# university (education)

a group of people that establishes school and research

- Computed level: L8 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: education  ·  Arena: emergencelexicon

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [groups](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-groups.collection), [people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-people.social), [school](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-school.education), [research](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-research.investigation), [establishes](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-establishes.verb)

**Through:** people come together as groups that establish school and research

**Novel properties:**
- structured learning environment
- systematic inquiry
- enduring academic institution

## Examples
- In 1218, the University of Salamanca in Spain was formally established by royal charter, becoming Europe's oldest extant university. *(institutions)*
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was founded in 1861 to advance industrial research and technical education in Cambridge, Massachusetts. *(education)*
- In 1963, the University of Dar es Salaam opened in Tanzania, training postcolonial Africa's new generation of leaders and researchers. *(history)*

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