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A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees at all levels (bachelor, master, and doctorate) in a variety of subjects. A university provides both tertiary and quaternary education. The word university is derived from the Latin universitas magistrorum et scholarium, roughly meaning "community of teachers and scholars".^[1]

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The California State Polytechnic University, Pomona , commonly known as Cal Poly Pomona is a public, nationally-ranked, coeducational university, and one of the 23 general campuses of the California State University system. The main campus sits on 1,438 acres (582 ha) of a suburban district in the western corner of Pomona, California a city within Los Angeles County. This figure includes a 53 acre ranch in Santa Paula, California donated in 1978. Founded in 1938 as the Voorhis Unit , Cal Poly Pomona is known for taking a learn-by-doing philosophy in several areas of the educational spectrum.

As a polytechnic university, Cal Poly Pomona maintains strong science and engineering departments. The university's engineering program is ranked 5th in the nation according to U.S. News & World Report. Cal Poly Pomona is a member of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) and a "University of Excellence" according to the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges.

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• 2007 December 19 - As many as 25 football players attending Florida State University will not play during the December 31 Music City Bowl due to an ongoing investigation of academic fraud. The investigation has been handed over to Chuck Smrt, who has worked with NCAA for 17 years. Article from the Orlando Sentinel ¹

• 2007 December 19 - The University of California system will pay a $2.8 million fine to the Department of Energy for the security breach at Los Alamos National Laboratory, which involved Jessica Lynn Quintana, a subcontrator's employee, stealing more than a thousand classified documents from the National Nuclear Security Administration and printing classified files and stored others on a USB drive in 2006. The University of California, in a press statement, "recognizes that further protections could and should have been provided to reduce the opportunity for the cited unauthorized removal." Article from the SC Magazine ²

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• Academia is a general term for the whole of higher education and research. The word comes from the Greek referring to the larger body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. In the 17th century, English and French religious scholars popularized the term to describe certain types of institutions of higher learning.
• Institutions of higher learning considerably older than the most ancient European universities existed in countries such as China, Egypt and India. Some of them are still in operation today. (Example)

• McGhee Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies in Alanya is run by Georgetown University as the only independent study program in Turkey?
• The Royal Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was once the largest in the world.
• In the last decades of the 20th century, a number of mega universities have been created, teaching with distance learning techniques.
• Colloquially, the term university is used around the world for a phase in one's life: "when I was at university…"; in the United States, college is often used: "when I was in college…".
• The Times Higher Education Supplement, a British publication, annually publishes the Times Higher World University Rankings, a list of 200 ranked universities from around the world.
• The Academic Ranking of World Universities is compiled by researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and includes major institutes of higher education in all countries of North America, Europe, Asia, Pacific, and Latin America, compared and ranked by multiple numerical criteria, including publications in peer-reviewed journals and Nobel prizes awarded to alumni and staff.

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