The private university is consistently ranked as one the most politically active in the country and, every four years, during the presidential inauguration, it hosts the black-tie GW Inaugural Ball.
Mayoral sources suggested that the Greater London Authority would seek to work with the private university to establish whether any of the land it holds would be suitable for the site.
Last year, BPP University College became the first private university to be created in the UK for more than three decades.
In 2002 New York University was the first private university to recognise a PhD teachers' union, but stopped negotiating with it three years later.
The University of Buckingham - the UK's only private university - welcomed the cuts.
The University of Dayton, a private, Catholic university, uses the initial brand experience and subsequent touch points with prospective students to address its recruiting challenge.
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The cost of attending a private university is about double the cost of public universities.
Her father is of Chinese ethnicity (so she has a Chinese name), she has a law degree from the private Aoyama Gakuin University and has studied Mandarin in Beijing.
But if you buy into the notion of the university as a place where private investments bear fruit for private returns that kind of speaking truth to power role is less and less possible.
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The criminals responsible for stealing the private email correspondence of climate scientists at the University of East Anglia seem to be pursuing a similar strategy.
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Not necessarily a bad thing, in fact if you understand the purpose of the university to be to enhance the private return on private investment it's clearly consistent with that.
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For most people, the upgrading of university colleges to full university status will not be controversial, but more might oppose the granting of university status to private institutions - especially if they seek to make a profit.
Profit at Apollo Group, operator of the country's largest private university, rose 51% last year, while its sales rose only 26%.
They also contend that data selection has been biased -- a charge which gained credence during the so-called "Climategate" scandal in 2009, when thousands of private emails from the UK's University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) were published on the Internet.
The businesses would have to locate on a campus of a public or private university or adjacent properties being identified for the proposed program.
For years endowments led by the likes of Harvard University and Yale University rushed into private equity investments to boost returns, but the global financial crisis has caused many endowments, particularly larger ones, to shift their strategy.
In common with many other public and private sector employers, the university and colleges are worried about the rising cost of funding their final salary pension schemes.
Colleen Graffy, a London-based law professor with Pepperdine, a not-for-profit Californian university, says the private sector is more innovative in designing courses and more flexible in providing them.
His employer, a private university, offers the same health insurance to employees' gay partners as to spouses (as did most Fortune 500 companies, for the first time, last year).
Georgetown University is a private Jesuit research university whose main campus is located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.
That is not enough to pay for pension promises, so funds decided to follow the example of Yale University, whose endowment diversified into hedge funds and private equity in the 1980s.
Kaplan, an expert on private equity and entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago.
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In May, 2007, he married Khadiga el-Gammal, now twenty-seven, a graduate of the American University, in a lavish private ceremony in Sharm-al-Sheikh.
In addition, the University of Phoenix is a private, all-Internet, degree-granting institution.
Note: there is no connection between the for-profit education concern, the Apollo Group, which owns the University of Phoenix, and Apollo Global Management, the private-equity business that is purchasing the McGraw-Hill education division.
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He said the network would be supplemented by private sector partners, including Manchester Central, Manchester Metropolitan University, the University of Salford and the Trafford Centre, which would be providing their own bays.
Indeed, the students in my Honors Social Media Law class at the University of Utah are amazingly cavalier about sharing their most private information with their hundreds of Facebook friends.
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Analyst Koichi Nakano of Sophia University, a private university in Tokyo, doubts the opposition can deliver on its pledges.
The academy, funded by the government, Warwick University, business and private donations, aims eventually to offer teaching for 150, 000 children.
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