Public Ivy facts for kids
"Public Ivy" is a term coined by Richard Moll in his 1985 book Public Ivies: A Guide to America's Best Public Undergraduate Colleges and Universities to refer to U.S. universities that are claimed to provide an Ivy League collegiate experience at a public university price. Public Ivies are considered, according to The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, to be capable of "successfully competing with the Ivy League schools in academic rigor ... attracting superstar faculty and in competing for the best and brightest students of all races."
Origins of the term
Moll, who earned his Master of Divinity degree from Yale University in 1959, was an admissions officer at Yale, and the director of admissions at Bowdoin College, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Vassar College. He traveled the nation examining higher education, and identified eight public institutions (the same as the number of Ivy League members) that he thought had the look and feel of an Ivy League university. In addition to academic excellence, other factors considered by Moll include appearance, age, and school traditions, as well as certain other Ivy League characteristics.
Images for kids
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Suzzallo Library at the University of Washington
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Michigan Union at the University of Michigan
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The Rotunda at the University of Virginia
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MacCracken Hall at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio
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Billings Memorial Library at the University of Vermont
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Sewall Hall at the University of Colorado Boulder
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Savant Building at the Georgia Institute of Technology
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Foellinger Auditorium on the Main Quad of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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College Hall and Cook Hall at the New College of Florida
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Bascom Hall atop Bascom Hill at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Powell Library at the University of California, Los Angeles
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Old Main at the Pennsylvania State University
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Demarest Hall at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey
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Norman Hall at the University of Florida
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Brooks Hall at the University of Georgia
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University Hall at the Ohio State University
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Sample Gates entrance to Old Crescent at Indiana University Bloomington
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Old Capitol Museum in the Pentacrest at the University of Iowa
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Morrill Hall on the Northrop Mall at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
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Jack Langson Library at the University of California, Irvine
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University Center and Storke Tower at the University of California, Santa Barbara
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Maricopa Hall at the University of Arizona
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The Mall at the University of Delaware
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Reckord Armory at the University of Maryland, College Park
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Gary Anderson Hall at the University of California, Riverside
See also
In Spanish: Public Ivy para niños