Portal:Education/Did you know/16

...that Peter Baume, Chancellor of the Australian National University from 1994 to 2006, was elected to the Australian Senate for the Liberal Party of Australia in the 1974 federal election?
...that Ellenville Middle School abandoned an experiment with single-sex classes after the school failed to meet No Child Left Behind Act standards?
...that Jill Ker Conway grew up on a sheep farm and was Smith College's first woman president? ?
...that Arcadia University changed its name from "Beaver College" because the latter "...too often elicited ridicule in the form of derogatory remarks"?
...that Humber College's TVO series Distinguished Artists is the first network television show produced by a college or university?