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Tubingen School
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Northern School
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Bergen School
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Kyoto school
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Ummon School
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Colorado School of Mines
Colorado School of Mines at Golden; state supported, coeducational; chartered 1874. It was one of the first mineral engineering schools in the United States. It owns extensive experimental and research facilities, field laboratories, and an experimental mine at Idaho Springs. Bibliography:... Read more |
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South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology at Rapid City; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1887 as Dakota School of Mines, renamed 1943. Of note are an engineering and mining experiment station, an institute of atmospheric sciences, a natural science field station, and a... Read more |
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School superintendents
SUPERINTENDENT OF LARGE-CITY SCHOOL SYSTEMS The twenty-first century finds one-third of America's public school children attending one of ten large urban (large-city) school districts. By 2020 approximately one-half of public school enrollment will be clustered in twenty districts. The... Read more |
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Royal School of Church Music
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Naval Postgraduate School
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Eighteen Schools of Early Buddhism
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Guildhall School of Music and Drama
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School of the Three Stages
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University of Leeds
University of Leeds at Leeds, England; established 1884 by the amalgamation of Yorkshire College (1874) with the Leeds School of Medicine (1831). The school was known as Yorkshire College until 1904, when its present name was adopted. It has faculties of arts, economic and social studies,... Read more |
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Steven Campbell
Campbell, Steven (1953– ). Scottish painter, born and mainly active in Glasgow. After leaving school he worked for seven years as a maintenance engineer and steel fitter, and it was not until 1978, when he was 25, that he enrolled as a student at Glasgow School of Art. Initially he was... Read more |
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John Holt
HOLT, JOHN (1923–1985) John Caldwell Holt was a teacher, educational critic, and early spokesperson for the home-schooling movement. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of well-to-do parents, he was formally educated in private schools in the United States and abroad. He described... Read more |
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Bethune-Cookman College
Bethune-Cookman College On October 3, 1904, African-American educator and activist Mary McLeod Bethune founded a normal and industrial school for African-American girls in Daytona Beach, Florida. Although she began with only five students in a small rented house, in less than two years Bethune... Read more |
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Rugby (England)
Rugby town (1991 pop. 59,039), Warwickshire, central England. An important railroad junction and engineering center, Rugby is the seat of one of England's most esteemed public schools. Rugby School was founded in 1567 under the terms of the will of Laurence Sheriff, a wealthy Rugby-born London... Read more |
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Zurich-Montpellier school of phytosociology
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University of Southern California
University of Southern California at Los Angeles; coeducational; chartered and opened 1880. The university has a liberal arts college and a graduate school as well as schools of architecture, urban and regional planning, engineering, safety and systems management, business administration, cinema... Read more |
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Purdue University
Purdue University , main campus at West Lafayette, Ind.; land-grant with state support; coeducational; chartered 1865, opened 1874. It maintains campuses at Hammond (Calumet campus) and Westville (North Central campus) and, with Indiana Univ., at Fort Wayne and Indianapolis (including the medical... Read more |
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Auburn University
Auburn University main campus at Auburn, Ala.; land-grant and state supported; opened 1859 as East Alabama Male College, reorganized 1872 as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama; became coeducational 1892; renamed Alabama Polytechnic Institute 1899, Auburn Univ. 1960. It has... Read more |
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University of Regina
University of Regina at Regina, Sask., Canada. Established in 1911 as a residential high school, it became a junior college at the Univ. of Saskatchewan in 1925, a second campus of that university in 1961, and an independent institution in 1974. It has faculties of arts, fine arts, education,... Read more |
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Boston University
Boston University at Boston, Mass.; coeducational; founded 1839, chartered 1869, first baccalaureate granted 1871. It is composed of 16 schools and colleges. Among its notable research facilities are a medical center (including the schools of medicine and graduate dentistry and university hospital)... Read more |
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University of Moncton
University of Moncton at Moncton, N.B., Canada; French language; founded 1864 as St. Joseph's Univ. Its name was changed in 1963. It has faculties of arts, sciences and engineering, business administration, education, social sciences, and graduate studies as well as schools of law, nursing, and... Read more |
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Villanova University
Villanova University , at Villanova, Pa., near Philadelphia; Roman Catholic; est. 1842 as a men's school, coeducational since 1967. It has schools of arts and sciences, engineering, commerce and finance, nursing, law, and graduate studies. Among its publications are Augustinian Studies, South Asian... Read more |
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Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina1954family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">– Chairwoman, chief executive officer, and president, Hewlett-Packard Company Nationality: American. Born: September 6, 1954, in Austin, Texas. Education: Stanford University, BA, 1976; Robert H. Smith School of Business at University of... Read more |
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School PhobiaSchool Refusal
School phobia/school refusal Definition The term school phobia was first used in 1941 to identify children who fail to attend school because attendance causes emotional distress and anxiety. In Great Britain and as of the early 2000s in the United States, the term... Read more |
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Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art accredited institution of higher education; in New York City; coeducational; chartered and opened in 1859. Founded by Peter Cooper, it pioneered in evening engineering and art schools; day schools were added in 1900. Today it includes schools of... Read more |
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Eureka College women top Milwaukee Engineering
...basketball team past Milwaukee School of Engineering 62-49 on a night Molly...was enough to break the school career assist record of...The visiting Raiders (1-8), allowed Eureka...score 28 points off of 25 turnovers. Lincoln Christian... |
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ITJ signs agreements with two top UK universities for degree courses
...Straits Times 02-25-2001 ITJ signs agreements with two top UK universities...are Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) Electronic...designed for SPM school leavers with four...remarkable career in Engineering and Computing...comprises level ... |
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Embry-Riddle Keeps Top Spot in U.S. News & World Report's Best College...
...Relations, +1-386-226...Communications, +1-386-226...Aviation and Engineering Physics Planned...Fla., Aug. 25 /PRNewswire...earned the top ranking in...Programs at Schools Whose Highest...retention rates ... |
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Top students shine at INTI
...03-14-2002 Top students shine...VEERA. ABOUT 1,445 INTI College...project. He won the School of Mathematics...programme in software engineering graduating with...introduced Bachelor of Engineering degree in electrical and electronic ... |
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Study shows U. Texas has top petroleum program
...the nation's top-10 petroleum engineering schools are creating a...university's petroleum engineering department...nation's top-25 universities offer...undergraduate petroleum engineering programs are ranked ... |
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The Nines finishes first at Daily Journal of Commerce 2009 Top Projects
...Commerce's 2009 Top Projects awards...also selected 25 other projects...and chair of the school's architecture...American Council of Engineering Companies of Oregon...Architecture, Devco Engineering, Pillar Consulting...Engineers, Interface ... |
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Top Employers Find That in Tough Economic Times, a Healthy, Productive...
...Juanita Panlener, +1-202-331-4323...Psychological Association, +1-202- 336-6134...Systems, Ltd. - - Engineering Services Division...Teledyne Brown Engineering -- Huntsville Headquarters...Sandia Preparatory School (New Mexico...organizations ... |
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A changing of the guard in top-level Stanford U. posts
...of three new top-ranking administrative...Sullivan as Law School dean and John...for a dean of engineering, while the search...office in Building 1.In total...promoted to Law School dean in 1987...each of their schools and ... |
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Union College lacks luster to crack national top 20 list
...about being in the top 50? Absolutely...Ainlay added that "25 percent of [the...quality of the school compared to...its expensive engineering program than its competitors without engineering, "the fact that...because it has ... |
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Detroits VisionIT Tops the BusinessWeek SmallBiz/Initiative for a Competitive...
...Heather Carpenter, +1- 212-512-2854...VisionIT ranks No. 1 on the BusinessWeek...Rounding out the top five are Pinnacle...Harvard Business School. The ICICs aim...Company Name/City 1 VisionIT Detroit...19 Yerba Buena ... |
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