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Ross, Earle D. Democracy's College: The Land Grant Movement in the Formative Stage (1942); Rudolph, Frederick. Curriculum: History of the American Undergraduate Course of Study Since 1636 (Jossey Bass, 1977) ISBN 0875893589; Syrett, Nicholas L. The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities (2009) online
William & Mary officially became a public college in 1906. Rutgers was founded in 1766 as Queen's College, named for Queen Charlotte. For much of its history, it was privately affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church. It changed its name to Rutgers College in 1825 and was designated as the State University of New Jersey after World War II.
The college was a leader in bringing Newtonian science to the colonies. [66] Harvard also established the Harvard Indian College, "hoping to make it the Indian Oxford," but only four Native Americans ever enrolled at Harvard in that era, and only one graduated. [67] A 1768 depiction of Harvard College engraved by Paul Revere
A US Department of Education longitudinal survey of 15,000 high school students in 2002 and 2012, found that 84% of the 27-year-old students had some college education, but only 34% achieved a bachelor's degree or higher; 79% owe some money for college and 55% owe more than $10,000; college dropouts were three times more likely to be unemployed ...
However, soon after the College of New Jersey was founded, a number of Log College men joined their New Side brethren from Yale and Harvard in support of the new venture. The first trustees, including five Log College adherents enlisted by Dickinson and Pemberton, announced Dickinson's appointment as the first President of Princeton University ...
A prize for the best blog-based book was initiated in 2005, [50] the Lulu Blooker Prize. [51] However, success has been elusive offline, with many of these books not selling as well as their blogs. The book based on Julie Powell's blog "The Julie/Julia Project" was made into the film Julie & Julia, apparently the first to do so.
Because of rising costs and limited interest, many have been discontinued: From 1995 to 2013, the number of U.S. college yearbooks dropped from roughly 2,400 to 1,000. [1] This is a partial list of those yearbooks that have been made available for digital search and download via their school libraries or archives.
Steve Gibson was hired to blog full-time by Ritual Entertainment on February 8, 1997, [7] possibly making him the first hired blogger. Another example of early blogging was the Poster Children online tour diary, started in 1995 by Rose Marshack. [8] The blog was independently invented by Ian Ring in 1997.