University of Virginia

The University of a research university founded by U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and located in, Virginia. known for its historic foundations, student-run honor code,

 

 and  of the original "Public Ivies," a publicly funded university considered as providing a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League

Its initial Board of Visitors included U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe. Monroe d in 1819, with its Academical Village and original courses of study conceived and designed entirely by Jefferson. UNESCO an honor shared with nearby Monticello

Since 1904,membership in the Association of American Universities for research-focused institutions and was the first university of the American South to attain membership. The university is classified as Very High Research 

Activity in the Carnegie Classification and is considered its state's flagship research university bye  is affiliated with 7 Nobel Laureates, and has produced seven NASA astronauts, seven Marshall Scholars, four Churchill Scholars, 29 Truman Scholars, and 50 Rhodes Scholars, the most of any state-affiliated institution in the U

While is a public in part by the Commonwealth of Virginia, the university receives far more funding from private sources than public. Students come to attend the university in  from all 50 states and 147 countries.

 additionally operates the College at Wise in the far southwestern corner of the state, and previously operated George Mason University and the University of Mary Washington as branch campuses until 1972.

Virginia's athletic teams are known as the Cavaliers, and since 1953 have competed in the Atlantic Coast Conference of Division I of the NCAA.

 After winning NCAA titles (the College Cup in soccer, the College World Series in baseball, and the NCAA a single academic year, was the Capital One Cup for the top overall men's sports program in the nation for Cavaliers have won 31 national titles overall, including 23 in men's sports. Counting 

only NCAA sanctioned championships has won a total of 23 NCAA titles, with 16 in men's sports, ranking

 In contrast to other universities of the day, at which one could study in either medicine, law, or divinity, the first students at the University of Virginia could study in one or several of eight independent schoolmicine, law, mathematics, 

 chemistry, ancient languages, modern languages, natural philosophy, and moral philosophy.Another innovation of the new university was that higher education would be separated from religious doctrine.

Graduate, to a student who had completed the courses of one school; and Doctor to a graduate in more than one school who had shown research

  ad no divinity school, was established independently of any religious sect, and the Grounds were planned and centered upon a library, the Rotunda, rather than a church, distinguishing it from peer universities still primarily functioning as seminaries for one particular strain 

 of Protestantism to philosopher Thomas Cooper that "a professorship of theology should have no place in our institution", and never has there been one. There were initially two degrees awarded by the university:

 

 

 

University of Colorado Boulder

The University of Colorado  referred to as , CU, Boulder,University of Colorado system and was founded five months before Colorado was admitted to the union in 1876.

In 2010, the university consisted of nine colleges and schools and offered over 150 academic programs and enrolled 29,952 students.Twelve Nobel Laureates, nine MacArthur Fellows, and 18 astronauts have been affiliated with CU-Boulder as students, researchers, or faculty members in its history.

  The university received nearly $454 million in sponsored research in 2010 to fund programs like the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, and 

The Colorado members of the NCAA Division

  The Buffaloes have won 28 national championships: 20 in skiing, seven total in men's and women's cross country, and one in football. Approximately 1,500 students participate e club sports annually as well. 

CU-Boulder's distinctive architecture style, known as Tuscan Vernacular Revival, was designed by architect oldest buildings, such as Old Main, were in the Collegiate Gothic style of many East Coast schools

plans for the university's new buildings were in the same style. A month or so after approval, however,updated his design by sketching in a new wrap of rough, textured sandstone walls with sloping, \ed-tiled roofs and Indiana limestone trim.

he Engineering Center is located on the North-East side of campus, on the corner of Colorado and Regent. The Engineering Center consists of departments which are: Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and 

 This formed the basis of a unified style which was used in the design of fifteen other buildings between 1921

The sandstone used in the construction of nearly all the buildings on campus was selected from a a variety of front range mountain quarries. In 2med the Boulder campus as one of the most beautiful college campuses in the United States.

Mechanical Engineering. Rankings published by the US World and News report ranked the Undergraduate Engineering Programs at 34th overall and 19th among public engineering programs nationwide. Graduate Engineering Programs at CU are ranked 34thll and 20th among public engineering programs nationwide.

 This architecturally distinctive and modern center is home to the nation's largest  centrifuge, ion-implantation and microwave-propagation facilities, spectrometers, electron and other microscopes, and a structural analysis facility.

The es students hands on experience by connecting them with faculty and industrial advisers on sponsored projects. CU Engineering is also part outreach, programs for students and teachers at the elementary, middle and high math and engineering lessons and activities 

CU Engineering houses many signature programs. The Integrated Teaching and Learning Program gives students hands on design experience in the award 34sign Center within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. 

Auditorium is a large building on the north edge of the University of Colorado campus, near 17th Street and University Avenue, which plays host to various talks, plays, and musical performances. Andrew J. 

y was a prominent businessman involved with the town of Boulder in the supporter Lewis Cheney. is credited with a number of landmarks throughout Boulder, where he was a carpenter and involved in politics.

The Auditorium opened its doors thirteen years after construction started.adopted daughter, May, sued for a third state, a case that took thirteen years to settle. May was angered that her father left her no money in his will, while leaving $300,000 ton the case, and the majority of critical construction on the building resumed.

University of California, Santa Cruz

 

The University of California, Santa Cruz  known as  Cruz or  is a public, collegiate university and one of 10 campuses in the University of California system. San Francisco at the edge of the coastal community of Santa Cruz, the campus lies on 2,001 acres of rolling, forested hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean

Founded in 1965, Cruz is considered as a Public Ivy s a showcase for progressive, cross-disciplinary undergraduate education, innovative teaching methods and contemporary architecture. 

 Since then, it has evolved into a modern research university with a wide variety of both undergraduate and graduate programs, 

A number of shrines, dens and other student-built curiosities are scattered around the northern campus. These structures, mostly assembled from branches and other forest detritus, were formerly concentrated in the area known as  glen the University razed in 1992 to build colleges Nine and Ten. Students were able to relocate and save some of the structures, however

while retaining its reputation for strong undergraduate support and student political activism. The residential college system, which consists of ten small colleges, is intended to combine the student support of a small college with the resources of a major university. 

 There are a number of natural points of interest throughout ts. The "Porter Caves" are a popular site among students on the west side of campus.

Creeks several ravines. Footbridges span those ravines on pedestrian paths linking various areas of campus. The footbridges make it possible to walk to any part of campus utes in spite of the campus being built on a mountainside with varying elevations.At night, orange lights illuminate the occasionally fogged-in paths.

. A large Douglas Fir spanning approximately 1ee Nine is located in the upper campus of behind College Nine. T off the limbs to make it nearly impossible to climb.For specific directions, reference: directions to Tree Nine For the less also frequent Sunset Tree located on the east side of the meadow behind the Music Center

 The entrance is located in the forest between the Porter College meadow and Empire Grade Road. The caves wind through a set of caverns, some of which are challenging, narrow passages. Tree Nine is another popular destination for students

 A Santa Cruz Superior Court judge invalidated the measures, ruling they were improperly put on the ballot. In 2008, the university,  scrutiny of its north campus expansion plans, to provide housing font of the additional students on campus, and to pay municipal development and water fee
 

  Plans for increasing enrollment to 19,500 be anticipated environmental impacts of such action, encountered opposition from the city, the local community, and the studen voters in 2006 passed two measures calling on  to pay for the impacts of campus growth. 

 A Santa Cruz Superior Court judge invalidated the measures, ruling they were improperly put on the ballot. In 2008, the university, city, county  local government scrutiny of its north campus expansion plans, to provide housing font of the additional students on campus, and to pay municipal development and water fee

George0th Chancellor, intends to mitigate growth constraints in Santa Cruz by developing off-campus sites in Silicon Valley. campus is planned to ultimately hold 2,0ntire university's future student body as

University of California, Riverside

The University of California, a public research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system. The main campus sits in a suburban district of Riverside, California, United States, with a branch campus of 20 acres in Palm Desert.

College of Letters and Science opened in 1954. The Regents of the University of California general campus of the system in 1959, and graduate students were admitted in 1961.  

News ranks U, the 15th most economically diverse student body in the of all  students graduate within six years without regard to economic  outreach and retention programs have contributed to its reputation as a "campus of choice" for minority students, including students

 extending the citrus growing season in California from four to nine months. Some of the world's most important research collections on citrus diversity and entomology, as well as science fiction and photography, are located at Riverside. 

 Founded in 1907 as the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside pioneered research in biological pest control and the use of growth regulators responsible for

To accommodate an enrollment of 21,000 students by 2015, more than $730 million has been invested in new construction projects since 1999eliminary accreditation off Medicine was granted in October 2012 and the first class of 50 students was enrolled in August 2013. It is the first new research-based public medical school in 40 years

team won back to back Big West championships in 2006 and 2007. In 2007, the men's baseball team won its first conference championship and advanced to the second time since the university moved to Division I in 

is consistently ranked as one of the most ethnically and economically diverse universities in the United  2016 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings places 

i58th among top public universities, and school programs including the Graduate School of Education and the  College of Engineering based on peer assessment, student selectivity, financial resources, and other

  factors. Washington Monthly ranked  2nd in the United States in terms of social mobility, research and community s U.S. 

 Their nickname was inspired by the high altitude of the campus, which lies on the foothills of Box Springs Mountain.

sports teams are known as the Highlanders and play in the Big West Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I.

 enrollment exceeded 1,000 students by the time Clark Kerr became president of the system in 1958.Anticipating a "tidal growth required by the baby boom generation, Kerr developed the California Master Plan for Higher Education and the Regents designated Riverside a general university campus in 195

first chancellor, Herman Theodore oversaw the beginnings of the school's transition to a full university and its expansion to a capacity of 5,000 students. second chancellor,the campus through the era of the free speech movement and kept student protests peaceful in Riverside

According to a 1998 interview with  the city of Riverside received negative press coverage for smog after the mayor asked Governor Ronald Reagan to declare the South Coast Air Basin a disaster area in subsequent student enrollment decline

In the 1990s, by 2010African American, American Indian, and Latino student enrollments accounted for 30% of the R student body, the highest proportion of at the time

grams in business administration and biomedical sciences created incentive for enough students to enroll at Riverside to
Entrance along University Avenue. The Arts Building is visible in the background

 June 200eived its largest gift, 15.5 million from two local couples, in trust towards building its medical Regents formally a school proposal in 2006. Projected to be completed by 2013, it will be the first new medical school in 40 years built

 students voted for a fee NCAA Division I standing in 1998 In the 1990s, proposals were made to establish a law school, a medical school, and a school of public policy at , with  School of Medicine and the School of Public Policy becoming reality in 2012 In