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Kansas Board Of Regents

Kansas Board of Regents

The Kansas Board of Regents is a body consisting of nine members which governs six state universities in Kansas. In addition to these six universities, it also supervises and coordinates nineteen community colleges, five technical colleges, six technical schools and a municipal university. Refer to the list of colleges and universities for details on the individual schools.

Member selection

The members of the Kansas Board of Regents are appointed by the state Government and then confirmed by the state Senate.

Tasks

For the most part, the Board deals with educational providers to improve the quality of their educational policies, programs, and services, in an effort to improve the quality of learning in general, as well as to maintain this quality, in Kansas. In addition to serving on the Board, each of its members serves on various commissions and committees throughout the year.

External links

- [http://www.kansasregents.org/ Kansas Board of Regents] Category:Education in Kansas Category:Government of Kansas

Universities

A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. A university provides both tertiary and quaternary education. University is derived from the Latin universitas, meaning corporation (since the first medieval European universities were simply groups of scholars). medieval European universities]

History

Because of the above definition, the oldest universities in the world were all European, as the awarding of academic degrees was not a custom of older institutions of learning in Asia and Africa. However, institutions of higher learning considerably older than the most ancient European universities existed in countries such as China, Egypt and India. The Academy, founded in 387 BC by the Greek philosopher Plato in the grove of Academos near Athens, taught its students philosophy, mathematics, and gymnastics, and is sometimes considered a forerunner of modern European universities. Other Greek cities with notable educational institutions include Kos (the home of Hippocrates), which had a medical school, and Rhodes, which had philosophical schools. Another famous classical university was the Museum and Library of Alexandria. About a thousand years after Plato, institutions bearing a resemblance to the modern university existed in Persia and the Islamic world, notably the Academy of Gundishapur and later also al-Azhar University in Cairo. In Asia, there were a number of institutions of higher learning that vaguely resembled universities in the Western sense of the word. In general, these are of considerable antiquity, predating western institutions of higher learning by centuries. In China, it's recorded that the education system had been established during the Yu period (2257 BC - 2208 BC) and the imperial central academy was named Shangyang (Shang means higher and Yang means school) at the time. The higher learning institution - imperial central academy, was called Piyong in Zhou Dynasty (1046 BC - 249 BC), Taixue in Han Dynasty (202 - 220) and Guozijian in Sui dynasty. For example, Nanjing University traces its source back to the imperial central academy at Nanking founded in 258 by the Kingdom of Wu. The early Chinese state depended upon literate, educated officials for operation of the empire, and an imperial examination was established in the Sui Dynasty (581 -618) for evaluating and selecting officials from the general populace. The ancient cities of Nalanda, Vikramasila, Kanchipura and Takshasila were greatly reputed centres of learning in the east, with students from all over Asia. In particular, Nalanda was a famous center of Buddhist scholarship, and as such it attracted a vast number of Buddhist scholars from China, central Asia and Southeast Asia. In the Carolingian period, a famous academy was created by Charlemagne for the purpose of educating the children of aristocrats to help train the professionals needed to run an empire. It was a foreshadow of the rise of the University in the 11th century. The first European medieval university was the University of Magnaura in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey), founded in 849 by the emperor Bardas, followed by the University of Salerno (9th century)University of Bologna (1088) in Bologna, Italy, and the University of Paris (c. 1100) in Paris, France. Many of the medieval universities in Western Europe were born under the aegis of the Catholic Church, usually as cathedral schools or by papal bull as Studia Generali. In the early medieval period, most new universities were founded from pre-existing schools, usually when these schools were deemed to have become primarly sites of higher education. Many historians state that universities and cathedral schools were a continuation of the interest in learning promoted by monasteries. In Europe, young men proceeded to the university when they had completed the study of the trivium–the preparatory arts of grammar, rhetoric, and logic–and the quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. (See degrees of Oxford University for the history of how the trivium and quadrivium developed in relation to degrees, especially in anglophone universities). Universities are generally established by statute or charter. In the United Kingdom, for instance, a university is instituted by Act of Parliament or Royal Charter; in either case generally with the approval of Privy Council, and only such recognized bodies can award degrees of any kind.

Universities around the world

The funding and organisation of Universities is very different in different countries around the world. In some countries Universities are predominantly funded by the state, while in others funding may come from donors or from fees which students attending the University must pay. In some countries the vast majority of students attend University in their local town, while in other countries Universities attract students from all over the world, and may provide University accommodation for their students.

Universities and student life in different countries

- British universities
- Dutch universities
- French universities
- Irish universities
- Italian universities
- Spanish universities
- US universities
- Egyptian universities

Selective admissions

Unlike community colleges, enrollment at a university is generally not available to all. However, admission systems vary widely around the world, as discussed in the article college admissions.

Colloquial usage

Colloquially, the term university is used around the world for a phase in one's life: "when I was at university…"; in the United States, college is often used: "when I was in college…". See college, §3, for further discussion. In the United Kingdom and Australia "University" is often contracted to simply "Uni". The usual practice in the United States today is to call an institution made up of several faculties and granting a range of higher degrees a "university" while a smaller institution only granting bachelor's or associate's degrees is called a "college". (See liberal arts colleges, community college). Nevertheless, a few of America's oldest and most prestigious universities, such as Boston College, Dartmouth College and the College of William and Mary, have retained the term "college" in their names for historical reasons though they offer a wide range of higher degrees.

Related terms

: academia - academic rank - academy - admission - alumnus - aula - [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brain_farm Brain farm ]-Bologna process - business schools - Grandes écoles - campus - college - college and university rankings - dean - degree - diploma - discipline - [http://wiktionary.org/wiki/Dissertation dissertation] - faculty - fraternities and sororities - graduate student - graduation - lecturer - medieval university - medieval university (Asia) - mega university - perpetual student - professor - provost - rector - research - scholar - senioritis - student - tenure - tuition - undergraduate - universal access - university administration

References

- Walter Ruegg (ed), A History of the University in Europe, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (3 vols) ISBN 0521361079 (vol 3 reviewed by Laurence Brockliss in the Times Literary Supplement, no 5332, 10 June 2005, pages 3-4). Category:Educational stages ko:대학교 ms:Universiti ja:大学 simple:University th:มหาวิทยาลัย

List of colleges and universities in Kansas

This is a listing of public and private colleges and universities approved to operate in the State of Kansas.

Public colleges and universities

The Kansas Board of Regents governs six state universities, and supervises and coordinates 19 community colleges, five technical colleges, six technical schools and a municipal university.

State universities

- Emporia State University
- Fort Hays State University
- Kansas State University
- Pittsburg State University
- University of Kansas
- University of Kansas Medical Center
- Wichita State University

Municipal universities

- Washburn University

Community colleges

Technical colleges and schools

- Coffeyville Community College and Area Technical School
- Flint Hills Technical College
- Kansas City Kansas Area Technical School
- Kaw Area Technical School
- Manhattan Area Technical College
- North Central Kansas Technical College
- Northeast Kansas Technical College
- Northwest Kansas Technical College
- Salina Area Technical School
- Southwest Kansas Technical School
- Wichita Area Technical College

Private colleges and universities

The Board also authorizes private and out-of-state institutions to operate in Kansas with a Certificate of Approval renewed annually. These schools offer instruction for business trade, technical, or industrial occupations leading to a certificate, diploma, or academic degree.
- Baker University
- Barclay College
- Benedictine College
- Bethany College
- Bethel College
- Central Christian College
- Friends University
- Haskell Indian Nations University
- Hesston College
- Kansas Wesleyan University
- Manhattan Christian College
- McPherson College
- MidAmerica Nazarene University
- Newman University
- Ottawa University
- Southwestern College
- St. Mary's College and Academy
- Sterling College
- Tabor College, Kansas
- University of Saint Mary

External links

- [http://www.kansasregents.org Kansas Board of Regents]
- Kansas

List of colleges and universities in Kansas

This is a listing of public and private colleges and universities approved to operate in the State of Kansas.

Public colleges and universities

The Kansas Board of Regents governs six state universities, and supervises and coordinates 19 community colleges, five technical colleges, six technical schools and a municipal university.

State universities

- Emporia State University
- Fort Hays State University
- Kansas State University
- Pittsburg State University
- University of Kansas
- University of Kansas Medical Center
- Wichita State University

Municipal universities

- Washburn University

Community colleges

Technical colleges and schools

Private colleges and universities

External links

- [http://www.kansasregents.org Kansas Board of Regents]
- Kansas

Category:Government of Kansas

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Miguel de Icaza

Miguel de Icaza (born c. 1972) is a free software programmer from Mexico, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects. Miguel de Icaza was born in Mexico City and studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) but never received a degree. He started writing free software in 1992. In summer of 1997, he was interviewed by Microsoft for a job in the Internet Explorer Unix team (to work on a SPARC port), but lacked a university degree to obtain a work visa. He declared in an [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/deicazainterview.asp interview] that he tried to convince his interviewers to free the IE code even before Netscape did with their own browser. De Icaza started the GNOME project in August of that same year, with Federico Mena, to create a completely free desktop environment and component model for GNU/Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Earlier, de Icaza had worked on the Midnight Commander file manager, as well as the Linux kernel. He was also the creator of the spreadsheet program Gnumeric. In 1999, de Icaza co-founded Helix Code, a GNOME-oriented free software company with Nat Friedman, and employed a large number of other GNOME hackers. In 2001, Helix Code, now renamed to Ximian, announced the Mono project, a project led by de Icaza, to implement Microsoft's new .NET development platform on Linux and Unix-like platforms. In August 2003, Ximian was acquired by Novell. Miguel de Icaza has received the Free Software Foundation 1999 Free Software Award, the MIT Technology Review Innovator of the Year Award 1999, and was named one of Time Magazine's 100 innovators for the new century in September 2000. Miguel had a cameo in the 2001 motion picture Antitrust. He married Brazilian Maria Laura in 2003.

External links

- [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6833 Interview with de Icaza]
- [http://tirania.org/blog/ Miguel de Icaza's blog]
- [http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/09/freedman0904.asp?p=0 Profile in MIT Technology Review, Sept. 2004]
- [http://www.radiotux.de/interviews/miguel_de_icaza.ogg Interview with Miguel de Icaza by RadioTux] De Icaza, Miguel De Icaza, Miguel De Icaza, Miguel De Icaza, Miguel De Icaza, Miguel De Icaza, Miguel

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Kansas Board of Regents

Member selection

Tasks

See also

External links

Universities

History

Universities around the world

Universities and student life in different countries

Selective admissions

Colloquial usage

See also

Related terms

References

List of colleges and universities in Kansas

Public colleges and universities

State universities

Municipal universities

Community colleges

Technical colleges and schools

Private colleges and universities

External links

List of colleges and universities in Kansas

Public colleges and universities

State universities

Municipal universities

Community colleges

Technical colleges and schools

Private colleges and universities

External links

Category:Government of Kansas

Miguel de Icaza

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