Thursday, December 29, 2011
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Berkeley University
View from Memorial Glade of Sather Tower (The Campanile), the center of UC Berkeley. The ring of its bells and clock can be observed from all over campus.
Sather gate and Sather tower (the Campanile) from Sproul Plaza on the UC Berkeley campus
South Hall (1873)
one of the two original buildings of the University of California, still stands on the Berkeley campus History
In 1866, the land comprising the current Berkeley campus was purchased by the private College of California. Because it lacked sufficient funds to operate, it eventually merged with the state-run Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College to form the University of California, the first full-curriculum public university in the state.
The university opened in September 1869. Frederick Billings was a trustee of the College of California and suggested that the college be named in honor of the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley.
In 1870 Henry Durant, the founder of the College of California, became the first president. With the completion of North and South Halls in 1873, the university relocated to its Berkeley location with 167 male and 222 female students and held its first classes.
Organization
Berkeley's 130-plus academic departments and programs are organized into 14 colleges and schools.[2] "Colleges" are both undergraduate and graduate, while "Schools" are generally graduate only, though some offer undergraduate majors, minors, or courses.
- College of Chemistry
- College of Engineering
- College of Environmental Design
- College of Letters and Science
- College of Natural Resources
- Graduate School of Education
- Graduate School of Journalism
- Haas School of Business
- Goldman School of Public Policy
- School of Information
- School of Law (Boalt Hall)
- School of Optometry
- School of Public Health
- School of Social Welfare
- UC Berkeley Extension
UC Berkeley does not have a medical school; however, the University of California, San Francisco is a standalone medical school that is located nearby.
| University of California, Berkeley | |
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| Motto | Latin: Fiat Lux |
| Motto in English | Let There Be Light |
| Established | March 23, 1868 |
| Type | Public |
| Endowment | $3.15 billion (June 2011) [1] |
| Chancellor | Robert J. Birgeneau |
| Undergraduates | 25,530 (Fall 2009)[2] |
| Postgraduates | 10,313 (Fall 2009)[2] |
| Location | Berkeley, California,United States |
| Campus | Urban 6,651 acres (2,692 ha)[3] |
| Nobel Laureates | 70[4] |
| Colors | Yale Blue California Gold |
| Athletics | 27 Varsity Teams NCAA Division I California Golden Bears |
| Mascot | Oski the Bear |
| Affiliations | AAU IARU Pacific-12 University of California |
| Website | berkeley.edu |
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University 
Seal of Stanford UniversityMotto Die Luft der Freiheit weht
(German)[1] Motto in English The wind of freedom blows[1] Established 1891[2] Type Private Endowment US$ 16.5 billion(2011)[3] President John L. Hennessy Provost John Etchemendy Academic staff 1,910[4] Students 15,319 Undergraduates 6,878[5] Postgraduates 8,441[5] Location Stanford, California,U.S. Campus Suburban, 8,180 acres (3,310 ha)[6] Colors Cardinal red and white Athletics NCAA Division I(FBS) Pac-12 Nickname Cardinal Mascot Stanford Tree (unofficial) Website Stanford.edu 
Seal of Stanford University
(German)[1]
Landmarks
Contemporary campus landmarks include the Main Quad and Memorial Church, the Cantor Center for Visual Arts and art gallery, the Stanford Mausoleum and the Angel of Grief, Hoover Tower, the Rodin sculpture garden, the Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden, the Arizona Cactus Garden, the Stanford University Arboretum, Green Library and the Dish. Frank Lloyd Wright's 1937 Hanna-Honeycomb House and the 1919Lou Henry and Herbert Hoover House are both listed on the National Historic Register.
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| Lou Henry and Herbert Hoover house |
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| Hoover Tower |
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| Stanford Memorial Church |
History
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| Leland Stanford |
Stanford family
Stanford was founded by Leland Stanford, a railroad magnate, United States Senator, and former California Governor, and his wife, Jane Stanford. It is named in honor of their only child,Leland Stanford, Jr., who died in 1884 just before his 16th birthday. His parents decided to dedicate a university to their only son, and Leland Stanford told his wife, "The children of California shall be our children."
The Stanfords visited Harvard's president, Charles Eliot, and asked how much it would cost to duplicate Harvard in California. Eliot replied that he supposed $15 million would be enough. David Starr Jordan, the president of Indiana University, was their eventual choice to direct Stanford, after several leaders of the Ivy League turned them down. Locals and members of the university community are known to refer to the school as The Farm, a nod to the fact that the university is located on the former site of Leland Stanford's horse farm.
The motto of Stanford University, selected by President Jordan, is "Die Luft der Freiheit weht." Translated from the German means, "The wind of freedom blows."
The university's founding Grant of Endowment from the Stanfords came in November 1885.
Much of this first construction was destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, but the university retains the Quad, the old Chemistry Building and Encina Hall (the residence of Herbert Hoover, John Steinbeck, and Anthony Kennedy during their times at Stanford). After the 1989 earthquake inflicted further damage, the university implemented a billion-dollar capital improvement plan to retrofit and renovate older buildings for new, up-to-date uses.
| Undergraduate | Graduate | California | U.S. Census | |
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| African American | 10% | 3% | 6.2% | 12.1% |
| Asian American | 23% | 13% | 12.3% | 4.3% |
| White American | 36% | 35% | 59.8% | 65.8% |
| Hispanic American | 13% | 5% | 35.9% | 14.5% |
| Native American | 2.8% | <1% | 0.7% | 0.9% |
| International student | 7% | 33% | N/A | N/A |
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