Hollins University

Charles Lewis Cocke, a youthful arithmetic teacher from Richmond, was the power behind Virginia's and one of the country's first ladies' universities.

Cocke lived in a time when ladies' instruction was viewed as useless business — even risky. However, at 19 years of age he composed that he wished to commit himself to the "advanced education of ladies in the South."

Inside six years, he satisfied that fantasy when he was delegated the chief of an organization that would soon get to be Hollins College.

1842

Built up as Valley Union Seminary, a coeducational school.

1846

Hollins' originator Charles Lewis Cocke is delegated the theological college's vital.

1852

Valley Union turns into a foundation for ladies.

1855

Valley Union is renamed Hollins Institute in acknowledgment of advocates John and Ann Halsey Hollins, who gave liberally to the school.

1911

Hollins Institute gets to be Hollins College.

1958

Hollins starts offering graduate projects.

1998

Hollins College gets to be Hollins University.


Mission 

Hollins is an autonomous aesthetic sciences college devoted to scholarly magnificence and altruistic qualities. Hollins University offers undergrad aesthetic sciences training for ladies, chose graduate projects for men and ladies, and group outreach activities. The Hollins educational modules and cocurricular programs get ready understudies for lives of dynamic learning, satisfying work, self-awareness, accomplishment, and administration to society.

The Hollins people group manages skilled understudies occupied with testing study, and profitable researchers and specialists gave to instructing and to the headway of information. Experiential learning, concentrate abroad, and temporary jobs upgrade the scholarly program. The signs of a Hollins instruction are imagination and powerful self-expression, critical thinking and basic deduction aptitudes, and autonomous request and the free trade of thoughts.

Hollins supports politeness, honesty, and sympathy toward others, energizes and values differences and social equity, and certifies the equivalent worth of ladies and men. Our college aphorism, Levavi Oculos, calls us to authority and administration as per the Hollins qualities and conventions.

Carlow University

In 1843, the Sisters of Mercy landed in Pittsburgh from Carlow, Ireland, with a mission to serve poor people, the wiped out, and the uneducated. On September 24, 1929, subsequent to setting up various schools, a halfway house, and the Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh, the sisters established Carlow University under the name of Mount Mercy College. In 1969, Mount Mercy College was renamed Carlow College.

In 2004, in acknowledgment of the exceptional personnel and responsibility to imaginative, assorted, and aggressive projects on both the undergrad and graduate level, Carlow was conceded college status.

Today, Carlow University keeps on satisfying the sisters' main goal through a learner-driven showing environment sustaining the person for a lifetime of learning.

Vision, Mission, and Values Statement 

Carlow University, established in its Catholic personality and encapsulating the legacy and estimations of the Sisters of Mercy, offers transformational instructive open doors for a different group of learners and enables them to exceed expectations.

Sister Catherine Mcauley

The Sisters of Mercy

The Sisters of Mercy were established in 1831 in Dublin, Ireland, by Catherine McAuley, a lady who looked for, through her support of poor people, the debilitated and the uneducated, to uncover the kindness of God in our reality.

Carlow Ireland College

Carlow's Irish Connection

Carlow University is situated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, and it is named after Carlow, Ireland. Carlow University has a remarkable, rich, and intriguing association with Ireland through the establishing Sisters of Mercy.

Georgian Court University

Left to right: Marjorie Murphy Hale '68, President, Keri Tarantino Carlton '99, Vice President, Kelly Gliatta '99, Secretary (camera modest)



About the GCU Alumni Association 

Statement of purpose 

The mission of the Georgian Court University Alumni Association is to encourage the profound, social, and scholarly development of the graduated class of GCU. We look to improve the bond among its individuals and accomplice with the University in its central goal, objectives and budgetary development. We are resolved to serve our individuals and the University.

Vision Statement 

The individuals from the Association might display center qualities, advocate for graduated class in group engagement with the University, help the Office of Institutional Advancement in viably serving the graduated class, empower graduated class soul of administration and backing to current understudies, bolster the University in understanding its main goal and objectives, and advance money related backing of the University.

How would I turn into an individual from the GCU Alumni Association? 

There is no charge to join the graduated class affiliation. Any individual who holds a lone wolves or bosses degree from Georgian Court University (1908-2003 Georgian Court College; 2004-present, GCU) is viewed as a full part. Full individuals may go to all gatherings, vote in favor of Board individuals, and hold office inside the Association. Full individuals are urged to be individuals from an advisory group. Any individual who has finished at least one semesters work (i.e., 12 credits) at Georgian Court, and is no more selected at Georgian Court is a partner part. Partner individuals may go to all gatherings, vote in favor of Board individuals however not hold Board office. Partner individuals are urged to be individuals from a board of trustees. Any individual who holds a present official authority position in the Sisters of Mercy and/or the college and those with privileged degrees. Privileged individuals are qualified for the benefit of the floor, may not vote or hold Board office.

BRENAU UNIVERSITY

BRENAU UNIVERSITY'S MISSION 

Brenau University challenges understudies to live unprecedented existences of individual and expert satisfaction. As understudies seek after undergrad and graduate degrees or non-degree programs at Brenau grounds and on the web, each gets ready for a lifetime of scholarly achievement and valuation for creative expression through an educational modules improved by the human sciences, logical request and worldwide mindfulness.

Satisfying THE MISSION WITH VISION 

Brenau University will give a rich and greatly required way to deal with 21st century instruction. The BRENAU 2025 vision anticipates the college's creating mentally proficient, merciful, professionally master pioneers saturated with the aesthetic sciences to address business and social needs of a different world.

BRENAU 2025 vision is clear: By 2025, Brenau University will be a universally perceived pioneer in imaginative advanced education with a special mix of the human sciences and expert readiness bringing about quickened and propelled degrees in zones that meet the vital needs of the 21st century.

BRENAU 2025 CONTEXT 

Overall learning copies at regular intervals, making an interpretation of into the need to give some type of instruction upgrade to seventy five percent of the American work constrain like clockwork. For society to profit by this wellspring of information, taught and capable individuals must make an interpretation of "learning" into usable conventions and social insight. In the previous an individual may change occupations or vocations maybe a couple times in their livelihood lives. In view of horde social and monetary variables in this day and age, people now change employments and much profession ways, upwards of 10 times before they resign.

Brenau's technique mulls over this, yet it doesn't stop there. The college perceives that learning taking care of business and most important goes a long ways past the basic amassing of crude, icy realities and expert aptitudes. Such a restricted concentrate regularly brings about an instructive affair that needs valuation for individual responsibility for the social great, aesthetic expression and the living of a moral life.
It is urBrenau Strategic Plangent that America's scholarly establishments develop an instructive procedure that incorporates the best of a traditional aesthetic sciences and expert or profession readiness.

Through its BRENAU 2025 vision, the college addresses these basic components for individual and expert satisfaction through an imaginative educational modules that extraordinarily mixes a rich and innovative aesthetic sciences center with phenomenal projects for expert readiness.

Basic in such a system is the authority of computerized correspondences and information usage. This imaginative educational programs mixes all projects at undergrad and graduate levels; this makes executing the BRENAU 2025 vision all the additionally difficult in view of requests by understudies and planned managers for individuals to finish preferred trainings in less time over that required in more seasoned models.

Making and keeping up such an exhaustive educational modules is difficult. It requests exceptional duty by personnel, staff and understudies.

Brenau trusts that the results in changed lives and, at last, a changed world legitimize the venture of the broad money related and scholarly capital. Through quickened degree programs and improved learning, Brenau arrangements to uncover the greater part of its understudies to its spearheading new educational modules that will instruct them for a calling as well as will set them up for citizenship in a complex worldwide society.

Western New Mexico University

The people group of Silver City understood a long-term dream on February 11, 1893, when the Thirtieth Session of the Territorial Legislature of New Mexico passed "An Act to Establish and Provide for the Maintenance and Government of the Normal Schools of New Mexico." Silver City and Las Vegas were been the areas of these instructor preparing organizations. This effectively finished the endeavors of numerous in Silver City, who had endeavored for quite a long time to persuade the Territorial Legislature to affirm an organization of higher learning in Silver City.

A Board of Regents, named by Governor L. Bradford Prince, was given the undertaking of selecting a site for the school. On June 2, 1893, the Board acknowledged Regent John W. Fleming's offer of 20 sections of land arranged on a high slope west of the group. This site permitted the foundation to be noticeable to all who came into town. On September 7, 1894, a noteworthy devotion service was held. Inside the foundation laid by the authorities and townspeople, a copper box containing coins, magazines, and different things of the period was put. The military band of Fort Bayard gave fitting music.

A Board of Regents, named by Governor L. Bradford Prince, was given the endeavor of selecting a site for the school. On June 2, 1893, the Board recognized Regent John W. Fleming's offer of 20 areas of area organized on a high incline west of the gathering. This site allowed the establishment to be observable to all who came into town. On September 7, 1894, a critical dedication administration was held. Inside the establishment laid by the powers and townspeople, a copper box containing coins, magazines, and diverse things of the period was put. The military band of Fort Bayard gave fitting music.

Toward the end of the 1930's an optional school connected with the school started operations in another expanding on the east side of the grounds. Western High School was swung over to the Silver Consolidated School District on July 1,1960.

In spite of the fact that there was a postponement in grounds extension amid World War II, the flood of numerous veterans taking after the war made it important to convey brief lodging to the grounds. The new lodging was quickly named Veterans' Dormitory. In 1948 a College Cafeteria supplanted the cafeteria situated in the storm cellar of Ritch Hall. In 1949 the Mustang Field House and swimming pool were finished.

In 1979 the desire for an encased pool was satisfied. In 1954 the President's house was finished. Mill operator Library, taking after the wrecking of "Old Main,'' was implicit 1957 then was totally renovated in 1997, multiplying its size. In 1966 the Fine Arts Auditorium, the McCray Art Building, and the Parotti Music building were done. These structures have included social open doors for the University and nearby group. Western New Mexico University got its present name in 1963. The Phelps Dodge-Felix Martinez Buildings (1970), Glaser Hall (1981) and the Juan Chacon Building (1983) mirror the satisfaction of later needs of the University.

Fordham University

History and Mission

The sources of Fordham University can be followed to 1839 when John Hughes, the Bishop of New York, purchased 100 sections of land at Rose Hill in the Fordham area of what was then Westchester County for $29,750. Be that as it may, he said, "I had not, when I bought the site of this new college...so much as a penny to begin the installment for it." After a nine-month crusade the most cash he could raise privately was $10,000, thus he went to Europe on an asking trek to get the assets that he couldn't raise at home.

The money related troubles that John Hughes confronted in beginning St. John's College are demonstrative of the destitution of the New York Catholic people group in 1841. It took a bold man to begin a school under such circumstances, however Hughes, an Irish settler himself, considered instruction to be the fundamental means for his foreigner run to break out of the cycle of neediness and better themselves monetarily and socially in their embraced country. "The subject that of all others that he had closest his heart was instruction," said John Hassard, an early graduate of St. John's College and Hughes' first biographer.

St. John's College opened its entryways in 1841 as a diocesan establishment with a terrific aggregate of six understudies. On the off chance that cash was an issue, a significantly more serious issue was finding able instructors and chairmen among the diocesan church. Amid its initial five years as a diocesan organization, Fordham had no less than four presidents. Two went ahead to acclaim and radiance. The principal president was John McCloskey, who succeeded Hughes as the second ecclesiastical overseer of New York in 1864 and turned into the primary American cardinal in1875; James Roosevelt Bayley, the last diocesan minister to head the organization, was a believer from a recognized New York Episcopalian family who turned into the main cleric of Newark and later the ecclesiastical overseer of Baltimore. In any case, diocesan pastorate of such gauge were the special case instead of the tenet in New York.

The Coming of the Jesuits

For both money related and work force reasons, in 1846 Bishop Hughes was upbeat to offer St. John's College to a religious request with a global notoriety as expert teachers. The nearness of the Society of Jesus in the United States dates from the foundation of the Maryland province in 1634. Be that as it may, the Jesuits who touched base at Rose Hill in 1846 were not Maryland Jesuits, but rather banished French Jesuits who were directing a vacillating school in the wild of Kentucky. They were enchanted to move from outskirts America (where it was important to place spittoons even in the school house of prayer) to a site just seven miles from the biggest city in the United States, and Hughes was satisfied to get their administrations. It was by all accounts commonly favorable for both sides, in spite of the fact that there were to be various troublesome minutes for the Jesuits the length of John Hughes was alive.

All through the later nineteenth century St. John's College remained a little human sciences school, which was dominated by its upstart opponent, the Jesuit College of St. Francis Xavier on West sixteenth Street, which formed into the third biggest Jesuit school in the United States and Canada. At St. John's there was little change in either the measure of the enlistment or the educational programs or the day by day routine of the understudies through the span of the initial seventy years. As late as 1907 Archbishop John Hughes would have remembered it promptly as the diocesan school that he had established in 1841. Truth be told, there was no less than one former student still alive who had graduated before John Hughes sold the school to the Jesuits in 1846.

In 1907, the year that Francis J. Spellman, the future Cardinal Archbishop of New York, landed at Rose slope as a rookie, St. John's College was still a little school with just 109 understudies. They were animated from rest at 6 a.m., went to day by day Mass at 7 a.m., were back in their rooms by 7 p.m., and were relied upon to be sleeping by 9 p.m. In Spellman's graduation class of 1911, there were twenty-eight understudies, similarly isolated into fourteen visitors and fourteen suburbanites. The whole showing staff comprised of twelve Jesuits, ten ministers and two scholastics. They had no issue showing elective courses since they didn't offer any elective courses. The standard educational modules was a traditional course with substantial accentuation on Latin and Greek prompting an AB degree. The educational cost, including food and lodging, was $200 per semester.

Colgate University

About Colgate

Colgate is a very particular private human sciences foundation recognized by scholastic brilliance and interdisciplinary request.


Championing the Liberal Arts

With little classes, a solid accentuation on workforce understudy collaboration, and a private group esteeming all types of scholarly thoroughness, we help understudies get to be keen, basic masterminds and insightful pioneers.

This implies cultivating differing qualities of thought and activity by offering 54 majors and various minors established in a Liberal Arts Core Curriculum that has been perceived as a standout amongst the most rich in the nation. In the meantime, our understudies add to an energetic grounds culture that supplements and develops the learning made in our classrooms and labs.

Our Community

Understudies who go to Colgate drench themselves in a domain loaded with splendid personalities and awesome aspirations. Select a picture underneath to take in more about our understudies, staff, and graduated class.

Statement of purpose

Colgate's central goal is to give a requesting, far reaching instructive experience to a select gathering of differing, capable, and mentally modern understudies who are equipped for testing themselves, their associates, and their instructors in a setting that unites living and learning.


Past, Present, and Future

A very fruitful crusade that finished in 2012 raised $480 million, including $142 million for money related guide. Different case of battle effect: the Robert H.N. Ho Science Center, the Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology, and Trudy Fitness Center.

These assets guarantee future strides toward more grounded exploration, more compelling utilization of innovation, and more prominent financial assorted qualities on grounds.

Be that as it may, we always remember our rich history or customs, similar to our long-lasting relationship with the No. 13 that depends on the narrative of our establishing in 1817 when 13 men met in the boondocks settlement of Hamilton with "13 dollars, 13 petitions, and 13 articles."

The state conceded us a contract in 1819 and after one year the school opened. In 1823, Baptists in New York City - soapmaker William Colgate among them - solidified their theological school with the Hamilton school to frame the Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution. The Colgate family association was in this way settled.

The most seasoned expanding on our momentum grounds, West Hall, was manufactured four years after the fact in 1827. Understudies and workforce, cooperating, constructed the new structure from stone pulled from a quarry on grounds.

We changed our name in 1846 to Madison University and got to be Colgate in 1890, perceiving almost 70 years of ceaseless association by the Colgate family.

The enthusiasm for taking in, the craving to make and share new information, and the drive to have any kind of effect on the planet keep on permeating today's grounds. Presently, our understudies and employees are exploiting brilliant classrooms, best in class research centers, and the most recent advances to keep that Colgate soul of learning and sharing alive.

Clarkson University

Anthony G. Collins

President, Clarkson University
As of now serving as Clarkson's sixteenth president, Anthony Collins is a territorial and national supporter for advanced education - mechanical organizations that couple research revelation and designing advancement with big business for commercialization and financial improvement with an emphasis on progressing feasible vitality arrangements and natural innovation development.

In May 2014, President Barack Obama named Dr. Collins to serve on the Advisory Board of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation. New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo delegated Dr. Collins in July 2011 to serve as co-seat for the North Country Regional Economic Development Council. Dr. Collins served on a commission set up by Governor Cuomo in November 2012 to explore and contemplate service organizations' tempest arrangement and administration; and to prescribe changes to redesign control of the whole framework to better manage crises. He is as of now is an individual from the board Governor Cuomo has tasked to educate him and the Port Authority concerning New York and New Jersey on the overhauls of New York's air terminals and the supporting foundation to draw in extra business action. He is the additionally the president of the Seaway Private Equity Corporation that puts resources into new innovation organizations situated in St. Lawrence County, New York.

In support of the advanced education segment, President Collins is the past seat of the National Association of Independent Technological Universities and a seat emeritus of New York's Commission of Independent Colleges and Universities. Also, he serves on the sheets of the CenterState Corporation for Economic Opportunity and the Business Council of New York State.

Dr. Collins was among the essential modelers of the Vision of a Clarkson Education that has guided development of the educational programs subsequent to 1995. As president, he now leads Clarkson's Evolution to Excellence, an exhaustive key arrangement hoisting the University's scholarly notoriety, fortifying its budgetary assets, and expanding the lifetime engagement of graduated class and more prominent Clarkson people group.

Growing up outside Melbourne, Australia, Dr. Collins earned an undergrad structural building degree from Monash University, and afterward expert's and doctoral degrees from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. Before his doctoral studies, he worked for both Australian Consolidated Industries and Utah Development Company. In the wake of getting his Ph.D. in 1982, Dr. Collins propelled his vocation at Clarkson, in Potsdam, N.Y., as an associate teacher of common and natural designing. Along these lines ascending to the rank of educator, he additionally accepted expanding levels of managerial obligation, including division seat, senior member, VP for scholarly undertakings, and executive. He was chosen the sixteenth president of Clarkson University in 2003. He has gotten honors for extraordinary educating, look into and prompting, addressed all around and is the creator of more than 90 proficient distributions.

Notwithstanding associating with Clarkson graduated class over the globe, Dr. Collins; his significant other, Karen; are dynamic in the Potsdam people group and have given volunteer support of various associations and youth programs.

Adelphi University

A brief history of Adelphi University

Adelphi University's roots reach back to 1863 and the establishing of the Adelphi Academy, a private academy in Brooklyn, New York. The Academy was fused in 1869 and its Board of Trustees was accused of setting up a top of the line establishment for the broadest and most intensive preparing, and to make its focal points as available as could reasonably be expected to the biggest quantities of our populace. The school immediately picked up a notoriety for its inventive educational programs, especially in physical society and early adolescence training.
The arrangement of Charles H. Levermore, Ph.D., as the leader of the Academy in 1893 was an imperative crossroads in Adelphi's history. Understanding the city of Brooklyn was without a human sciences school, Levermore grabbed the chance to build up Adelphi College. Through the endeavors of Timothy Woodruff, previous lieutenant legislative leader of New York State and future president of Adelphi's Board of Trustees, Adelphi College, with 57 understudies and 16 educators, was allowed a sanction—one of the most punctual contracts conceded to a coeducational school by the Board of Regents of the State of New York—on June 24, 1896. From now on, degrees issued bore the seals of Adelphi College and of the University of the State of New York and were marked by the officers of the College and by the chancellor and the secretary of the University. For the following 25 years, the Academy stayed in place yet isolate from the College.
Through the span of the following 100 years Adelphi developed and changed altogether. In 1929, Adelphi University turned into the main private, coeducational organization of advanced education on Long Island. Since that time, more than 100,000 understudies have gone through our entryways, leaving their blemish on the University and the world past.

Today, Adelphi is flourishing. Our universities and schools incorporate the College of Arts and Sciences; the Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies; the Honors College; the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business; the Ruth S. Ammon School of Education; the School of Nursing; the School of Social Work; and University College. We have reinvigorated our scholarly group and put resources into our future. Our personnel is driving the best approach to guarantee that our understudies get the finest training in the district and that Adelphi keeps on serving as an essential asset to our neighborhood groups. As we transform our key arrangement into a dream for our future, the grounds group has met up to fulfill shared objectives focused on grant and understudy accomplishment.

While colleges around the nation have been killing staff, Adelphi has employed more than 280 new educators since 2001. Current full-and low maintenance workforce absolute 956, with an understudy/staff proportion of 10:1. To guarantee that our researchers have the assets expected to achieve their objectives, we have put a huge number of dollars in foundation. We have remodeled our offices; overhauled our innovation and made brilliant classrooms; drastically enhanced our libraries—both offices and accumulations; and put resources into new gear, including cutting edge lasers for two new material science research centers, a nuclear checking magnifying instrument and an atomic attractive reverberation machine for the science program, new pianos from Steinway and Sons, and improved advanced music offices to bolster our music and performing expressions programs. An aggressive grounds extension venture has, in the course of the most recent decade, brought about the finish and opening of the Adele and Herbert J. Klapper Center for Fine Arts with space for painting, printmaking, figure and earthenware production; the Center for Recreation and Sports, containing rec centers and an indoor track; the Performing Arts Center (AUPAC) incorporates a 500-seat Concert Hall and extra execution, practice and classroom space for music, theater and move; an open air sports complex; a complete remodel of Woodruff Hall with a present day exercise room, pool, showing rec center and classroom; the Alice Brown Early Learning Center; and extra stopping.

Researchers all through the University are making critical commitments to their orders. As of late, Adelphi employees have been perceived as Fulbright and Hartford Scholars, and have gotten subsidizing from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. The School of Social Work is licensed for the most extreme time that the certifying organization awards. Truth be told, our School of Social Work was reaccredited without any proposals for development by the Council on Social Work Education's site assessment board of trustees, and the School's self-study report so inspired the chamber that it is currently utilized as a model as a part of reaccreditation instructional courses for different projects.

Bastyr University

Establishing of Bastyr 

Bastyr University  was established in 1978 amid a troublesome political atmosphere for regular drug. National College of Naturopathic Medicine (NCNM) had shut its Seattle branch, and Washington state officials were debilitating to take out naturopathic permitting subsequent to no new graduates were applying for licensure.

This challenge   was met by three NCNM graduates, Drs. Les Griffith, William A. Mitchell, Jr. what's more, Joseph E. Pizzorno, Jr. These naturopathic doctors saw a chance to make another naturopathic school in Seattle that would ensure licensure in Washington, as well as make a resurgence for the naturopathic field by building the school on a science-based establishment.

"We chose to make it completely the best foundation of learning we could even envision: the Harvard of naturopathic prescription, maybe," said Dr. Mitchell. "It was based on the best dreams of what a truly fantastic naturopathic organization could be."

Humble Beginnings

The three men met around a kitchen table to make the school they had always wanted with a startup entirety of $200, a blessing from an appreciative patient. "We longed for what the ideal naturopathic establishment would resemble — what it would require, what its center would be," said Dr. Griffith. "We had officially settled on the fundamental establishment — science-based and licensed."

When it came to naming the school, there was no contention: They consistently consented to name it John Bastyr College of Naturopathic Medicine, after their cherished teacher Dr. John Bastyr. Dr. Bastyr was an early champion of science-based normal medication and an eminent Seattle-range naturopathic doctor and birthing specialist.

Their next choice — one of their most intelligent, they said — was contracting Sheila Quinn, a therapeutic manager at the University of Washington. Quinn served as the school's director for over 10 years. As the fourth and last prime supporter, she added to an attempt that succeeded past their most out of control trusts. "The conviction was so solid it conquered every one of the deterrents," said Dr. Griffith.

Accomplishing Accreditation

"From multiple points of view I consider this University to be honored," said Dr. Pizzorno, who served as president for the initial 22 years. Assistance seemed to help the authors in securing classroom space, accreditation, partners and backers. By 1989, the prime supporters had accomplished their underlying objectives: accreditation (turning into the main naturopathic school to be certify); worldwide acknowledgment as the main establishment of science-based characteristic solution; production of the broadly acclaimed Textbook of Natural Medicine; the improvement of a center of exceedingly talented workforce; and solid group regard for the prescription.

Dr. Pizzorno compressed Bastyr's accomplishments: "We have exhibited that science-based regular medication is achievable and effective in peopling. By doing it right, Bastyr has been an impetus for the resurgence of open enthusiasm for regular drug. So a considerable lot of our graduates are effectively treating individuals, composing great books and addressing. We have made the world understand that common medication offers awesome worth."

Antioch University

About AUS

Leadership

Antioch University Seattle is one of five grounds situated in four states. Every grounds is regulated by a president, who reports to the chancellor for the Antioch University framework. The Board of Governors is in charge of framework wide oversight; individuals serve as counselors to the chancellor and the University Leadership Council (ULC) concerning the administration and improvement of the establishment. The ULC is included the grounds presidents and bad habit chancellors of the Antioch University framework. Antioch University is a private, non-benefit establishment with 501(c) 3 status.

Antioch University Seattle's Board of Trustees incorporates neighborhood group and business pioneers who give mastery, guidance, and assets to upgrade the nature of training at AUS.

Over the five grounds of Antioch University, we live by our main goal consistently by helping understudies understand their potential and succeed in their instructive objectives. We offer an imaginative learning environment that is thorough and receptive to your requirements. 

Our Mission 

Antioch University gives learner-focused instruction to engage understudies with the information and abilities to lead significant lives and to propel social, monetary, and ecological equity.

Our Vision 

Antioch tries to be a main college offering learners and groups transformative training in a worldwide connection that cultivates advancement and motivates social activity.

Center Values:

Incredibleness in Teaching and Learning

The University offers quality scholarly projects important to the necessities of today's learners and grasps experiential learning by crossing over scholastic results with this present reality experience of all individuals from its learning group.

Supporting Student Achievement

The University instructs the entire individual by developing self-improvement, even minded optimism, and the accomplishment of expert objectives.

Supporting Scholarship and Service

The University perceives the dynamic engagement of personnel in understudy learning, grant, and administration. Too, Antioch University values the complex ways understudies and graduates inventively and deliberatively apply their figuring out how to the benefit of everyone.

A Commitment to Social Engagement

The University keeps up a notable duty to advancing social equity and the benefit of all. Understudies move on from Antioch University with an uplifted feeling of their energy and reason as researchers, professionals, and worldwide subjects.

Building and Serving Inclusive Communities

The University sustains comprehensive groups of learners, moving assorted qualities of thought and activity. Antioch University connects with and underpins the instructive, social, and ecological imperativeness of the differing territorial, national, and worldwide groups that it serves.

Central Washington University

Welcome! 

Welcome to Central Washington University, home of the Wildcats. We're an open, four-year college situated in noteworthy Ellensburg, Wash.

Focal's dedication to hands-on learning and revelation and individual consideration takes understudies past the breaking points of the classroom and books. Understudies get the opportunity to do what they're contemplating in true, proficient settings, which makes learning energizing and significant.

Every year CWU graduates a large number of knowledgeable subjects who are prepared for appeal professions in the workforce: development administration, bookkeeping, building innovation, educator training, wine business, paramedicine, flying, and then some.

CWU gets ready understudies to succeed in a worldwide economy through solid organizations with 30 schools and colleges around the globe. A year ago we invited more than 400 understudies from 36 nations to our grounds.


Mission 

The mission of Central Washington University is to get ready understudies for edified, mindful, and beneficial lives; to deliver exploration, grant, and innovative expression in the general population intrigue; and to serve as an asset to the district and the state through successful stewardship of college assets.

Qualified workforce and staff make a group that energizes and backings the enthusiastic, individual, and expert development of understudies from an assortment of foundations. The college works with junior colleges to set up focuses all through the state and utilizes innovation to augment the span of its instructive projects.

The college group values instructing as the vehicle to rouse scholarly profundity and expansiveness, to empower long lasting learning, and to upgrade the chances of its understudies. The workforce create and reinforce unhitched male's and graduate degree programs in expressions of the human experience, sciences, and humanities; in educator instruction; in business; in the social administrations; and in mechanical specializations. A solid human sciences establishment; connected accentuations; open doors for undergrad research, innovative expression, and universal study; and close working connections amongst understudies and staff are signs of the undergrad experience. Graduate projects create organizations amongst workforce and understudies to stretch out grant to critical zones of examination and practice.


Vision of Central Washington University 

Focal Washington University (CWU) is a dynamic, imaginative, and comprehensive environment that advances connected with learning and grant. It is recognized territorially for the meticulousness of its educational modules and grant, for the perfection of its teaching method, for the dynamic quality of its co-curricular and private encounters, for its dedication to giving access to advanced education, and for its endeavors to propel the social and financial strength of the area.

It is exemplified by an entrepreneurial soul that sets up it as a national pioneer in advanced education. It has a solid duty to connected with learning and grant, internationalism, manageability, comprehensiveness, and long lasting learning.

Seattle Pacific University

Seattle Pacific University is a spot where 4,000 undergrad and graduate understudies pick up a heavenly instruction grounded on the good news of Jesus Christ — and the apparatuses to impact the world for good. Remarkable grant and keen confidence is an intense blend that achieves change in the lives of graduates, and in the general population and groups they go ahead to serve.


Our History 
Seattle Pacific University was established by Free Methodist pioneers who esteemed a non-partisan way to deal with training that respected each one of those looking for insightful greatness established in the Christian gospel, and who tried to take the gospel into the world so as to achieve the prospering of God's kids.

Mission, Signatures, and Vision 
Seattle Pacific University is a Christian college completely dedicated to drawing in the way of life and changing the world by graduating individuals of fitness and character, getting to be individuals of insight, and displaying effortlessness filled group.

President 

Daniel J. Martin

Mission 

Seattle Pacific University is a Christian college completely dedicated to drawing in the way of life and changing the world by graduating individuals of capability and character, getting to be individuals of intelligence, and displaying beauty filled group.

Denominational Affiliation 

SPU is a private college established in 1891 by the Free Methodist Church of North America. Understudies and personnel speak to more than 50 distinctive Christian categories.

Area

SPU's 43-section of land city grounds is situated in a private neighborhood on the north incline of Queen Anne Hill, just 10 minutes from the heart of downtown Seattle. SPU likewise claims and works a wild grounds and field station on Blakely Island, and a shoreline grounds/retreat office on Whidbey Island.

West Virginia University

History 

West Virginia University, established in 1867, has a long and rich history as an area stipend college.

In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln marked the Morrill Act, offering land stipends of 30,000 sections of land of governmentally claimed area to every state that consented to set up a school to show farming and the "workman expressions" (building).

The State of West Virginia was framed the next year and, presently, the state's assembly acknowledged the terms for the Morrill Act to raise the cash to begin the new land-award school they called the Agricultural College of West Virginia.

WVU opened in September of 1867 as an all-male, all-white foundation with six employees, six undergrads, and 118 preliminary office understudies (secondary school-matured understudies who were get ready to do school work).

WVU utilized the previous Woodburn Female Seminary building, where Woodburn Hall is presently, as the main living arrangement lobby, and our first president, Alexander Martin, lived there with the understudies.

"Woodburn" signifies "streamlet in a shady glen" and originates from Sir Walter Scott's Guy Mannering; the "streamlet" was Falling Run, which then went through a lush valley where the Business and Economics Building is currently. WVU assembled its own first working in 1870 and later named it Martin Hall, for Alexander Martin.

WVU offered programs basically in the humanities and sciences disciplines. The Morrill Act required an agrarian project, so understudies planted a greenery enclosure in Woodburn Circle, left for summer get-away, and came back to a patio nursery loaded with weeds. The Morrill Act additionally required Cadet Corps, which turned into the ROTC Program amid World War I. Some individuals contended that ladies couldn't go to WVU since ladies couldn't be in the Cadet Corps.

Today's understudies would have appreciated paying for their instruction in 1867, on the grounds that the educational cost for a 13-week term was just $8.00. Food and lodging was $3.50 every week. The normal understudy would have paid amongst $187.50 and $249.00 for a full scholastic year.

Amid the 1880s, WVU started to be a more different establishment. In September 1889, the initial ten ladies entered WVU as degree competitors (a couple of ladies had taken incidental courses before). One of the ten was Harriet Lyon, who exchanged here from Vassar College. Two Japanese understudies were conceded into the University that year moreover. In June 1891, Lyon turned into the primary lady to get a degree from WVU, graduating at the leader of her class. In 1989 Tower II in the Evansdale Residential Complex was committed as Lyon Tower, and WVU's Housing and Residence Life Office made a grant in her memory. Levi Holland, an African American who lived in Morgantown, attempted to enter WVU's Law School as right on time as 1883, yet all of West Virginia's government funded schools were racially isolated by state law, and he was not permitted to go to.

President Jerome Hall Raymond (1897-1901) procured the primary female employee, included workmanship, music, and household science (antecedent of family and purchaser sciences today) to draw in ladies understudies. President Raymond additionally began the main summer school and contracted the principal graduate understudies to help personnel in instructing students.

There were numerous parts of early WVU life that today's understudies would discover inconceivably difficult. Until 1895, understudies were required to go to sanctuary practices each morning and one church administration on Sunday. While this necessity facilitated to some degree amid the 1895-96 school year, understudies still needed to seem every morning for move call. By 1898, necessary sanctuary participation finished, much to the mortification of the organization. Understudies took an interest in extracurricular exercises then, as now. In 1887, WVU started distributed the Athenaeum, the ancestor of today's Daily Athenaeum. Numerous understudies had a place with scholarly social orders that supported open deliberations, and the men may have a place with cliques. The principal sorority was a nearby gathering called Kappa Delta, established in 1899 and not identified with the present Kappa Delta sorority on grounds. To give further backing to ladies on grounds, Josephine Hall Raymond, President Raymond's better half, sorted out the Women's League, which joined ladies workforce, staff, and understudies with ladies in the Morgantown group.

Wheeling Jesuit University

Welcome to Wheeling Jesuit University!

I trust you'll like it here and feel far superior about WJU and about yourself before you take off. On the off chance that you are a forthcoming understudy considering Wheeling Jesuit University (WJU), I urge you to take in more about our foundation. Of the numerous great motivations to pick WJU, let me highlight five for your thought.

Instruction that stands the test of time - WJU is a piece of a 475-year Jesuit custom of instructive brilliance that gets ready understudies for good basic leadership, about critical points that influence their lives and their reality. Our understudies pick up administration based encounters at WJU that set them up for their all consuming purpose in meeting rooms and classrooms, therapeutic focuses and middle of everyone's attention, research centers and work relations. To put it plainly, WJU graduates have any kind of effect on the planet in which they live- - and henceforth the world in which we as a whole live.

Quantifiable understudy results - Forbes Magazine positions WJU in the main 10% of all universities in the country. Again this previous year, WJU was named a territorial pioneer in the U.S. News and World Report. For as far back as decade, our understudies have accomplished close to 100% acknowledgment rates for graduate projects in prescription, dentistry, law and designing. This past scholarly year, 100% of our understudies who connected passed their confirmation sheets in Nursing, Respiratory Therapy, Athletic Training and Physical Therapy. At last, 100% of WJU understudies who connected were acknowledged into graduate school. The example is clear: WJU understudies succeed.

Research college - WJU is a national pioneer in undergrad research-arranged training. WJU understudies are twice as likely as their companions at different universities to partake in exploration with their educators. Our exploration accomplices and projects incorporate National Institutes of Health, NASA, Appalachian Institute, and the Challenger Learning Center, WJU is a viable, research-based college.

Delightful and safe learning environment - Less than a hour from downtown Pittsburgh, our grounds is securely situated in the moving slopes of the northern Ohio Valley and offers a grounds group that is helpful for scholarly and good advancement. WJU offers more than 300 exercises for understudies, extending from the fervor of 20 NCAA Division II sports projects, to fine and performing expressions, to social clubs and understudy associations. WJU understudies are sound, very much adjusted individuals.

In a period of steadily expanding college costs, still a sublime worth - actually, Wheeling Jesuit University is maybe the best instructive quality in America. As an exploration establishment that readies its understudies to address the vital difficulties of our time, we offer a moderate alternative to understudies looking for new difficulties and opportunities.

Come visit our grounds, chat with our devoted workforce and mentors, meet our Alumni. Give us a chance to be a piece of your planning forever, administration, and administration.


History of WJU

Wheeling Jesuit University (then Wheeling College) was established in organization between the Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston and the Society of Jesus of the Maryland Province in 1954. Wheeling Jesuit, the most youthful of the country's 28 Jesuit foundations, consolidated as Wheeling College on Sept. 25, 1954. Laborers laid the foundation for Donahue Hall on Nov. 21, 1954. The College, staffed by 12 Jesuits and four lay teachers, opened its ways to the top of the line of 90 green beans on Sept. 26, 1955. Formal devotion functions for Wheeling College were hung on October 23, 1955 with more than 2,000 individuals in participation. Diocese supervisor John J. Swint turned over the deed to all school properties and structures to the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus on February 11, 1957. Wheeling Jesuit University is the main Catholic foundation of higher learning in West Virginia, and has an uncommon instructive center to look for and discover God on the whole, in house of prayer and classroom, in ritual and lab.

West Virginia University

About WVU Tech 

A grounds inside the West Virginia University framework, WVU Tech offers more than 40 diverse scholarly projects and 81 percent of our 1200+ selected understudies get some type of money related guide. When they're not occupied with contemplating fields, for example, building, criminal equity, nursing, software engineering or criminological examination, Golden Bears appreciate a dynamic understudy life.


Tech Adventures 

Welcome to WVU Tech's new experience entertainment program, propelling August 2016. Our project offers understudies chances to test themselves to achieve new statures both physically and rationally. Go with Tech Adventures pioneers and kindred understudies to encounter the trails, waterways and precipices of our area to see another spot, take in another aptitude and discover what you are truly prepared to do. Tech Adventures offers an assortment of approaches to help understudies get out into nature with outings, classes, courses, arranging assets and hardware rental. Concentrate hard and play hard to make the most out your school experience.


UNIVERSITY POLICE

At West Virginia University Institute of Technology, the wellbeing and prosperity of our understudies, workforce, and staff is our top need. The whole grounds is devoted to giving a protected and beneficial school experience.

College Police Officers 

College Police gives watch insurance to all WVU Tech grounds property including, classrooms, labs, parking areas and living arrangement lobbies. College Police officers are vested with full police forces and obligations indistinguishable to the nearby sheriff in your home group. Our officers are in charge of open wellbeing administrations including wrongdoing reports, examinations, auto collisions, fire crises and implementation of neighborhood, state and government laws needing police help.

The University Police Department is situated in the Old Learning Center Building (Beside COBE Hall).

Security in the Residence Halls 

WVU Tech has coeducational living arrangement corridors with 24-hour appearance. Visitors in the lobbies must be joined by an occupant of the corridor at all times. Every understudy room is furnished with peepholes, window bolts, and smoke locators.

Every living arrangement lobby is staffed by a full-time proficient Resident Director who is in charge of the general operation of the corridor and is available to come back to work all day and all night. Understudy inhabitant associates (RAs) live on every floor of the living arrangement lobby. All home life staff individuals have preparing in upholding living arrangement corridor tenets and college approaches. Home lobbies are bolted 24 hours a day and all visitors must be joined by an inhabitant of the corridor at all times.

Offices Management 

Offices Management staff keep up the grounds structures and grounds with a sympathy toward security. This office assesses grounds offices routinely and makes repairs in like manner. The University Police Department helps the Facilities Management staff by reporting dangers.

Understudies, workforce and staff are urged to telephone Facilities Management at 304.442.3104 to report grounds security concerns.

Understudy Responsibility

The collaboration and contribution of understudies in a grounds wellbeing system is completely vital. Understudies are urged to take realistic precautionary measures for their very own wellbeing and the security of their own possessions. Despite the fact that the grounds is protected and sufficiently bright, understudies may telephone the University Police whenever for an escort back to their living arrangement lobby.

Profitable things, for example, PDAs, tablets, PCs and TVs ought to be set apart by the University Police Operation ID program. Autos that are stopped on grounds must show fitting stopping grants, use alloted ranges, and be bolted at all times.

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Crisis Contact Registration and Missing Person Protocol 

Understudies are urged to overhaul their crisis contact data through STAR when enlisting for classes every semester. This data will be utilized as a part of the occasion that an understudy is accounted for missing while at the organization.

In the event that a WVU Tech understudy living in college worked lodging is suspected to be absent from grounds, promptly report it to a home lobby staff part (i.e. living arrangement corridor executive or inhabitant right hand) or the University Police Department.

In the event that the understudy lives off-grounds, contact the University Police for help at 304.442.3101 or call 911.

All reports of missing understudies made to the habitation corridor staff and/or the University Police Department will be examined. On the off chance that the examination verifies that the understudy has been lost for more than 24 hours, the University will do the accompanying throughout the following 24 hours:

Viterbo University

History 

Viterbo University had its beginnings in the early scholarly tries of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration (FSPA). Its immediate ancestor was St. Rose Normal School, completely sorted out in 1890 for get ready Sisters to instruct in grade schools.

University courses were presented in 1923 and steps were taken toward the advancement of a normal four-year school program. By 1931–1932, St. Rose Junior College had been formally settled and affirmed by the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Further improvement took after and, by 1939, the College was endorsed as a four-year, degree-allowing foundation for the arrangement of instructors for primary schools. The principal initiation activities were held in 1940. Moves on from the system were ensured by the State Department of Public Instruction.

In 1937, as arrangements were being made for the erection of another building, the name of the College was changed from St. Rose College to Viterbo College. Laywomen were conceded in 1943; in 1970 men were conceded.

In the 1950s Viterbo extended its system in the human sciences and in the planning of instructors for optional schools. In 1952, this system got the endorsement of the University of Wisconsin Committee on College Accreditation.

With its status as a four-year human sciences school accomplished, Viterbo looked for accreditation by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. It was achieved in 1954 and re-affirmed in 1979.

On Sept. 4, 2000, Viterbo denoted another turning point—the change from school to college status. The change to Viterbo University formalized, in name, what had as of now happened inside. Truth be told, in 1994, the U.S. Bureau of Education renamed Viterbo as a "far reaching organization (college)" because of its wonderful development in enlistment and its extension of graduate, undergrad, and effort programs.


About Viterbo

Here at Viterbo, we think learning is a long lasting procedure including more than just scholastics. It's likewise about encountering life and becoming mentally, socially, and profoundly.

Understudies can hope to be energized and tested. We have a 11:1 understudy to-staff proportion, cutting edge offices, and a personnel that thinks profoundly about the accomplishment of every last understudy.

Established by the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in 1890, Viterbo stays focused on its Catholic Franciscan qualities and its central goal to plan understudies for dependable administration and moral initiative.


Quite fact

Viterbo is situated in excellent La Crosse, Wis.— a city with a populace of 52,000 in the midst of glorious feigns and grand valleys close to the ­Mississippi River. U.S. News and World Report named La Crosse as one of the country's 10 Best Places to Live. Grounds scholarly and private ­facilities are situated on around two sections of land on the city's south side. Viterbo's soccer, softball, and baseball fields are found ­approximately 3.5 miles north of the primary grounds.

Marquette University

About Marquette University

Marquette University is a Catholic and Jesuit college situated close to the heart of downtown Milwaukee, Wis., that offers an extensive scope of majors in 11 broadly and universally perceived universities and schools.

A Marquette instruction offers understudies a basically boundless number of ways and destinations and sets them up for the world by getting some information about it.

Along the way, we solicit one thing from each understudy: Be The Difference.



Our History

Marquette started as a fantasy of the Most Rev.John Martin Henni the primary Catholic religious administrator of Milwaukee, yet it took a trek abroad to discover a financial specialist to make it a reality. Belgian representative Guillaume Joseph DeBuey guaranteed $16,000 for the proposed "institute of learning." It was not really enough to support the foundation of a school yet sufficiently only to keep Bishop Henni's fantasy alive for the following eight years until he could buy a bundle of arrive on a slope garnish today's North tenth and West State lanes.

Almost three decades went before the entryways of Marquette College, a little aesthetic sciences school for men named after Rev. Jacques Marquette, S.J., opened on Aug. 28, 1881. Religious administrator Henni kicked the bucket only two days after the fact, one may figure fulfilled that his work was done.
Consistently, a great many understudies have gone through Marquette's lobbies and classrooms, seeking to make scholastic progress and a profound establishment to endure forever.

Marquette was established in the rich convention of the Society of Jesus, a Catholic religious request set up in 1540 by St. Ignatius Loyola. The college is named after Rev. Jacques Marquette, S.J. (1637-75), a French minister and pioneer in North America.


Our Mission 

Marquette University is a Catholic, Jesuit college committed to serving God by serving our understudies and adding to the progression of information. Our main goal, along these lines, is the quest for truth, the disclosure and sharing of learning, the cultivating of individual and expert brilliance, the advancement of an existence of confidence, and the improvement of initiative communicated in support of others. This we seek after for the more prominent transcendence of God and the normal advantage of the human group.

Fabulousness 

Our understudies, whether customary or non-conventional, undergrad, graduate or expert, come to Marquette University to share our dedication to the quest for incredibleness in all things as a deep rooted attempt. They come to join a group whose individuals — personnel, staff, understudies, trustees, graduated class and companions alike — trust that instruction must include the entire individual: otherworldly and moral and also savvy, the heart and in addition the brain. What's more, they come looking for the instructive, proficient and social points of interest of a college situated in the heart of the city. We, thus, consider important our obligation to encourage and bolster incredibleness in instructing and research, to keep a Marquette training open to an assorted populace of understudies, and to offer individual consideration and consideration to every individual from the Marquette group.

Confidence 

As a Catholic college, we are focused on the free quest for truth under the commonly enlightening forces of human knowledge and Christian confidence. Our Catholic personality is communicated in our decisions of educational module, our sponsorship of projects and exercises dedicated to the development of our religious character, our ecumenical standpoint, and our backing of Catholic convictions and qualities. Decisively on the grounds that Catholicism taking care of business looks to be comprehensive, we are interested in all who share our central goal and look for reality about God and the world, and we are immovably dedicated to scholastic flexibility as the vital precondition for that pursuit. We invite and advantage hugely from the differing qualities of seekers inside our positions, even as we uninhibitedly pick and commend our own Catholic personality.

Authority 

As a Jesuit college, Marquette encapsulates the scholarly and religious customs of the Society of Jesus. Through a scholastically thorough, values-focused educational programs, our understudies get a firm establishing in the aesthetic sciences, arrangement for work in a universe of expanding unpredictability and assorted qualities, and development for life as moral and educated pioneers in their religious, social, proficient and municipal groups. They work with and gain from workforce who are genuine educator researchers, whose exploration progresses the whole of human information, as well as illuminates their instructing, and whose dedication to understudies is major to their scholarly and expert lives.

Administration 

Through both our scholastic and co-curricular projects, Marquette endeavors to create men and ladies who will devote their lives to the administration of others, effectively going into the battle for an all the more just society. We expect all individuals from the Marquette group, whatever their confidence conventions, to give solid expression to their convictions by giving of themselves in support of those in need.

Marquette University Guiding Values

Embraced Dec. 8, 2014

As per the Catholic, Jesuit mission and vision of Marquette University, we hold that all individuals and things are made to acclaim, love and serve God in our group and all through the world, and in this manner each part of the college's soul and work holds this guideline and establishment as its starting and end. In this way, we will sanction the accompanying qualities and practices in our lives and our work to serve the more prominent brilliance of God:

Vow individual and comprehensive improvement of understudies as our essential institutional livelihood

Seek after scholarly incredibleness and instruct understudies who are men and ladies for and with others all through the world

Epitomize a soul of interdisciplinary interest, research, advancement, business enterprise and application to change and enhance ourselves, our group and our reality

Sustain a comprehensive, differing group that encourages new open doors, associations, coordinated effort and incredible yet deferential civil argument

Live as worker pioneers with a promise to the Jesuit convention and Catholic social instructing for all individuals, convictions and confidence customs

Make strong, aspiring arrangements sanctioned with nimbleness, bona fide responsibility and a pledge to more prominent's benefit

Fairmont State University

Fairmont State University, with a 120-section of land primary grounds in Fairmont, is a piece of the state's developing high innovation passage. With a long history of scholastic magnificence, FSU is a spot where educating and learning matter and understudies are our first need. Established in 1865 as the state's first private typical school in West Virginia, FSU commends its Sesquicentennial in 2015.

Over the previous decade, the primary grounds has been extended with new development including an Engineering Technology Building, understudy focus, living arrangement lobby, parking structure, enhanced library office and critical ADA openness upgrades.

Statement of purpose: The Mission of Fairmont State University is to give chances to people to accomplish their expert and individual objectives and find parts for capable citizenship that advance the benefit of all.

VISION STATEMENT:   Fairmont State University tries to be broadly perceived as a model for open learner-focused establishments that advance understudy accomplishment by giving far reaching training and phenomenal instructing, adaptable learning situations, and prevalent administrations. Graduates will have the information, aptitudes, and propensities for brain fundamental for scholarly development, full and participatory citizenship, employability, and business enterprise in an evolving

MISSION STATEMENT: The Mission of Fairmont State University is to supply opportunities for individuals to reach their professional and personal goals and discover roles for responsible citizenship that promote the most popular good.

VISION STATEMENT: Fairmont State University aspires to be nationally recognized as a style for accessible learner-centered institutions that promote student success by giving comprehensive education and excellent teaching, flexible learning environments, and superior services. Graduates can have the knowledge, skills, and habits of mind required for intellectual growth, full and participatory citizenship, employability, and entrepreneurship in a changing environment.

Ohio Valley University

WELCOME TO OHIO VALLEY UNIVERSITY

As an unbalanced young person growing up close Pittsburgh, it appeared to be impossible that I would have any effect by any means. In any case, a couple individuals urged me to go to a Christian college. There I found out about God's motivation for my life. I cleared out arranged to seek after that reason and to have any kind of effect on the planet.

That same objective pulled in me to Ohio Valley University, a superb school connected with Churches of Christ. Here we prepare youngsters to have any kind of effect on the planet. Simply envision a situation where the employees are not removed figures behind the platform in extensive address corridors, yet they remain next to you discovering approaches to ceaselessly enhance your learning surroundings.

Presently I accomplish for others what was finished me.

At our center, we trust each understudy has a grandiose reason in life. OVU's central goal is to change lives in a Christ-focused scholastic group. We help youngsters find their motivation, set them up to finish it, and send them out to do it!



OUR HISTORY: A LIVING VISION

 began with a fantasy. Much sooner than the main day of classes, numerous individuals in the district longed for a Christian school in the northeastern quadrant of the United States.

One gathering included Keith and Joan Stotts, Glenn and Shirley Boyd, Bill and Vee Craddock, Bill Curry, Jim Massey, Glen Olbricht, and Bob Roe. Known as the Ohio Group, they supplicated and made arrangements for an approach to give Christian advanced education to youngsters living in the Ohio region. Around then most of the Church of Christ associated schools were in the south or southwestern US, youngsters wishing a Christian instruction voyaged a thousand miles or all the more far from home. Numerous future understudies just couldn't make such a pledge. The individuals who did regularly stayed in the south after school. A school in the northeastern quadrant of the United States would give a spot to understudies to discover quality Christian training near and dear and diminish the loss of the best and brightest in the Church toward the south.

On September 12, 1960, vision got to be reality when the primary understudies and workforce of Ohio Valley College assembled in the Mid-Ohio Valley. This gathering of 39 young fellows and ladies and two full-time workforce met for class in an as of late abandoned church building. Throughout the decades the understudy body, workforce, staff, and physical grounds became exponentially. Thus did the vision.

In 1978, the North Central Association allowed Ohio Valley full accreditation. The school included its initial four-year baccalaureate degree three years after the fact. In 1993, Ohio Valley converged with Northeastern Christian Junior College which brought more understudies, personnel, staff, and assets. In a matter of seconds a short time later the school obtained the previous St. Joseph's Seminary, which included 134 sections of land of area strategically placed not exactly a mile from the first grounds and extended to fill both grounds. In 2005, Ohio Valley College got to be Ohio Valley University.

Concord University

Since 1872, Concord University has built up a recognized legacy of a quality instruction for some eras of families. 

"All our past approvals our future," composed the English artist Algernon Charles Swinburne, who was conceived in 1837, that year as Mercer County, the home of Concord University, was framed in old Virginia. 

In the 1840's, to draw in pilgrims, Colonel Henderson French set up an area organization in Mercer County. The early pilgrims felt the requirement for a congregation, and, in 1858, Colonel French gave land for this reason. Chief William Holroyd, an authorized Methodist minister, fabricated the congregation, and French asked Holroyd's better half, Sarah, to name it. Upon the arrival of devotion, she said: "This congregation is the place all categories might venerate together in agreement, sweet partnership and accord, and it should be named 'Harmony Church.' 

The settlement additionally was called "Harmony Church." A mail station was set up after the Civil War, and the University got its name when, on February 28, 1872, the West Virginia Legislature passed "an Act to find a Branch State Normal School, in Concord Church, in the County of Mercer." 

Be that as it may, land and a building were required, and no State assets were appropriated. Five families-The Fannings, Frenches, Holroyds, Martins, and Vermillions-chiefly were in charge of meeting the test and getting the school set up. Classes began on May 10, 1875, with 70 understudies. Commander James Harvey French was the primary important, and he served until his demise in 1891. 

Inevitably, State apportionments for another block building were secured; the building was finished in 1887 on the site of the present Athens Middle School, and an extra appointment in 1895 empowered it to be extensively amplified. 

In 1896, because of disarray with another West Virginia post office in Hampshire County called "Harmony," the name of the town was changed to "Athens," a conspicuous decision of the old Greek city for a group that was a focal point of learning. In any case, the school kept "Accord" as its name. 

A grievous flame pulverized the nice looking school working in November of 1910. The grounds was moved to its present site, and another building was finished in 1912 (Old Main) that right now is known as Marsh Hall. 

Albeit solidly settled, the fundamental character of the organization changed small amid its first half century. It was little, provincial, and segregated. Much direction was just at the optional level, and the two-year "standard typical" confirmations surpassed baccalaureate degrees through 1936. Until 1922, the main expanding on the present grounds was "Old Main." 

Amid the organization of Dr. C.C. Rossey (1918-1924), living arrangement corridors for ladies (the previous McComas Hall) and men (Holroyd), and a gym were constructed. Likewise, the scholarly program was redesigned significantly. 

Since 1929, aside from the doomed "merger" with Bluefield State College (1973-1976), Concord has encountered exceptional development in enlistment, physical plant, educational programs and the nature of its staff. 

The organization of Dr. J. Straightforward Marsh (1929-1945) brought the University full national accreditation in 1931; likewise the foundation changed its name twice, from "Accord State Normal School" to "Harmony State Teachers College" in 1931, to "Harmony College" in 1943, and to Concord University in 2004. The "standard ordinary" project was canceled in 1936. Swamp likewise enormously extended the physical plant: an option to the exercise center; a President's House and five personnel homes; a swimming pool; extra living arrangement corridors for ladies (Sarvay) and men (White); a library (named for Marsh); and, a home administration showing house. 

The new President's House (1932) was based on State property (presumably wrongfully!) with acquired assets; Marsh by and by paid month to month rent for the majority of the thirteen years he and his family possessed the home until the obligation was fulfilled. The president's better half, Florence, delighted in exciting, and barely a week went without a supper, a formal gathering or a little gathering for workforce and understudies, State Officials, visitor teachers and craftsmen and companions. Amid the 1930's, overnight visitors included Lowell Thomas, Amelia Earhart, Will Durant, Carl Sandburg and Metropolitan Opera stars Susanne Fisher and Muriel Dickson. Amid her unhitched male child's administration (1959-1973), Mrs. Bog at the end of the day was master and directed various social capacities in the official living arrangement. Toward the end of her child's administration, still dynamic at age 79, she had served for a long time as Concord's "first woman." 

Amid WWII, the University experienced grounds wide change of demographics as young fellows went off to war, to leave an understudy populace made primarily out of young women, until 1943. That year, the University housed the U.S. Armed force Air Corp's fifteenth College Training Detachment. The system, which kept going all through the war, conveyed classes of youthful troopers into train them as Army Pilots. They got both military and school credit preparing amid their time here. The cadets, even after they cleared out Athens, left their impact on the townspeople. In 1993, an exceptional gathering was held of all known fifteenth C.T.D. Cadets. This exceptional gathering of noble men makes a regarded part out of Concord's Alumni Association even today. 

Amid Virgil Stewart's organization (1945-1959), the University experienced after war development in enlistment and physical plant. The Science Hall was fabricated, a little makeshift music building was raised, lodging units for wedded understudies built, and another athletic field created. 

Dr. Joseph F. Bog Jr. child of the previous president, served as president from 1959 to 1973. Options to the grounds amid his organization were: the College Center (Student Center); new habitation lobbies (Wilson, Wooddell and Twin Towers); extra wedded understudy lodging; increases to the organization fabricating; The Alexander Fine Arts Center; Witherspoon Park (personnel lodging); The Leslie R. also, Ruby Webb Carter Center (wellbeing and physical training); Callaghan Stadium; and the Maintenance Building. Likewise, the more youthful Marsh proceeded with the extension of the educational modules, underlined quality and selected a cosmopolitan personnel. 

In 1973, the West Virginia Board of Regents had a bill acquainted in the Legislature with union Concord and Bluefield State universities, which brought on a hubbub. All voting public of Concord contradicted the proposition. In spite of the fact that the bill fizzled even to escape board of trustees and kicked the bucket, the Regents squeezed the matter after the Legislature dismissed and continued with an "authoritative" merger. Since Marsh contradicted the merger, he was terminated and got to be president of a school in Pennsylvania. Dr. Billy L. Coffindaffer was named president of both Concord and Bluefield State, however after just two years of turmoil the Regents finished up (as Marsh had affirmed before the Senate Education Committee) that the course of action would not work, reported that an arrival to isolated organizations would happen in 1976, and selected Dr. James Rowley as acting president amid the break. 

With the authoritative merger abrogated, Concord energetically invited Dr. Meredith N. Freeman as its new president in 1976. Amid his nine-year residency, a large portion of the injuries were recuperated, and by and by enlistment expanded and new scholastic projects were built up. The physical plant was extended with a noteworthy expansion to the J. Straight to the point Marsh Library and the advancement of Anderson Field. 

Harmony's leader, Dr. Jerry L. Beasley, expected office on July 1, 1985, upon the retirement of Dr. Freeman. Beasley, initially from Hinton in Summers County, is a southern West Virginian who has remained and work in the Mountain State. Amid his residency here the University's enlistment has kept on developing, and Concord built up the biggest gift of any West Virginia open school. In the late 1980's and mid 1990's, the Physical Plant at Concord saw a few noteworthy changes. McComas Hall (Women's habitation lobby), the College Theater, and the Old Gym were torn down. Notwithstanding, the Administration and Science structures delighted in a few million-dollar remodel that modernized the structures. 

Amid Dr. Beasley's organization, Concord has gotten national notification for its dynamic endeavors. These incorporate the understudy volunteer association HAPIN; the Summer Academy and Teacher's Institute, improving learning in West Virginia auxiliary schools; the Concord Quest for Scholars; and the Bonner Scholars Program. Harmony is the main state-helped school took part in the whole Bonner Scholars program. There are currently more than 80 Bonner Scholars at work in West Virginia and past, realizing leading by serving. Beasley's organization additionally settled a "Beckley Center" for Concord and built up an expert's system in Teacher Education. Expert's projects are additionally being produced for Social Work and Business Administration. 

Dr. Gregory F. Aloia started his five year residency as Concord University's leader in July 2008. 

Under his cautious direction, Concord has turned into a national pioneer in serving understudy veterans and has been perceived as the top veteran inviting college in the United States. In 2011-12 Concord was perceived as the main most veteran inviting grounds in America. Dr. Aloia actualized worldwide activities that expanded the quantity of worldwide understudies on Concord's grounds and the University's investment in instructive open doors for staff, and understudies on a worldwide point of view. 

Amid his time as president, Dr. Aloia and his initiative group were devoted to expanding open doors for expert advancement for the staff and workforce, expanding the quantity of full time personnel, supporting the extension of the graduate projects, enhancing the perfection of the college's athletic groups, growing library get to and improving the general experience for understudies

Gonzaga University

The Mission of Gonzaga Law

To give an amazing legitimate training educated by our humanistic, Jesuit, and Catholic conventions and qualities.

The Vision of Gonzaga Law

To ingrain in our graduates the moral qualities, substantive learning, and functional abilities they have to wind up powerful supporters and sympathetic advocates. As a humanistic foundation, we perceive the fundamental part of human imagination, knowledge, and activity in the development of society and society. As a Jesuit organization, we are focused on instructing the entire individual to serve the general population great, to taking part in a dialog with all societies and religious or moral conventions, and to seeking after equity. As a Catholic organization, we trust that laws and lawful establishments are liable to an ethical request which rises above human impulse and whim. As a graduate school, we are focused on a solid and aware environment of free learned request and trade, and the security of flexibility of thought.

A Welcome to Gonzaga Law

We are focused on building a dynamic, various group that respects all paying little mind to religion, race, shading, national root, legacy, sex, age, sexual introduction, conjugal or veteran status, or handicap.

Senior member of Gonzaga University School of Law

Jane Korn

Taking after graduation from graduate school, Dean Korn clerked for the United State Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Denver, Colorado. She then started providing legal counsel at Davis Polk and Wardwell in New York City. In 1986, Dean Korn moved to Arizona to start educating at the University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law. In 2005, she got to be Acting Associate Dean and after that Associate Dean of IT and Curriculum. In 2009, she got to be Vice Dean.

Senior member Korn has composed broadly in the range of occupation segregation as a rule and especially inability law. Her composition on the ADA has concentrated basically on being incapacitated. Her articles have tended to emotional instability, victimization disease survivors, and oppression individuals who are corpulent.

Partner Dean of Students

Heidi Holland

Senior member Holland joined the workforce at Gonzaga University School of law as a right hand teacher of Legal Research and Writing in August of 2008. Notwithstanding her obligations as Associate Dean of Students, she additionally educates Legal Research and Writing and mentors the National Trial Team.

Before joining the personnel, Dean Holland provided legal counsel as a litigator for a long time. Most as of late, she served as an Assistant Attorney General with the Washington State Attorney General's Office in the Corrections and the Social and Health Services divisions. She spoke to the State in regions going from sacred rights claims conveyed by detainees to tyke manhandle and disregard cases. Dignitary Holland additionally acted as an asset lawyer for The Children's Law Project; served as a prosecutor, where she was lead lawyer on cases including sex violations and youngster manhandle; and served as a legal representative.

Dignitary Jason Gillmer has been an individual from the personnel at Gonzaga University School of Law since 2010.

Dignitary Gillmer has additionally taught at Texas Wesleyan School of Law, at American University Washington College of Law, where he was a meeting educator, and Stanford Law School, where he was an instructing individual.

Senior member Gillmer is a legitimate history specialist whose grant concentrates on race, servitude, and social liberties, including issues of interracial closeness, racial character, and racial and class philosophy.

Northwest University

More than 80 Years Of Excellence

Northwest University was established by the Northwest Ministry Network of the Assemblies of God and opened to understudies on October 1, 1934. The District Presbytery delegated Dr. Henry H. Ness to be the principal president. The University was housed in the offices of Hollywood Temple, Seattle, Washington, for the initial a quarter century of its presence.

Dr. C.E. Butterfield succeeded Dr. Ness in 1949, and Dr. D.V. Hurst expected the administration in 1966 and served through 1990. He was succeeded by Dennis A. Davis, who served from 1990 - 1998, and by Dr. Wear Argue, who served from 1998 - 2007. Dr. Joseph Castleberry is the 6th president of Northwest University.

Initially known as Northwest Bible Institute, its institutional name was changed to Northwest Bible College in 1949, Northwest College of the Assemblies of God in 1962, and to Northwest University in 2005. Every change spoke to a stage in its curricular improvement.

Scholastically the University advanced from a three-to a four-year educational programs in 1948, and in 1955, a Liberal Arts division was sorted out. Points of reference of scholarly improvement and advancement were set apart by the accomplishment of expert accreditation by the American Association of Bible Colleges in 1953, and in 1973 by the allowing of provincial accreditation by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.

In May, 1992, Northwest University turned into the eighty-fifth school endorsed for enrollment in the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, a relationship of Christ-focused universities and colleges of the aesthetic sciences and sciences.

In 1958, the University secured another thirty-five section of land grounds in Kirkland, in the more prominent metropolitan region of Seattle. From that point forward 21 more sections of land have been added to make the present fifty-six section of land grounds. Situated at 108th Avenue N.E. furthermore, N.E. 53rd Street only ten miles from downtown Seattle, the grounds is a perfect setting for study, amusement, and motivation. The grounds is likewise close to industry and close nearby job opportunities.

Throughout the years, the University's graduates and previous understudies have occupied with full-time Christian administration in expert, business, or professional occupations in satisfaction of their instructive destinations at the University.

 Who We Are
Northwest University is a territorially certify, Christian establishment honoring partner, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. Situated in Kirkland, Washington, we have been get ready understudies to lead in their professions since 1934 and offer an assortment of degree projects to address the issues of a constantly evolving society.

Our conventional undergrad experience incorporates more than 70 majors and projects—and also off-grounds temporary jobs—to prepare understudies for achievement in their professions. With our grown-up night program, working grown-ups can acquire their degree by going to class on grounds only one night every week. Furthermore, our online degree programs give the adaptability of classes that can be gotten to at whatever time, anyplace.

Our Location
Our lovely grounds is a semi-lush tract of 56 sections of land that neglects Lake Washington and is minutes from the world-class city of Seattle with the greater part of its enhancements. A perspective of the snow-clad Olympics graces the horizon toward the west. At NU, open doors for the sake of entertainment proliferate, from trekking and snowboarding to viewing the 2014 Super Bowl Champions, the Seattle Seahawks.

Be that as it may, there is a whole other world to our area than diversion. We are additionally neighbors to probably the most fruitful organizations of the 21st century, including Microsoft, Google, Boeing, and Amazon. These amusement changing enterprises are incredible spots to assistant or work once you graduate. It's no big surprise why our home, Kirkland, was voted by Money Magazine as the fifth best place to live in the U.S.

Since our starting, Northwest University has been a Christ-focused establishment, and we have not faltered. Today, we keep on building a Christian group completely committed to the profound essentialness of every understudy—where our adoration, regard, and backing for each other are proof of God's nearness.