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 The Rockefeller University was founded in 1901 by John D. Rockefeller Sr. as The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. The first institution in the United States devoted solely to using biomedical research to understand the underlying causes of disease, Rockefeller is today one of the foremost biomedical research centers in the world, and its scientists have made numerous seminal contributions to biology and medicine. Over the years, 24 scientists associated with the university have received Nobel Prizes and 21 have earned the Albert Lasker Medical Research Award. Fourteen Rockefeller scientists have received the Gairdner Foundation International Award and 14 have been given the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor. In addition to a century of prize-winning breakthroughs, Rockefeller has devoted over half a century to training the next generation of innovative, pathbreaking scientists.

New York University’s mission is to be a top quality international center of scholarship, teaching and research. This involves retaining and attracting outstanding faculty who are leaders in their fields, encouraging them to create programs that draw outstanding students, and providing an intellectually rich environment. NYU seeks to take academic and cultural advantage of its location and to embrace diversity among faculty, staff and students to ensure a wide range of perspectives, including international perspectives, in the educational experience.

A FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY EDUCATION HAS BECOME MORE INTEGRATED IN FOCUS, MORE GLOBAL IN OUTLOOK, AND MORE INTERNATIONAL IN ITS STRUCTURE THAN EVER BEFORE IN THE JESUIT TRADITION. SEE SCHEDULE O.

The University of Southern California is one of the world’s leading private research universities. An anchor institution in Los Angeles, a global center for arts, technology and international trade, USC enrolls more international students than any other U.S. university and offers extensive opportunities for internships and study abroad. With a strong tradition of integrating liberal and professional education, USC fosters a vibrant culture of public service and encourages students to cross academic as well as geographic boundaries in their pursuit of knowledge.

The mission of Carleton College is to provide an exceptional undergraduate liberal arts education. In pursuit of this mission, the College is devoted to academic excellence, distinguished by the creative interplay of teaching, learning, and scholarship, and dedicated to our diverse residential community and extensive international engagements.

To Provide A Transformative, Practical, And Excellent Liberal Arts Education That Produces Critical Thinkers In An Inclusive, Diverse Environment, Guided By Quaker Testimonies Of Community, Equality, Integrity, Peace, And Simplicity And Emphasizing The Creative Problem Solving Skills, Experience, Enthusiasm And International Perspectives Necessary To Promote Positive Change In The World.

Boston University is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world. Boston University is committed to generating new knowledge to benefit society. We remain dedicated to our founding principles: that higher education should be accessible to all and that research, scholarship, artistic creation, and professional practice should be conducted in the service of the wider community—local and international. These principles endure in the University’s insistence on the value of diversity, in its tradition and standards of excellence, and in its dynamic engagement with the City of Boston and the world. Boston University comprises a remarkable range of undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs built on a strong foundation of the liberal arts and sciences. With the support and oversight of the Board of Trustees, the University, through our faculty, continually innovates in education and research to ensure that we meet the needs of students and an ever-changing world.

Americans for Oxford, Inc. (AFO) is the University’s North American fundraising body that seeks gifts to support Oxford and its Colleges. It enables the University to maintain and enhance its tradition as one of the great universities of the world. Ensuring this status requires an ongoing commitment from all Oxonians. AFO has been determined by the United States Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt public charity.

SEE SCHEDULE OBELOIT COLLEGE ENGAGES THE INTELLIGENCE, IMAGINATION, AND CURIOSITY OF ITS STUDENTS, EMPOWERING THEM TO LEAD FULFILLING LIVES MARKED BY HIGH ACHIEVEMENT, PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY, AND PUBLIC CONTRIBUTION IN A DIVERSE SOCIETY. OUR EMPHASIS ON INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES, THE INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE WITH EXPERIENCE, AND CLOSE COLLABORATION AMONG PEERS, PROFESSORS, AND STAFF EQUIPS OUR STUDENTS TO APPROACH THE COMPLEX PROBLEMS OF THE WORLD ETHICALLY AND THOUGHTFULLY.

Ohio Wesleyan University is a national liberal arts and sciences university with a major international presence. It is located in Delaware, Ohio, a small community just 20 miles from Columbus, the nation’s 16th-largest city. OWU offers 93 majors, sequences, and courses of study, as well as 23 varsity sports. OWU is one of only 40 institutions featured in the highly regarded book Colleges That Change Lives.

Benedict College will be a power for good in society.We will be a full opportunity college with high quality programs of teaching, research, and public service.These programs will provide our students and community with the knowledge, skills, understandings, and values required to empower them to create a better world.We seek geographic, international, and racial diversity in our student body while continuing to facilitate the empowerment, enhancement, and full participation of African Americans in a global society.

Gustavus Adolphus College is a church-related, residential liberal arts college firmly rooted in its Swedish and Lutheran heritage.   The College offers students of high aspiration and promise a liberal arts education of recognized excellence provided by faculty who embody the highest standards of teaching and scholarship. The Gustavus curriculum is designed to bring students to mastery of a particular area of study within a general framework that is both interdisciplinary and international in perspective.