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The University of Massachusetts Boston is a public research university in Boston,Massachusetts,United States. It is the only public research university in Boston and the third-largest campus in the five-campus University of Massachusetts system. UMass Boston is the third most diverse university in the United States.
St. John's University is a private Roman Catholic university in Queens,New York City. It was founded in 1870 by the Congregation of the Mission with a mission to provide the youth of New York with a Catholic university education. Originally located in the Brooklyn borough of New York City,the flagship campus was moved to its current location in the Queens borough during the 1950s. St. John's has additional New York City campuses in Staten Island and Manhattan,as well as the Long Island Graduate Center in Hauppauge,New York. Additionally,the university has international campuses located in Rome,Italy,Paris,France,and Limerick,Ireland. The university is under the patronage of Saint John the Baptist.
Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin was a Genevan–American politician,diplomat,ethnologist and linguist. Often described as "America's Swiss Founding Father",he was a leading figure in the early years of the United States,helping shape the new republic's financial system and foreign policy. Gallatin was a prominent member of the Democratic-Republican Party,represented Pennsylvania in both chambers of Congress,and held several influential roles across four presidencies,most notably as the longest serving U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. He is also known for his contributions to academia,namely as the founder of New York University and cofounder of the American Ethnological Society.
The New York University Tandon School of Engineering is the engineering and applied sciences school of New York University. Tandon is the second oldest private engineering and technology school in the United States.
The Gallatin School of Individualized Study is a small interdisciplinary college within New York University (NYU). Students at Gallatin design an interdisciplinary program that meets their specific interests and career goals. Coursework can be taken at any of the schools that compose NYU,in addition to the school's offerings.
John Edward Sexton is an American lawyer,academic,and author. He is the Benjamin F. Butler Professor of Law at New York University where he teaches at the law school and NYU's undergraduate colleges. Sexton served as the fifteenth president of NYU,from 2002 to 2015. During his time as president,NYU's stature rose dramatically into the ranks of the world's top universities,and it became the world's first global network university. Sexton has been called a "transformational" figure in higher education and was named by Time Magazine as one of the United States' 10 best college presidents.
Wesleyan College is a private,liberal arts women's college in Macon,Georgia,United States. Founded in 1836,Wesleyan was the first college in the world chartered to grant degrees to women.
NYU Grossman School of Medicine is a medical school of New York University,a private research university in New York City. It was founded in 1841 and is one of two medical schools of the university,with the other being the Long Island School of Medicine. NYU Grossman School of Medicine is part of NYU Langone Health,named after Kenneth Langone,the investment banker and financial backer of The Home Depot.
New Brunswick Theological Seminary is a Reformed Christian seminary with its main campus in New Brunswick,New Jersey. It was founded in 1784 and is one of the oldest seminaries in the United States. It is a seminary of the Reformed Church in America (RCA),a mainline Reformed Protestant denomination in Canada and the United States that follows the theological tradition and Christian practice of John Calvin. First established in New York City under the leadership of the Rev. John Henry Livingston,who instructed aspiring ministers in his home,the seminary established its presence in New Brunswick in 1810. Although a separate institution,the seminary's early development in New Brunswick was closely connected with that of Rutgers University before establishing its own campus in the city in 1856. Since 1986,the seminary has also offered classes at a satellite location on the grounds of St. John's University in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens,New York.
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature,NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by Albert Gallatin.
The history of New York University begins in the early 19th century. A group of prominent New York City residents from the city's landed class of merchants,bankers,and traders established NYU on April 18,1831. These New Yorkers believed the city needed a university designed for young men who would be admitted based on merit,not birthright or social class. Albert Gallatin,referred to as the “US’s Swiss Founding Father who is still the longest serving Secretary of the Treasury,having served under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison,as well as US Ambassador to France under James Madison and James Monroe and the United Kingdom for James Monroe,described his motivation in a letter to a friend:"It appeared to me impossible to preserve our democratic institutions and the right of universal suffrage unless we could raise the standard of general education and the mind of the laboring classes nearer to a level with those born under more favorable circumstances." For the school's founders,the classical curriculum offered at American colonial colleges needed to be combined with a more modern and practical education. Educators in Paris,Vienna,and London were beginning to consider a new form of higher learning,where students began to focus not only on the classics and religion,but also modern languages,philosophy,history,political economy,mathematics,and physical science;so students might become merchants,bankers,lawyers,physicians,architects,and engineers. Although the new school would be non-denominational –unlike many American colonial colleges,which at the time offered classical educations centered on theology –the founding of NYU was also a reaction by evangelical Presbyterians to what they perceived as the Episcopalianism of Columbia College.
The urban campus of New York University (NYU) is located in Manhattan,and is around Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village,and also is in MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn. NYU is one of the top three largest landowners in New York City.
Henry Philip Tappan was an American philosopher,educator and academic administrator. He is officially considered the first president of the University of Michigan.
The University Village is a complex of three apartment buildings located in Greenwich Village in the Lower Manhattan-part of New York City. The complex is owned by New York University and was built in the 1960s as part of the university's transition to a residential college. One of the towers,505 LaGuardia Place,is a co-op that does not house students,and the other two towers,Silver Tower I and Silver Tower II,house faculty and graduate students of NYU. The buildings were designed by modern architects James Ingo Freed and I. M. Pei,and the central-plaza contains a sculpture by Carl Nesjär and Pablo Picasso. In 2008 the complex was designated a New York City Landmark by the Landmarks Preservation Commission.
The University of Missouri is a public land-grant research university in Columbia,Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. MU was founded in 1839 and was the first public university west of the Mississippi River. It has been a member of the Association of American Universities since 1908 and is classified among "R1:Doctoral Universities –Very high research activity".
The Gould Memorial Library is a building on the campus of the Bronx Community College (BCC),an institution of the City University of New York (CUNY),in University Heights,Bronx,New York City,United States. The building was designed by Stanford White of the firm McKim,Mead &White. Constructed between 1895 and 1900 as the central library of New York University (NYU)'s Bronx campus,it was part of the New York University Libraries system. The library is named after railroad magnate Jay Gould,whose daughter Helen Miller Shepard funded the project in his memory. Gould is no longer used as a library,instead serving primarily as an event space. Gould's facade and interior are New York City designated landmarks,and it is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The history of Columbia University began before it was founded in 1754 in New York City as King's College,by royal charter of King George II of Great Britain. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York,and the fifth oldest in the United States.
Augustus Meader Ryon (1862–1949) was an American mining engineer who served as the founding president of Montana State University. He also has the distinction of having the shortest tenure of any president of the university,only a single year.
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