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63-547: Delaware State University ( DSU or Del State ) is a privately governed, state-assisted historically black land-grant research university in Dover, Delaware . DSU also has two satellite campuses : one in Wilmington and one in Georgetown . The university encompasses four colleges and a diverse population of undergraduate and advanced-degree students. Delaware State University

126-611: A "privately governed, state-assisted" university. They receive about 10 percent of their operating budgets from the state. Beginning in 2004, the University of Miami 's Miller School of Medicine in Miami began offering instruction on the campus of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton . MD candidates are admitted to either the Miami or Boca Raton programs and spend all four years studying on

189-460: A 13:1 student-to-faculty ratio. About 80 percent of first-year undergraduates receive need-based financial aid. It has a traditional Honors Program and a Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Honors Program to increase the number of students in science interested in pursuing biomedical research and obtaining doctor of philosophy degrees in biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, and biopsychology . In addition to satisfying

252-470: A Student Emergency Relief Fund to address student needs brought on by COVID-19 crisis. Although the COVID-19 crisis continued throughout the year, Allen and the university reopened its residential halls for the fall semester 2020, allowing more than 1,700 students to resume their residency on campus while almost all classes continued to be held virtually. The business and affairs of the university are governed by

315-521: A college merger in 1747, today exists as essentially a non-administrative entity kept for the sake of history and tradition. It houses the University's Faculties of Arts, Medicine, and Science. The other statutory college, St Mary's College, St Andrews , founded in 1538, and also in St Andrews, is coexistent with the University's Faculty and School of Divinity. The remaining college, St Leonard's College ,

378-544: A common schedule of courses, students at either institution may take courses at the other institution, and can apply for admission to concurrent degree and joint certificate programs. ESF students take part in joint commencement exercises in May (and receive diplomas with the seals of both Syracuse University and ESF), and ESF students may participate in all SU student activities except NCAA Division I intercollegiate sports. The statutory colleges are not state-run; they are operated by

441-760: A completely tobacco-free policy. In 2017, the university received the ACAS Health Leadership Award in recognition of its efforts. The award was jointly presented by the Public Health Service Officers Foundation for the Advancement of Public Health, the Truth Initiative , Arizonans Concerned About Smoking and the Arizona NAACP . In December 2020, MacKenzie Scott donated $ 20 million to Delaware State University. Her donation

504-615: A computer lab and each student has a dedicated data port for internet access, their own phone, a campus email address, and cable television access in all residence hall rooms. Most campus buildings also offer wireless connectivity. DSU is one of 148 schools in the country to receive Tree Campus USA recognition from the Arbor Day Foundation . The university owns two farms near Kenton and Smyrna , and has an Airway Science Program based at Delaware Air Park in Cheswold . Tony Allen became

567-500: A consolatory role for SUNY. The statutory college should consult with SUNY when it sets tuition rates. SUNY also exercises a "general supervision" over the statutory colleges. However, Cornell and Alfred have interpreted this to mean that SUNY does not have the right to create novel policies for the statutory colleges that are not explicitly stated in the Education Law. If there is a conflict between Cornell or Alfred and SUNY in regard to

630-448: A contracted university. Only two universities, Cornell University and Alfred University , currently are part of this system. However, the five existing statutory colleges have been affiliated with SUNY since its inception in 1948, but had no affiliation with any umbrella organization before 194). Statutory college employees legally are employees of Cornell and Alfred universities, not employees of SUNY. The State Education Law does give

693-602: A faster alternative to the Internet. Many fields have been able to use the Abilene network to foster creativity, research, and development in a way that was not previously possible. Users of poor quality libraries can now download not only text but sound recordings, animations, videos, and other resources, which would be otherwise unavailable. Another application is the robust video conferencing now available to Internet2 participants. Neurosurgeons can now video conference with other experts in

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756-409: A policy or action that SUNY is requiring from Cornell or Alfred, it must be resolved by negotiation between the two parties, although there is the legal right of court appeal by either party if agreement cannot be reached. However, this legal option has never been used. The state finances the construction of buildings for the statutory college programs, and New York State owns those buildings as well as

819-460: A reduced tuition rate which is both lower than RIT's regular tuition rate, lower than the comparable tuition charged to NTID's International, non-U.S.-resident enrolled students. NTID was created through U.S. federal legislation in 1965, and receives Federal funding to subsidize the lower, domestic tuition rate. In Pennsylvania , the Commonwealth System of Higher Education recognizes

882-646: A school shared between CALS and a new college of business. Students still have the benefit of in-state tuition despite this reorganization. The New York State College of Forestry was reestablished at Syracuse University (SU) in 1911, but was never technically a statutory college. Founded first as a unit within Syracuse University, in 1913 the College was chartered as an independent state institution called "The New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University", with its own Board of Trustees . In 1948, with

945-638: A state-related status, in which an institution is provided with state funds in exchange for offering tuition discounts to students who are residents of Pennsylvania . The state allocations account for less than 10 percent of the budgets of the four institutions, Lincoln University in Oxford , Pennsylvania State University , Temple University in Philadelphia , and the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh , which remain academically and administratively independent of

1008-474: A student enrolled in a statutory college takes a class offered by an endowed college, the endowed college is reimbursed in a budget item called an "accessory instruction fee." At times, statutory college students who take more than their allotted credit hours from endowed colleges were required to pay such fees themselves. Similarly, at various times, a student who matriculates into a statutory college and later transfers to an endowed college has been required to pay

1071-563: A wide variety of quality recreational programs for students, faculty and staff. Delaware State has over 60 student organizations on campus including a Student Government Association (SGA), gospel choir, and The Approaching Storm Marching Band. 39°11′10″N 75°32′33″W  /  39.1861°N 75.5426°W  / 39.1861; -75.5426 Statutory college#Outside New York State The University of Delaware in Newark and Delaware State University in Dover are both chartered as

1134-558: Is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". The Delaware College for Colored Students was established on May 15, 1891, by the Delaware General Assembly . The name was changed to the State College for Colored Students by state legislative action in 1893 to eliminate confusion with Delaware College, which was attended by whites in Newark, Delaware . It first awarded degrees in 1898. In 1945,

1197-478: Is a private, nonprofit health agency which, under contract with a government, regularly receives government money to operate a research institute; the whole private, nonprofit agency (including the research institute) still remains a private, nonprofit entity. New York State's Education Law also states that the statutory colleges do not operate as "state agencies." The fact that each of the statutory colleges contains "New York State" in their official names does not alter

1260-521: Is an apartment complex and an residential hall. In addition, the university has activated two residential halls at DSU Downtown (the former Wesley College campus). The residential facilities include: Two dining halls serve the more than 1,500 on-campus students. As a part of the Internet2 initiative, the university maintains several research computer laboratories including a high-performance computational cluster in its DESAC center. Almost every building has

1323-460: Is designated as "non-statutory," has similar early beginnings, but was re-instituted in 1972 as a central point of administration for postgraduate students. (St Andrews students who are postgraduates, as well as the University's postdoctoral fellows and research staff, are automatically enrolled as members of St Leonard's College.) Internet2 Internet2 is a not-for-profit United States computer networking consortium led by members from

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1386-483: Is the largest single gift in the university's history. On July 1, 2021, Delaware State University officially finalized its acquisition of Wesley College , a 157-year-old private institution founded by the Methodist Church in 1873. This acquisition makes Delaware State the first historically Black university to acquire an institution that is not a historically Black college or university. The university has renamed

1449-865: The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), the Accreditation Council for Programs in Hospitality Administration (ACPHA), the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), and the Commission on Accreditation for Dietetic Education (CCDE). The university's College of Business is accredited nationally and internationally by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). DSU's Aviation Program provides students with education and experience in preparation for careers in

1512-470: The Middle States Commission on Higher Education awarded the college provisional accreditation . Three years later, the institution became Delaware State College by legislative action. Although its accreditation was revoked in 1949, it was regained in 1957. On July 1, 1993, the institution changed its name yet again, this time to Delaware State University . Delaware State University is one of

1575-530: The NYS College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the NYS College of Human Ecology , existed as non-state-supported colleges, as the College of Agriculture and the School of Home Economics, respectively, before state legislation was enacted to make each a state-supported entity. The NYS College of Human Ecology and the NYS College of Veterinary Medicine trace their origins to Cornell's agriculture college. However,

1638-489: The New York State College of Forestry , was founded at Cornell University in 1898, but was closed in 1903 when a pending lawsuit led Gov. Odell to veto the appropriations bill that provided funding. However, forestry education was continued at Cornell as part of the College of Agriculture. The College of Forestry was later reestablished at Syracuse University in 1911. Two of Cornell's current statutory colleges,

1701-607: The UK which facilitate research and conference collaborations as well as student exchanges. DSU athletic programs participate in the National Collegiate Athletic Association 's (NCAA)'s Division I ( FCS for football). The Hornets compete in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference as full members since the conference was founded in 1970. The university's Department of Intramural Sports provides

1764-469: The aviation industry. Curricula in the program lead to a B.Sc. degree with concentrations in Aviation Management or Professional Pilot . Professional Pilot graduates will complete their Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requirements for Private Pilot , Instrument, Commercial, Multi-Engine and Certified Flight Instructor ratings while earning their bachelor's degree. Delaware State operates

1827-465: The 12th president of Delaware State University on January 1, 2020, after serving the previous two and a half years as the university's provost and executive vice president. Three months into his presidency, Allen ended in-person classes and residential operations on campus following the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic , and the faculty began offering curriculum online. The university raised $ 1.5 million for

1890-628: The College of Veterinary Medicine was actually the first statutory college in New York. The Hotel School started in 1922 as a department within Home Economics, but became a separate, endowed college in 1954. The statutory colleges at Cornell grew out of Cornell's designation in 1865 as New York state's land grant college under the Morrill Act . Under the Morrill Act, Cornell received land scrip based on

1953-588: The Deaf (NTID) is a constituent school of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), located in Rochester, New York . NTID offers programs — frequently in conjunction with RIT's other colleges/schools — tailored to deaf and hard-of-hearing students, and also offers programs to students who are not necessarily hearing-impaired but who wish to assist hearing-impaired individuals. United States resident students enrolled in NTID receive

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2016-897: The Internet2 Network, an Internet Protocol network using optical fiber that delivers network services for research and education, and provides a secure network testing and research environment. In late 2007, Internet2 began operating its newest dynamic circuit network , the Internet2 DCN, an advanced technology that allows user-based allocation of data circuits over the fiber-optic network. The Internet2 Network, through its regional network and connector members, connects over 60,000 U.S. educational, research, government and "community anchor" institutions, from primary and secondary schools to community colleges and universities, public libraries and museums to health care organizations. The Internet2 community develops and deploys network technologies for

2079-478: The Internet2 Network. In 2010, Internet2 received a $ 62.5 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant, which allowed Internet2 to put in place a long term IRU for fiber and upgrade the network with its own DWDM optical network system. Ciena later announced that this was the first 100G nationwide optical network. The upgrade to the new optical system was completed in December 2012. Internet2 provides

2142-542: The SUNY Board of Trustees the following authority. The Trustees must approve Cornell's and Alfred's appointment of the deans and unit heads of the statutory colleges, and control of the level of state funding for the statutory colleges resides with SUNY. In addition to money allocated by SUNY, the colleges may be funded by tuition and fees; grants and contracts from state agencies; special state legislative funding; federal funding; and private donations. The Education Law mandates

2205-519: The School of Art and Design, with its own dean, and four state-supported materials programs cross-organized within Alfred University's School of Engineering. The College of Ceramics is functioning technically as a "holding entity" (overseen by a unit head/Vice President of Statutory Affairs) for the fiscal support of the state programs and the NYSCC mission. The unit head assists with budget preparation for

2268-476: The U.S. research and education community with a network that satisfies their bandwidth-intensive requirements. The network itself is a dynamic, robust and cost-effective hybrid optical and packet network. It furnishes a 100 Gbit/s network backbone to more than 210 U.S. educational institutions, 70 corporations and 45 non-profit and government agencies. The objectives of the Internet2 consortium are: The uses of

2331-837: The board of trustees. The board of trustees has all the powers accorded it by Title 14, Chapter 65 of the Delaware Code. The board consists of 15 members whose appointment or election is provided for in the Delaware Code and the governor of the state and the president of the university who are ex officio members with voting rights. The university consists of four colleges: DSU offers 46 undergraduate degrees, 21 graduate degrees, and six doctoral degrees (interdisciplinary applied mathematics and mathematical physics , applied chemistry , neuroscience and optics , integrative agriculture, food & environment, and educational leadership). The university also offers several cooperative and dual degree programs. Students receive instruction in classes with

2394-544: The creation of the very-high-performance Backbone Network Service, or vBNS , developed in 1995 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and MCI for supercomputers at educational institutions. After the expiration of the NSF agreement, vBNS largely transitioned to providing service to the government. As a result, the research and education community founded Internet2 to serve its networking needs. The Internet2 Project

2457-409: The difference in tuition upon the transfer. Statutory college employees are covered by a separate pension plan and have separate pay scales and fringe benefits than their endowed college counterparts. Most of the statutory college buildings and facilities are owned by New York state. SUNY performs a fiduciary role for dispersal of state funds to the statutory units. This may require periodic audits of

2520-575: The establishment of the State University of New York, the College became a specialized, doctoral-degree granting institution within the multi-campus SUNY system. In 1972, the College's name was changed to the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF); it remains administratively separate from Syracuse University. ESF students have full access to SU libraries and recreational facilities. The two institutions share

2583-421: The field during an operation in a high resolution format with no apparent time lag. The Internet2 Driving Exemplary Applications (IDEA) award (not to be confused with IDEA awards ) was first announced by Internet2 in 2006 as a way of recognizing those who create and use advanced network applications at their best. The judging is conducted by many universities and based upon the following criteria: Winners of

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2646-587: The first historically black colleges and universities to have a no-smoking policy. On September 21, 2007, two 17-year-old Delaware State University freshmen were shot on campus. One died 32 days later on October 23, from critical injuries sustained in the attack. A freshman student from East Orange, New Jersey , Loyer D. Braden, was arrested and charged with murder. In 2015, the university began phasing out smoking on campus by restricting it to four designated areas and providing educational resources on smoking cessation tools and programs. In August 2015 it implemented

2709-557: The former Wesley College. The 400-acre (1.6 km) main campus in Dover , the capital of Delaware , is approximately a two-hour drive from Philadelphia , Baltimore , and Washington, D.C. , and three hours from New York City . There university's has two satellite campuses located in Wilmington and Georgetown . The main campus in Dover contains thirty buildings, including: On the main campus there are five main campus traditional residential halls and three apartment-style residence halls for upperclassmen on campus. Off-campus there

2772-456: The former Wesley campus "DSU Downtown", reflecting its close proximity to downtown Dover, Delaware , and has relocated most of its College of Health and Behavioral Science (Public and Allied Health, Psychology, and Social Work programs on that additional 41-acre site. That academic division has been renamed the Wesley College of Health and Behavioral Sciences as a way to preserve the history of

2835-457: The future of the Internet. These technologies include large-scale network performance measurement and management tools, secure identity and access management tools and capabilities such as scheduling high-bandwidth, high-performance circuits. Internet2 members serve on several advisory councils, collaborate in a variety of working groups and special interest groups, gather at spring and fall member meetings, and are encouraged to participate in

2898-527: The land beneath those buildings. Such construction is managed by the NYS University Construction Fund rather than by Cornell or Alfred. Since statutory colleges at Cornell and Alfred receive significant state funding, tuition rates for statutory colleges and for endowed colleges are determined separately. 'In-state' residents attending a statutory college pay a separate reduced rate, in contrast to their 'out-of-state' counterparts' rates. When

2961-401: The network span from collaborative applications, distributed research experiments, grid-based data analysis to social networking. Some of these applications are in varying levels of commercialization, such as IPv6 , open-source middleware for secure network access, Layer 2 VPNs and dynamic circuit networks . These technologies and their organizational counterparts were not only created to make

3024-849: The number of physicians in Texas, was enacted in 1969, at which time the medical school became an autonomous entity in order to avoid legal conflicts arising from Baylor's affiliation with the Baptist General Convention of Texas . State support only allays the cost of tuition for in-state students, and the state does not assist BCM with significant ongoing funding for research or outreach/extension purposes. The University of St Andrews , in St Andrews , Scotland, has three units that are designated as colleges. Two of these colleges are designated as statutory colleges, which have ecclesiastical beginnings. One of these statutory colleges, United College, founded by

3087-467: The only full-service, university-based flight school in the mid-Atlantic area. The Aviation program is approved by the State of Delaware Education Department for Veterans Flight Training. The institution has greatly increased its research endeavors over the past several years, as it has developed the research infrastructure needed to attract federal grants for projects in the following DSU Research Centers and in

3150-528: The population of the state, and the proceeds formed the basis of Cornell's initial endowment. Under the terms of the Cornell's 1865 charter from the Legislature, Cornell was obligated to teach agriculture, mechanical arts and military tactic. (Cornell was also obligated to provide free tuition to students from each assembly district.) By the 1890s, Cornell sought state funding to continue its mission in these areas, and

3213-490: The present. Academic programs can be transferred between the statutory college side and the host institution. For example, when private funding was sufficient to assure operation of the hotel administration program of the College of Home Economics, it was spun off as a separate School of Hotel Administration in 1950. The Department of Agricultural Economics in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) has evolved into an undergraduate business school. In 2016, it became

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3276-657: The private nature of the statutory colleges; however, the importance of state funding is an important factor in the private vs. statutory unit relationship. There are two state-supported university systems in New York state: the State University of New York , which has degree-granting units throughout the state, and the City University of New York , which only has degree-granting units in New York City . New York state's statutory colleges are partners of SUNY and have no affiliation with CUNY. The National Technical Institute for

3339-655: The requirements for the major or majors and any minor, all undergraduates are required to complete the General Education Program, which includes: seven core courses, twelve foundation courses (across the curriculum), and the Senior Capstone Experience. Accreditations include the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE), the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN),

3402-591: The research and education communities, industry, and government. The Internet2 consortium administrative headquarters are located in Ann Arbor, Michigan , with offices in Washington, D.C. , and Emeryville, California . As of November 2013, Internet2 has over 500 members including 251 institutions of higher education, 9 partners and 76 members from industry, over 100 research and education networks or connector organizations, and 67 affiliate members. Internet2 operates

3465-618: The sciences and mathematics: DSU is ranked 8th among the Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the U.S. News & World Report (2023). In 2018, the College of Business at DSU was named to the Princeton Review 's Best Business Schools for the tenth consecutive year (2009-2018). The university has over thirty formal international partnerships with institutions in countries including China, Cuba, Egypt , France, Italy, Japan, Korea , Mexico, Nigeria , Poland and

3528-821: The selected campus. The Miami and Boca Raton campuses charge identical tuition, with a lower tuition for in-state Florida students. In New York state, statutory colleges are administratively affiliated with the State University of New York (SUNY) system, and receive funding from SUNY's operating budget. There are five statutory colleges: four located at Cornell University in Ithaca and one located at Alfred University in Alfred . New York state education law uses both "contract college" and "statutory college" to describe these state-supported colleges. The statutory college located at Alfred University in Alfred, New York is: The New York State College of Ceramics (NYSCC) consists of

3591-461: The state. The University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine receives support from the state and offers in-state tuition to students who are residents of Pennsylvania. Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston subsidizes the tuition of Texas residents, so they have a lower tuition rate than that charged to non-Texans who attend its M.D. program. This subsidy, intended to increase

3654-454: The statutory colleges were formed as a vehicle for direct state funding. In addition, around the start of the 20th century, new federal laws provided land-grant colleges and their agricultural experiment stations and cooperative extension services with annual funding conditioned upon matching state funds. As a result, almost all of Cornell's land grant duties were transferred to its four statutory colleges, which receive such state funds through

3717-502: The strategic planning process. As the Internet gained in public recognition and popularity, universities were among the first institutions to outgrow the Internet's bandwidth limitations because of the data transfer requirements faced by academic researchers who needed to collaborate with their colleagues. Some universities wanted to support high-performance applications like data mining, medical imaging and particle physics. This resulted in

3780-710: The two aforementioned AU schools and the NYSCC-affiliated Scholes Library of Ceramics (part of the campuswide, unified AU library system), and acts in a liaison role to SUNY. The School of Art and Design, technically a subunit of the College of Ceramics but autonomously run with its own dean, is further subdivided into divisions. Alfred's School of Engineering (also N b. +. run with its own dean) currently has four state-supported programs and two privately endowed programs. The four statutory colleges at Cornell University in Ithaca are: Another statutory college,

3843-527: The use of state funds within the private universities. There is some debate about whether the statutory colleges are "public" or "private, nonprofit" entities. Legally, they are private and nonprofit; Cornell and Alfred Universities are private, nonprofit institutions, a status which extends to all of these universities' components, which are not separate corporations. Also, the employees of the statutory colleges, as currently affirmed by court rulings, are private, nonprofit employees. An analogy to this relationship

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3906-691: Was a prime investor in the National LambdaRail (NLR) project. During 2004–2006, Internet2 and NLR held extensive discussions regarding a possible merger. Those talks paused in spring, 2006, resumed in March, 2007, but eventually ceased in the fall of 2007, due to unresolved differences. In 2006, Internet2 announced a partnership with Level 3 Communications to launch a brand new nationwide network, boosting its capacity from 10 Gbit/s to 100 Gbit/s. In October, 2007, Internet2 officially retired Abilene and now refers to its new, higher capacity network as

3969-434: Was originally established by 34 university researchers in 1996 under the auspices of EDUCOM (later EDUCAUSE ), and was formally organized as the not-for-profit University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID) in 1997. It later changed its name to Internet2. Internet2 is a registered trademark. The Internet2 community, in partnership with Qwest , built the first Internet2 Network, called Abilene , in 1998 and

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