Brown University

Brown University is a clandestine Ivy League analysis university in Providence, Rhode Island. Founded in 1764 as "The Academy in the English Antecedents of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations," Brown is the seventh-oldest academy of academy apprenticeship in the United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges accustomed afore the American Revolution. At its foundation, Brown was the aboriginal academy in the United States to acquire acceptance behindhand of their religious affiliation. Its engineering program, accustomed in 1847, was the aboriginal in what is now accepted as the Ivy League. Brown's New Curriculum—sometimes referred to in apprenticeship approach as the Brown Curriculum—was adopted by adroitness vote in 1969 afterwards a aeon of apprentice lobbying; the New Curriculum alone binding "general education" administration requirements, fabricated acceptance "the architects of their own syllabus," and accustomed them to yield any advance for a brand of satisfactory or accepted no-credit. In 1971, Brown's alike women's institution, Pembroke College, was absolutely alloyed into the university.

History

The three petitioners were Ezra Stiles, pastor of Newport's Second Congregational Church and approaching admiral of Yale; William Ellery, Jr., approaching attestant of the Declaration of Independence; and Josias Lyndon, approaching governor of the colony. Stiles and Ellery would two years after be co-authors of the Allotment of the College. The editor of Stiles's affidavit observes that, "This abstract of a address connects itself with added affirmation of Dr. Stiles's activity for a Collegiate Academy in Rhode Island, afore the allotment of what became Brown University."
In 1762 there is added documentary affirmation that Stiles was authoritative affairs for a college. On January 20, Chauncey Whittelsey, pastor of the Aboriginal Church of New Haven, answered a letter from Stiles:

Campus

Robinson Hall, congenital 1875-78, advised by Walker and Gould, an octagonal architecture in the Venetian Gothic style. It is an archetype of the all-embracing assumption in library architecture aggressive by the British Museum account room.
Brown is the better institutional backer in Providence, with backdrop on Academy Hill and in the Jewelry District. The Academy Hill campus was congenital contemporarily with the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century precincts that beleaguer it, so that University barrio alloy with the architectural bolt of the city. The alone indicator of "campus" is a brick and wrought-iron fence on Prospect, George, and Waterman streets, anchor the Academy Green and Front Green. The appearance of Brown's burghal campus is, then, European amoebic rather than American landscaped.

University of Florida

The University of Florida (commonly referred to as Florida or UF) is an American accessible land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant analysis university amid on a 2,000-acre (8.1 km2) campus in North Central Florida. It is a chief affiliate of the Accompaniment University System of Florida and traces its actual origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus back September 1906.
The University of Florida is one of sixty-two adopted affiliate institutions of the Affiliation of American Universities (AAU), the affiliation of capital North American analysis universities, and the alone AAU affiliate university amid in Florida. The University is classified as a Analysis University with Very High Analysis by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Following the conception of achievement standards by the Florida accompaniment assembly in 2013, the Florida Board of Governors appointed the University of Florida as one of the two "preeminent universities" a part of the twelve universities of the Accompaniment University System of Florida. In 2015, U.S. News & World Report ranked Florida as the fourteenth best accessible university in the United States.

History

Century Tower, amorphous in 1953, to admire the 100th ceremony of the founding of university and as a accolade to the alumni who asleep in both World War I and World War II.
The University of Florida traces its origins to 1853, if the East Florida Seminary, the oldest of the University of Florida's four antecedent institutions, was founded in Ocala, Florida.
On January 6, 1853, Governor Thomas Brown active a bill that provided accessible abutment for college apprenticeship in the accompaniment of Florida. Gilbert Kingsbury was the aboriginal being to yield advantage of the legislation, and accustomed the East Florida Seminary, which operated until the beginning of the Civil War in 1861. The East Florida Seminary was the aboriginal state-supported academy of college acquirements in Florida.
James Henry Roper, an drillmaster from North Carolina and a accompaniment agent from Alachua County, had opened a academy in Gainesville, the Gainesville Academy, in 1858. In 1866, Roper offered his acreage and academy to the Accompaniment of Florida in barter for the alteration of the East Florida Seminary to Gainesville.

Campus

In absolute the University of Florida campus encompasses over 2,000 acreage (8.1 km2). The campus is home to abounding notable structures, such as Century Tower, a 157-foot (48 m) alpine angelus belfry in the centermost of the celebrated district. Other notable accessories cover the Health Science Center, Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Reitz Student Union, Smathers Library, Phillips Centermost for the Performing Arts, Harn Museum, University Auditorium, O'Connell Center, and The Hub.

Johns Hopkins University

The Johns Hopkins University (commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or artlessly Hopkins) is a clandestine analysis university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, the university was called afterwards its aboriginal benefactor, the American entrepreneur, abolitionist, and philanthropist Johns Hopkins. His $7 actor bequest—of which bisected financed the enactment of The Johns Hopkins Hospital—was the better altruistic allowance in the history of the United States at the time. Daniel Coit Gilman, who was inaugurated as the institution's aboriginal admiral on February 22, 1876, led the university to accommodate college apprenticeship in the U.S. by amalgam teaching and research.

History

On his afterlife in 1873, Johns Hopkins, a Quaker administrator and childless bachelor, ancestral $7 actor (approximately $140,000,000 today with customer amount inflation) to armamentarium a hospital and university in Baltimore, Maryland. At that time this fortune, generated primarily from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was the better altruistic allowance in the history of the United States.
The aboriginal name of philanthropist Johns Hopkins is the surname of his great-grandmother, Margaret Johns, who affiliated Gerard Hopkins. They called their son Johns Hopkins, who called his own son Samuel Hopkins. Samuel called one of his sons afterwards his ancestor and that son would be the university's benefactor. Milton Eisenhower, a above university president, already batten at a assemblage in Pittsburgh area the Master of Ceremonies alien him as "President of John Hopkins." Eisenhower retorted that he was "glad to be actuality in Pittburgh."
The aboriginal lath autonomous for an absolutely atypical university archetypal committed to the analysis of ability at an avant-garde level, extending that of abreast Germany. Johns Hopkins thereby became the archetypal of the avant-garde analysis university in the United States. Its success eventually confused college apprenticeship in the United States from a focus on teaching appear and/or activated ability to the accurate analysis of new knowledge.

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago (U of C, Chicago, or UChicago) is a clandestine analysis university in Chicago, Illinois. Established in 1890, the University of Chicago consists of The College, assorted alum programs, interdisciplinary committees organized into four bookish analysis capacity and seven able schools. Beyond the arts and sciences, Chicago is aswell able-bodied accepted for its able schools, which cover the Pritzker School of Medicine, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, the Law School, the School of Social Service Administration, the Harris School of Public Policy Studies, the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Able Studies and the Divinity School. The university currently enrolls about 5,000 acceptance in the Academy and about 15,000 acceptance overall.

History

The University of Chicago was created and congenital as a coeducational, civil academy in 1890 by the American Baptist Education Society and a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller on acreage donated by Marshall Field. Organized as an absolute academy legally, it replaced the aboriginal Baptist university of the aforementioned name, which had bankrupt in 1886 due to continued banking and administration problems. William Rainey Harper became the avant-garde university's aboriginal admiral on July 1, 1891, and the university opened for classes on October 1, 1892.

Campus

The capital campus of the University of Chicago consists of 211 acreage (85.4 ha) in the Chicago neighborhoods of Hyde Esplanade and Woodlawn, seven afar (11 km) south of city Chicago. The arctic and southern portions of campus are afar by the Midway Plaisance, a large, beeline esplanade created for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. In 2011, Travel+Leisure listed the university as one of the a lot of admirable academy campuses in the United States.

Many earlier barrio of the University of Chicago apply Collegiate Gothic architectonics like that of the University of Oxford. For example, Chicago's Mitchell Tower (left) was modeled afterwards Oxford's Magdalen Tower (right).
The aboriginal barrio of the University of Chicago campus, which accomplish up what is now accepted as the Capital Quadrangles, were allotment of a "master plan" conceived by two University of Chicago advisers and advised by Chicago artist Henry Ives Cobb. The Capital Quadrangles abide of six quadrangles, anniversary amidst by buildings, adjoining one beyond quadrangle. The barrio of the Capital Quadrangles were advised by Cobb, Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, Holabird & Roche, and added architectural firms in a admixture of the Victorian Gothic and Collegiate Gothic styles, blooming on the colleges of the University of Oxford. (Mitchell Tower, for example, is modeled afterwards Oxford's Magdalen Tower, and the university Commons, Hutchinson Hall, replicates Christ Church 

University of California, Santa Barbara

The University of California, Santa Barbara (commonly referred to as UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a accessible analysis university and one of the 10 campuses of the University of California system. The capital campus is amid on a 1,022-acre (414 ha) website abreast Goleta, California, United States, 8 afar (13 km) from Santa Barbara and 100 afar (160 km) northwest of Los Angeles. Tracing its roots aback to 1891 as an absolute teachers' college, UCSB abutting the University of California arrangement in 1944 and is the third-oldest general-education campus in the system.

History

UCSB traces its origins aback to the Anna Blake Academy which was founded in 1891 and offered training in home economics and automated arts. The Anna Blake Academy was taken over by the accompaniment in 1909 and became the Santa Barbara Accompaniment Normal School, which again became the Santa Barbara Accompaniment Academy in 1921. Intense lobbying by an absorption accumulation in the City-limits of Santa Barbara, led by Thomas Storke and Pearl Chase, abiding the Accompaniment Legislature, Governor Earl Warren, and the Regents of the University of California to move the Accompaniment Academy over to the added research-oriented University of California arrangement in 1944. The Accompaniment Academy arrangement sued to stop the takeover, but the Governor did not abutment the suit. A accompaniment action was passed, however, to stop consecutive conversions of Accompaniment Colleges to University of California campuses. From 1944 to 1958 the academy was accepted as Santa Barbara Academy of the University of California, afore demography on its accepted name. When the alone Marine Corps training base in Goleta was purchased for the rapidly growing college, Santa Barbara City-limits Academy confused into the alone Accompaniment Academy buildings.

Campus

UCSB is amid on cliffs anon aloft the Pacific Ocean. UCSB's campus is absolutely free from bounded government and has not been annexed by the city-limits of Santa Barbara and appropriately is not allotment of the city. While it appears afterpiece to the afresh formed city-limits of Goleta, a bindle of the City-limits of Santa Barbara that forms a band of "city" through the ocean to the Santa Barbara airport, runs through the west access to the university campus. Although UCSB has a Santa Barbara commitment address, as do added unincorporated areas about the city, alone this access bindle is in the Santa Barbara city-limits limits. The campus is disconnected into four parts: Capital (East) Campus 708 acreage (287 ha) that houses all bookish units additional the majority of undergraduate housing, Storke Campus, West Campus and North Campus. The campuses beleaguer the unincorporated association of Isla Vista.

Duke University

Duke University is a clandestine analysis university amid in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the abreast boondocks of Trinity in 1838, the academy confused to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric ability baron James Buchanan Duke accustomed Duke University, at which time the academy afflicted its name to account his asleep father, Washington Duke.

History

One of the aboriginal barrio on the aboriginal Durham campus (East Campus), the Washington Duke Building ("Old Main"), was destroyed by a blaze in 1911.
Duke started in 1838 as Brown's Schoolhouse, a clandestine cable academy founded in Randolph County in the abreast boondocks of Trinity. Organized by the Union Institute Society, a accumulation of Methodists and Quakers, Brown's Schoolhouse became the Union Institute Academy in 1841 if North Carolina issued a charter. The academy was renamed Normal Academy in 1851 and again Trinity Academy in 1859 because of abutment from the Methodist Church. In 1892, Trinity Academy confused to Durham, abundantly due to generosity from Julian S. Carr and Washington Duke, able and admired Methodists who had developed affluent through the tobacco and electrical industries. Carr donated acreage in 1892 for the aboriginal Durham campus, which is now accepted as East Campus. At the aforementioned time, Washington Duke gave the academy $85,000 for an antecedent award and architecture costs—later assiduity his generosity with three abstracted $100,000 contributions in 1896, 1899, and 1900—with the agreement that the academy "open its doors to women, agreement them on an according basement with men."

Campus

Duke University owns 254 barrio on 8,547 acreage (34.59 km2) of land, which includes the 7,044 acreage (28.51 km2) Duke Forest. The campus is disconnected into four capital areas: West, East, and Central campuses and the Medical Center, which are all affiliated via a chargeless bus service. On the Atlantic bank in Beaufort, Duke owns 15 acreage (61,000 m2) as allotment of its abyssal lab. One of the above accessible attractions on the capital campus is the 54-acre (220,000 m2) Sarah P. Duke Gardens, accustomed in the 1930s.

University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (U-M, UM, UMich, or U of M), frequently referred to artlessly as Michigan, is a accessible analysis university amid in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Originally, founded in 1817 in Detroit as the Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania, 20 years afore the Michigan Territory clearly became a state, the University of Michigan is the state's oldest university. The university confused to Ann Arbor in 1837 assimilate 40 acreage (16 ha) of what is now accepted as Central Campus. Back its enactment in Ann Arbor, the university campus has broadcast to cover added than 584 above barrio with a accumulated breadth of added than 34 actor gross aboveboard anxiety (781 acreage or 3.16 km²), and has two digital campuses amid in Flint and Dearborn. The University was one of the founding associates of the Association of American Universities.

History

The University of Michigan was accustomed in Detroit in 1817 as the Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania, by the governor and lath of Michigan Territory. The Rev. John Monteith was one of the university's founders and its aboriginal President. Ann Arbor had set abreast 40 acreage (16 ha) in the hopes of getting alleged as the accompaniment capital; if Lansing was alleged as the accompaniment capital, the city-limits offered the acreage for a university. What would become the university confused to Ann Arbor in 1837 acknowledgment to Governor Stevens T. Mason. The aboriginal 40 acreage (160,000 m2) was the base of the accepted Central Campus. The aboriginal classes in Ann Arbor were captivated in 1841, with six freshmen and a sophomore, accomplished by two professors. Eleven acceptance accelerating in the aboriginal admission in 1845.

Campus

The Ann Arbor campus is disconnected into four capital areas: the North, Central, Medical and South campuses. The concrete basement includes added than 500 above buildings, with a accumulated breadth of added than 34 actor aboveboard anxiety or 781 acreage (3.16 km2). The Central and South Campus areas are contiguous, while the North Campus breadth is afar from them, primarily by the Huron River. There is aswell busy amplitude in barrio broadcast throughout the city, abounding active by organizations affiliated with the University of Michigan Health System. An East Medical Campus has afresh been developed on Plymouth Road, with several university-owned barrio for outpatient care, affection and outpatient surgery.
In accession to the U-M Golf Advance on South Campus, the university operates a additional golf advance on Geddes Road alleged Radrick Farms Golf Course. The golf advance is alone accessible to faculty, agents and alumni. Another off-campus ability is the Inglis House, which the university has endemic back the 1950s. The Inglis House is a 10,000-square-foot (930 m2) abode acclimated to authority assorted amusing events, including affairs of the lath of regents, and to host visiting dignitaries. The university aswell operates a ample appointment architecture alleged Wolverine Tower in southern Ann Arbor abreast Briarwood Mall. Another above ability is the Matthaei Botanical Gardens, which is amid on the eastern outskirts of Ann Arbor.

Princeton University

Princeton University is a clandestine Ivy League analysis university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the Academy of New Jersey, Princeton was the fourth accountant academy of academy apprenticeship in the Thirteen Colonies and appropriately one of the nine Colonial Colleges accustomed afore the American Revolution. The academy confused to Newark in 1747, again to the accepted website nine years later, area it was renamed Princeton University in 1896.
Princeton provides undergraduate and alum apprenticeship in the humanities, amusing sciences, accustomed sciences, and engineering. It offers able degrees through the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School of Architecture and the Bendheim Center for Finance. The University has ties with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the Westminster Choir Academy of Rider University. Princeton has the better award per apprentice in the United States.

History

A commemorative 3-cent brand from 1953 adulatory the bicentennial of Nassau Hall
New Light Presbyterians founded the Academy of New Jersey in 1746 in adjustment to alternation ministers. The academy was the educational and religious basic of Scots-Irish America. In 1754, advisers of the Academy of New Jersey appropriate that, in acceptance of Governor's interest, Princeton should be called as Belcher College. Gov. Jonathan Belcher replied: "What a hell of name that would be!" In 1756, the academy confused to Princeton, New Jersey. Its home in Princeton was Nassau Hall, called for the aristocratic House of Orange-Nassau of William III of England.

Campus

The capital campus sits on about 500 acreage (2.0 km2) in Princeton. In 2011, the capital campus was called by Travel+Leisure as one of the a lot of admirable in the United States. The James Forrestal Campus is breach amid adjacent Plainsboro and South Brunswick. The University aswell owns some acreage in West Windsor Township.:44 The campuses are anchored about one hour from both New York City and Philadelphia.

Columbia University

Columbia University (officially Columbia University in the City-limits of New York) is a clandestine Ivy League analysis university in Upper Manhattan, New York City. Originally accustomed in 1754 as King's Academy by aristocratic allotment of George II of Great Britain, it is the oldest academy of academy acquirements in New York State, as able-bodied as one of the country's nine colonial colleges. After the advocate war, King's Academy briefly became a accompaniment entity, and was renamed Columbia Academy in 1784. A 1787 allotment placed the academy beneath a clandestine lath of advisers afore it was added renamed Columbia University in 1896 if the campus was confused from Madison Avenue to its accepted area in Morningside Heights application acreage of 32 acreage (13 ha). Columbia is one of the fourteen founding associates of the Association of American Universities, and was the aboriginal academy in the United States to admission the M.D. degree.

History

Discussions apropos the founding of a academy in the Province of New York began as aboriginal as 1704, if Colonel Lewis Morris wrote to the Association for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, the missionary arm of the Church of England, persuading the association that New York City-limits was an ideal association in which to authorize a college; however, not until the founding of Princeton University beyond the Hudson River in New Jersey did the City-limits of New York actively accede founding a college. In 1746 an act was anesthetized by the accepted accumulation of New York to accession funds for the foundation of a new college. In 1751, the accumulation appointed a agency of ten New York residents, seven of whom were associates of the Church of England, to absolute the funds accrued by the accompaniment action appear the foundation of a college.

Campus

The majority of Columbia's alum and undergraduate studies are conducted in Morningside Heights on Seth Low's late-19th aeon eyes of a university campus area all disciplines could be accomplished in one location. The campus was advised forth Beaux-Arts attempt by architects McKim, Mead, and White. Columbia's capital campus occupies added than six city-limits blocks, or 32 acreage (13 ha), in Morningside Heights, New York City, a adjacency that contains a amount of bookish institutions. The university owns over 7,800 apartments in Morningside Heights, apartment faculty, alum students, and staff. Almost two dozen undergraduate dormitories (purpose-built or converted) are amid on campus or in Morningside Heights. Columbia University has an all-encompassing underground adit arrangement added than a aeon old, with the oldest portions predating the present campus. Some of these abide attainable to the public, while others accept been cordoned off.

Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a clandestine analysis university in Stanford, California, and one of the world's arch educational institutions, with the top position in abundant rankings and measures in the United States.
Stanford was founded in 1885 by Leland Stanford, above Governor of and U.S. Senator from California and arch railroad tycoon, and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford, in anamnesis of their alone child, Leland Stanford, Jr., who had died of typhoid agitation at age 15 the antecedent year. Stanford was opened on October 1, 1891 as a coeducational and non-denominational institution. Tuition was chargeless until 1920. The university struggled financially afterwards Leland Stanford's 1893 afterlife and afresh afterwards abundant of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, Provost Frederick Terman accurate adroitness and graduates' entrepreneurialism to body arrogant belted industry in what would after be accepted as Silicon Valley. By 1970, Stanford was home to a beeline accelerator, and was one of the aboriginal four ARPANET nodes (precursor to the Internet).

History

The university clearly opened on October 1, 1891 to 555 students. On the university's aperture day, Founding President David Starr Jordan (1851–1931) said to Stanford's Pioneer Class: "is anointed by no traditions; it is bedfast by none. Its feel posts all point forward. However, abundant preceded the aperture and connected for several years until the afterlife of the endure Founder, Jane Stanford, in 1905 and the abolition of the 1906 earthquake.

Campus


Stanford University is amid on an 8,180-acre (3,310 ha) campus on the San Francisco Peninsula, in the northwest allotment of the Santa Clara Valley (Silicon Valley) about 37 afar (60 km) southeast of San Francisco and about 20 afar (32 km) northwest of San Jose. In 2008, 60% of this acreage remained undeveloped. The capital campus is adjoining to Palo Alto, belted by El Camino Real, Stanford Avenue, Junipero Serra Boulevard, and Sand Hill Road. The university aswell operates at several added limited locations (see below).