Yale University

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Three-century old Yale has matured into one of the world’s great universities. Its 11,000 students come from all fifty American states and from 108 countries. The 3,200-member faculty is a richly diverse group of men and women who are leaders in their respective fields. The central campus now covers 310 acres (125 hectares) stretching from the School of Nursing in downtown New Haven to tree-shaded residential neighborhoods around the Divinity School.

Yale’s 260 buildings include contributions from distinguished architects of every period in its history. Styles range from New England Colonial to High Victorian Gothic, from Moorish Revival to contemporary. Yale’s buildings, towers, lawns, courtyards, walkways, gates, and arches comprise what one architecture critic has called “the most beautiful urban campus in America.” The University also maintains over 600 acres (243 hectares) of athletic fields and natural preserves just a short bus ride from the center of town.

Yale University comprises three major academic components: Yale College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the professional schools. In addition, Yale encompasses a wide array of centers and programs, libraries, museums, and administrative support offices. Approximately 11,250 students attend Yale.

The undergraduate school, Yale College, is the heart of the University. More than 2,000 undergraduate courses in the liberal arts and sciences are offered each year by over sixty-five departments and programs, forming a curriculum of remarkable breadth and depth. The faculty is dedicated to undergraduate teaching, and many of Yale’s most distinguished professors teach introductory-level courses.

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Quinnipiac University. Founded in 1929, Quinnipiac University is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution of higher education. Quinnipiac's mission is to provide a supportive and stimulating environment for the intellectual and personal growth of undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education students.

The university offers broadly based undergraduate programs as well as graduate programs in selected professional fields. Through integrated liberal arts and professional curricula, undergraduate programs in the Schools of Business, Communications, Health Sciences, and the College of Liberal Arts prepare students for career entry or advanced studies. Graduate programs provide professional qualifications for success in business, education, health sciences, communications, and law.

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Yale University History. Yale’s roots can be traced back to the 1640s, when colonial clergymen led an effort to establish a college in New Haven to preserve the tradition of European liberal education in the New World. This vision was fulfilled in 1701, when the charter was granted for a school “wherein Youth may be instructed in the Arts and Sciences [and] through the blessing of Almighty God may be fitted for Publick employment both in Church and Civil State.” In 1718 the school was renamed “Yale College” in gratitude to the Welsh merchant Elihu Yale, who had donated the proceeds from the sale of nine bales of goods together with 417 books and a portrait of King George I.

Yale College survived the American Revolutionary War (1776 -1781) intact and, by the end of its first hundred years, had grown rapidly. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries brought the establishment of the graduate and professional schools that would make Yale a true university

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Quinnipiac University History

• 1929 - Quinnipiac founded by Samuel W. Tator as the Connecticut College of Commerce, a small business college awarding associate's degrees.
• 1951 - name changed to Quinnipiac College in honor of native Americans who settled in the New Haven area. Quinnipiac begins offering bachelor's degrees.
• 1952 - Quinnipiac assumes administrative control of Larson College, a private women's college.
• 1966 - Quinnipiac moves to its current Hamden campus to accommodate increased enrollment and curriculum demand.
• 1970s - Quinnipiac begins offering master's degrees.
• 1995 - The American Bar Association accredits Quinnipiac to award the Juris Doctor degree. The Quinnipiac School of Law Center is dedicated.
• 2000 - College changes its name to Quinnipiac University to better reflect the quality and diversity of its programs.

Quinnipiac, pronounced (KWIN-uh-pe-ack), is an altered version of a native American word. Theories differ on the word's exact meaning. Some sources, such as The Quinnipiack Indians and Their Reservation, written in 1900, assert that the name Quinni-pe-auke means “long-water land or country,” and that Quinnipiack means “people from the long-water land.” Later sources claim the word Quinnipiac apparently derives from quinnuppin-uk, defined as “a turning point” or “to make a change in the direction of travel.” Both definitions seem appropriate-the school is near a long tidal river and it marks a turning point in students’ lives.

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Southern Connecticut State University. Located 5.8 miles from Quality Inn East Haven, Southern Connecticut State University has 12,000 students located less than three miles from downtown New Haven, near the artsy and historic Westville Village section of the city.

Founded as a teachers college in 1893, Southern has evolved into a comprehensive university offering 115 graduate and undergraduate programs. More than 700 faculty members lead students through a wide range of studies and research specialties.

University offers courses and programs leading to Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry, the Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry, and the Bachelor of Science degree in secondary education all with the major concentration in chemistry or biochemistry.

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University of New Haven. University of New Haven is an independent, coeducational university located in West Haven. It has approximately 3,200 full-time students of which 300 are international students from more than 50 countries. The student population is divided among undergraduate day and evening students and graduate students.

UNH is located in south central Connecticut about 9 miles from Quality Inn East Haven, 75 miles northeast of New York City and 138 miles southwest of Boston, Massachusetts. The campus is situated on 77 acres of land in West Haven, Connecticut, overlooking Long Island Sound and the city of New Haven. It is easily accessible by car, air, bus and train service. New Haven, just 10 minutes away, is a city where arts and cultural activities flourish and co-exist with science and business.

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