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The Quest for University Excellence

School of Athens

Philadelphia, PA

Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1790 Founder: University of Pennsylvania

19th Century German Model of Disciplinary Specialization (Humboldt)

Chemical Engineering

Enlightenment: Aufklarung

circa. 1700 Cambridge, England

University is 'peripatetic': No buildings, no athletics, no administration. circa 360 B.C.

Homo Quadratus

Party

Real Estate: Expansion of Campuses circa 2000

Coeducation

American College Life circa. 1978

circa 1500...Renaissance Man: Integral Humanism : Da Vinci, Ficino, Pico della Mirandola

The Florentine Academy

MEDIEVAL SCRIPTORIUM:

XX1st Century: What does it mean to be an excellent university?

Universitas-culture of learning, liberation, enlightenment: From Socrates to Phoenix Online; Emerging Trends

Exemplarity: Academic heroes

Interdisciplinarity: Geochemistry, History of Ideas

Globalization

Information Sciences: "Nowadays, information is our 'standing reserve'. (Michael Vicario, 11/6/12)

L:EXICON: MANUSCRIPTS COMMENTARY, LECTIO, MAGISTER-DISCIPULUS, scholasticism, St. Thomas Aquinas

circa. Paris 1250

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