In 1970 the Department of Computer Science was formed, with Dr. Ralph Stanton as the first Head, and a 3-year Major program appeared as its first undergraduate degree. A 4-year Honours program quickly followed in the 1971/72 academic year, and the first Honours graduates received their degrees in 1973. In 1973, a PhD program was added, with the first doctorate awarded in that same year. In the 1975/76 academic year, the department established a Summer Employment option, which matured into an Honours Co-operative option in 1982/83 – the first Co-op degree program offered at the University of Manitoba. In 1982 a new 4-year Major degree in Computer Science was introduced, replacing the old 3-year program.

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Enrolling in an online homeschooling program provides parents with a flexible curriculum and support if it is needed. Generally, students work at their own pace, with parents overseeing their instruction and assignments.

Schooling at home was a necessity in an age when there were a limited number of schools. After schools became universally available, some traditional groups, including the Seventh Day Adventists and Mormons, still elected to keep their younger school-aged children at home.

Homeschooling has increased tremendously, from 15,000 students in 1970 to 500,000 in 1990 in the USA alone. Homeschooling rates also increased among students whose parents have high school or lower education.

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The University of Birmingham grew out of the radical vision of its first Chancellor, Joseph Chamberlain. He founded the University to create a new model for higher education and to produce the minds that would shape the modern industrial world.

Today, the University continues to nurture a spirit of enquiry, discovery and action. We remain committed to our vision of a University which:

• Enables and inspires individuals to develop their potential so that they grow intellectually throughout life, are well equipped for work and can make an impact on society and its wellbeing
• Increases knowledge and understanding for their own sake and fosters their application for the benefit of society
• Promotes the wellbeing of individuals and helps shape a democratic, civilised and inclusive society
• Serves the needs of the economy locally, regionally, nationally and globally

University goals

The University’s key goals over the next five years are to:

• Be internationally recognised as among the world’s best universities, building on its current excellence in research and learning across a wide range of disciplines
• Recruit high-quality students and provide an experience which inspires, challenges and prepares them to become citizens and leaders who question the present and enrich the future
• Recruit and develop staff capable of keeping the University at the forefront in all it does
• Foster an organisational culture which promotes enterprise and is characterised by creative thinking, innovation and discovery, in which the University’s academic breadth and strengths are used to the full
• Make an impact through its research, its commercial activities and its leadership
• Develop partnerships with other higher education institutions, and public and private organisations, which will enhance the contribution it makes
• Commit itself to the economic, cultural and social life of the city of Birmingham and its region, ensuring that both benefit from the University’s international reach and standing
• Cherish its unique estate, striking a balance between heritage and the best of modern facilities to deliver the University’s purposes
• Underpinning all of this will be a sound, sustainable financial and investment strategy.

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Postal Address:

The University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
United Kingdom

The Norwegian University of Life Sciences comprises 8 departments. High professional quality, a high degree of teacher-student interaction and a pleasant social and physical environment characterise education at UMB.

UMB is recognised as a leading international centre of knowledge, focused on higher education and research within environmental- and biosciences. The university’s main specialisation areas are:

· biology
· food
· environment
· land use and natural resource management.

Together with other research institutes established at Aas, UMB provides state-of-the-art knowledge based on a broad range of disciplines. A broad range of study programmes are offered at Bachelor, Master and PhD level. These include:

· Animal science
· Aquaculture
· Biotechnology
· Chemistry
· Applied Mathematics and Statistics
· Physics
· Spatial Planning
· Biotechnology
· Environment and Natural Resources
· Plant Science
· Forestry
· Ecology and Natural Resource Management
· Food Science
· Landscape Architecture
· Economics and Resource Management
· Development Studies
· Teacher education in Natural Science

About 180 of the 600 courses at the Bachelor and Master level are taught in English, as well as many PhD level courses. 7 Master level programmes are conducted fully in English, and one Bachelor programme is fully conducted in English every other year. Besides theoretical and scientific education, emphasis is placed on practical training. Around 30% of UMB students conduct part of their studies abroad. For detailed information on UMB’s study programmes, see the Programme Descriptions for Prospective Students

Meeting tomorrow’s challenges
UMB began in 1859 as the only Norwegian agricultural post-graduate college (Norges landbrukshøgskole), a mainly educational institution. Research received a primary function nearly 40 years later and on 1 January 2005 the institution received the Norwegian university status. UMB, under Norwegian law and in follow-up to the European Bologna Declaration, is implementing a quality reform and has restructured the courses, credits and degrees to meet European standards.

In total, UMB has some 2,600 students of which about 293 are PhD students. Annually, the University confers about 40 PhD degrees upon successful candidates. There are many different nationalities at UMB; the international students make up over 10% of all students at the University. Of the 870 University staff, more than half hold scientific positions.

Contact:

P.O. Box 5003
NO-1432 Aas
Norway
Tel: + 47 64 96 50 00
Fax: + 47 64 96 50 01

Agnes Scott College, founded in 1889, is an independent national liberal arts college for women located in the metropolitan Atlanta area, affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

Student Body as of Fall 2008

• 847 students
• Our undergraduate students come from 43 states and 25 countries; 92 percent of traditional students live on campus
• 5 percent of our students are international.
• More than one third of Agnes Scott students are underrepresented minorities.
• Nearly half of Agnes Scott students will study abroad before they graduate.
• Agnes Scott’s honor system is one of the oldest in the country; our student self-government recently celebrated its 100th anniversary.
• Historically and presently, Agnes Scott students have earned academia’s most prestigious scholarships including the Rhodes, Fulbright, Goldwater and the Pickering Fellowship.

Admission and Financial Aid

• Class of 2012 total enrollment: 179
• 18 percent of the class of 2012 graduated in the top 5 percent of their high school class; 34 percent were in the top 10 percent
• 80 percent attended public schools.
• Acceptance rate: 48 percent
• Enrollment Yield: 23 percent
• Mean High School GPA: 3.61
• Middle 50% range of SAT: 1060-1260 (critical reading and mathematics only)
• Middle 50% range of ACT: 22-28
• 67 percent of students qualify for and receive need-based financial aid
• The average need-based institutional award is approximately $10,000.

Athletics
The Scotties are represented with seven varsity teams (Basketball, Cross Country, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Tennis and Volleyball) that play at the NCAA Division III level. Lacrosse will become a varsity sport in 2009-2010.

Our President
In Fall 2006, Elizabeth Kiss (pronounced “quiche”) became the eighth president of Agnes Scott College. Kiss is the former Nannerl O. Keohane Director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics and an associate professor of the practice of political science and philosophy at Duke University. She was the first female Rhodes Scholar at her alma mater, Davidson College. She earned her B. Phil. and D. Phil. degrees in philosophy at Oxford University.  Learn more

Academic Programs

• Number of full-time faculty: 83
• Tenure-track faculty with Ph.D. or terminal degree: 100 percent
• View our faculty directory
• Student/faculty ratio: 10:1
• Average number of students per class: 13
• 33 undergraduate majors and 27 minors, as well as programs in pre-law and  pre-medicine; dual-degree programs in architecture, engineering and nursing
• Master of Arts in Teaching degree in English, biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics. Learn more
• Post-baccalaureate certificate program in pre-medicine. Learn more

Finances

• Comprehensive fee for 2008-2009 is $38,910 which includes tuition, room and board, student activity/technology fees and health insurance.
• Endowment value as June 2008: approximately $307.6 million.
• Annual budget:  $42 million

Campus
Agnes Scott sits on 100 acres shaded with some of the state’s oldest trees. Our hometown is Decatur, a city that lies six miles from the center of Atlanta. MARTA (Atlanta’s rapid transit) stops three blocks from campus.

The Collegiate Gothic and Victorian red brick-and-stone buildings have won national awards for design and resulted in Agnes Scott’s recognition for the second most-beautiful campus in the country by The Princeton Review’s Best 361 Colleges (2006). Our campus consists of 27 buildings and an apartment complex.

A $120 million building program in the past decade added a new campus center, chapel and the multidisciplinary Mary Brown Bullock Science Center. There were also major renovations to the library, dining hall and observatory in addition to landscape/hardscape and parking improvements.

Distinguished Alumnae
Marsha Norman ’69x, H’05, won the Pulitzer Prize for her play, ’night, Mother. She has adapted other works for Broadway plays, including the musicals, The Color Purple and The Secret Garden, for which she received a Tony award. Norman is also a faculty member at The Julliard School.

Katherine “Kay” Krill ’77, was named CEO of Ann Taylor Stores Corporation in 2004. A psychology major, Krill joined the company in 1994 and was instrumental in the creation and launch of Ann Taylor Loft, one of the company’s most successful divisions. Krill became Executive Vice President of Ann Taylor Loft in 1996 and was promoted to president of that division in 2001.

2007 Grammy Award winner Jennifer Nettles ’97 was a successful solo musician with folk and country roots before joining the band Sugarland in 2003. The group was nominated for a 2006 Grammy in the Best New Artist category. In 2005, the band won an American Music Award for Favorite New Artist. In 2006, Nettles again made the Billboard Top 100 for a duet with Jon Bon Jovi, the single “Who Says You Can’t Go Home?” The song won Nettles and Bon Jovi the Grammy for Best Country Collaboration.

Jean Toal ’65 is Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, the first and only woman to hold that position. In 2006, she was quoted in Cambridge University Press’ Reconceiving the Family, Critique on the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution. She is past president of the Conference of Chief Judges and immediate past chair of the Board of Directors of the National Center for State Courts.

Ila Burdette ’81 was a mathematics major named Georgia’s first woman Rhodes scholar in 1980. She later earned her master’s degree from Oxford University. She is now a practicing architect known for her work designing special-needs environments, such as hospices and homes for the elderly.

Contact: 141 E. College Ave., Decatur, GA 30030 Tel: 404 471-6000 | 800 868-8602

On 1 September, 2007 Agder University College became the University of Agder. This is the result of decades of political and academic effort and the systematic development of the academic environment in the region.

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Fax: + 47 38 14 10 01
Email: postmottak@uia.no

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Postal address:

Service Box 422, NO-4604 Kristiansand, Norway

Visiting addresses:

Kristiansand Gimlemoen: Gimlemoen 25A, Kristiansand

Kristiansand Musikkens hus (Music Conservatory): Kongens gt 54, Kristiansand

Grimstad Grooseveien: Grooseveien 36, Grimstad

Grimstad Dømmesmoen: Dømmesmoen, Grimstad

Arendal: Sykehusveien 4, Arendal

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Contact information for each faculty can be found here.

If you are a prospective exchange student, contact the International Office.

Adelphi University comprises a small liberal arts college and a cluster of professional schools that have grown up in close relationship to the needs of the region. Our mission is to provide quality undergraduate and graduate education and to offer professional preparation of the first rank in arts, education, business, clinical psychology, social work, nursing and other health sciences.

The University prepares a broad spectrum of graduates and undergraduates for a wide range of life pursuits while fostering a passion for knowledge; an understanding and a questioning of cultural values; and a view of themselves as independent, life long learners, and contributors to knowledge and service in an ever-changing world.

Adelphi University is committed to provide a high-quality education for all of its students: for undergraduates and graduates, for those coming directly from high schools, and for those who transfer from community and other colleges, for those studying the liberal arts and sciences, for those pursuing specific career preparations in the professional schools, and for those nontraditional students seeking access to higher levels of learning.

Recognizing the interrelatedness of worldwide political, scientific, and cultural life, the University is committed to sustaining and improving its ethnic, social, and geographic

diversity, and curricula that reflect global awareness. Thus, Adelphi recruits students not only from Long Island and the greater metropolitan New York area, but nationally and internationally as well. Adelphi also seeks to attract an outstanding faculty, committed to teaching excellence, scholarly inquiry and artistic achievement, and public service, from all parts of the United States and from abroad.

Adelphi believes in the broad development of students necessary to their serving as effective and enlightened persons in society. In addition, therefore, to its traditional emphasis on teaching and research, Adelphi supports the growth of students outside the classroom by offering a wide range of cultural and artistic programs, and leadership and participatory opportunities in athletics and recreational programs; in internships, public and community service; and in student government.

Adelphi University will be the leading private university in the region for undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty who value excellence in teaching, learning, research, scholarship, creative activity, and service to one’s community. The University will be known for the competence of its graduates, its strong programs and interdisciplinary orientation, its welcoming of the community onto the campus, and its impact on the broader society through educational, economic, intellectual and cultural initiatives.

Adelphi University is a place where:

• Exciting and challenging teaching, the high quality of libraries, laboratories, and technology, and the individual attention given to students, lead to high levels of student learning and rates of graduation, and to accomplished and high achieving graduates.
• Students are known by name and know the faculty by name; students learn in safe, beautiful, and inspiring settings; highly accomplished alumni assist current students; campus organizations, the arts, sports, internships and volunteer service off-campus contribute to student learning and development.
• Faculty are active scholars, artists, and practitioners; curricula are both grounded in the disciplines and interdisciplinary; and excellence is assured through continuing evaluation.
• Personal achievement is measured at least as much in terms of ethics, character and good citizenship as in terms of financial success or material gain.
• Members of the wider community find intellectual and cultural stimulation; and students from all parts of the world, and of all backgrounds and ages, find intellectual stimulation and engagement in the world of ideas.

Founded on June 24, 1896, Adelphi University is the first institution of higher education on Long Island. Its charter was one of the earliest granted by the New York State Board of Regents to a coeducational college. Now in its second century of practical preparation for undergraduates, graduate students, and returning adult students, Adelphi offers degrees in the arts, sciences, humanities, business, education, nursing and health maintenance, social welfare, and clinical psychology. Adelphi’s mission is to serve Long Island, the New York metropolitan region, and the nation.

Adelphi’s first classes were held in a building in Brooklyn that also housed Adelphi Academy, a preparatory school that still exists today. The University’s original enrollment was 57 students, taught by 16 faculty members.

Adelphi University’s roots reach back to 1863 and the founding of Adelphi Academy, a private preparatory school located at 412 Adelphi Street, Brooklyn, New York. The Academy was incorporated in 1869, and its Board of Trustees was charged with establishing “a first-class institution for the broadest and most thorough training, and to make its advantages as accessible as possible to the largest numbers of our population.” The school quickly gained a reputation for its innovative curriculum, particularly in physical and early childhood education. By 1893, 1,032 students were enrolled in its primary, grammar, three-year subcollegiate, and two-year collegiate divisions.

The appointment of Charles H. Levermore as the head of the Academy in 1893 was an integral moment in Adelphi’s history. Realizing the city of Brooklyn lacked a liberal arts college, Dr. Levermore seized the opportunity to establish Adelphi College. Through the efforts of Timothy Woodruff, former Lieutenant Governor of New York State and future president of the Board of Trustees, Adelphi College, with 57 students and 16 instructors, was granted a charter, one of the earliest charters granted to a coeducational college by the Board of Regents of the State of New York, on June 24, 1896. From that point on, degrees issued bore the seals of Adelphi College and of the University of the State of New York, and were signed by the officers of the College and by the Chancellor and Secretary of the University. For the next 25 years, the Academy remained intact yet separate from the College.

Over the next 100 years, Adelphi grew and changed significantly. For more than three decades following 1912, the institution served only women. In 1929, Adelphi moved to its present location, on 75 beautifully landscaped acres in Garden City, New York.

In 1944, Adelphi’s School of Nursing became the first such school established by a college in New York State in response to the pressing need for nurses created by the United States’ entry into World War II. To mark the opening of two federally funded residence halls for women, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt delivered an address at Adelphi entitled, “The Challenge of Nursing for Young Women Today.” Within five years, the School, one of the largest college-units of the United States Cadet Nurse Corps, graduated 500 nursing students into active service in the Corps and expanded the College’s enrollment by 1,200 students

After the war, Adelphi reverted to its original coeducational model to accommodate returning World War II servicemen. The School of Social Work was founded in 1949; doctoral education followed in 1950. Adelphi’s program in clinical psychology was formally organized in 1952 and evolved into the Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, which was the first university-based professional school in psychotherapy.

In 1963, after another decade of expansion, Adelphi was granted university status by the Board of Regents. By the 1970s, the Garden City campus, established in 1929, had expanded from its original three buildings—Blodgett, Levermore, and Woodruff Halls—to 21 buildings on 75 acres, including the Leon A. Swirbul Library, which is now a fully computerized collection of more than 1.7 million volumes and microformat and audiovisual items.

Today, 1,261 full- and part-time faculty members serve a student body of more than 8,300 undergraduate and graduate degree candidates on the main Garden City campus and at facilities in New York City, Hauppauge, and Poughkeepsie. Adelphi University’s schools and programs include the College of Arts and Sciences; the Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies; the Honors College; the School of Business; the Ruth S. Ammon School of Education; the School of Nursing; the School of Social Work; and Adult Academic Programs in University College. Uniting these diverse liberal arts and professional programs is their shared tradition of academic innovation and rigor, and their common philosophy of education and lifelong learning.

While focusing its rich resources on the needs of its students, Adelphi also seeks to serve its locality, state, and nation through the research and practice of its faculty; the strengthening of ties between the professional schools and community; the staging of distinguished cultural events at its campuses; and most essentially, the education of a generation of future leaders and informed citizens, professionals, and community members.

Adelphi University
P.O. Box 701
Garden City, NY 11530-0701
1-800-ADELPHI

Today, more than ever before, universities hold the key to ensuring our economic prosperity and quality of life. With more than 99,122 students on eight campuses across the state, Indiana University touches the lives of Hoosiers in thousands of ways.

• Nearly 250,000 IU alumni work in Indiana. More than 50 percent of Indiana’s physicians, 40 percent of nurses, 64 percent of optometrists, 35 percent of teachers, 75 percent of lawyers, and 90 percent of dentists are IU graduates.
• As part of the Indiana Life Sciences Initiative, IU is developing a business incubator and biomedical research center to launch new life sciences enterprises in Indiana.
• IU has recognized the central role of information technology in the 21st-century economy by creating the new School of Informatics.
• As part of Clarian Health Partners (University Hospital, Riley Hospital for Children, and Methodist hospital) and in collaboration with other hospitals, IU Medical Center health care specialists provide care for thousands of patients each year. In addition, many Hoosier citizens are treated at IU’s eye care centers, dental clinics, and Speech and Hearing Clinic.
• Through the Indiana Genomics Initiative (INGEN), IU scientists are using the genetic map published by the Human Genome Project to search for genetic factors that are crucial to treating many diseases.
• IU campuses across the state enrich the lives of Indiana residents with cultural offerings ranging from art exhibits, theatre, and dance to grand opera.
• IU not only trains future teachers for Indiana’s schools but also forms partnerships with schools and communities to improve education throughout the state.

You can explore this Web site to find many more ways in which Indiana University benefits Hoosiers every day.

Indiana University has eight campuses: the original campus in Bloomington, which is a residential campus; an urban campus in Indianapolis, which also includes the IU Medical Center; and six regional campuses in the Indiana cities of Gary, South Bend, Fort Wayne, Kokomo, Richmond, and New Albany.

IU has:

• More than 99,122 students on its eight campuses
• 1,048 degree programs
• More than 474,000 living alumni, including more than 249,000 living in Indiana
• An annual operating budget of $2.5 billion
• More than 18,000 employees, including faculty and professional and support staff
• More than 150 research centers and institutes
• An endowment of more than $1.3 billion

Indiana University is internationally known for the quality of its academic programs and attracts students from all over the world. At the same time, IU plays a key role in the economic and social well-being of Indiana residents, offering educational, cultural, and financial benefits to the state.

Contact: 107 S. Indiana Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405-7000 | (812) 855-4848