Fun Fact Friday: May 5th-Five Facts about Graduation Traditions
It’s Graduation season! Seniors across the country are preparing to finish their final semester and begin the next chapter of their lives as …
Fun Fact Friday: April 14th-The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath, authored by John Stienbeck in 1939, has become a traditional topic of conversion in American high school and college classrooms. Due …
Fun Fact Friday: April 7th-Prague University
On 7 April 1348 Charles, the king of Bohemia, gave Prague University, also known as Charles University, privileges and immunity from secular power. The …
Fun Fact Friday: March 31st-Leo Kanner
In 1930, Loe Kanner was hired on by John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, to found the first children’s psychiatric department. During …
Fun Fact Friday: March 24th-The Boat Race of Oxford and Cambridge
The Boat Race is an annual side-by-side rowing competition between the Oxford University Boat Club and the Cambridge University Boat Club, …
Fun Fact Friday: March 17th 2017- The Morill Act of 1862
In 1862 Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act, which created a system of land-grant colleges and universities that revolutionized higher education in …
Fun Fact Friday: March 10th 2017-March Madness!
Each spring the teams from the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), have a single elimination tournament to …
Fun Fact Friday: March 3rd
The term bachelor in “bachelor’s degree” most likely is from the Medieval Latin term baccalaureate, which is a play on the Latin …