Collections like Baskin's, thought at the time to be the largest assemblage of women's history and ephemera held in private hands in the U.S., are the cornerstone of university scholarship, shaping courses and new research, inspiring interdisciplinary work, and deepening the academic experience for all.
He launched Tufts' Office of Institutional Diversity and highlighted inclusion as a cornerstone of the university's excellence.
"Suppressing that freedom by political means constitutes a major obstacle to exploring truth and destroys the spiritual cornerstone of a university".
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's sharp attack on the City University of New York -- and his proposal to remove all remedial work from the community colleges, a cornerstone of the university's open access policy -- took officials there by surprise yesterday.
Unlike the copper time capsule that the Stanfords placed beneath the well-marked university cornerstone at what is now Building 60 in 1887, the recently found capsule wasn't indicated by markings on Building 160's exterior that would point to its existence.
Another team that belongs on this list is the Rutgers Women's basketball team who before being sideswiped by Don Imus in a RUI (Racism Under the Influence) incident last year, was long the cornerstone of that university's academic department, and whose success paved paid the way for their football team's recent renaissance.
When the new science of learning, new online business models and new kinds of verifiable, digital credentials converge, Carey concludes, "the cornerstone of the hybrid university economy will begin to crumble, and the University of Everywhere will take its place". The subtitle is perhaps the least clever thing about this readable and thoughtful book.
Chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly on December 11 , 1789 the university's cornerstone was laid on October 12, 1793, near the ruins of a chapel, chosen because of its central location within the state.
Health is the universal cornerstone of beauty.
