People's Academy of Elwynn
The People's Academy of Elwynn, also known as the People's Academy or simply as the Academy, is a collegiate research university and the national institute of higher education in Elwynn. It has branches in every Princely Precinct of Elwynn. In the Elw language the Academy is known as Alôqoqar Etâqon Adurellion. It is, however, not the only university in Elwynn.
The People's Academy is a corporation that may promulgate its own charter. Ever since its earliest days the Academy is wholly exempt from all kinds of taxation, whether nominal or actual, with regard to any monies or assets, whether nominal or actual, that it might accrue.
The Academy has played a major role in the intellectual life of the country since its early days. From its foundation forth, nigh a century ago, it has been a centre for debate and controversy in science, religion and the arts.
The People's Academy is the home of the Tlygowa Scholarship, one of the world's oldest and most prestigious scholarships, which has brought students to study at the Academy for nearly a century. The Academy operates the world's oldest university museum, as well as the largest university press in the world and the largest academic library system in Shireroth.
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History
The Academy was founded in 1551 through a monetary donation by Rai Avon-El as "a place for all Elwynnese to come together, study, teach, be taught and learn about our diverse cultures, our common culture and traditions". Later in the same year it received a charter from Duke Jacobus Loki.
There are, however, various individual colleges of the People's Academy of Elwynn, like Michaelion People's College and Hertug Haraldsmál College, which predate the Academy.
During the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the Academy added to its humanistic core a major new research capacity in the natural and applied sciences, including medicine.
During the Days of Independence, in the year 1589 to be exact, the People's Academy of Elwynn was restarted by order of the Regent of Elwynn, the Senator Aurangzeb Osmani. The aforesaid instrument was during the minority of King Noah of Elwynn confirmed as valid under Elwynnese Law by means of a Royal Decree issued by Steward Hallbjörn Haraldsson.
Administration and Organisation
As a collegiate university, the Academy's structure can be confusing to those unfamiliar with it. The People's Academy is a federation, consisting of a plethora of highly autonomous self-governing colleges - each with its own property and income - and various faculties, schools and departments, under the supremacy of the Board of Governance.
The Board of Governance of the People's Academy of Elwynn is a self-appointing and self-regulating body which operates in accordance with its own customs, procedure and charter.
The faculties, schools and departments are located centrally within the structure of the federation; they are not affiliated with any particular college. They provide facilities for teaching and research, determine the syllabi and guidelines for the teaching of students, perform research, and deliver lectures and seminars.
Colleges arrange the tutorial teaching for their students, and the members of a faculty, school or department are spread around many colleges. Most colleges have a broad mix of academics and students from a diverse range of subjects. Facilities such as libraries are provided on all these levels: by the central administration, by the faculties, schools and departments, and by colleges (each of which maintains a multi-discipline library for the use of its members).
Board of Governance
The Chancellor of the Alôqoqar Etâqon Adurellion: The Lord Erion
The Vice Chancellor of the Alôqoqar Etâqon Adurellion: Hallbjörn Haraldsson
The Dean of Languages: Deimos Jasonides
The Dean of the Library: Thorgils Tarjeisson
The Dean of Rhetoric: Fjǫrleif Hallbjörnsdóttir
Most Reverend and Learned Doctor of Theology: Alix Verion
Colleges of the People's Academy of Elwynn
The colleges are self-governing institutions with their own endowments and property, founded as integral parts of the Academy. All students and most academics are attached to a college. Their importance lies in the housing, welfare, social functions, and teaching they provide. All faculties, departments, research centres, and laboratories belong to the Academy, which arranges lectures and awards degrees, but undergraduates receive their tutorials - small-group teaching sessions and one-to-ones - within the colleges. Each college appoints its own teaching staff and fellows, who are also members of a academic department. The colleges also decide which students to admit to the Academy, in accordance with regulations issued by the Board of Governance.
In each Princely Precinct of the Jewel of Many Facets there is at the very least one college of the People's Academy of Elwynn.
Agnesia and Wintergleam
- Dragonsfold College, Dragonskeep;
- Eldwood College, Ketsire;
- Victory College, Vijayanagara.
Alalehzamin and Utasia
- Adabistaan, Ardashirshahr;
- Dârulfunûn-e Tanshûyuyyal, Tanshûyuyyal;
- Madarasa, Allswell (Beebullahabad);
- People's Institute, Kilkadesh;
- Riverside College, Islus;
- Shirekeep People's College, Saint Zor.
Amokolia
Araxion
- Tower College, Araxion Tower;
- Unicorn College, Visqeoor;
- White Orchid College, Araxion Tower.
Arietta
- Markland College, Hrísar.
Cape Farewell
- Caligae People's College, Caligae;
- Michaelion People's College, Michaelion.
Eliria
- Hartlepool College, Echo;
- King's College, Eliria (formerly Eliria University College);
- Keyrrey College, Fenririe.
Illumination and Cimmeria
Cimmeria
- Lewis College, Minas Valhalla;
- Snealandyx College, Minas Aullarion;
- Wolfraven College, Wolfraven.
Illumination
- Athiël College, Port Illumination;
- Monto College, Azshara;
- Verion College, Port Illumination.
Íseirdia-la-Vraulalennir
- Opplysta Smørvirket College, Smjörkýr;
- Tundra College, Glenfiddich.
Jorvik
- Scælly College, Bernicia;
- Tidewater College, Jorvik.
Lady Esther Isles
- Lady Esther College, Hempton Bay.
Raikoth
Seven Ports
- Hávamál College, Haraldsby;
- Heimskringla College, Esthersbýur;
- Hertug Haraldsmál College, Avaldsnes;
- Hryggjarstykki College, Joelsby;
- Konungsbók College, Noahsbýur;
- Rígsþula College, Hyfrost;
- Völuspá College, Fjǫrleifsbýur.
Schools, Faculties and Departments
In addition to the colleges, the People's Academy of Elwynn is made up numerous departments, faculties, schools, syndicates and other institutions. Members of these are usually also members of one of the colleges and responsibility for running the entire academic programme of the university is divided amongst them. The Academy also includes the National Institute of Continuing Education, a center for part-time study.
Within the People's Academy of Elwynn "Schools" are broad administrative groupings of related faculties and other units. Each has an elected supervisory body - the "Council" of the school - composed of representatives of the constituent bodies. Presently there are six schools:
- Arts and Humanities;
- Biological Sciences;
- Clinical Medicine;
- Humanities and Social Sciences;
- Physical Sciences;
- Technology.
Teaching and research in the Academy is organised by faculties. The faculties have different organisational sub-structures which partly reflect their history and partly their operational needs, which may include a number of departments and other institutions. In addition, a small number of bodies entitled "Syndicates" have responsibilities for teaching and research, such as People's Academy Assessment, the People's Academy Press, and the People's Academy Library.
Notable Alumni, Students and Academics
- Aasmund Vigeland (Caligae People's Academy, Civil Engineering and Physics)
- Aviel Muur (Adabistaan, Political Science with Elfinshi Studies);
- Irijah Prosper Arturion (Eliria University College, nowadays called King's College);
- Hallbjörn Haraldsson (Hertug Haraldsmál College, History and Political Science);
- Queen Noor of Goldshire (Adabistaan, History and Philosophy);
- Soreaa Isurui (Caligae People's College, Elw Language and Elw Literature);
- Thadeus Lange Jr (Eliria University College (King's College), Economics).
