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With a commitment to academic excellence and spiritual vitality, Asbury College encourages more than 1,300 students to study, worship and serve together on a campus located 20 minutes southwest of Lexington in Wilmore, Kentucky. Primarily a four-year, multi-denominational institution, the College, founded in 1890, has been at the heart of spiritual movements throughout its history. Students come from 44 states and 14 foreign nations, and more than 80 percent of the College's students live on campus. Classes are taught by experienced scholars, 75 percent of whom hold terminal degrees in their field of study. Asbury College's 14 academic departments offer more than 40 majors. The College also offers several master's degrees in education, including alternative certification programs. The College also has an adult degree completion program called ACHIEVE. The College provides many opportunities for student involvement both on and off campus. Internships, exchange programs, missions and community service opportunities are also available and are part of the curriculum in nearly every major. More than 20,000 living alumni of the College surround the globe, leading and serving in all 50 states and at least 80 nations.
The ground-based Giant Magellan Telescope will be one of a next class of "Extremely Large Telescopes" or ELTs that strive to revolutionize our view and understanding of the universe. The GMT will be operational in 2022 at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. The telescope has a unique segmented mirror design that makes use of six off-axis 8.4 m (27 ft) diameter monolith mirrors surrounding a central on-axis mirror, forming a single optical surface with an aperture of 24.5 m (80 ft) in diameter. It will make use of a sophisticated adaptive optics system and enclosure and will have a resolving power 10 times greater than the Hubble Space Telescope.
Located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Lynchburg, Va., Liberty University has been Training Champions for Christ since 1971. Offering more than 550 unique programs of study from the certificate to the doctoral level, Liberty equips students with the values, knowledge, and skills essential for impacting tomorrow`s world.
The Axia Institute, formerly Midland Research Institute of Value Chain Creation, is a premier research and education center dedicated to developing effective and sustainable solutions to improve public and private value chains. Established by Michigan State University in 2013, the Axia Institute partners with industry to solve grand challenges and conducts cross-disciplinary research in areas of value chain optimization, data analytics, engineering, smart packaging, anti-counterfeiting, and water and food safety.
The first Catholic college for women in New York State, The College of New Rochelle was founded in 1904 by the Ursuline Order. Today, it comprises the all-women School of Arts & Sciences, and three schools which admit women and men: the School of New Resources (for adult learners), the School of Nursing and the Graduate School. The main campus of the College is located in lower Westchester County, 16 miles north of New York City. The College maintains five other campus locations in New York City for The School of New Resources in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Manhattan.