History

George Washington had long argued for the creation of the university around the District of Columbia, & in his may, possibly bequeathed fifty shares of the Potomac Company thereto. "I give and bequeath in perpetuity the fifty shares which I hold in the Potomac Company (under the aforesaid Acts of the Legislature of Virginia) towards the endowment of a UNIVERSITY to be established within the limits of the District of Columbia, under the auspices of the General Government, if that Government should incline to extend a fostering hand towards it."[http://www.pbs.org/georgewashington/milestones/free_slaves_read2.html]

Caring of Wash.'s wishes, a class action of men, led by Luther Rice, the Baptist minister, late raised funds to buy the places for the college to educate missionaries & the clergy. The big building was constructed in what is today Meridian Hill & in February 9 1821, President James Monroe approved A Congressional charter creating The Columbian College. President James Monroe, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, the Marquis de Lafayette and other dignitaries attended the College's first commencement exercises in 1824.

A title of the institution was changed to Columbian University within 1873 and to The George Washington University within 1904. the university became one of a 1st institutions in the United States to grant a Ph.D. in 1888.

Since a 1970s, GWU, under the leadership of presidents Lloyd Hartman Elliott & Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, has turn into the major undergrad & graduate institution. It has grown vastly inside recent years, & is now a big personal landholder in a District of Columbia, & 2nd big overall (behind the federal government).

Inside June 1999, a university purchased the Mount Vernon College for Women near Georgetown, and it became the George Washington University Mount Vernon Campus.

Organization
the university is mass produced higher of a total of colleges that develop different disciplines in the two. [http://www.columbian.gwu.edu Columbian College of Arts and Sciences (CCAS)] [http://www2.gwu.edu/~gspm/ Graduate School of Political Management (GSPM)] [http://smpa.gwu.edu/ School of Media and Public Affairs (SMPA)] [http://www.gwu.edu/~spppa/ School of Public Policy and Public Administration (SPPPA)]

[http://www.gwu.edu/~cps/ College of Professional Studies] [http://www.elliottschool.org Elliott School of International Affairs (ESIA)] [http://www.law.gwu.edu/ George Washington University Law School] [http://gsehd.gwu.edu/gsehd/ The Graduate School of Education and Human Development (GSEHD)] [http://www.sbpm.gwu.edu/ School of Business] [http://www.seas.gwu.edu/ School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS)] [http://www.gwumc.edu/smhs/ School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS)] [http://www.gwumc.edu/sphhs/ School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS)]

Campus

A university has triad campuses: A independent campus within Foggy Bottom, the Mount Vernon campus inside northern Washington, DC, & a Virginia campus in Ashburn, Virginia. A university too owns l& & buildings as much as a Foggy Bottom campus that are non utilized for academic purposes; these include a mall at 2000 Pennsylvania Ave, and a land under a International Monetary Fund building.

Foggy Bottom Campus
This is the independent campus, occupying 43 acres (170,000 m²) and complete of these hundred buildings in 14 block, + portions of more impedes.

A major & notable buildings come:

Libraries: Melvin Gelman Library, Jacob Burns Law Library & Paul Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library Medical: A George Washington University Hospital serves a university & the entire area. This is occasionally in which presidents in need of pressing medical aid come taken, when was President Ronald Reagan after a failing assassination attempt within 1981. A todays hospital is through a street from either a lot of the old hospital, which was take down within 2003-2004. Academic 814 20th St, erst a Union Methodist Episcopal Church, cornerstone placed 1854, making it the oldest building in the university. The Academic Center, the complex of leash buildings, Phillips Hall, Rome Hall & Smith Hall of Art, & residence to the computer center. Corcoran Hall, built inside 1924 as the 1st building built for GWU on the Foggy Bottom campus, is the birthplace of the bazooka. This is the center of the sciences at GW. 1957 E St., completed within 2003 when a recently house to the Elliott School of International Affairs, likewise when lecture halls & dorm room. GW Alum Gen. Colin Powell visited GW to officially open this building. Tompkins Hall, page of the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences (SEAS). Media & Public Affairs Building, which houses the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery & a Jack Morton Auditorium, in which CNN's Crossfire was broadcast until June 3rd, 2005; it now hosts CNN's On the story which airs each week in Friday evenings. Activity Cloyd Heck Marvwithin Center, a central building of a university & page to a J Street food court (no J St in Wa, thus a title was open) the Cafritz Conference Center & the Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre. A fifth floor houses A Hippodrome, an metropolitan area for students to relax & develop fun. It includes a just public bowling alley within Wa, DC. Lisner Auditorium, a independent auditorium of the university & page to the Dimock Gallery of art. Once built it was a largest in the city. Athletic: A centerpiece is the Charles E. Smith Center, house of the Colonials & the fully equipped athletics center which occupies about an entire block. There are likewise little joe lawn tennis courts nearby, & a Lerner Health & Wellness Center. Residences: There are Xxiv hall (non including Townhouses) on the Foggy Bottom campus, capable of housing concluded 6000 students. Other Holdings: GWU is the big personal land creator around DC. A university has numerous holdings in a area, either just the land or even the buildings also. Among which are actually a mall at 2000 Pennsylvania Ave, an office building at 2100 Pennsylvania Ave by having several student-oriented services, A George Inland northwest University Inn, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and many foreign embassies.

Mount Vernon Campus
This wooded campus is placed in Xxiii land (93,000 m²) withwithin north-west Wash., DC, & was purchased by GWU in 1999. It was alone the woman's college, however since the acquisitiin these are currently co-coeducational, though it however has a big emphasis on women's academician & athletics. A Eckles Memorial Library serves this campus, & there are NCAA Division 1 fields for women's softball, women's and men's soccer, and women's & men's lacrosse. There are sise hall on this campus.

Virginia Campuses
Placed in Loudoun County, Virginia, this campus consists of the single big building sitting around a Xc acre (360,000 1000²) plot, & is mostly utilized for postgraduate the food and drug administration. A second campus is inside Newport News, Virginia.

Students and Faculty

There are 23,417 undergrad & postgraduate enrolled for the 2003-2004 academic month. Around 2001, there were 1508 good-whale & 2725 a share-half-time members of the faculty.

Clubs and Traditions
There are all over 300 & fifty student organizations at a University, including organizations of most common interest or even political activism, ethnic organizations, & greek organizations. These are too at home to one of a number one virtual student organizations in the United States known as ETLSO. A Training Technology & Leadership Student Organization (ETLSO) caters to the needs of few feet away education students.

Intramural sports come likewise super popular additionally to the NCAA Section I personally varsity teams.

Though the official mascot is a Colonial, since 1996 the placement of a bronze hippo in the center of campus has caused the [http://www.gwu.edu/~gwpres/hippo.html Hippo] to turn into another mascot for numerous. There exists as well a secret society, founded by President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, known as the Choose of the Hippo. Little is known all about a organization, whose rituals come shrouded inside what hwhen been described by a select few observers as "contrived secrecy"; tough grounds to believe does suggest, nevertheless, that its members include non exclusively high-high-level officials of the University administration however likewise many h&-picked members of the student and alumni populations. Inside spring 2005, a a correct sequence come under increased scrutiny & criticism in the student media fallowing allegations surfaced on the Sequentially's allowance of each hazing activities & usage of alcohol by minor members when you took a correct sequence functions and gatherings -- activities that violate the University's student code of conduct, & towards which the University administration itself has taken a zero-tolerance policy whilst treating by owning fraternities, sororities, & more student sociable groups.

There are Dozen recognized fraternities in campus, including Alpha Epsilon Pi, Beta Theta Pi, Kappa Sigma, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Sigma Kappa, Pi Kappa Alpha, Pi Kappa Phi, Sigma Nu, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Tau Kappa Epsilon, and Theta Delta Chi. There are likewise the total of unrecognized fraternities, including Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Alpha Mu (also known as SAMMY in campus), Alpha Pi Epsilon (or even "Apes," once Zeta Beta Tau), and Zeta Beta Tau.

There are Eight Panhellenic sororities in campus, including Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Epsilon Phi, [http://www.alphaphionline.com/iotaiota Alpha Phi], Delta Gamma, Kappa Kappa Gamma, [http://www.phisigmasigma.org Phi Sigma Sigma], Sigma Delta Tau & Sigma Kappa.

Theta Tau, a America's oldest & first engineering fraternity move in campus.

School Songs

A school fight song, only titled "The GW Fight Song" is when follows:

Athletics

GW has an extensive Section We program that includes Baseball, Men's & Women's Basketball, Cross United states, Golf game, Gymanstic exercise, Women's Lacrosse, Row, Men's & Women's Association football, Softball, Squash, Playing & Diving, Men's and Women's Tennis, Women's Volleyball, Men's and Women's Water Polo.

the teams come known as a Colonials & keep close at hand achieved groovy successes acircular recent years including a number 1 round triumph in the Men's NCAA Division I Association football Tournament inside 2004 and basketball beating No. Nina from carolina Michigan State and No. Xii Maryland in back to back games to win the 2004 BB&T Classic. A Men's Five went in to win a Atlantic Ten West Title & a Atlantic Tenner Tournament Title (earning an automatic bid to the 2005 NCAA Tournament).

Colonials athletic teams compete in the Atlantic 10 Conference.

GWU's football team won the Sun Bowl in El Paso in 1957. A school go competed within the sport in 1966 as a member of the Southern Conference.[http://www.michigan-football.com/ncaa/f/geowash.htm]

Noted Alumni

Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer, Interim President of Iraq Julius Axelrod, (1955, Ph.D.) winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine John Foster Dulles (1912), US Secretary of State J. Edgar Hoover (1916, 1917, 1935), Director of the FBI Joseph W. Prueher (1973), Ambassador to the People's Republic of China

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (1951), First Lady of US President John F. Kennedy General Colin Powell, Ret. (MBA 1971), US Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Vice Admiral Thad Allen (MPA), U.S. Coast Guard Chief of Staff, director of Hurricane Katrina relief operations Syngman Rhee (1907, 1954), first President of South Korea Kenneth W. Starr (1968), United States Solicitor General, and Independent Counsel during the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky scandals Jerry Reinsdorf (1957), Owner of Chicago Bulls & Chicago White Sox franchises Arnold J. 'Red' Auerbach (1940, 1941), President and former coach of the Boston Celtics Alec Baldwin (attended 1979), actor Bob Barr (1972), former US Representative from Georgia William Barr (1977), Former Attorney General of the United States Derek Curtis Bok (1958), President of Harvard University Eric Cantor (1985), US Representative from Virginia Jean Carnahan (1955), US Senator from Missouri D. Jeffrey Carter (1978), son of US President Jimmy Carter Captain Michael Coats (1977), Astronaut and Space Shuttle Commander Charles W. Colson, chief counsel for US President Richard Nixon, spent time in prison for his part in the Watergate scandal Scott S. Cowen (1975), President of Tulane University Margaret Truman Daniel (1946, 1975), author & girl of US President Harry S. Truman Rowland Evans (1951), news commentator from CNN's "Evans, Novak, Hunt and Shields" W. Mark Felt (1940), Former Associate Director of the FBI, "Deep Throat" informant J. William Fulbright (1934, 1959), US Senator from Arkansas L. Ron Hubbard (attended 1930-1932), author and founder of the Church of Scientology Patrick J. Hurley (1912, 1932), US Secretary of War Daniel Inouye (1952), US Senator from Hawaii Leon Jaworski (1926), Special Prosecutor for the Watergate hearings Lynda Bird Johnson (attended 1965), girl of US President Lyndon Johnson Edward "Skip" Gnehm (1966), former US Ambassador General William Mitchell (1919, but standard degree when section of "class of 1899", getting dropped dead set serve in the Spanish-American War), advocate of air power in the military Elizabeth Ogbon (1977), First woman ambassador of Nigeria to West Germany and the Philippines Abe Pollin (1945), owner & president of the Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals Harry Reid (JD 1964), US Senator from Nevada, Senate Minority Leader Jerry Reinsdorf (1957), owner of the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls George W. Romney (attended 1929-30), Governor of Michigan Mikhail Saakashvili (1995), President of Georgia 2003- General John M. Shalikashvili (1970), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chet Simmons (1950), founder of ESPN John W. Snow (1967), US Secretary of the Treasury Mark Warner (1977), Governor of Virginia General John W. Vessey, Jr. (1966), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Robert Wexler (1985), US Representative from Florida Scott Wolf (1991), actor Kun-Hee Lee (MBA), founder of Samsung Group Jeffrey J. Federico (2001), Space Policy Advocate, Internet Entrepreneur

Noted Faculty
George Gamow (1934-1954), physicist and cosmologist Ken Lay (1969), former CEO of Enron Edward Teller (1935-1941), nuclear physicist and father of the hydrogen bomb Jonathan Turley, Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law and frequent guest in news programs Elizabeth Glass Geltman, Prof of Law John F. Banzhaf III, Professor of Public Interest Law, featured in Super Size Me James Rosenau, former president of the International Studies Association Amitai Etzioni, former president of the American Sociological Association Seyyed Hossein Nasr, founder and number one president of the Iranian Academy of Philosophy Edward "Skip" Gnehm, former US Ambassador to Jordan and Kuwait Lee Sigelman, Editor of the Our contries Political Science Journal

List of the Presidents of The George Washington University