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The University of Delaware (colloquially known as UD, UDel, or Delaware) is a privately governed, state-assisted [1] [2] land-grant research university in Newark, Delaware, United States. UD offers four associate's programs, 163 bachelor's programs, 136 master's programs, and 64 doctoral programs across its ten colleges and schools. [ 4 ]
Old College Historic District is a national historic district located at Newark in New Castle County, Delaware. It consists of six contributing buildings: Old College, Recitation Hall, Recitation Annex, Alumni Hall, Mechanical Hall, and Elliott House. These buildings formed the nucleus, and until the 20th century, the entire campus of Delaware ...
The village of Glasgow developed at what was and still is an important crossroads in Pencader Hundred.The area was initially settled as part of the 30,000-acre (12,000 ha) Welsh Tract granted to a group of settlers from Wales in 1701, and a Presbyterian church was established shortly thereafter.
The Pencader Charter High School of Business & Finance was a high school in New Castle, Delaware that opened in August 2006. [1] It opened with 350 students (200 freshman, 150 sophomores) and was the first high school in Delaware with a business and finance focus.
The Mechanical Hall was renovated in 2004 to house the Paul R. Jones Collection of African American Art, donated by Atlanta, Georgia art collector Paul R. Jones. [2] Jones' gift of several hundred important works from his personal collection was the outgrowth of a relationship that University of Delaware professor William Homer established in the early 1990s.
Library operations moved to the new Morris Library in 1963, and Memorial Hall now houses the UD Department of English. Situated at a prominent location at the center of the Green, the university's main common area, Memorial Hall is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story, H-shaped building with a hipped-roofed central hall and gable-roofed wings.
Foster Hall opened in 1965 with dining hall facilities for over 1,000 students. It was dedicated to Dr. Charles Foster, who served as president of the institution from 1927 to 1936. [ 2 ] Currently, the Foster "Residential Restaurant" is an all-you-can-eat cafeteria with a variety of menu options. [ 51 ]
McMahon Hall is the second-oldest building on campus. McMahon Hall contains the offices of the Provost, Graduate Studies, Undergraduate Studies, Undergraduate Advising, Career and Academic Services, the School of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, the Department of Greek and Latin, and the University post office.