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  FastWeb: Howard University
Howard University, founded in 1867, is a coeducational private doctoral/research-extensive university located in the northwestern section of Washington, D.C. Since its founding, Howard University has grown from a single-frame building to five campuses including 258 acres with 115 buildings and equipment valued at more than $1.2 billion.
The Howard University campus is situated on one of the highest elevations in the District of Columbia, overlooking downtown Washington.
Howard University is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, and its programs in specialized fields are accredited by numerous professional agencies.
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Howard University is a comprehensive, research-oriented, historically Black private university providing an educational experience of exceptional quality to students of high academic potential with particular emphasis upon the provision of educational opportunities to promising Black students.
Further, the University is dedicated to attracting and sustaining a cadre of faculty who are, through their teaching and research, committed to the development of distinguished and compassionate graduates and to the quest for solutions to human and social problems in the United States and throughout the world.
Howard University is a comprehensive research university, unique and irreplaceable, defined by its core values, the excellence of all its activities in instruction, research and service, and by its enduring commitment to educating youth, African Americans and other people of color in particular, for leadership and service to our nation and the global community.
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 Today in History: November 20
Howard University was incorporated on March 2, 1867, and accepted its first students the following May. Its founders envisioned the institution as a resource for the training of fl teachers and preachers for the purpose of educating and uplifting the nearly four million recently emancipated slaves.
Howard University was one of several educational institutions funded by the Bureau for the purposes of providing education for the freedmen.
Charles Hamilton Houston, vice-dean of the Howard University law school from 1929-1935, was a key architect of the legal strategy that ultimately overturned the separate but equal standard adopted by the Supreme Court in 1894, bringing an end to the segregation of public facilities in the South.
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 Howard University
Howard University was established in Washington by a charter of the U.S. Congress on 2nd March, 1867.
Instigated by the Radical Republicans it was named after General Oliver Howard, a Civil War hero and commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees and a leading figure in the Freeman's Bureau.
The stated purpose of Howard University when it was founded was to create "a college for the instruction of youth in the liberal arts and sciences".
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 Howard University - MSN Encarta
Howard University, private, coeducational institution in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1867, the university was named for a founder and president, General Oliver Otis Howard, commissioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau.
The university confers bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral, and professional degrees in a wide range of fields.
Notable alumni of Howard University include civil rights leader Thurgood Marshall, opera singer Jessye Norman, diplomat and civil rights activist Andrew Young, and Toni Morrison, winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize and the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature.
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 Howard University - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Howard University, private, coeducational institution in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1867, the university was named for a founder and president,...
Howard Payne University, private, coeducational institution in Brownwood, Texas, 109 km (68 mi) southeast of Abilene.
Howard University is a comprehensive research university, unique and irreplaceable, defined by its core values, the excellence of all its activities in instruction, research and...
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  Howard University
Howard University has a long tradition of academic excellence as well as service to the African American community.
Houston was born in 1881 and graduated from the Preparatory Department of Howard University in 1898.
He joined the faculty at Howard University in 1931 and rose through the ranks to become a clinical professor of otolaryngology in 1947.
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  Howard University - College Closeup
Howard University, founded in 1867, is a coeducational private doctoral/research-extensive university located in the northwestern section of Washington, D.C. Since its founding, Howard University has grown from a single-frame building to five campuses including 258 acres with 115 buildings and equipment valued at more than $1.2 billion.
The Howard University campus is situated on one of the highest elevations in the District of Columbia, overlooking downtown Washington.
Howard University is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, and its programs in specialized fields are accredited by numerous professional agencies.
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 Howard University - Office of Sponsored Programs Research Administration
Howard University is a member of Center for Advancement of Engineering Education that is also comprised of the University of Washington (lead institution), Colorado School of Mines, Stanford University and the University of Minnesota.
The NHGC at Howard University is a comprehensive resource for genomic research on African Americans and other African Diaspora populations, distinguished by a diverse social context for framing biology as well as the ethical, legal, and social implications of knowledge gained from the Human Genome Project and research on genome variation.
The vision for the NHGC is founded upon Howard University's history of providing leadership for America and the global community in the critical areas of education, health, and social justice.
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 Howard University - Sexual Harassment Policy
Howard University (the "University") reaffirms its commitment to provide opportunities in education and employment free from illegal discrimination based upon gender, sexual orientation, or marital status.
The University’s Office of Human Resource Management is primarily responsible for implementing this Policy with respect to employment matters and for ensuring that all employees are adequately trained or otherwise made aware of their responsibilities under this Policy.
It is the policy of the University to afford faculty with a fair opportunity to teach and conduct research and to provide services to the community in a setting that provides the academic freedom necessary to cultivate a wide expanse of ideas and teaching methods.
www.hr.howard.edu /hrm/policy/SexualHarassment.htm   (4143 words)

  
 Marc Howard Homepage
As a core faculty member of Georgetown's Center for Democracy and the Third Sector (CDATS), Howard also organizes the CDATS speaker series on the "Quality of Democracy," and directs the "Citizenship, Involvement, Democracy" (CID) project, a major representative survey of Americans that was carried out in the spring/summer of 2005.
Howard's first book, The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe, was published in 2003 by Cambridge University Press.
Howard has also published articles in the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science, Perspectives on Politics, the International Migration Review, the Journal of Civil Society, the Journal of Democracy, Demokratizatsiya, East European Politics and Societies, and German Politics and Society.
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 Howard University
Howard University was established in 1867 as a federally chartered, private, nonprofit educational institution.
Howard University has discretion in allocating funds for its academic, research, and endowment programs, and for its construction activities.
Endowment Program—matching support to Howard University's endowment, which assists the University in increasing its financial strength and independence by stimulating private contributions.
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 Howard University
Howard University Hospital is the nation's only major teaching hospital located on the campus of an historically fl university.
Named for Civil War hero General Oliver O. Howard, the university was chartered by Congress in 1867 and most of the school's early funding came from the Freedmen's Bureau.
Howard University president H. Patrick Swygert was more than qualified to make that claim in his 1995 inaugural speech; he is both an alum of the school and a professional educator.
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 Howard University Partners to Form New Science and Technology Institution in Botswana   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Howard University leaders are partnering with the Republic of Botswana to create the southern African country’s second institution of higher learning, which will focus on science and technology.
A memorandum of understanding was signed March 29 by Howard University President H. Patrick Swygert and Festina S. Bakwena, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Education, to establish the Botswana International University of Science and Technology, which is scheduled to open in 2009 with 1,000 students.
Botswanan graduate students at Howard, mostly at the doctoral level, who have been identified as prospective faculty prospects, will be groomed to step into professorships at the new school as well.
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 Howard University president under fire - Boston.com
A faculty leader at Howard University is calling for the ouster of President H. Patrick Swygert, accusing him of putting one of the most prestigious historically fl schools in financial jeopardy.
WASHINGTON --A faculty leader at Howard University is calling for the ouster of President H. Patrick Swygert, accusing him of putting one of the most prestigious historically fl schools in financial jeopardy.
Theodore Bremner, chairman of the faculty senate, wrote to Howard's board of trustees this past week on behalf of the senate's leadership council that it is time to end "an intolerable condition of incompetence and dysfunction at the highest level." The letter was obtained by The
www.boston.com /news/education/higher/articles/2007/03/10/howard_university_president_under_fire   (298 words)

  
 Howard University
Today, Howard University has an international blend of faculty members and students as it continues to embrace and enhance the founders’ vision to provide an educational experience of exceptional quality to students of high academic potential, with particular emphasis upon the provision of educational opportunities to promising fl students.
Howard students are often in the media spotlight for events such as division championships or for demonstrations for improvement of federal financial aid to the campus.
Howard University is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I, NCAA I-AA for football, and the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.
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 Howard University College of Dentistry
The Howard University College of Dentistry is a teaching and patient care institution.
Postgraduate dentists in the clinic in the Howard University Hospital and Howard University College of Dentistry also provide general dental treatment, in addition to that provided by undergraduate dental students in the clinics in the College of Dentistry Building.
Howard University students seeking treatment in the College of Dentistry must first obtain a referral from the Student Health Center along with an insurance claim form.
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 CNN.com - Howard University mailrooms closed for anthrax cleanup - November 13, 2001
University spokeswoman Sheila Harvey says the mail sorting facilities were closed, and a private contractor was scheduled to be finished cleaning Tuesday.
None of the 300 mail-handling workers at Howard was believed to be at risk, since they had been on preventive antibiotics since October 21.
All eight mail facilities at Howard received mail directly from Washington's Brentwood Road mail-sorting facility, which closed because anthrax contamination from at least one letter was sent to the Capitol Hill office of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.
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 Howard University Club Baseball - (, DC) - powered by LeagueLineup.com
The clubs that participated in the Capital Classic were George Washington University, the University of Maryland College Park, the University of Maryland Baltimore County, the University of Georgia, Duke University, North Carolina State University, the University of Virginia, Syracuse University, Penn State University, Rutgers University, SUNY-Buffalo, and Howard University.
Howard University Club Baseball strives to give students a means of personal development and excellence in athletic competition.
Howard University Club Baseball will be a support to its members in all areas of life, such as academics, social development, overall well-being and career opportunities.
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 Howard University: Mecca of Black education Ebony - Find Articles
Top students from across the country and the world are now flocking to the university to major in one of the more than 120 areas of studies leading to undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees.
For administrators, faculty, students and alumni, the national and international recognition being bestowed on their school only confirms what they have known all along: Howard produces graduates who not only have a high sense of cultural awareness and pride, but who are ready for cutting-edge careers in competitive areas of expertise.
For Swygert, who left his president post at the State University of New York (Albany) in 1995 to come to Howard, his mission is two-fold: Never forget Howard's steep history, but also never get so caught up in it that he doesn't adequately prepare the school for the ever-changing future.
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 Howard University - Online College Guide Written For Students By Students
The University is a national and international melting pot where you can experience the cultures and customs of the West Indian islands, as well as different African tribes and nations.
Howard guys and girls are always passionate about whatever they do—be it studying, partying, or getting dressed up.
And even though the campus was recently voted the second most fashionable university in the country by Women’s Wear Daily, nobody is judged by their fashion sense, or lack thereof.
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 Howard University College of Medicine
he Howard University College of Medicine first opened its doors as a medical department in 1868, just three years after the close of the Civil War.
The founders of the College recognized that the nearly overwhelming health care needs of this population and of other fls throughout this country would be met best by training students to become highly competent, compassionate physicians who would deliver care in communities having a shortage of health personnel.
That realization was translated into the mission of the Howard University College of Medicine, and the continuing fulfillment of that mission is evidenced by the illustrious record of service provided by the College's alumni and faculty.
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 Howard University — Infoplease.com
Howard University (D.C.) has received a $1 million donation from Daimler-Chrysler to fund new scholarships at the university.(grants......
The University of Albany (N.Y.) has received a $300,000 gift from Goldie Brenner Swartz, a 1951 graduate of the university, and her......
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