List of split up universities

Yes I guess you are right. It would therefore be great if the article is finally moved from draft back into the main space so that it's easier for other editors to contribute with their knowledge (collaborative work is what can help the most here). Until it's expanded it can be graded as stub or start level article.MirkoS18 (talk)

@Chess:, firstly, thanks for your feedback. I would just like to point out that there are similar sources already included (maybe after your comment) on the practice in Belgium and France. They deal with the general concepts of splitting up universities in those two countries. It didn't make too much sense to make separate list for every country (somebody else can do that and turn this list into the list of lists maybe). Now, I of course don't know all the sources on the topic and I think it will be easier for other editors to contribute if we finally move the draft into the mainspace.MirkoS18 (talk)

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The article contains a list of split up universities where new institutions were created. Over the history numerous higher education institutions were split up or some scholars left already established institutions and established new ones. Some of the oldest medieval universities were established when students or faculty moved en masse from one town to another. Many of those splits were rampant, motivated by ideological, political or identity concerns. Among others, they include politically motivate mass breakup of French universities in the aftermath of protests of 1968 when in 1971 the total of fifteen universities was split up into 56 new ones or linguistic and communitarian breakup of Belgian universities.

Following the split up, new institutions may either all be new independent legal entities, one may legally continue earlier institution in some capacity, or the rump institution may stay in place without seceded units. Some initiatives to split up universities were faced with protests or questions on the viability of new institutions.

Africa

Libya

• University of Libya divided in 1973 into the University of Tripoli and University of Benghazi.

Madagascar

• University of Madagascar divided in 1988 into independent new institutions.

Mali

• University of Bamako, divided in 2011 into 4 independent institutions.

Asia

Georgia

• Abkhazian State University and Sukhumi State University.

Sri Lanka

• University of Ceylon was separated into four independent universities in 1978.

Europe

Belgium

• Université catholique de Louvain and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven created as independent French and Dutch institutions in 1969 out of the Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968), following the Leuven crisis.
• Université libre de Bruxelles and Vrije Universiteit Brussel created as independent French and Dutch institutions in 1969 out of the Free University of Brussels (1834–1969).
• Universitaire Faculteiten Sint-Aloysius split up as an independent Dutch-speaking institution from the (originally and now French-speaking) Saint-Louis University, Brussels in 1969.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• University of East Sarajevo, initially named the University of Sarajevo in Republika Srpska, split up from the University of Sarajevo in 1992 during the Bosnian War.
• University of Mostar and University Džemal Bijedić of Mostar formed at the time of the Bosnian War.

France

• University of Paris, following the protests of 1968, the institution was divided into 13 new universities in 1970.
• University of Rennes, divided into the University of Rennes 1 and Rennes 2 University in 1969.
• University of Clermont-Ferrand divided in 1976 between the University of Auvergne and Blaise Pascal University, reunited in 2017.

Germany

• Free University of Berlin was created by West Berlin scholars of the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Italy

• University of Padua was established in 1222 by a secession of about a thousand students who left the University of Bologna.

Kosovo

• University of Priština and University of Pristina created out of the University of Pristina (1969–99).

United Kingdom

• University of Cambridge was established by scholars who left the University of Oxford
• University of Dundee gained independent status from the University of St Andrews in 1967.
• Victoria University was disestablished after the University of Liverpool split up in 1903, the University of Leeds in 1904 and the new charter was granted to the Victoria University of Manchester.
• Easton & Otley College split up in 2020.

North America

United States

• The New School, established in 1919 by progressive New York educators, largely former Columbia University faculty that objected to a mandatory loyalty oath.

Oceania

New Zealand

• University of New Zealand was dissolved in 1962 when former constituent colleges were granted degree-conferring powers.

See also

• Lists of universities and colleges
• 1229 University of Paris strike
• Two schools under one roof

External links

• Polly Curtis. (29 July 2005). University of London faces break up, The Guardian.
• (27 April 2018) Protests grow over plan to split up universities, Hurriyet
• M. A. Farber. (15 October 1969). L.I.U. Board Declines to Discuss Chancellor's Plan for Split-Up. The New York Times.
• Kim Wilmath. (24 February 2012). Senate votes to split off USF Polytechnic, creating 12th university. Tampa Bay Times.
• Vanessa Miller. (27 October 2017). University of Iowa faculty fear breakup of largest college. The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

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