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The George Washington University (GWU) is a private university in Washington, D.C., founded in 1821 as The Columbian College.1 History
George Washington had long argued for the creation of a university in the District of Columbia, and in his will, even bequeathed fifty shares of the Potomac Company to it. "I give and bequeath in perpetuity the fifty shares which I hold in the Potomac Company (under the aforesaid Acts of the Legislature of Virginia) towards the endowment of a UNIVERSITY to be established within the limits of the District of Columbia, under the auspices of the General Government, if that Government should incline to extend a fostering hand towards it."[1] The Congress never acted on this bequest, though.
Aware of Washington's wishes, a group of men, both ministers and laymen, led by the Reverend Luther Rice later raised funds to purchase a site for a college to educate missionaries and the clergy. On February 9 1821, President James Monroe approved the Congressional charter creating The Columbian College. Its name was changed to Columbian University in 1873 and to The George Washington University in 1904. The university became one of the first institutions in the United States to grant a PhD in 1888.
In the 1970s, GWU was known mostly as a night school and graduate school. Since then, under the leadership of university presidents Lloyd Hartman Elliott and Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, it became a major undergraduate and graduate institution and grew immensely, and presently is the largest private landowner in the District of Columbia, and second largest overall (behind the federal government).
In June 1999, the university purchased the Mount Vernon College for Women near Georgetown, and it became the George Washington University Mount Vernon Campus .
2 Organization
- Columbian College of Arts and Sciences (CCAS)
- Graduate School of Political Management (GSPM)
- School of Media and Public Affairs (SMPA)
- College of Professional Studies
- School of Public Policy and Public Administration (SPPPA)
- Elliott School of International Affairs (ESIA)
- George Washington University Law School
- Graduate School of Education and Human Development (GSEHD)
- School of Business and Public Management (SBPM)
- School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS)
- School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS)
- School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS)
3 Campus
The university has three campuses: The main campus in Foggy Bottom, the Mount Vernon campus in northern Washington, DC, and the Virginia campus. The university also owns land and buildings around the Foggy Bottom campus not used for academics; this includes owning the mall at 2000 Pennsylvania Ave, and the land under the International Monetary FundThe International Monetary Fund IMF is an international organization responsible for managing the global financial system and for providing loans to its member states to help alleviate balance of payments problems. Part of its mission is to help countries building.
3.1 Foggy Bottom Campus
This is the main campus, occupying 43 acreThis article is about the unit of measure known as the acre''. For other definitions, see Acre (disambiguation). An acre is a measure of land area in Imperial units or U. customary units. It is equal to 43 560 square feet, or 4840 square yards. The preciss (170,000 m²) and over one hundred buildings on fourteen city blocks, plus portions of other blocks.
The major and notable buildings are:
- Libraries: Melvin Gelman Library, Jacob Burns Law Library and Paul Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library
- Medical: The George Washington University Hospital serves the university and the entire region. This is typically where presidents in need of urgent medical help are taken, as was President Ronald ReaganRonald Wilson Reagan ( February 6, 1911 June 5, 2004) was the 40th ( 1981 1989) President of the United States and the 33rd ( 1967 1975) Governor of California. Reagan was also an actor in films before entering politics. Early life and career Reagan was b after a failed assassination attempt in 1981Events January-February January Sarawak Chamber found January 1 Greece enters the EEC January 1 Palau becomes self-governing January 4 Sheffield police arrests Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper January 16 Protestant gunmen shoot and wound Bernadette D.
- Academic
- 814 20th St, formerly the Union Methodist Episcopal Church, cornerstone laid 1854Events January 13 The accordion is patented by Anthony Faas. February 11 Major streets lit by coal gas for first time. February 14 Texas is linked by telegraph with the rest of the United States, when a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas i, making it the oldest building in the university.
- The Academic Center, a complex of three buildings, Phillips Hall, Rome Hall and Smith Hall of Art, and home to the computer center.
- Corcoran Hall, built in 1924Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 See also 1924 in aviation 1924 in film 1924 in literature 1924 in mu as the first building built for GWU on the Foggy Bottom campus, is the birthplace of the bazookaThis article is about the "bazooka" anti-tank weapon. See Bazooka (instrument) for the musical instrument for which this weapon was named, and Bazooka (chewing gum) for the chewing gum. The bazooka weapon was one of the first anti- tank weapons based on t.
- 1957 E St., completed in 2003 as the new home to the Elliott School of International Affairs, as well as lecture halls and dormitory rooms.
- Tompkins Hall , home of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).
- Media & Public Affairs Building, which houses the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery and the Jack Morton Auditorium, where CNN's Crossfire is broadcast.
- Activity
- Cloyd Heck Marvin Center, the central building of the university and home to the food court (J Street - there is no J St in Washington, so the name was open), the Cafritz Conference Center and the Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre. It also houses The Hippodrome, an area for students to relax and have fun, including a bowling alley on the fifth floor.
- Lisner Auditorium, the main auditorium of the university and home to the Dimock Gallery of art.
- Athletic: The centerpiece is the Charles E. Smith Center, home of the Colonials and a fully equipped athletics center which occupies nearly an entire city block. There are also four tennis courts nearby, and the Lerner Health and Wellness Center.
- Other Holdings: GWU also owns a large portion of the area, either just the land or the buildings as well. Among these are the mall at 2000 Pennsylvania Ave, an office block at 2100 Pennsylvania Ave with many student-oriented services, and The George Washington University Inn.
- Residences: There are 21 residence halls on campus, capable of housing around 6000 students.
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