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A cross-registration program between MIT and Wellesley College has also existed since 1969, and in 2002 the Cambridge–MIT Institute launched an undergraduate exchange program between MIT and the University of Cambridge. [260] MIT also has a long-term partnership with Imperial College London, for both student exchanges and research collaboration.
Historically, Illinois was a critical swing state leaning marginally towards the Republican Party. [3] Between its admission into the Union and 1996, it voted for the losing candidate just six times - in 1824, 1840, 1848, 1884, 1916, and 1976.
Northeastern Illinois University: Chicago: 1867 5,756 Master's Northern Illinois University: DeKalb: 1895 15,649 Research University Southern Illinois University Carbondale: Carbondale: 1869 11,107 Research University Part of the Southern Illinois University System: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville: Edwardsville: 1957 12,519 Doctoral ...
Illinois is a Democratic stronghold in presidential elections and one of the "Big Three" Democratic strongholds alongside California and New York. It is one of the most Democratic states in the nation with all state executive offices and both state legislative branches held by Democrats.
In 1951, members of the American Legion began accusing various university faculty of being communists. [8] University administrations responded by banning left-wing student groups and communist speakers. [4] Joseph McCarthy's Senate committee investigated 18 faculty members at Sarah Lawrence College, some of whom were pressured to resign. [8]
In 2018, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings rated MIT the #2 university for arts and humanities. In 2021, Zahra Hirji and Lisa Song of the MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing won Seal Awards for consistent excellence in environmental journalism published by Bloomberg News and ProPublica, respectively. [27] [28]
The Urbana-Champaign campus was founded in 1867 as the Illinois Industrial University. It was one of the 37 public land-grant institutions created shortly after Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act in 1862. [8] The university changed its name to University of Illinois in 1885, and then again to University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1982.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) is the largest college of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The college was established in 1913 through the merger of the College of Literature and Arts and the College of Science. [5] The college offers seventy undergraduate majors, as well as master's and Ph.D. programs. [6]