The University of Waterloo traces its roots back to the Waterloo College School, founded in 1914. The college school was the non-theological teaching arm of Waterloo Lutheran Seminary (now Martin Luther University College), itself founded in 1911. In 1924, the college school began to offer a regular, three-year, liberal arts curriculum under the name of Waterloo College of Arts. The following year the school became officially associated with the University of Western Ontario, under the name of Waterloo College. In 1957, a separate administrative entity was established within the structure of Waterloo College.
Iowa State University was founded in 1858. The university is organized into eight colleges and two schools, which together offer 100 bachelor’s degree programs, 112 master’s degrees, and 83 doctorates. Among Iowa State’s most popular programs are those in engineering and in business, management, marketing, and related fields. The university also offers well-known programs in journalism and mass communication, in education, and in veterinary science. Iowa State’s department of Online and Distance Learning offers graduate degrees and certificates in more than 50 fields of academic study. Iowa St...
The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) traces its roots back to a group of medical, pharmacy, and dental schools founded during the nineteenth century on the Near West Side (“Medical Center”), as well as an Undergraduate Division of the University of Illinois established in 1945 on Chicago’s Navy Pier to help receive the influx of World War II veterans seeking higher education under the GI Bill. In 1965, the Navy Pier campus was shut down and a full-scale university known as the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle (UICC) was opened about a mile south of the Medical Center. Finally, in 1982, the Medical Center and UICC were merged to create UIC as it is today.
The University of Notre Dame (ND) was founded in 1842 by Edward Sorin, a Catholic priest of the religious order of the Congregation of Holy Cross (Congregatio a Sancta Cruce—CSC). ND was originally a primary and secondary school. Two years later, in 1844, the school received its college charter from the General Assembly of Indiana (which had been a state since 1816). It awarded its first degree in 1849. Today, ND is still run by the CSC, although the faculty members and the student body are now recruited from far beyond the confines of the Catholic Church. ND’s transformation from a small Catholic college to a modern research university has been gradual but steady.
Jeremy Waldron ranks among our Top Influential Legal Scholars Today. The University of Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world, which affords it an aura of awe and respect that no amount of money can buy. If Cambridge was preeminent in the analytical philosophy tradition during the twentieth century, Oxford was far more important for the Scholastic philosophical tradition during the High Middle Ages. For example, the great Scottish metaphysician John Duns Scotus (his name means, roughly, “John, of the village of Duns, in Scotland”) was in residence here during the 1290s, and again briefly between 1302 and 1304, between stays at the University of Paris.
The University of Toronto received its royal charter in 1827 from King George IV. Originally known as King’s College, it was the first institution of higher learning in the colonial Province of Upper Canada (consisting of mostly what is now southern Ontario). King’s College was a religious institution, operating under the auspices of the Church of England. In 1850, the university was transferred to a secular administration, at which time it also assumed its present name. Today, the university comprises 11 schools at its principal location in downtown Toronto’s Queen’s Park neighborhood, as well as two satellite campuses.
Cornell University was founded in turbulent times. With the Civil War winding down, and less than two weeks after President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the Governor of New York signed the school’s official charter in the state capital, Albany, where only the day before Lincoln’s funeral procession had passed through the city’s streets. Two men were behind the drive to establish a first-class university in upstate New York: wealthy businessman Ezra Cornell, the founder of Western Union, who was originally from Ithaca (where the new school was to be located), and Andrew Dickson White, a prominent historian and educator, who hailed from nearby Syracuse.
Fordham University was founded in 1841 by the Jesuit religious order. It still retains its Catholic affiliation. Originally located in the Fordham section of New York City’s borough of the Bronx, today the university’s flagship campus lies just to the east of the original campus in that same borough’s Rose Hill neighborhood. Fordham also has three satellite campuses: one on the Upper West Side of Manhattan near Lincoln Center; one in southern Westchester County, immediately north of the Bronx; and one in London in the UK. Fordham is organized into four undergraduate schools offering some 50 de...
Julian Steward Julian Steward was born on January 31, 1902. During his life, he developed the idea of cultural ecology. Steward developed his love of nature at Deep Springs Preparatory School, which he began attending at age 16. Steward graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Zoology. Throughout his career, Steward worked at the University of Michigan (where he established the anthropology department), the University of Utah, the Smithsonian, and the National Science Foundation. Steward wrote many essays and articles regarding his theory of cultural ecology including: Cultural ecology studies how environment can affect cultural similarities and differences.
John Comaroff is the Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, and Oppenheimer Research Fellow in African Studies at Harvard University. Comaroff also serves as a research professor at the American Bar Foundation. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Cape Town and his doctorate from the London School of Economics. Comaroff has held numerous influential teaching positions, includng the Harold H. Swift Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago as well as positions at Duke University, Tel Aviv University, and University of Wales.
Christopher Pexa specializes in 19th and 20th century Native American and U.S. literatures, Native American studies, and settler colonial studies, with an emphasis on questions of indigenous ethics, sovereignty, and nationalism. He completed his latest book with University of Minnesota Press, entitled Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakota Oyate, that explores the ambivalent ways in which allotment-era Dakota authors played to white regimes of legibility while at the same time honoring tribal common sense and producing a contemporary Dakota nationhood. Pexa’s essays have appeared or are forthcoming in PMLA, Wíčazo Ša Review, SAIL, and MELUS.
Kansas Christian College in Overland Park, Kansas, was founded in 1938 as a Bible college. The college has expanded considerably and now offers a variety of degrees related to ministry and service as well as business and general studies. Kansas Christian is accredited by the Association for Biblical Higher Education (ABHE). Kansas Christian is affiliated with the Church of God (Holiness) and welcomes students of all denominations and religious backgrounds to attend. The school’s mission is to create servant leaders who exhibit values such as: Tuition at Kansas Christian averages $4260, with an additional fee of $4,450 per semester to include room and board.
Providence Christian College is a classical liberal arts college located in Pasadena, California. Founded in 2002, the school follows the tenets of the Reformed Christian faith. All students at Providence begin their academic journey by completing a 24-course core that sets the tone for further study. Upon completion of the core, students choose a concentration before carrying out a capstone project in their final year. Concentrations at Providence include: Tuition at Providence is $32,546 per year. Students living on campus pay an additional $7,338 for housing. 72% of students receive financial aid to assist with the cost of attendance.
