University of Georgia

                            

        The University of Georgia, founded in 1785, and commonly referred to as UGH or simply Georgia, is an American public land-grant and sea grant research university. Its primary location is a 759-acre campus in the college town of Athens, Georgia, approximately an hour's drive from Atlanta, Georgia. It is considered the State of Georgia's flagship university.

The university is ranked 20th overall among all public national universities in the current U.S. News & World Report rankings, and consistently ranks as high as 101st among all the top international universities in the world. While having high overall ratings, Georgia ranks in the top 10 for evaluations in several fields of study.
University of Georgia

 The university is a part of the University System of Georgia and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. It is classified as a  Research University / Very High Research Activity with a More Selective student body by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.

Founded in 1785 as the United States' first state-chartered university, it is the oldest and largest of Georgia's institutions of higher learning and along with the College of William and Mary and the University of North 

Carolina at Chapel Hill claims the title of the oldest public university in the United States.  The university's historic North Campus is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places as a designated historic district, and it and the contiguous campus areas include rolling hills and extensive arbor eta.

The university offers over 140 degree programs in a wide array of disciplines.  Consisting of thirteen libraries spread across multiple campuses, the UGH Libraries contain a total of 4.7 million volumes and one of the nation's largest map collections. The University of Georgia is one of 126 member institutions that comprise the Association of Research Libraries.

The University of Georgia is organized into seventeen schools and colleges. The university has three primary campuses. The largest one is the main campus in Athens that includes 389 buildings, while the two others are located in Clifton, Georgia and Griffin, Georgia. The University of Georgia also has two satellite campuses 

located in Atlanta and Lawrence ville, Georgia. The university operates several service and outreach stations spread across the state. The total acreage utilized by the university located in 30 Georgia counties is 39,950 acres .diversity of Georgia

The University of Georgia was incorporated on January 27, 1785, by the Georgia General Assembly, which had given its trustees, the Senates Academics of the University of Georgia, 40,000 acres   for the purposes of founding a  college or seminary of learning.


 The Senates Academics was composed of the Board of Visitors and the Board of Trustees with the Georgia Senate presiding over those two boards. The first meeting of the university's board of trustees was held in 


On July 2, 1799, the Senates Academics met again in Louisville, Georgia and decided that the time was right to officially begin the University. During this meeting 633 acres   on the banks of the Cone River were chosen on which the university was to be built.

 
Augusta, Georgia on February 13, 1786. The meeting installed its first president, Abraham Baldwin, a native of Connecticut and graduate of Yale University. Baldwin was one of the forty signers of the United States Constitution. Many features on the University of Georgia campus resemble the campus of Yale.

 This tract of land, now a part of the consolidated of Athens-Clarke County, Georgia, was then part of Jackson County. The meeting also established a new president of the university naming Josiah Mei's, another 

Yale graduate, to the post. The first classes were held in 1801, in what was called the Franklin College, named in honor of Benjamin Franklin. The first graduating class graduated on May 31, 1804.

Florida International University

Florida International University  is an American metropolitan public research university located in Greater Miami, Florida, United States.     Florida International University  has two major campuses in Miami Dede County, with its main campus in University Park.  Florida International University is classified as a research 

university with high research activity by the Carnegie Foundation  and a first-tier research university by the Florida Legislature. Founded in 1965,     Florida International University s the youngest university to be awarded a Phi Beta Kappa chapter by the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the country's oldest academic honor society

FIE belongs to the 12-campus State University System of Florida and is one of Florida's primary graduate research universities, awarding over 3,400 graduate and professional degrees annually. The university offers 

191 programs of study with more than 280 majors in 23 colleges and schools. FIE offers many graduate programs, including architecture, business administration, engineering, law, and medicine, offering 81 master's degrees, 34 doctoral degrees, and 3 professional degrees.

FIE is the largest university in South Florida, the 2nd-largest in Florida, and the 4th-largest in the United States.Total enrollment in 2014 /2015 was 54,099 students, including 7,814 graduate students. According to U.S. News college rankings and reviews, 92% of     Florida International University  students live off-campus while only 8% of students live in "college-owned, college-operated or college-affiliated" housing.


The story of Florida International University's founding began in 1943, when state Senator Ernest 'Cap' Graham  presented the state legislature with the initial proposal for the establishment of a public university in


 South Florida. While his bill did not pass, Graham persisted in presenting his proposal to colleagues, advising them of Miami's need for a state university. He felt the establishment of a public university was necessary to serve the city's growing population.

In 1964, Senate Bill 711 was introduced by Florida Senator Robert M. Dangerfield. It instructed the state Board of Education and the Board of Regents   to begin planning for the development of a state university in Miami. The bill was signed into law by then-governor W. Haydon Burns in June 1965, marking Florida International University  official founding.


Florida International University 's founding president Charles  Chuck Perry was appointed by the Board of Regents in July 1969 after a nationwide search. At 32 years old, the new president was the youngest in the history of the State University System and, at the time, the youngest university president in the country. Perr

y recruited three co-founders, Butler Waugh, Donald McDowell and Nick Sile. Alva Chapman, Jr., former Miami Herald publisher and Knight Bidder chairman, used his civic standing and media power to assist the effort. In the 1980s, Chapman became chair of the FIE Foundation Board of Trustees.

The founders located the campus on the site of the original Tatami Airport on the Tatami Trail  between Southwest 107th and 117th Avenues, just east of where the West Dede Expressway   was being planned. The abandoned airport's air traffic control tower became Fin's first building. It originally had no telephones, 

no drinking water, and no furniture. Perry decided that the tower should never be destroyed, and it remains on campus, where it is now known variously as the  Ivory Tower,  the  Tower Building, or the "Public Safety Tower," and is the former location of the FIE Police Department.


Harold Crosby, the University's second president and the founding president of the University of West Florida in Pensacola, agreed in 1976 to serve a three-year  interim  term. Under his leadership,         Florida International University North Miami Campus located on the former Interact site on Biscayne Bay was opened in 1977. State Senator Jack Gordon was instrumental in securing funding for the development of the 


Gregory Baker Wolfe, a former United States diplomat and then-president of Portland State University became Fin's third president, from 1979 to 1986. After stepping down as president, Wolfe taught in the university's international relations department. The student union on the Biscayne Bay Campus is named in his honor. 

campus. President Crosby emphasized the university's international character, prompting the launching of new programs with an international focus and the recruitment of faculty from the Caribbean and Latin America. President Cosby's resignation in January 1979 triggered the search for a  permanent  president.

On November 14, 2008, Martinique announced that he would be stepping down and asked Fin's Board of Trustees to begin the search of a new president. He said he would remain president until a new one was found.On April 25, 2009, Mark B. Rosenberg was selected to become Fin's fifth president. He signed a five-year contract with the Board of Trustees. On August 29, 2009, Rosenberg became Fin's fifth president.

University of Michigan

The University of Michigan U-M, UM, , or U of , frequently referred to simply as Michigan, is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Originally, founded in 1817 in Detroit as the , or University of , 20 years before the Michigan Territory officially became a state, the University of 

expanded to include more than 584 major buildings with a combined area of more than 34 million gross square feet 781 acres or 3.16 km² and has two satellite campuses located in Flint and . The University was one of the founding members of the Association of American Universities.

Michigan is the state's oldest university. The university moved to Ann Arbor in 1837 onto 40 actress ha of what is now known as Central Campus. Since its establishment in Ann Arbor, the university campus has 


architecture, business, medicine, law, pharmacy, nursing, social work and dentistry. Michigan's body of living of compromises more than 500,000. Besides academic life, Michigan's athletic teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are collectively known as the Wolverines. They are members of the Big Ten Conference.

Considered one of the foremost research universities in the United States, the university has very high research activity and its comprehensive graduate program offers doctoral degrees in the humanities, social sciences, and STEM fields Science, Technology, Engineering and well as professional degrees in

The University of Michigan was established in Detroit in 1817 as the , or University of , by the governor and judges of Michigan Territory. The Rev. John was one of the university's founders and its first President. Ann Arbor had set aside 40 acres 16 gain the hopes of being selected as the state capital; when Lansing was 

chosen as the state capital, the city offered the land for a university. What would become the university moved to Ann Arbor in 1837 thanks to Governor Stevens T. Mason. The original 40 acres 160,000 m was the basis of the current Central Campus.

By 1866, enrollment increased to 1,205 students, many of whom were Civil War veterans. Women were first admitted in 1870.

The fist classes in Ann Arbor were held in 1841, with six freshmen and a sophomore, taught by two professors. Eleven students graduated in the first commencement in 1845

University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin, informally UT Austin, UT, University of Texas, 

or Texas in sports contexts,is a public research university and the flagship institution of The University of Texas System.

Founded in 1883 as "The University of Texas," its campus is located in Austin mile 1,600 m from the Texas State Capitol. The institution has the fifth-largest enrollment in the nation, with over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students and over 24,000 faculty and staff.

UT Austen was inducted into the American Association of Universities in 1929, becoming only the third university in the American South to be elected. It is a major center for academic research, with research expenditures exceeding $550 million for the 2013 2014 school year

 The university houses seven museums and seventeen libraries, including the Lyndon Johnson Library and Museum and the Museum of Art, and operates various auxiliary research facilities, such as the J. J. Pickle 

UT Austin student athletes compete as the Texas Longhorns and are members of the Big 12 Conference. Its Longhorn Network is unique in that it is the only sports network featuring the college sports of a single university. 

The university has been labeled one of the "Public Ivies," a publicly funded university considered to provide a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League

Research Campus and the McDonald Observatory. Among university faculty are recipients of the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, the Wolf Prize, the Emmy Award, and the National Medal of Science, as well as many other awards.

school in the Big 12 since the league was founded in 1996. Current and former UT Austin athletes have won 130 Olympic medals, including 14 in Beijing in 2008 and 13 in London in 2012. The university was recognized by Sports Illustrated as "America's Best Sports College" in 2002


The Longhorns have won four NCAA Division I National Football Championships, six NCAA Division I National Baseball Championships and has claimed more titles in men's and women's sports than any other 


The first mention of a public university in Texas can be traced to the 1827 constitution for the Mexican state of y 
 Although Tie 6, Article 217 of that Constitution promised to establish public education in the arts and sciences, no action was taken by the Mexican government. After Texas obtained its independence from 


Mexico in 1836, the Texas Congress adopted the Constitution of the Republic, which, under Section 5 of its General Provisions, stated "It shall be the duty of Congress, as soon as circumstances will permit, to provide, by law, a general system of education."

 On April 18, 1838, "An Act to Establish the University of Texas" was referred to a special committee of the Texas Congress, but was not reported back for further action.


 On January 26, 1839, the Texas Congress agreed to set aside fifty leagues of land approx. 288,000 acres)towards the establishment of a publicly funded university. 

In addition, 40 acres 160,000 m in the new capital of Austin were reserved and designated "College Hill."The term "Forty Acres" is colloquially used to refer to the University as a whole. The original forty acres is the area from Guadalupe to Speedway and 21st Street to 24th Street

In 1845, Texas was annexed into the United States. Interestingly, the state's Constitution of 1845 failed to mention the subject of higher education.

On February 11, 1858, the Seventh Texas Legislature approved O.B. 102, an act to establish the University of Texas, which set aside $100,000 in United States bonds toward construction of the state's first publicly funded university

 the $100,000 was an allocation from the $10 million the state received pursuant to the Compromise of 1850 and Texas' relinquishing claims to lands outside its present boundaries.

 In addition, the legislature designated land previously reserved for the encouragement of railroad construction toward the university's endowment. On January 31, 1860, the state legislature, wanting to avoid raising taxes, passed an act authorizing the money set aside for the University of Texas to instead be used for frontier defense in west Texas to protect settlers from Indian attacks.

Texas' secession from the Union and the American Civil War delayed repayment of the borrowed monies. At the end of the Civil War in 1865, The University of Texas' endowment consisted of a little over $16,000 in warrant

 and nothing substantive had yet been done to organize the university's operations. This effort to establish a University was again mandated by Article 7, Section 10 of the Texas Constitution of 1876 which directed the
 legislature to "establish, organize and provide for the maintenance, support and direction of a university of the first class, to be located by a vote of the people of this State, and styled "The University of Texas.

Additionally, Article 7, Section 11 of the 1876 Constitution established the Permanent University Fund, a sovereign wealth fund managed by the Board of Regents of the University of Texas and dedicated for the maintenance of the university. Because some state legislators perceived an extravagance in the construction

The 1876 Constitution also revoked the endowment of the railroad lands of the Act of 1858 but dedicated 1,000,000 acres 4,000  land, along with other property previously appropriated for the university, to the Permanent University Fund. This was greatly to the detriment of the university as the lands granted the 


constructing university buildings had to come from the university's endowment or from private gifts to the university, but operational expenses for the university could come from the state's general revenues.

of academic buildings of other universities, Article 7, Section 14 of the Constitution expressly prohibited the legislature from using the state's general revenue to fund construction of any university buildings. Funds for 

university by the Constitution of 1876 represented less than 5% of the value of the lands granted to the university under the Act of 1858 the lands close to the railroads were quite valuable while the lands granted the university were in far west Texas, distant from sources of transportation and water.

The more valuable lads reverted to the fund to support general education in the state the Special School Fund). On April 10, 1883, the legislature supplemented the Permanent University Fund with another 1,000,000 acres of land in west Texas previously granted to the Texas and Pacific Railroad but returned to the state as seemingly too worthless to even survey.

 original 1858 grant of land not in revoked by the 1876 Constitution, by 1883 the university lands would have totaled 3.2 million acres, so the 1883 grant was to restore lands taken from the university by the 1876 Constitution, not an act of munificence.

 The legislature additionally appropriated $256,272.57 to repay the funds taken from the university in 1860 to pay for frontier defense and for transfers to the state's General Fund in 1861 and 1862.

 The 1883 grant of land increased the land in the Permanent University Fund to almost 2.2 million acres. Under the Act of 1858, the university was entitled to just over 1,000 acres of land for every mile of railroad built in the state. Had the

On March 30, 1881, the legislature set forth the structure and organization of the university and called for an election to establish its location.By popular election on September 6, 1881, Austin with 30,913  chosen as the site of the main university. Galveston, having come in second in the election 20,741 vote was 

designated the location of the medical department Houston was third with 12,586 votes. 

 unknown, resources of incalculable industrial utility, of wealth and power. Smite the earth, smite the rocks with the rod of knowledge and fountains of wealth will gush forth.The University of Texas officially opened its doors on September


On November 17, 1882, on the original "College Hill," an official ceremony was held to commemorate the laying of the cornerstone of the Old Main building. University President Smith, presiding over the ceremony prophetically proclaimed "Texas holds embedded in its earth rocks and minerals which now lie idle because

University of Southampton

 

                                      University  of  Southampton

The University of Southampton occasionally abbreviated as So ton is a public research university located in Southampton, England.


 Southampton is a research intensive university and a founding member of the Russell Group of elite British universities.


 On 29 April 1952, the institution was granted a Royal Charter to give the University of Southampton full university status. It is a member of the European University Association, the Association of Commonwealth Universities and is an accredited institution of the Worldwide Universities Network.


The origins of the university date back to the founding of the Hartley Institution in 1862 following a legacy to the Corporation of Southampton by Henry Robinson Hartley. In 1902, the Institution developed into the Hartley University College, with degrees awarded by the University of London.


 along Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial, U CL, L SE and Warwick. In the 2016 edition of U.S. News & World Report, Southampton is placed in the top 10 of British Universities.


In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework Southampton was ranked 8th for research intensity. Besides being as one of the leading research universities in the UK, Southampton has also achieved consistently high scores for its teaching and learning activities. It additionally has one of the highest proportions of income

 derived from research activities in Britain, and is regularly ranked in the top 100 universities in the world. As of 2015 Southampton is one of the few universities to achieve a top 20 UK position in the most established national and international rankings


The University of Southampton currently has over 16,000 undergraduate and 7,000 postgraduate students, making it the largest university by higher education students in the South East region. The university has seven teaching campuses.


 In addition, the university operates a School of Art based in nearby Winchester and an international branch in Malaysia offering courses in campus is equipped with its own library facilities.


 Medicine and Health Sciences, and B o l d re wood Campus an engineering and maritime technology campus housing also the university's strategic ally L lo yd 's Register.

The university owns and operates a sports ground at nearby Wide Lane for use by students and also operates a sports on


 The main campus is located in the High field area of Southampton and is supplemented by four other campuses within the city: Avenue Campus housing the Faculty of Humanities, the National Oceanography C en t re housing courses in Ocean and Earth Sciences, Southampton General Hospital offering courses in


 The university has over 5000 places at university-owned halls of residence, spread over two main complexes and several other smaller halls located within a couple of miles from the university.



 The University of Southampton Students' Union, provides support, representation and social activities for the students ranging from involvement in the Union's four media outlets to any of the 200 affiliated societies and 80 sports.


Six faculties were created: Arts, Science, Engineering, Economics, Education and Law. The first University of Southampton degrees were awarded on 4 July 1953, following the appointment of the Duke of Wellington as Chancellor of the university. Student and staff number grew throughout the next couple of decades as a



 In addition, more faculties and departments were founded, including Medicine and Oceanography despite the discouragement of Sir John



On 29 April 1952, Queen Elizabeth II granted the University of Southampton a Royal Charter, the first to be given to a university during her reign, which enabled it to award degrees.


response to the Robbins Report. The campus also grew significantly, when in July 1961 the university was given the approval to acquire some 200 houses on or near the campus by the Borough Council.


, the chairman of the University Grants Committee Student accommodation was expanded throughout the 1960s and 1970s with the acquisition of manor and new buildings at the Glen Eyre and  complexes.


In 1987, a crisis developed when the University Grants Committee announced, as part of nationwide cutbacks, a series of reductions in the funding of the university.

 To eliminate the expected losses, the budgets and deficits subcommittee proposed reducing staff numbers. This proposal was met with demonstrations on campus and was later reworked to reduce the redundancies and reallocate the reductions in faculties after being rejected by the university Senate.


By the mid-1980s through to the 1990s, the university looked to expand with new buildings on the  campus, developing the Manor site into a science park and conference venue, opening the National


Under the leadership of then Vice-Chancellor, Sir Howard the university became more focused in encouraging and investment in more and better quality research.

 Oceanography at a dockside location and purchasing new land from the City Council for the Arts Faculty and sports fields


 In the mid1990s, the university gained two new campuses, as the Winchester School of Art and La  Union College became part of the university. A new school for Nursing and Midwifery was also created and went


In the autumn of 1997, the university experienced Britain's worst outbreak of meningitis, with the death of three students.

 London and University College London to innovate and explore new ideas through collaboration whilst providing efficiencies of scale and shared of facilities. This is the most powerful cluster of research intensive universities in the UK and the new co


on to provide training for professionals in central-southern England. This involved a huge increase in student numbers and the establishment of sub-campuses in , Winchester, Portsmouth and Newport, Isle of Wight.


The university responded to the crisis by a mass vaccination , and later took the ground-breaking decision to offer all new students vaccinations


The university joined The Science and Engineering South on 9 May 2013. the SES-5 was created to pool the collective insights and resources of the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Imperial College


 

University of Surrey

 

University of  Surrey

The University of Surrey is a public research university located within the county town of Guildford, Surrey, in the South East of England, United Kingdom. The university specializes in science, engineering, medicine and business.


 It received its charter on 9 September 1966, and was previously situated near B in south-west London. The institution was known as College of Technology before gaining university status. Its roots, however, go back to the Polytechnic Institute, founded in 1891 to provide further and higher education for London's poorer inhabitants.

The university's main campus is located on Stag Hill close to the of Guildford and adjacent to Guildford Cathedral. A second campus, at Manor Park, is located a short distance away and has been developed to expand upon existing accommodation, academic buildings and sporting facilities.

The university conducts research on small satellites[clarification needed] and has a high number of staff who are members of learned societies. The university has recently expanded into China by launching the Surrey International Institute with University of Finance and Economics.

The university is a major for satellite and mobile communications research. In March 2014, the British Prime Minister David Cameron announced a partnership between the University of Surrey, King's College London and the University of Dresden for the development of 5G technology.

 The university is a member of the Association of , the European University Association and Association of Commonwealth Universities. The University is ranked high consistently by The Times, the Guardian and the


 Sunday Times. According to the figures revealed by the Higher Education Statistics Agency in 2014, the University of Surrey has the highest graduate employment rates recorded at 96.9%, higher than the University of Oxford  the University of Cambridge  and King's College London

Between 1982 and 2008, the university became the trustee of the building of the Guildford Institute, using parts of the building for its adult education ad providing a university presence in the heart of Guildford.

9 September 1966 the University of Surrey was established by Royal Charter and by 1970 the move from to Guildford was complete.


and by a Service of Thanksgiving in Guildford Cathedral attended by HM The Queen in March 1992.

Early visitors to the new campus were Led Zeppelin, who performed their very first gig at the university on 15 October 1968.


The Assessment and Qualifications Alliance formerly Associated Examining Board moved from to its own headquarters building on the Stag Hill campus in 1985.


and by a Service of Thanksgiving in Guildford Cathedral attended by HM The Queen in March 1992.

The university marked its Silver Jubilee in 1991, an event celebrated by the publishing of Surrey – The Rise of a Modern University by Roy Douglas

The university celebrated its 35th anniversary year in May 2002 with a major event in Guildford Cathedral. It was also marked by the unveiling of the Surrey Scholar Allan mark the Golden Jubilee of Her Majesty The

In 2007, the university saw a major increase in overall applications by 39% compared with the previous year. This was followed by a further increase in applications of 12% in 2008.


Queen and as a gift to the people of Guildford. The Surrey Scholar is located at the bottom of Guildford High Street. Understanding the Real World, a visual history of the university, by Christopher Pick, was published to coincide with this anniversary

In October 2008, the university lost out to Royal Holloway in a bid to merge with London medical institute St George's, University of London.




From September 2009, the Guildford School of Acting became a subsidiary of the university and relocated from Guildford town to the university campus.
 

Cardiff Metropolitan University

                                             

   Cardiff  Metropolitan  University

Cardiff Metropolitan University Welsh: , formerly University of Wales Institute, Cardiff U W I C, is a university situated in Cardiff. It operates from two campuses:


d a ff on Western Avenue and Cy n c o ed campus to the north-east of the city.
The university has over 12,000 students. The university offers degree courses in a variety of disciplines. Study is available at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, full-time and part-time, and research


In December 2011 the newly established Cardiff Metropolitan University rejected plans for the future structure of Wales’ universities which proposed merging it with the universities of and Newport to form the UK’s largest higher education institution.



opportunities are offered. Cardiff Metropolitan University has a number of research and enterprise , including the Food Industry , the Welsh for Tourism Research, and the National for Product Design and Development


On 4 July 2011, pulled out of merger talks with both Swansea Metropolitan University and the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, for a new University of Wales citing the fact that it was ‘dissatisfied with a lack of attention to good governance, due process and administration in the University of


In December 2011 the newly established Cardiff Metropolitan University rejected plans for the future structure of Wales’ universities which proposed merging it with the universities of and Newport to form the UK’s largest higher education institution.


was despite the fact that its own Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research, Professor Robert Brown, was also one of the most senior figures in the University of Wales, serving as a member of the University of Wales Council.


Pressure on Cardiff Met to merge continued to mount throughout 2011 and 2012, however, in line with Leighton Andrews' controversial Higher Education agenda. This included a plan to create a new super-university of 45,000 students in the Welsh Valleys, involving the University of , the University of Wales, Newport, and Cardiff Metropolitan.

In response to their efforts, Leighton Andrews a strong supporter of the mergers on any terms threatened to forcibly dissolve Cardiff Metropolitan and hand its assets over to the University formed by and Newport's merger.

Newport had already agreed to merger plans put forward by , although it was described as a 'bilateral arrangement' with neither institution technically taking precedence. This merger plan left open the possibility of a third university becoming involved, which was as a reference to Cardiff  position.


Cardiff Metropolitan continued to oppose a merger with its , citing the lack of a business case, concerns that the new institution which would be the largest campus university in simply be too big to manage properly, and the 'predatory' attitude of , which has led to concerns they were intent on taking over rather than merging with Newport and Cardiff Met.


 As of October 2012, more time had been granted to consider a three-way merger, but Cardiff Metropolitan still demanded more evidence before committing to further talks.

 that basis that the Minister took the decision to cancel the consultation that was previously in operation.

On 6 November 2012, the threat of dissolution was removed when the Education Minister made a statement to the that he had taken the decision to cancel the previous consultation on the proposed  because of a request from the chairs of the University of and the University of Wales, Newport. It was on

 Cardiff Metropolitan has described the existing plans as high cost and high risk, and have threatened to refer the matter to spending watchdogs, including the Auditor General. However, Cardiff Metropolitan stressed that it retained an 'open mind' on the subject of a merger, and has ruled out moving to the private sector.

Responding to the statement Angela Burns AM, shadow minister for education, said: "This is a massive climb-down for the Education Minister, but a win for diplomacy over belligerence and aggression

                                                                          
On 6 November 2012, the threat of dissolution was removed when the Education Minister made a statement to the that he had taken the decision to cancel the previous consultation on the proposed  because of a request from the chairs of the University of and the University of Wales, Newport. It was on

 that basis that the Minister took the decision to cancel the consultation that was previously in operation.


 

Open Universities Australia

Open Universities Australia s an online higher education organisation based in Australia. The organisation was previously known as the Open Learning Agency of Australia. The current chairman is Sam Weiss and the chief executive officer is Paul 

The organisation has approximately 170 qualifications available online, which are provided by Australian universities and other education providers.

While the majority of enrolled students are based in Australia, courses are available to students globally. Most undergraduate courses offered have no first year entry requirements and there are no quotas for most courses.

Seven Australian-based universities control the ownership of the organisation. A board of directors, consisting of nominees from the universities which 

own the organisation, governs  In addition, there are also up to five independent directors on the board at any one time.

The organisation has approximately 170 qualifications available online, which are provided by Australian universities and other education providers.

Open Universities Australia was formed as the Open Learning Agency of Australia late 1993 as a private company

The organisation was originally owned by University. In order to provide equal access to students across Australia’s regional areas, they created a partnership 

with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and eight other universities. At this time, the federal government provided funding for the project.

In June 2012, IBM used the organisation as an IT case study after implementing a new IT strategy. The move was aimed at supporting student performance and retention, while also giving the organisation an insight into marketing and sales options

In 2004, OLA changed its name to Open Universities Australia  reflecting the changing demands and expectation of its students. In the same year,

 students gained access to the new provides eligible students with deferred payment options for undergraduate and postgraduate units and courses and remains a popular option 

was launched in March 2013 and is a teaching, learning and assessment platform. It enables universities to offer free courses online.It competes with global online learning platform providers such as and 

In December 2012, the organisation placed a bid for a top level domain, .courses. The bid was made in a lottery draw, held by Assigned Names and Numbers to help assign new generic top-level domains

was launched in March 2013 and is a teaching, learning and assessment platform. It enables universities to offer free courses online.It competes with global online learning platform providers such as and 

In July 2013, acquired a 100 per cent interest in Interact Learning Ltd, trading as , an Australian online training and compliance provider based in Adelaide. Founded in 2001

, has 250 corporate customers across Australia, the United Kingdom and New Zealand and employs more than 70 staff

Each course is self-contained, complete with interactive course content and resource materials. At the end of each module, students complete a multiple choice online assessment. In order to receive a certificate of completion, the student must average a score of 60% across the four tests for each course

The learning platform provided by consists of weekly modules, which are completed over a four-week period with online assessments at the end of each of the modules. 

In July 2013, acquired a 100 per cent interest in Interact Learning Ltd, trading as , an Australian online training and compliance provider based in Adelaide. Founded in 2001, has 250 corporate customers across Australia, the United Kingdom and New Zealand and employs more than 70 staff.

In December 2013, launched Open Training Institute, a Registered Training Organisation online Vocational Education and Training 

Federation University Australia

Federation University Australia is a dual-sector university with multiple campuses in Victoria, Australia. The university is based there are also 

In 2013 the Federation University into being, after the University of merged with University, campus.

campuses in Ararat, , , Churchill and online offering technical and further education Higher Education Nursing program. The and Mount Helen campuses offer traditional university , a few of which are Business, Engineering, Education, Nursing, and Art.

1870, making it Australia's third oldest tertiary institution. In 1870 the Founders Hall at the University of was built. People such as Redmond Barry who also founded the State 

Federation University Australia's history goes back to the gold rush era of the . Tertiary education at began with the establishment of the School of Mines and Industries in 

Library of Victoria were involved in the original establishment to create an institution of equivalent standing to a university to offer degree level courses at .

classing, plumbing and bricklaying. The organisation remained in that form until the when it was split into two institutions. The School of Mines remained intact offering 

The School of Mines had two divisions - a tertiary division and a technical division. The tertiary division provided higher education courses such as mining engineering, geology, education and business studies, while the technical division provided such programs as wool 

University achieved a maximum five-star rating for teaching quality in the Good Universities Guide consecutively from 2010-2014. has been ranked for graduate placement by the 

technical and secondary level programs, while the tertiary division became Institute of Advanced Education.

University's Campus also contributed to University being ranked as sixth in the world for Education, to the World University Rankings by Subject

The Campus is located in the township of Churchill in the foothills of the Ranges. The campus is home to over 2,500 students and approximately 400 staff. Facilities include nursing, science and engineering labs; computer labs; library and study spaces; multi-purpose auditorium; bistro and cafe facilities; and the Switchback Gallery, which showcases artistic works from and beyond.

Good Universities Guide This placed the University in the top tier of Australian regional universities.

University's teaching performance also was ranked in the top ten of Australian universities according to data released by the Federal Department of Education, Science and 

Training in 2005. Melbourne Institute Rankings.

Mt ski resort, white water rivers and coastal parks, including Wilson's Promontory and Lakes. Nearby is the National Park, a temperate that is home to giant mountain ash trees and lyrebirds.

there were 2,246 masters students, compared to 7,420 bachelor students. In terms of students who are not located on a campus of the university, there were 8,906 students with partnership 

The 160-drive from Melbourne to the campus takes about two hours, heading east on the Princes Highway, or 90 minutes by train. It is within driving distance of Victoria's 

According to the university's records as of 2011, there were 23,101 students consisting of 11,651 higher education students and 12,773 Technical and Further 

Education students. The report states that 11,737 students study in , but does not differentiate between campuses within the area. In terms of higher degrees, 

institutions such as the Melbourne Institute of Technology and Australian Technical and Management College 

Brown University

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Founded in 1764 as "The College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations," Brown is the 
institution of higher education in the United States and
 one of the nine Colonial Colleges established before the American its foundation, Brown was the first college in the United States to accept 
students regardless of their religious engineering program, established in 1847, was the first in what is now known as the Ivy League. Brown's New  to in education theory as the Brown adopted 
by faculty vote in 1969 after a period of student lobbying; the New Curriculum eliminated mandatory "general education" distribution requirements, made students "the architects of their own syllabus," and 
allowed them to take any course for a grade of satisfactory or unrecorded no-credit.In 1971, Brown's coordinate women's institution, Pembroke College, was fully merged into the university.
Undergraduate admissions is among the most selective in the country, with an acceptance rate of 8.5 percent for the class of 2019 The University comprises The College, the Graduate School, Alpert Medical 

School, the School of Engineering, the School of Public Health, and the School of Professional Studies which includes the IE Brown Executive MBA international programs are organized through the Watson Institute for International Studies, and is academically affiliated with the Marin
Biological Laboratory and the Rhode Island School of Design. The Brow Dual Degree Program, offered in conjunction with the Rhode Island School of Design, is a five-year course that awards degrees from both institutions.
Brown's main campus is located in the College Hill Historic District in the city of Providence, the third largest city in New England. The University's neighborhood is
 a federally listed architectural district with a dense concentration of ancient buildings. On the western edge of the campus, Benefit Street contains "one of the finest cohesive collections of restored seventeenth- and eighteenth-century architecture in the United States".
Prominent alumni include current chair of the Federal Reserve Janet 67 and president of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim '82. Brown has produced 7 Nobel Prize winners, 57 Rhodes Scholars,National Humanities Medalists,ht Mitchell scholars.


"The Philadelphia Association obtained such an acquaintance with our affairs, as to bring them to an apprehension that it was practicable and expedient to erect a college i
n the Colony of Rhode-Island, under the chief direction of the Baptists; ... Mr. James Manning, who took his first degree in New-Jersey college in September, 1762, was esteemed a suitable leader in this important work."
Manning arrived at Newport in July 1763 and was introduced to Stiles, who agreed to write the Charter for the College. Stiles's first draft was read t
e General Assembly in August 1763 and rejected by Baptist members who worried that the
In September 1764 the inaugural meeting of the College Corporation was held at Newport. Governor Stephen Hopkins was chosen chancellor, former and future governor Samuel Ward was vice chancellor, five Episcopalians, and four Congregationalists. Of the 12 Fellows, eight should be ding the st indifferently of any or all Denominations."
The Charter was not, as is sometimes supposed, the grant of King George III, but rather an Act of the colonial General Assembly. In two particulars the Charter may be said to be a uniquely progressive document. First, where other colleges had curricular strictures against opposing doctrines, Brown's Charter asserted that "Sectarian differences of opinions, shall not make any Part of the Public and Classical 

Instruction." Second, according to University historian Walter Bronson, "the instrument governing Brown University recognized more broadly and fundamentally
 than any other the principle of denominational cooperation.The oft-repeated statement that Brown's Charter alone prohibited a religious test for College membership is inaccurate; other college charters were also liberal in that particular.
James Manning was sworn in as the College's first president in 1765 and served until 1791. In 1770 the College moved from Warren, Rhode Island, to the crest of College Hill overlooking Providence. Solomon , a freshman in the class of 1773, wrote in his diary on March 26, 1770
"This day the Committee for settling the spot for the College, met at the New-Brick School House, when it was determined it should be set on ye Hill opposite Mr. up the Presbyterian Lane."
Presbyterian Lane is the present College Street. The eight-acre site, in two parcels, had been purchased by the Corporation for £219, mainly from Moses Brown and 
John Brown, the parcels having "formed a part of the original home lots of their ancestor, Chad Brown, and of George who bought them from the Indians." University n until 1823 as "The at the College of New Jersey. Its construction was managed by the firm of Nicholas Brown and Company, which spent £2844 in the first year building the College Edifice and the adjacent 

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Columbia University

Columbia University officially Columbia University in the City of New Y a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City. 

as well as one of the country's nine colonial colleges. After the revolutionary war, King's College briefly became a state entity, and was renamed Columbia College in 1784. A 1787 charter placed the institution under a private board of trustees before it was further renamed Columbia University in 1896 when the 

Originally established in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in New York State, 

campus was moved from Madison Avenue to its current location in Heights occupying land of 32 acres 13  is one of the fourteen founding members of the Association of American Universities, and was the first school in the United States to grant the M.D. degree

Columbia annually administers the Pulitzer Prize. Notable alumni and former  from King's College include five Founding Fathers of the United States; nine Justices of the United States Supreme 

The university is organized into twenty schools, including Columbia College, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the School of General Studies. The university also has global research outposts in Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Paris, Mumbai, Rio Santiago, and Nairobi

.It has affiliations with several other institutions nearby, including Teachers College, Barnard College, and Union Theological Seminary, with joint undergraduate programs available through the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Sciences Po Paris, and the School

Court; 20 living billionaires; 29 Academy Award winners; and 29 heads of state, including three United States Presidents.Additionally, to date, some 101 Nobel Prize laureates have been affiliated with Columbia as students, faculty, or staff, second in the world in Nobel affiliates to Harvard University

Discussions regarding the founding of a college in the Province of New York began as early as 1704, when Colonel Lewis Morris wrote to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, the missionary arm of the Church of England, persuading the society that New York City was an ideal 

Instruction was held in a new schoolhouse adjoining Trinity Church, located on what is now lower Broadway in Manhattan.The college was officially founded on October 31, 1754, as King's College by royal charter of King George II, making it the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States.

community in which to establish a college;however, not until the founding of Princeton University across the Hudson River in New Jersey did the City of New York seriously consider founding a college.In 1746 an act was passed by the general assembly of New York to raise funds for the foundation of a new college. In 

1751, the assembly appointed a commission of ten New York residents, seven of whom were members of the Church of England, to direct the funds accrued by the state lottery towards the foundation of a college.

Classes were initially held in July 1754 and were presided over by the college's first president, Dr. Samuel . Johnson was the only instructor of the college's first class, which consisted of a mere eight students. 

In 1763, Dr. Johnson was succeeded in the presidency by Myles Cooper, a graduate of The Queen's College, Oxford, and an ardent Tory. In the charged political climate of the American Revolution, his chief 

opponent in discussions at the College was an undergraduate of the class of 1777, Alexander Hamilton.The 

departure in 1783. The college's library was looted and its sole building requisitioned for use as a military hospital first by American and then British forces Loyalists were forced to abandon their King's College in New York, which was seized by the rebels and renamed Columbia University. The Loyalists, led by Bishop Charles led to Windsor, Nova Scotia, where they founded what is now the University of King's 

American Revolutionary War broke out in 1776, and was catastrophic for the operation of King's College, which suspended instruction for eight years beginning in 1776 with the arrival of the Continental Army. The suspension continued through the military occupation of New York City by British troops until their