker of the House David B. Henderson to erect a library on the campus of Upper Iowa University in his name.

In 1808 two military forts with trading factories were built, Fort Osage along the Missouri River in western present-day Missouri and Fort Madison along the Upper Mississippi River in eastern present-day Iowa.

The Central Division consists of Northern Illinois, Minnesota, Eastern Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Wisconsin.

Established in 1857, Upper Iowa University ( UIU ) is a private institution of higher education with its residential campus located in northeast Iowa, United States near the Volga River in the rural community of Fayette, where around 900 students are enrolled.

Upper Iowa offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in more than 40 majors, including art, business, conservation management, education, higher education administration, human services, information technology, liberal arts, math, nursing, psychology, science, and more.

Upper Iowa University is fully accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

By 1920, a systematic program of extension work throughout northeast Iowa had begun, with Upper Iowa referred to as " a pioneer in the field.

Bill to complete their education, which dramatically increased Upper Iowa enrollment between 1947 and 1950.

In 1972, Upper Iowa launched an external degree program that included Independent Study and Online Programs.

In 1984 to present, UIU expanded to open locations across the U. S. Upper Iowa was approved by North Central to offer graduate degrees in 1995, and in 1999 started its International Program by establishing centers in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Vancouver, Canada. The Andres Center for Business and Education was built in 2004

Upper Iowa's traditional residential campus is in Fayette, Iowa.

Upper Iowa University participates in the North Central Association ( NCA ) Academic Quality Improvement Program ( AQIP ), has a UIU chapter of the Alpha Chi National College Honor Society, and 165 student athletes were honored in 2010 for academic excellence.

Upper Iowa University awards more than $ 100, 000 each year in merit-based scholarships to its current students.

Upper Iowa University has three international education centers located in the Pacific Rim.

In 2005, Upper Iowa University was accepted into full membership of the NCAA Division II athletics and became a member of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference ( NSIC ).

Upper Iowa University's " Team Peacock " has raised $ 350, 000 to date riding RAGBRAI for student scholarships

The statue of Colonel David B. Henderson stands in front of the Upper Iowa University library.

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The Upper Mississippi River near Harpers Ferry, Iowa.

By the time of the American Civil War, European immigrants bypassed the East Coast of the United States to settle directly in the interior: German immigrants to Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, and Missouri ; Irish immigrants to port cities on the Great Lakes, especially Chicago ; Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians to Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Dakotas ; and Finns to Upper Michigan and northern / central Minnesota.

We your Humble Petitioners Living at a great Distance from ye Center of the Towne Some of us nine or ten Miles and Consequently at a very great disadvantage in joining with them all Publick Town affairs, being encouraged Partly by our Living in that Part of ye Town that was Laid out for what was called ye upper Parish and Partly by ye Kind Reception our Request met with which we made to ye Town for a dismission but more particularly by our Confidence in your Honors desire to Promote ye Happiness of every Part of ye State Humbly Pray that Honors would take our Case into your Serious Consideration and grant that we together with all those Live in sd Upper Part may be Erected and Incorporated into a body Politick and Corporate to have Continuance in ye Name of Northfield with all such Powers and Authorities Privileges Immunities and Franchises with other Parishes or Towns in this State in General hold Enjoy with your Petitions as in duty bound Shall forever pray .”

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Today, the University of Mary Centers for Accelerated and Distance Education has a total of 18 sites in the Upper Midwest and beyond, including the Butler Center in downtown Bismarck, Fargo Center in Fargo, ND, and Billings Center in Billings, MT.

* Tanenbaum, Andrew S. ( 2006 ) Structured Computer Organization, Fifth Edition, Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, NJ.

The upper secondary vocational education system in Mexico includes over a dozen subsystems ( administrative units within the Upper Secondary Education Undersecretariat of the Ministry of Public Education, responsible for vocational programmes ) which differ from each other to varying degrees in content, administration, and target group.

Vocational education and training provided under the Upper Secondary Education Under secretariat includes three main types of programme:

Master ’ s in Compulsory Secondary Education, Upper Secondary Education, Vocational

The ratio of school years was made to resemble that of the United States ' which was 6 years Elementary education: 3 years Lower Secondary education: 3 years Upper Secondary education: 4 years Higher Education.

* Data for the Upper Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics

* Data for the Upper Deerfield Township Schools, National Center for Education Statistics

* Data for the Upper Freehold Regional School District, National Center for Education Statistics

* Data for the Upper Freehold Regional School District, National Center for Education Statistics

* Data for the Upper Pittsgrove School, National Center for Education Statistics

Upper Darby Township's Public Education is served by the Upper Darby School District.

Pearson Education ( formerly Prentice Hall ), a scholastic division of Pearson is headquartered in Upper Saddle River.

* Data for Upper Saddle River Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics

Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc., 527.

Post-compulsory Secondary Education, according to the reforms of 1997 and 2006, consists of two main school types: Genika Lykeia ( General Upper Secondary Schools ) and the Epaggelmatika Lykeia ( Vocational Upper Secondary Schools ), as well as the Epaggelmatikes Sxoles ( Vocational Schools ).

CBSE ( Central Board of Secondary Education ) classifies Middle School as a combination of Lower ( Class 1-5 ) and Upper Primary ( Class 5-8 ).

Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education.

Lurgan Technical College was renamed Lurgan College of Further Education, and subsequently merged with Portadown CFE and Banbridge CFE into the larger Upper Bann Institute of Further and Higher Education ( UBIFHE ).