[Magdalen] Tightrope?

[Lynn Ronkainen]

I think that Rice University in Houston might be set up after the UK model.

Lynn

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From: "Charles Wohlers" <charles.wohlers at verizon.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 5:00 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Tightrope?

> No. The traditional difference here in the US is that universities grant 
> both undergraduate and graduate degrees, and colleges undergraduate only. 
> Very, very few universities in the US are made up of individual 
> residential colleges in the way that Oxford and Cambridge are. Yale comes 
> to mind, and there may be a few others. The distinction of graduate vs. 
> undergraduate is likely not too valid anymore, so a university these days 
> is pretty much a 4-year or 4-year plus institution which feels like 
> calling itself that. There are lots of free-standing colleges in the US, 
> many of them well-known and of high academic standards - like Middlebury 
> here in Vermont, which my wife attended.
>
> When Bridgewater State moved from College to University, the School of 
> (for example) Science and Mathematics was renamed the College of Science 
> and Mathematics. It didn't function any differently and is still simply a 
> collection of similar academic departments, namely Chemistry, Physics, 
> Biology, Geography/Geology and Mathematics.
>
> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Roger Stokes
> Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 5:26 PM
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Tightrope?
>
> On 18/11/2015 21:11, Charles Wohlers wrote:
>> In Massachusetts, the Commonwealth "upgraded" the State Colleges 
>> (formerly State Teachers Colleges) to Universities just a few years ago, 
>> long after most other states had done the same. They're not part of the 
>> U. Mass. system, which has four campuses (main one in Amherst, plus 
>> Lowell, Boston & Dartmouth). I was working at Bridgewater State when it 
>> went from a college to a university. Only thing which actually changed 
>> was the name - everything else was exactly the same as before, but 
>> "University" does sound oh so much more impressive, doesn't it?
>
> Does it also mean the same in the USA as it does here - that a
> university can award its own degrees rather than having tham accredited
> by some other organization?
>
> Roger