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11 unusual facts about college


Bishop Johnson School and College

Since 2004 BJC offers Bachelor's degree in Commerce under the constituency of Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences.

Cambrian College

It was originally established with campuses in Sudbury, North Bay and Sault Ste. Marie; the North Bay and Sault campuses became the independent Canadore College and Sault College in 1972 and 1973, respectively.

Cardus Education Survey Canada

Dr. Deani Van Pelt served as the author for the report and is an Associate Professor of Education at Redeemer University College where she serves as Director of Teacher Education.

Education in Sheffield

Sheffield College is organised on a collegiate basis and was originally created from the merger of six colleges around the city, since reduced to three main centres: City in the city centre, Hillsborough in the north, and Norton in the south, each operating as semi-autonomous constituents of Sheffield College.

Girls' Greater Catholic League

College coaches look to this League for skilled athletics and Christian sportswomen to complement their programs.

Green Bay Packers cheerleaders

The team currently uses college cheerleading squads, with the UWGB squad (coed) and St. Norbert's (all girl) cheering at each home game.

Harbor Teacher Preparation Academy

The school is located on Harbor College's tennis courts featuring 5 bungalows consisting of 9 classrooms and an office.

Kappa Alpha Lambda

Collegiate members are currently matriculating students at a two or four year college or university and maintain the required cumulative GPA for membership.

Niagara College Teaching Winery

The Niagara College Teaching Winery (NCT), Canada’s first commercial teaching winery, is located at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Campus of Niagara College within the Niagara Region of Ontario.

The Motor Bus

The poem traditionally commemorates the introduction of a motorised omnibus service in the city of Oxford (Corn and High are the colloquial names of streets in the centre of the city where several Colleges of the University are located), thereby shattering the bucolic charm of the horse-drawn age.

Volume 1: 65's.late.nite.double-a-side.college.cut-up.trailers.for.the.looped.future.

65's.late.nite.double-a-side.college.cut-up.trailers.for.the.looped.future is the first Unreleased/Unreleasable album by the Sheffield, UK, instrumental math rock band 65daysofstatic.


1957–58 NCAA University Division men's basketball season

Dom Flora, a senior point guard at Washington and Lee University, finished his college career with 2,310 points and 696 free throws made, both of which were ranked fifth in their respective categories in college basketball history at the end of the 1957–58 season.

2008 College Football All-America Team

The 2008 College Football All-America Team is composed of the following All-American first teams: American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), Associated Press (AP), Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), Walter Camp Football Foundation, The Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Pro Football Weekly, ESPN, CBS Sports, College Football News, Rivals.com, and Scout.com.

2010 NCRHA Division I Collegiate Roller Hockey National Championships

The 2010 NCRHA Division I Collegiate Roller Hockey National Championships involved 21 schools playing in a round robin followed by a single elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCRHA Division I college roller hockey.

Aalim Muhammed Salegh College of Engineering

Aalim Muhammed Salegh College of Engineering or A.M.S College of Engineering is an engineering college affiliated to Anna University, India located in Muthapudupet, Avadi, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

Albion, Pennsylvania

He then went on to play college football for four years at Eastern Michigan University.

Alhassan Bako Zaku

He attended Barewa College, Zaria (1965 - 1971) and Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (1972 – 1979) where he obtained a B.sc (Ed) degree in 1976, and an M.Ed in 1979.

André Campra

A state-owned secondary school in the centre of Aix-en-Provence, is named after André Campra, Collège Campra.

Anstey College of Physical Education

By the late 1960s the college was awarding degrees accredited by the University of Birmingham, and had successfully resisted a proposed merger with the larger and co-educational Madeley College, based near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, which would have entailed the closure of the Chester Road premises.

Anthony Napoleon

Anthony Napoleon, Ph.D., 1979 Graduate of International University's College of Arts and Sciences, School of Psychology, is a nationally recognized trial analyst and forensic psychologist.

Arundel Priory

M.T. Elvins, Arundel Priory 1380-1980: The College of the Holy Trinity, 1981

Ashley Whippet

Ashley first gained notoriety on August 4, 1974 when Stein, then a 19-year-old college student, smuggled him into Dodger Stadium during a nationally televised baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds.

Aurand Harris

He become head of the drama program at a junior girls' college, William Woods College, in Fulton, Missouri two years later.

Bariadorgia

While Bariadorgia was first mentioned in 1822 growing in the commune of Sartène on Corsica under the synonym Carcajola, ampelographers such as Gustave Foëx of the Viticultural College at the University of Montpellier and colleague of Pierre Viala have speculated since at least the early 20th century that grape was likely introduced from neighboring Sardinia.

Battle of Muret

Laurence Marvin, "The Occitan War: A Military and Political History of the Albigensian Crusade, 1209-1218", Berry College: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 175-195.

Birmingham Metropolitan College

The buildings were mostly constructed in the 1950s as purpose-built structure although the college also obtained the Grade II* listed Moat House which was built in the 17th century by Sir William Wilson.

Chris Rice

But frequent invitations to speak and lead music at his church's youth group events led to more such invitations throughout his college years at the University of Maryland, Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana, and Union University in Jackson, Tennessee.

Chuck Noll

Here, Saint Vincent returns to college football in a game against Gallaudet University.

Craig Shemon

In addition to Yahoo Sports Radio, he also served as a talk show host for Fox Sports Radio and has called play-by-play for NFL on Fox, NFL Europe on NFL Network, and college football and basketball for the Big Ten Network.

Darril Fosty

During his college years he played bass guitar with the band First Step considered the 'sister band' for the Seattle based Brotherhood, the band which included future Sunny Day Real Estate and Foo Fighters' bassist Nate Mendel.

Daryl Dickey

For most of his college career, Dickey was a backup to star quarterbacks Alan Cockrell and Tony Robinson.

Edward Dendy

Edward Stephen Dendy (1812-1864), long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms during the 19th Century

Eleonora Aguiari

In 2004, for her final show at the Royal College of Art, she wrapped an equestrian statue of Lord Napier of Magdala, situated on Queen's Gate in West London, in bright red duct tape, giving the appearance of the statue being painted red.

Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart

Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart was born in Osnabrück, Germany and studied architecture, interior design and sculpture at Hanover School of Art and the Technical College, Hanover.

George Kilpatrick

After tutoring at Queen's College, Edgbaston, and serving as Acting Warden of the College of the Ascension, Selly Oak, Kilpatrick became rector of Wishaw, Warwickshire, and a lecturer at Lichfield Theological College in 1942.

Greg Morris

While in college, Morris was active in theater and hosted the late afternoon Jazz radio show, "Tea-Time," on the University of Iowa's station, WSUI.

Harry Trout

Harry E. Trout, head college football coach for the West Virginia University Mountaineers, 1903

Ibn Sina National College for Medical Studies

Ibn Sina National College for Medical Studies (Arabic: كلية ابن سينا الأهلية للعلوم الطبية) is a private medical university in the Al mahjar road Ghulail area of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

James Whitbourn

In 2005, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with the Choir of Clare College Cambridge, under Leonard Slatkin, premiered his largest choral work Annelies, a setting of the Diary of Anne Frank, at London's Cadogan Hall to wide critical acclaim.

Jean-Jacques Ampère

Moving to Paris, he taught at the Sorbonne, and became professor of the history of French literature at the Collège de France.

Jick

Andy Jick, public address announcer for the Boston College Eagles

John Omoniyi Abiri

He subsequently secured appointment in 1976 at the then University College, Ilorin, later University of Ilorin, where he served as the first Head of Department and dean of the Faculty of Education with responsibility of providing leadership in the formulation and initiation of the degree programmes of that faculty.

Jon Sciambi

As Sciambi attended Boston College, he began his sportscasting experience on WZBC, the school's 1000-watt FM radio station broadcasting to the Greater Boston area.

Joseph F. O'Connell

While at Boston College, O'Connell and Joseph Drum helped create the first Boston College football team.

Joseph Romilly

He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1809, became a scholar of the college, and graduated B.A. in 1813 as fourth wrangler.

Low Memorial Library

The foyer contains a white marble bust of Pallas Athena, modeled after the Minerve du Collier at the Louvre and donated by Jonathan Ackerman Coles of the Columbia College Class of 1864, an alumnus of Columbia's Philolexian Society.

Marcel Knobil

The launches are judged by admired 'Connoisseurs' including: Joan Burstein CBE (Co-founder of Browns); Gurinder Chadha OBE (Director and Producer); Professor Wendy Dagworthy (Royal College of Art’s Head of Fashion); Nadav Kander (Photographer); Sir John Hegarty (Founder. Creative. BBH); and Luke Johnson (Chairman of Royal Society of Arts).

Peterborough County Grammar School for Girls

Dr Clare Gerada, Chair of the Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners

Professional Further Education in Clinical Pharmacy and Public Health

The further education takes place at Pharmakon—Danish College of Pharmacy Practice in Hillerød, Denmark.

Raghuveer Meena

College of Fisheries, Udaipur affiliated to Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur was established in November 2003 by upgrading the Department of Limnology & Fisheries of Agriculture faculty.

Regina Benjamin

On May 8, 2010, she was awarded an honorary degree of Doctorate of Pharmacy from the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at the college's 130th Commencement ceremony held at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, New York.

Robert Tuttle Morris

Morris was one of the doctors that have promoted the construction of an hospital at Ithaca, the Memorial Hospital, which was finished in 1889 (but the formal opening of the Hospital was on January 1, 1892) and later on a College Infirmary.

Rohtas district

Villages in the district include Ganj Bharasara(a under graduate college also belongs to this village)Majhigawan, Tipa, Thumba and Nawadih.

Silliman University College of Business Administration

The Silliman University College of Business Administration is one of the constituent colleges of Silliman University, a private research university found in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, Philippines.

Studley College

Warwick Hostel expanded and moved to Studley Castle in Warwickshire in 1903, becoming Studley Horticultural & Agricultural College for Women.

Tarnished Heisman

Tarnished Heisman: Did Reggie Bush Turn His Final College Season into a Six-Figure Job? is a book written by Don Yaeger.

Tylman

Stanley D. Tylman (1893–1982), professor of dentistry (1920–1962), University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry

Vic Raschi

Raschi retired to Conesus, New York, where he ran a liquor store and served as a baseball coach at Geneseo State College (now the State University of New York at Geneseo).

Virginia College

ECA also owns Virginia College Online, which offers distance education academic programs via the Internet; Golf Academy of America; Culinard, the Culinary Institute of Virginia College, offering degrees in the culinary arts; and Ecotech Institute, offering degrees in fields of renewable energy, sustainable design, and energy efficiency.

WJJL

Former WGN Radio-Chicago VP/General Manager Tom Langmyer worked there as a summer fill-in personality, news reporter and anchor while in college.