Classes at Florida Polytechnic University started this week, and its 550 inaugural students will be able to access more than 135,000 e-books on a range of readers, tablets and laptops, in a $60m £36mm) library designed by Spanish Architect Santiago Calatrava.
CISLAW watched nearly 90% of its inaugural students graduate on to the next level.
The Society's first student president was M. L. Dickinson, who also served as one of the several editors of the inaugural edition of Vassariana, the precursor the Vassar's weekly newspaper, The Miscellany News.
Alex Whitney is an Inaugural Class student at the Minerva Schools at KGI.
In the inaugural session, students from Yale, Koc, Getúlio Vargas, IE, and the Renmin University of China were given a choice of five courses on five campuses.
While much was inclusive — the open-air ceremony, a town-meeting-like "youth inaugural" for students, and upcoming ceremonies in five other cities — there was also a gala whose cost was paid for largely by corporate donors, who were allowed to give up to $50,000 each.
Sometime in 1837, a year before the inaugural class of students were officially enrolled, the new student body founded the Phi Gamma literary society on campus.
The Scheibners, for instance, are very excited about the founding of the first college primarily for Christian home-schoolers, Patrick Henry, in Purcelleville, Va., which will be accepting its inaugural class of students in the fall.
Though it is not the first time a Trumbull High School band has marched in an inauguration — Golden Eagle students played for George W. Bush's first inaugural ceremony in 2001 — students say the historical significance of the nation's first African-American president makes this event unique.
Teachers, principals and community leaders will get to nominate students to become members of the city's inaugural "posses" — groups of students from large, urban districts organized by the Posse Foundation, which sends them to elite colleges and universities as a unit to serve as a pre-established peer support network.
The program's inaugural class has 33 students ranging in age from 23 to 60; a third are students of color and many are in midcareer.
