The absolute first is unknown, however it is generally thought to be one of the following: University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, William and Mary, or Iowa State University. The Student Counseling Service at Iowa State University was established during the Fall of 1939.
Thomas Jefferson is responsible for the existence and the design of the University of Virginia. He was a heck of a guy.
He went home to his plantation in Virginia. He also founded the University of Virginia and designed the camps.
Her father founded the Drexel University, not Xavier and, no, she was never president.
Thomas Jefferson
No president attended Cornell University. Cornell was founded in 1865, and no president has enrolled or graduated from the university since its establishment.
He founded the University of Virgina after he was President.
The University of Virginia was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson.
The Rev. John Monteith was one of the university's founders and its first President
I think Dwight Eisenhower was the first to be president of a major university, namely Columbia University, Woodrow Wilson was president of Princeton when it was just starting to become a university but it is questionable that is was a major university when he was president of it.
BU Academy was founded in 1993 under the direction of John Silber, then President of Boston University, and the University Board of Trustees.
The University was founded in 1842.
In 1819 President Jefferson founded the University of Virginia. Jefferson was the principal designer of the University grounds. Its innovative design was an expression of his aspirations for both state-sponsored education and an agrarian democracy in the new Republic.
Princeton Univeristy was founded as "The College of New Jersey." It did not adopt the name "Princeton University" until Woodrow Wilson became the University President in the early 20th century.