Harold Edward Stassen was an American politician,military officer,attorney,and member of the Republican Party who was the 25th governor of Minnesota from 1939 to 1943. He was a leading candidate for the Republican nomination for president of the United States in 1948,considered for a time to be the front-runner,but came second to New York governor Thomas Dewey. He thereafter regularly continued to run for that and other offices,such that his name became most identified with his status as a perennial candidate.
Queens College (QC) is a public college in the Queens borough of New York City. It is part of the City University of New York system. Its 80-acre campus is primarily located in Kew Gardens Hills,Queens. It has a student body representing more than 170 countries.
Ralph Johnson Bunche was an American political scientist,diplomat,and leading actor in the mid-20th-century decolonization process and US civil rights movement,who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Israel. Among black Nobel laureates he is the first African American and first person of African descent to be awarded a Nobel Prize. He was involved in the formation and early administration of the United Nations,and played a major role in both the decolonization process and numerous UN peacekeeping operations.
Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn,New York City. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls about 15,000 undergraduate and 2,800 graduate students on a 35-acre campus.
Loyola University New Orleans is a private Jesuit university in New Orleans,Louisiana. Originally established as Loyola College in 1904,the institution was chartered as a university in 1912. It bears the name of the Jesuit founder,Saint Ignatius of Loyola,and is a member of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.
State University of New York Brockport is a public university in Brockport,New York. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY).
McNeese State University is a public university in Lake Charles,Louisiana. Founded in 1939 as Lake Charles Junior College,it was renamed McNeese Junior College after John McNeese,an early local educator. The present name was adopted in 1970. McNeese is part of the University of Louisiana System and is classified as a Master's University. The selective admissions university consists of six colleges and the DoréSchool of Graduate Studies. McNeese is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and all programs of study are accredited by their respective national boards.
Xavier University of Louisiana is a private,historically black (HBCU),Catholic university in New Orleans,Louisiana. It is the only Catholic HBCU and,upon the canonization of Katharine Drexel in 2000,became the first Catholic university founded by a saint.
Southern University and A&M College is a public historically black land-grant university in Baton Rouge,Louisiana. It is the largest historically black college or university (HBCU) in Louisiana,a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund,and the flagship institution of the Southern University System. Its campus encompasses 512 acres,with an agricultural experimental station on an additional 372-acre site,five miles north of the main campus on Scott's Bluff overlooking the Mississippi River in the northern section of Baton Rouge.
Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU) is a private historically black university in Charlotte,North Carolina. It is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA) and accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). The university awards Bachelor of Science,Bachelor of Arts,Bachelor of Social Work,and Master of Social Work degrees.
The Divinity School at Duke University in Durham,North Carolina,is one of ten graduate or professional schools within Duke University. It is also one of thirteen seminaries founded and supported by the United Methodist Church. It has 39 regular rank faculty and 15 joint,secondary or adjunct faculty,and,as of 2017,an enrollment of 543 full-time equivalent students. The current dean of the Divinity School is the Rev. Dr. Edgardo Colón-Emeric,who assumed the deanship on Aug. 31,2021. Former deans include the prominent New Testament scholar Richard B. Hays,who stepped down in 2015.
Thomas More University is a private Roman Catholic university in Crestview Hills,Kentucky. It serves about 2,000 full and part-time students. The university was founded in 1921 by the local Benedictine Sisters as Villa Madonna College.
Ralph Dorn Hetzel was the tenth President of the Pennsylvania State University,serving from 1927 until 1947. Prior to that he served as the President of the New Hampshire College,which became the University of New Hampshire in 1923,under Hetzel's tenure.
Arthur Stanton Adams was an American academic most notable for having served as the President of the University of New Hampshire. He also served as Assistant Dean of Engineering and Director of the Engineering Science Management War Training Program and Provost at Cornell. In 1948 he was appointed the 8th president of the University of New Hampshire. He was chairman of the Reserve Forces Policy Board at the United States Department of Defense from 1953 to 1955. From 1962-1965,he served as the second president of the Salzburg Global Seminar,a non-profit organization based in Salzburg,Austria,whose mission is to challenge current and future leaders to develop creative ideas for solving global problems. Dr. Adams co-authored The Development of Physical Thought and Fundamentals of Thermodynamics.
William David Gibbs was the second elected President of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts from 1907-1912,in Durham,New Hampshire,United States,which in 1923 became the University of New Hampshire. During his presidency student numbers tripled to 315,and the number of college buildings reached 15. He believed that students' time should be divided equally between cultural studies,pure science,and vocational studies.
Independence Hall replicas are buildings,models and miniatures replicating or inspired by the design of Independence Hall in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,United States.
Harold Coffin Syrett was an American historian. He served as the executive editor of The Papers of Alexander Hamilton and as the fourth president of Brooklyn College.
Fred Engelhardt was an American college president. Engelhardt was the sixth President of the University of New Hampshire from 1937 to 1944. He graduated from Phillips Andover Academy. In 1908,Engelhardt went on to Yale and received a bachelor's degree in physics. Engelhardt then received an M.A. (1915) and a Ph.D. (1924) from Columbia University.
