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A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees at all levels (bachelor, master, and doctorate) in a variety of subjects. A university provides both tertiary and quaternary education. The word university is derived from the Latin universitas magistrorum et scholarium, roughly meaning "community of teachers and scholars".¹

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The University of Saskatchewan (U of S) is a coeducational public research university located on the east side of the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, founded over 100 years ago in 1907. The University of Saskatchewan Act was passed by the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan and established the provincial university on April 3, 1907 "for the purpose of providing facilities for higher education in all its branches and enabling all persons without regard to race, creed or religion to take the fullest advantage".²³ The University of Saskatchewan is now the largest education institution in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The U of S is a member of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada as well as the Association of Commonwealth Universities

The university began as an agricultural college in 1907 and established the first Canadian university-based department of extension in 1910. 300 acres (1.2 km²) were set aside for university buildings and 1,000 acres (4 km²) for the U of S farm, and agricultural fields. In total 10.32 km² was annexed for the university.⁴⁵ Currently, main University campus is situated upon 2,425 acres (10 km²) with another 500 acres (2 km²) allocated for Innovation Place Research Park.⁶⁷ The University of Saskatchewan agriculture college still has access to neighbouring urban research lands.⁸ University of Saskatchewan's Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) facility, (2003) develops DNA-enhanced immunization vaccines for both humans and animals.⁹¹⁰

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News

• 2007 December 19 - As many as 25 football players attending Florida State University will not play during the December 31 Music City Bowl due to an ongoing investigation of academic fraud. The investigation has been handed over to Chuck Smrt, who has worked with NCAA for 17 years. Article from the Orlando Sentinel ¹

• 2007 December 19 - The University of California system will pay a $2.8 million fine to the Department of Energy for the security breach at Los Alamos National Laboratory, which involved Jessica Lynn Quintana, a subcontrator's employee, stealing more than a thousand classified documents from the National Nuclear Security Administration and printing classified files and stored others on a USB drive in 2006. The University of California, in a press statement, "recognizes that further protections could and should have been provided to reduce the opportunity for the cited unauthorized removal." Article from the SC Magazine ²

Did you know

• Academia is a general term for the whole of higher education and research. The word comes from the Greek referring to the larger body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. In the 17th century, English and French religious scholars popularized the term to describe certain types of institutions of higher learning.
• Institutions of higher learning considerably older than the most ancient European universities existed in countries such as China, Egypt and India. Some of them are still in operation today. (Example)

• McGhee Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies in Alanya is run by Georgetown University as the only independent study program in Turkey?
• The Royal Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was once the largest in the world.
• In the last decades of the 20th century, a number of mega universities have been created, teaching with distance learning techniques.
• Colloquially, the term university is used around the world for a phase in one's life: "when I was at university…"; in the United States, college is often used: "when I was in college…".
• The Times Higher Education Supplement, a British publication, annually publishes the Times Higher World University Rankings, a list of 200 ranked universities from around the world.
• The Academic Ranking of World Universities is compiled by researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and includes major institutes of higher education in all countries of North America, Europe, Asia, Pacific, and Latin America, compared and ranked by multiple numerical criteria, including publications in peer-reviewed journals and Nobel prizes awarded to alumni and staff.

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