University of Oklahoma

The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a coeducational accessible analysis university amid in Norman, Oklahoma. Founded in 1890, it had existed in Oklahoma Area abreast Indian Area for 17 years afore the two became the accompaniment of Oklahoma. As of 2007 the university had 29,931 acceptance enrolled, a lot of amid at its capital campus in Norman. Employing about 3,000 adroitness members, the academy offers 152 baccalaureate programs, 160 master's programs, 75 doctorate programs, and 20 majors at the aboriginal able level. David Lyle Boren, a above U.S. Senator and Oklahoma Governor, has served as Admiral of the University of Oklahoma back 1994.

The academy is ranked aboriginal a part of accessible universities in acceptance of Civic Merit Scholars and a part of the top ten in the graduation of Rhodes Scholars. PC Magazine and the Princeton Review rated it one of the "20 A lot of Wired Colleges" in both 2006 and 2008, while the Carnegie Foundation classifies it as a analysis university with "very top analysis activity." Amid on its Norman campus are two arresting museums, the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, specializing in French Impressionism and Native American artwork, and the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Accustomed History, specializing in the accustomed history of Oklahoma.

The school, able-bodied accepted for its able-bodied programs, has won 7 NCAA Division I Civic Football Championships. Its baseball aggregation has won 2 NCAA civic championships and the women's softball aggregation won the civic championship in 2000 and 2013. The gymnastics teams accept won four civic championships back 2002 and its football affairs has the best acceptable allotment of any Division I-FBS aggregation back the addition of the AP Poll in 1936,playing in four BCS civic championship amateur back the birth of the BCS arrangement in 1998.With the abutment of Governor George Washington Steele, on December 18, 1890[citation needed] the Oklahoma Territorial assembly accustomed three universities: the accompaniment university in Norman, the agronomical and automated academy in Stillwater (later renamed Oklahoma Accompaniment University) and a accustomed academy in Edmond (later renamed University of Central Oklahoma).Oklahoma's acceptance into the abutment in 1907 led to the renaming of the Norman Territorial University as the University of Oklahoma. Norman association donated 407 acreage (1.6 km2) of acreage for the university 0.5 afar (0.8 km) south of the Norman railroad depot. The university's aboriginal admiral ordered the burying of abundant copse afore the architectonics of the aboriginal campus architectonics because he "could not anticipate a treeless university seat."Landscaping charcoal important to the university.

The university's aboriginal president, David Ross Boyd, accustomed in Norman in August 1892 and the aboriginal acceptance enrolled that year. The university accustomed a Academy of Pharmacy in 1893 because of top appeal for pharmacists in the territory. Three years later, the university awarded its aboriginal amount to a biologic chemist.The "Rock Building" in city Norman captivated the antecedent classes until the university's aboriginal architectonics opened on September 6, 1893.
Donald W. Reynolds Center for the Performing Arts, aforetime Holmberg Hall, exemplifies the school's architectural style.

On January 6, 1903, the university's alone architectonics austere down and destroyed abounding annal of the aboriginal university. Architectonics began anon on a new building, as several added towns hoped to capitalize by acceptable the university to move. Admiral Boyd and the adroitness were not abashed by the loss. Mathematics assistant Frederick Elder said, "What do you charge to accumulate classes going? Two yards of blackboard and a box of chalk." As a acknowledgment to the fire, English assistant Vernon Louis Parrington created a plan for the approaching development of the campus. A lot of of the plan was never implemented, but Parrington's advancement for the campus amount formed the base for the North Oval. The North and South Ovals are now characteristic appearance of the campus.

The campus has a characteristic architecture, with barrio advised in a altered Cherokee Gothic style. The appearance has abounding appearance of the Gothic era but has aswell alloyed the designs of bounded Native American tribes from Oklahoma. This appellation was coined by the acclaimed American artist Frank Lloyd Wright if he visited the campus.The University has congenital over a dozen barrio in the Cherokee Gothic style.

In 1907, Oklahoma entered statehood, adopting changes in the political atmosphere of the state. Up until this point, Oklahoma's Republican tendencies afflicted with the acclamation of Oklahoma's aboriginal governor, the Democratic Charles N. Haskell. Back the birth of the university, altered groups on campus were disconnected by religion. Aboriginal in the university's existence, abounding advisers were Presbyterian, as was Boyd. Under pressure, Boyd eventually assassin several Baptists and Southern Methodists. The Presbyterians and Baptists got forth but the Southern Methodists conflicted with the administration. Two notable Methodists, Rev. Nathaniel Lee Linebaugh and Assistant Ernest Taylor Bynum, were critics of Boyd and activists in Haskell's acclamation campaign. If Haskell took office, he accursed abounding of the Republicans at the university, including Admiral Boyd.