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  Pratt Institute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pratt is one of the leading art schools in the United States and offers programs in art, architecture, fashion design, design, creative writing, library science, and other areas.
Charles Pratt, one of eleven children, was born the son of a Massachusetts carpenter in 1830.
The library at Pratt Institute, opened in 1888 to serve not only students but the general public as well, was one of the first public libraries to be opened in the United States.
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 Pratt Institute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Pratt Institute is a specialized, private college in New York City with campuses in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Pratt is one of the leading art schools in the United States and offers programs in art, architecture, design, creative writing, library science and other areas.
In 1886, he founded and endowed the Pratt Institute, which opened in Brooklyn in 1887.
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 Pratt Center: Pratt Institute
The Pratt Center was established in 1963 to create a partnership between the Pratt Institute's planning department and local organizations struggling to address issues of urban deterioration and poverty.
Over 40 years later, the Pratt Center continues to work with Pratt, particularly the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, as a source of and resource for faculty, a place of employment and involvement for students, and an important bridge between classroom study and the neighborhoods of New York City.
Pratt's Historic Preservation program uses the comprehensive approach twenty-first-century preservation professionals need-a perspective that moves beyond the concept of historic preservation simply as building conservation.
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 Hobsons EMT
Pratt’s communication plan for undergraduate students included several e-mails in the fall focused around the benefits of attending the institution, the success of the faculty, connections of Pratt to different industies, the campus, and information about Pratt’s location—New York City.
Last year, Pratt sent a survey to measure satisfaction with the e-mail communication system throughout the recruitment process and to determine the degree to which prospective students felt that the admissions process was personal.
Pratt’s decision to utilize EMT as its prospect management and communication system was based on several factors relating to the institution’s ability to be competitive in the higher education market.
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 Academic Senate • Faculty Handbook
The Academic Senate, in consultation with Pratt Institute’s Administration and the Board of Trustees, is re-issuing the Faculty Handbook as a DRAFT with corrections, limited to facts, and subject to the approval process specified in Part 5 of the FHB.
Pratt Institute is a unique undergraduate and graduate college, with faculty requirements and needs differing from a liberal arts institution.
Pratt's faculty members are prominent in many fields and initiate much of the academic and innovative activity at the college.
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 Pratt Institute - College Closeup
Pratt Institute, the country’s premier college of art, design, writing, and architecture is located in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn, just minutes from downtown Manhattan.
Pratt attempts to ensure that no student is prevented by lack of funds from completing his or her education.
The faculty at Pratt Institute is exceptional in that a large number of practicing professionals augment the regular full-time faculty.
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 Profile for Pratt Institute - HigherEdJobs.com
Pratt Institute is a coeducational, private, professional college offering associate, bachelor and master's degree programs in art and design, architecture and library science.
Pratt is the only college for art and design on the east coast that has a traditional enclosed campus with on-site student housing.
Pratt is one of the largest undergraduate and graduate schools for art, design and architecture in the country and offers a wide range of cross discipline study options, dual degrees and major concentrations.
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 Pratt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Pratt, American oilman and founder of the Pratt Institute
Pratt, an unincorporated settlement in Steele County, Minnesota
Pratt knot, a method of tying a tie
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 US Education Guides : Asia - Pratt Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Pratt Institute, founded in 1887, is the leading undergraduate and graduate college of art, design, writing, and architecture in the United States.
Pratt is located in New York City in the tree-lined residential neighborhood of Clinton Hill, a historic section of Brooklyn.
Pratt offers meal plans for students who want to eat on campus, and students who live in rooms without kitchens are automatically enrolled in a mandatory meal plan, as are freshmen.
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 Xap Student Center :: campus tours :: Pratt Institute key facts
Pratt offers one of the best professional architecture, art, and design educations in the world with an outstanding faculty of practicing professionals and exceptional state-of-the-art facilities.
Through Pratt’s optional internship program, qualified students are offered challenging on-the-job experience in Manhattan’s top art galleries and design firms, giving them firsthand work experience as well as credit toward their professional degree.
Pratt students make invaluable job connections through their faculty, most of whom continue their professional work in their fields while teaching, bringing to the classroom the latest thinking and technological advances as well as the highest standards.
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 College Profiles - Pratt Institute
Pratt's athletic programs are housed in the Activities Resource Center, a 325-by-130-foot athletic area, one of the largest clear-span spaces in the city.
Pratt is a member of both the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference in Division III, and competes in women's sports in the Hudson Valley Women's Conference.
Pratt tries to ensure that no student is prevented from completing his or her education due to lack of funds.
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 AllRefer.com - Pratt Institute, United States (Colleges, U.S.) - Encyclopedia
Pratt Institute, Colleges, U.S. Related Category: Colleges, U.S. Pratt Institute, at Brooklyn, N.Y.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1887.
Founded by Charles Pratt as a school for practical training, it now offers general and professional studies, including programs in fine arts, art education, art history, library and information science, computer graphics, film, fashion design, interior design, industrial design, architecture, engineering, and construction management.
The institute's library opened in 1896 as the first general public library in Brooklyn but was closed to the public in 1940.
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 Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute was founded in 1887 by oil entrepreneur and philanthropist Charles Pratt, who recognized a growing need for trained industrial workers in a changing economy.
Today it is the oldest and largest institution of higher learning devoted to providing aspiring artists, designers, architects and information specialists with a solid education enhanced by a hands-on immersion in their chosen fields.
Pratt accepts students based on the quality of their work and not upon their capacity to pay tuition; therefore, more than 80 percent of Pratt’s students receive some form of financial aid.
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 US Universites and Colleges Program - Pratt Institute
University Attributes: Pratt Institute is a coeducational undergraduate and graduate institution chartered and empowered to confer academic degrees by the State of New York.
Pratt Institute's Mission Statement: Pratt's mission is to educate artists and creative professionals to be responsible contributors to society.
Pratt enrolls a diverse group of highly talented and dedicated students, challenging them to achieve their full potential.
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 www.pratt.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Pratt Fine Arts Center is a nonprofit arts education and resource center located in Seattle.
Pratt offers art classes for every age and every level of ability in four fully-equipped art studios: glass; sculpture; drawing, painting and printmaking; and jewelry/metalsmithing.
Pratt Fine Arts Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in hiring, membership, and provision of services in regard to race, color, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, political ideology, age, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, or the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical handicap.
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 Andy Pratt - Biography - AOL Music
Born into a well-to-do family in Boston (his great-grandfather founded the Pratt Institute), Andy Pratt graduated from Harvard in 1968 and became active musically in the Cambridge, MA, scene with groups such as Butter and the Chosen Few.
In 1975, Pratt enrolled in Boston's Life Institute after the death of his father, seemingly searching for a higher meaning in life.
His music is mostly Christian based and Pratt states that it has been used as the impetus for inner healing of hurting people.
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 Morris Pratt Institute
Pratt designed the building as a temple and a school for Spiritualism.
Along with the Morris Pratt Institute's interest in education, Thomas Grimshaw proposed that a Bureau of Education be established in the N.S.A. At the Thirtieth Annual convention such a bureau was created.
In 1946, the temple was sold, a new Morris Pratt Institute building constructed in Wauwatosa, a suburb of Milwaukee.
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 IDSA Design History Section -Pratt Institute
Since 1938, the ID program at Pratt has produced thousands of graduates who have gone on to make the world a better place to live.
A model for design programs across the country, Pratt has led the way in educating industrial designers, from the formation of the Experimental Design laboratory to the establishment of courses in Universal Design and coordination of the first-ever national conference on the topic.
Pratt has a heritage of encouraging students to search for new paradigms in the profession.
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 PRATT INSTITUTE, NEW YORK, USA - UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE PROGRAMS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Pratt Institute attracts highly motivated, talented students from a variety of backgrounds.
Although admission standards at Pratt are high, extraordinary talent may sometimes offset a lower grade point average or test score.
If a student is not accepted, this decision is neither a negative reflection on the student’s chances for successful completion of similar studies at another institution, nor does it preclude the student's eventual admission to the Institute.
www.ceebd.co.uk /studyusa/pratt_institute   (175 words)

  
 Infiltration Journal: Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute (May 2003): Exploring in New York City right now is a bad, bad idea.
We were just out for a casual evening stroll in the rain with our friend Mark and his friend Damon when Damon offered to give us a tour of the outdoor art at the nearby Pratt Institute.
The ancient elevator we found was controlled by a single lever that controlled both the direction and speed of travel; Damon grabbed the control and after a jerky start we soared up to the top of the shaft, having to jump down just a little in order to hop out on the seventh floor.
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 Digital Arts Laboratory : Pratt Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
We encourage students from across the Institute (regardless of Academic Department affiliation) to apply and will select a diverse group of Residents to join us.
Residents will be selected from an open institution call, based on the work being proposed, the availability of work spaces to support them, and in consideration of the overall research themes and activities of the Digital Arts Laboratory.
All Residents will be encouraged to share their skills and knowledge with the larger Lab community by conducting formal and/or informal workshops with others in the Lab as well as possible workshops open to the institute and public.
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 Morris Pratt Institute 2
Known during its years as the "spooks' temple," the Pratt Institute soon earned the respect of local citizens and eventually gained national fame after it was constructed by Morris Pratt in 1889.
However, it is well known that after his visit to the Lake Mills Spiritualist Center in 1851, he became very interested in psychic phenomena and the Religion of Spiritualism.
The land and original building at Whitewater, Wisconsin, was deeded to the Morris Pratt Institute.
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 US Education Guides : Europe - Pratt Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Pratt's talented graduates have designed important buildings (Chrysler, AT&T) and classic cars ('55 Ford Thunderbird), created some of the world's finest painting and sculpture, revolutionized the sneaker design industry, written and illustrated classic books (Strega Nona), and, in short, built the visual world in which we live.
Pratt is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.
Each year Pratt students travel abroad to the cultural capitals of Europe to study art, design, and architecture.
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 Annual Pratt Institute Fashion Show to be Held May 10 in Manhattan | Dexigner
On Wednesday, May 10, Pratt Institute will introduce a year's worth of creative work by the talented students in Pratt's Fashion Design Department at the annual Pratt Fashion Show.
Pratt will honor designer Diane von Furstenberg at this year's show, which will begin at 5:30 p.m.
The Pratt Fashion Show will feature the students' best designs, pre-selected by a panel of fashion industry critics, across several categories of apparel including women's, men's, children's, evening, bridal, sportswear, lingerie, lounge, resort, and costume design.
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 Pratt-SILS Summer 2006 Institute in Florence, Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Institute is open to students enrolled in graduate programs or holding graduate degrees in library and information science, the arts and humanities, interested in research in the Art and Culture of Florence.
During the first 2 weeks of the Institute, we visit important art libraries and museums of Florence, dividing our time between the study of art and artifacts, cultural landscape, art documentation and bibliographic resources.
The Summer Institute in Florence builds on the current catalog of five institute courses and adds the new dimension of Pratt-SILS first international study program.
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 Apple - Education - Pratt Institute
Once the footage was assembled into the desired format, 2003 Pratt graduate David Nicholson led the final cut.
Ryan is headed for graduate film studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, while Linhart plans to incorporate lessons learned from Fearful Visitation into his future curriculum at Pratt.
All members of the crew feel strongly that their work on the film has been invaluable in their careers as film professionals.
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 Graduate Programs at Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute is accredited by Middle States Association Commission on Higher Education.
No approach to art history is excluded at Pratt and thetraining of our faculty includes richness and variety as well as an impressive array of degrees and otherprofessional credentials.
Pratt's history has influenced our broad definition of art history so that itincludes not only long standing and recently developed courses in various media of design history, butalso film and photo and costume history.
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