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A dean's list is an academic award, or distinction, used to recognize the highest level scholarship demonstrated by students in a college or university. This system is most often used in North America, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] though institutions in Europe, [ 3 ] Asia, [ 4 ] and Australia [ 5 ] may also employ similar measures.
When UMUC first opened in 1947, the school was named College of Special and Continuation Studies within the University of Maryland, College Park. [17] In 1953, Raymond Ehrensberger, chancellor of the institution at that time, wanted to change the name to something more meaningful and less cumbersome for people to say and remember.
Less than 400 students enrolled. 17 years later in 1938, UMD restructured the burgeoning business program into a separate college within the University, renamed the department to the College of Commerce, and appointed internationally recognized economist Dr. W. Mackenzie Stevens to be its first dean.
Learn more in The N&O’s higher education news roundup about how the UNC System is hoping to help community college students transfer successfully. Dean’s List: New tool to help community ...
UNC-Chapel Hill was one of just a handful of flagship public universities nationwide that saw the share of in-state students in their first-year classes increase from 2002 to 2022, The Chronicle ...
Learn more in The N&O’s higher education news roundup about what the committee is tasked with deciding about the building’s future.
On November 29, 1912, a fire destroyed student housing, school records, and most of the academic buildings, leaving only Morrill Hall untouched. There were no injuries or fatalities, and all but two students returned to the university and insisted on classes continuing. [1] A new administration building was not built until the 1940s. [1]
Cameron Toler, a student at the UNC School of the Arts, wrote that the board’s decision to act on the policy during its meeting at the school was “insulting,” given that the university ...