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  2. History of the University of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The University of Chicago's Hyde Park campus began in 1890 through the efforts of the American Baptist Education Society and oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, who later called it "the best investment I ever made." [2] The University of Chicago held its first classes there on October 1, 1892. [3]

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  4. Westwood College - Wikipedia

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    Westwood College was a private for-profit college owned by Alta Colleges Inc. with 15 campus locations in five states and online learning options. Westwood was nationally accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS). [1] Since its inception in 1986, Westwood graduated more than 37,000 students.

  5. List of University of Chicago alumni - Wikipedia

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    James M. Redfield (A.B. 1954, Ph.D. 1961) – Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor and Professor of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago (1976–present) Albert Rees (Ph.D. 1950) – former University of Chicago and Princeton economics professor, former Provost at Princeton, advisor to President Gerald Ford [55]

  6. List of research universities in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The University of Texas at Austin Austin TX Public The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson TX Public The University of Texas at El Paso El Paso TX Public The University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio TX Public University of California, San Francisco: San Francisco: CA: Public The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ...

  7. Collegiate Gothic - Wikipedia

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    A number of colleges and universities have commissioned major new buildings in the Collegiate Gothic style in recent years. These include Princeton University's Whitman College, designed by Porphyrios Associates, and Benjamin Franklin College and Pauli Murray College, both designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects, at Yale University. [24]

  8. List of colleges and universities in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Abingdon College (1853–1888), in Abingdon, merged with Eureka College in 1885, campus closed in 1888; Argosy University (2001–2019, Chicago, Schaumburg) Barat College (1858–2005), in Lake Forest, became a part of DePaul University in 2001. Barat campus closed in 2005. Brown's Business College (1876–1994), numerous locations around Illinois

  9. History of higher education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality. University Of Chicago Press. (1996). Rudolph, Frederick. The American College and University: A History (1962), a standard survey online; Thelin, John R. A History of American Higher Education. (Johns Hopkins UP, 2004) online; Veysey Lawrence R.