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 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.
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
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
