Alfred University

 

Alfred University is a small, comprehensive university in the Village of Alfred, Allegany County in Western New York, USA, south of Rochester and southeast of Buffalo. Alfred has an undergraduate population of around 2,000, and approximately 300 graduate students. The institution has five schools and colleges. Alfred was founded in 1836 as the Select School by Seventh Day Baptists as a non-sectarian institution.Unusual for the time, the school was co-educational. It was also racially integrated, and enrolled its first African-American student and two Native American students in the 1850s, becoming the second college in the nation after Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, to do so.

The origin of the name "Alfred" is uncertain. Residents of the town and students at the two schools believe that the town received its name in honor of Alfred the Great, king of the Saxons, although the first documented occurrence of this connection was in 1881, 73 years after the first record of the name being used to describe the geophysical area during assignments by the state legislature. State records which might have verified the connection between the Saxon king and the university were lost in a fire in 1911.Regardless of whether the connection is historically accurate, Alfred University has embraced King Alfred as a symbol of the school's values, and a statue of the king stands in the center of the campus quad.

Since its founding, Alfred University has hosted guest lecturers, artists and musicians from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Ghostface Killah.[8] In April 2000, Alfred University received national attention when freshman, Eric Zuckerman, orchestrated a campus visit from then First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, during her campaign for the United States Senate.
Alfred University, together with Corning Incorporated and the State of New York created the Ceramic Corridor, a high-tech incubator project designed to take advantage of the emerging ceramics industry and to create new jobs. This unique industrial development program is the only one in the United States concentrating on one single aspect of technology – high-tech ceramics – and it is the only major industrial development project centered in a rural area in the U.S.
 

Alfred University is not to be confused with the Alfred State College. Although autonomous, both institutions have their origins in the Alfred Select School, and were heavily shaped by Boothe C. Davis. In 1908 Davis petitioned the New York State Legislature to fund the New York State College of Agriculture at Alfred University.
 

In 1941 Alfred State College became an autonomous junior college due to increased enrollment and increasing needs, which Alfred University could not accommodate, and in 1948 became a member of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. Students of both schools still share a few Alfred peculiarities including: a physical education requirement for most programs, a short break in October dubbed "minibreak", sharing of clubs and organizations (excluding Greek lettered organizations), and cross-registration of classes not offered at the other institution.
 

Alfred University's mascot is the Saxon, a knight in shining armor. Since the year 871 is when King Alfred the Great succeeded his brother, Ethelred I as King of Wessex and Mercia (see Alfred the Great's childhood), the phone exchange of Alfred University is 871 (i.e., all AU phone numbers take the form 1-607-871-xxxx).
 

Hot Dog Day is held in early April of each year since 1972 at Alfred to raise money for local charities and community-based civic organizations. It is a joint project with Alfred State College coordinated by students and staff from both schools. Typical events include a carnival, small amusement park rides, mud olympics, concerts, a parade, and the consumption of hot dogs. In recent years approximately $7,000 to $8,000 has been raised for charities including the local fire departments, public library, and day care centers.
 

Alfred's Davis Memorial Carillon, erected in 1937 as a tribute to longtime president Boothe C. Davis, can often be heard while on campus. The bells of the carillon, purchased from Antwerp, were thought to be the oldest bells in the western hemisphere. Research later (2004) showed that the bells were of a more recent vintage, and that Alfred had been the victim of a fraud. On the brighter side, the non-historic nature of the bells allows the university to replace those that have poor tonal quality. Concerts continue four times a week when school is in session (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 12:30 pm and Saturday at 4 pm), and during the summer months at least once a week. Besides the resident carilloneur, guest carilloneurs have in the past frequently visited and played during the summer.
 

The Black Knight-has been a part of Alfred University folklore for a long time. The relic was originally part of a parlor stove in a classroom in Kanakadea Hall. When the stove was discarded, the figure was claimed by the Class of 1908 as their mascot. They passed it on to the Class of 1910, thus causing a "war of possession" between the even and odd numbered classes. Many times over the years it disappeared and re-appeared on campus. After a particularly long time away it was returned in 1977 and placed in the University Archives. In 2005 it was transferred to a glass case in the Powell Campus Center along with a plaque describing its history. Many students had heard of the Black Knight during their freshmen orientation and were delighted to have him on display. However, after only a few months, the glass enclosure was destroyed in the middle of the night and the Black Knight stolen. Alfred University was mentioned on Saturday Night Live once in 1975 by host and Alfred University alumnus Robert Klein.When Klein hosted SNL again in 1977, he talked at length about Alfred University in his monologue.

University of Queensland

 

Recommendations for a school inside Queensland began from the 1870s. A Noble Commission inside 1874, chaired through Friend Charles Lilley, suggested your immediate place of any school. Individuals next to any school asserted that specialized in lieu of instructional knowledge seemed to be a lot more crucial in a overall economy completely outclassed through principal marketplace. Individuals in preference of your school, industry by storm this competitors, distanced by themselves from Oxford and Cambridge and offered rather any design produced by your mid-western claims on the UNITED STATES. An additional Noble Commission inside 1891 suggested your supplement involving a few function in the fresh school; Arts, Legislation, Drugs, Scientific discipline and Applied Scientific discipline. Education and learning usually was presented with the minimum main concern inside Queensland's financial constraints, and in the colony having a literacy fee involving 57% inside 1861, principal knowledge seemed to be the 1st matter very well in advance of extra and specialized knowledge. The costa rica government, regardless of the conclusions on the Noble Commissions, seemed to be resistant to help dedicate resources towards the place of any school.
Within 1893 your Queensland College or university File format Movement seemed to be began through a small grouping of individual individuals who organized public pitch training inside mature knowledge, wishing to help motivate broader neighborhood assistance for a school inside Queensland. Within 1894, 245 college students have been enrolled in your extension instruction and the talks have been identified as sensible and helpful. Within 1906 your College or university File format Movement staged your College or university The legislature, any online community intended for curious delegates to enhance the idea of any school. Judgment seemed to be mobilized, any deposit seemed to be started out and also a write Invoice for a Queensland College or university seemed to be geared up. Stress seemed to be lay around the sensible tasks of school knowledge and its significance for the marketing involving Queensland. This actions on the The legislature have been forwarded to help Queensland Highest regarded William Kids-ton. Within March 1906, 58 massive areas in Victoria Park have been gazetted intended for school requirements.
This College or university involving Queensland seemed to be proven through a great Act involving Point out Parliament on 12 10, 1909 to help remember your 50th wedding anniversary involving Queensland's separating from your colony involving Fresh To the south Wales. This Act permitted for the school to become dictated by the united states senate involving 20 guys and Friend William Mac-Gregor, your inward bound Governor, seemed to be appointed the 1st chancellor with Reginald Heber Roe for the reason that vice chancellor. Govt Home (now Aged Govt House) inside George Neighborhood seemed to be reserved for the College or university following the travel on the Governor towards the Bardon dwelling Fernberg, sparking the 1st debates about the ideal location for the school.
Within 1910 the 1st coaching function have been designed. Most of these involved Design, Classics, Maths and Biochemistry. Within 12 on the very same season, your Us senate appointed the 1st a number of teachers; Bertram Dillon Steele inside chemistry, Steve Lundie Michie inside classics, Holly David Priestley inside math and Alexander David Gibson inside executive. Within 1911 the 1st college students signed up. [10] This University's primary instruction from the Govt property have been held inside 1911 with 83 starting out college students and Friend William MacGregor would be the primary chancellor (with Reginald Heber Roe because vice-chancellor). This development on the College or university seemed to be detained through Entire world Battle We, although following your primary earth conflict your school enrollments intended for knowledge and exploration had taken airline flight because requirement forhigher knowledge improved inside Sydney. So, from the beginning 1920s your increasing College or university acquired to consider a more spacious campus because it's first site at George Neighborhood, Brisbane features minimal room intended for extension.
Within 1927, Dr David O'Neil Mayne and the sibling Margaret Emelia Mayne, supplied any grant of approximately £50, 000 towards the Brisbane City Council to acquire 274 massive areas (111 ha) involving property at E Lucia and supplied the idea towards the College or university involving Queensland because it's everlasting home. Inside very same season, your toss drop try seemed to be started out through Teacher Thomas Parnell. This try have been identified as your planet's most ancient and persists even today. Insufficient financing detained development on the E Lucia campus. Therefore, your building on the University's primary making inside E Lucia merely began inside 1938. It was afterwards known as your Forgan Henderson Building, following your Highest regarded on the day time also it seemed to be finished inside 1939. In the course of Entire world Battle II, your Forgan Henderson Building seemed to be utilized to be a armed service basic also it offered primary because state-of-the-art headquarters for the Allied Terrain Allows from the South west Hawaiian.
Within 1990, Sydney reorganized it's advanced schooling system through abolishing your binary system involving schools and institutions involving state-of-the-art knowledge. Below this change, your College or university merged with Queensland Farming College, to establish the revolutionary UQ Gatton campus. Within 1999, UQ Ipswich began operations as one of the totally Web-enabled campuses inside Sydney.
Within Might 2013, UQ became a member of edX, a global consortium involving substantial wide open on the net training (MOOCs). On account of start in Might 2014, the initial a number of UQxtraining covers hypersonics, exotic seaside ecosystems, biomedical imaging and the research involving each day thinking. This Ipswich campus opened up inside 1999 and seemed to be comprised of virtually 20 properties plus more compared to 5001 college students on virtually twenty five hectares (62 acres). Training supplied involved: martial arts, small business, medication and social sciences and also Conversation layout. It is found near key Ipswich, Queensland, simply southern on the CBD. Regional points of interest consist of Limestone Park, Classes Rail Memorial and RAAF Bottom Amberley.