美国布朗大学
布朗大学位于美国罗德岛州普罗文登市,是常春藤盟校之一。1764年建校时取名为罗德岛学院,是新英格兰地区第三古老,全美第七古老的高校。布朗大学也是美国第一所可以接受任何宗教背景的学生入学的高校。 布朗大学的入学竞争极为激烈,本科生入学率为14.6%,这是全美所有具有博士授予权的高校中列于第6最低的接受率。在校学生来自全美50个州,以及世界上65个不同的国家。布朗大学的资金资助项目每年以奖学金,助学金,贷款等形式向学生提供大约7亿美元的资助,这使得超过50%的学生可以获得资助。 布朗大学于1847年在所有常春藤盟校中最早成立了面向本科生的工程系,而她的面向本科生的数学史系在世界上也是独一无二的。布朗同时也是最早开始重视传媒教育的高校,学生在现代文化与媒介系里能够学习电影赏析与评论等各种批评理论。
History The founding of Brown In 1763, James Manning, a Baptist minister, was sent to Rhode Island by the Philadelphia Association of Baptist Churches in order to found a college. At the same time, local Congregationalists, led by James Stiles, were working toward a similar end. On March 3, 1764, a charter was filed to create Rhode Island College in Warren, Rhode Island, reflecting the work of both Stiles and Manning. The charter had more than 60 signatories, including John and Nicholas Brown of the Brown family, who would give the College its present day name. The college’s mission, the charter stated, was to prepare students "for discharging the Offices of Life" by providing instruction "in the Vernacular Learned Languages, and in the liberal Arts and Sciences." The charter’s language has long been interpreted by the university as discouraging the founding of a business school or law school. Brown continues to be one of only two Ivy League universities with neither a business school nor a law school (the other being Princeton). The charter required that the makeup of the board of thirty-six trustees include twenty-two Baptists, five Friends, four Congregationalists, and five Episcopalians, and by twelve Fellows, of whom eight, including the President, should be Baptists "and the rest indifferently of any or all denominations." It specified that "into this liberal and catholic institution shall never be admitted any religious tests, but on the contrary, all the members hereof shall forever enjoy full, free, absolute, and uninterrupted liberty of conscience." The 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica remarks that "At the time it was framed the charter was considered extraordinarily liberal" and that "the government has always been largely non-sectarian in spirit." |