Vanderbilt University is a private research university in Nashville,Tennessee. Founded in 1873,it was named in honor of shipping and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt,who provided the school its initial $1 million endowment in the hopes that his gift and the greater work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the American Civil War. Vanderbilt is a founding member of the Southeastern Conference and has been the conference's only private school since 1966.
Hendrix College is a private liberal arts college in Conway,Arkansas. Approximately 1,000 students are enrolled,mostly undergraduates. While affiliated with the United Methodist Church,the college offers a secular curriculum and has a student body composed of people from many different religious backgrounds. Hendrix is a member of the Associated Colleges of the South.
Drury University,formerly Drury College and originally Springfield College,is a private university in Springfield,Missouri. The university's mission statement describes itself as "church-related". It enrolls about 1,590 undergraduate and graduate students in six master's programs and 716 students in the College of Continuing Professional Studies. In 2013,the Drury Panthers men's basketball team won the NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Championship. The Drury men's and women's Panthers have accumulated 22 NCAA Division II National Championships between them,in addition to numerous NAIA titles before moving to the NCAA.
Valdosta State University is a public university in Valdosta,Georgia,United States and is one of the four comprehensive universities in the University System of Georgia. As of 2019,VSU had over 12,000 undergraduate and graduate students. VSU also offers classes at Moody Air Force Base north of Valdosta in Lowndes County.
Christendom College is a Roman Catholic liberal arts college founded in 1977 in Front Royal,Virginia,United States,located in the Shenandoah Valley.
Jay Woodson Dickey Jr.,was a Republican U.S. Representative for Arkansas's 4th congressional district from 1993 to 2001. The amendment known as the Dickey Amendment (1996) blocks the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from funding injury prevention research that might promote gun control,and the Dickey–Wicker Amendment (1995) prohibits federal funds to be spent on research that involves the destruction of a human embryo.
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is a public health sciences university in Little Rock,Arkansas. It is part of the University of Arkansas System and consists of six colleges,seven institutes,several research centers,a statewide network of community education centers,and the UAMS Medical Center.
Candler School of Theology is one of seven graduate schools at Emory University,located in metropolitan Atlanta,Georgia. A university-based school of theology,Candler educates ministers,scholars of religion and other leaders. It is also one of 13 seminaries affiliated with the United Methodist Church.
Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) is a private medical school in Atlanta,Georgia. Originally a part of Morehouse College,the school became independent in 1981.
Nannerl "Nan" Overholser Keohane is an American political theorist and former president of Wellesley College and Duke University. Until September 2014,Keohane was the Laurance S. Rockefeller Distinguished Visiting Professor of Public Affairs and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. She is now a professor in social sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study,Princeton,where she is researching the theory and practice of leadership in democratic societies.
Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) is a consortium of American universities headquartered in Oak Ridge,Tennessee,with offices in Arvada,Colorado and Cincinnati,Ohio and staff at other locations across the country.
Emory University School of Law is the law school of Emory University,a private research university in Atlanta,Georgia. It was founded in 1916 and was the first law school in Georgia to be granted membership in the American Association of Law Schools.
John Lee Buchanan was the second president of Virginia Tech and sixth president of the University of Arkansas.
Andrew Warren Sledd was an American theologian,university professor and university president. A native of Virginia,he was the son of a prominent Methodist minister,and was himself ordained as a minister after earning his bachelor's and master's degrees. He later earned a second master's degree and his doctorate.
The History of Emory University began in 1836 when a small group of Methodists from Newton County contemplated the establishment of a new town and college. The town was called Oxford after the school's prestigious British cousin,which graduated the two founders of Methodism,John and Charles Wesley. The college was named after John Emory,an American Methodist bishop.
William M. Tsutsui is an American academic,author,economic historian,Japanologist and university administrator. He was named President and CEO of Ottawa University,May 3,2021,and took office July 1,2021.
Susan Herbst is an American political scientist and academic administrator who served as the 15th president of the University of Connecticut. She was named president on December 20,2010,and took office on June 1,2011. She succeeded Michael J. Hogan and was the first woman to be selected as the University of Connecticut's president since the school's founding in 1881. In August of 2019,Herbst was succeeded by Thomas C. Katsouleas.
The 1897 Arkansas Industrial Cardinals football team represented the University of Arkansas during the 1897 college football season. Arkansas opened its 1897 season with its sixth game in four years against the team from Fort Smith High School. The Cardinals next competed in their third intercollegiate game,playing Drury College to a 6–6 tie. On November 20,1897,Arkansas won its first ever intercollegiate football game against Ouachita College,a liberal arts college in Arkadelphia,Arkansas.
John Beuerlein is a retired financial analyst and philanthropist. Beuerlein spent much of his career at Edward Jones Investments,becoming the youngest person in the firm's history to be promoted to general partner at the age of 26. In 2023,Beuerlein was selected by the Drury University Board of Trustees to serve as the institution's interim president following the departure of previous president Timothy Cloyd.
