Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A university that has numerous constituent and affiliated institutions, such as separate colleges, campuses, and research centers.
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- noun A kind of
modern , large-scaleuniversity , open to all, proposed by Clark Kerr in the 1960s.
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- noun a university system having several separate campuses and colleges and research centers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Pekar is great, and DC comics is ... well, the home of the "multiversity".
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Such institutions go beyond the "multiversity," the model defined in the 1960s by Clark Kerr, then president of the University of California.
Wired Campus 2010
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Such institutions go beyond the "multiversity," the model defined in the 1960s by Clark Kerr, then president of the University of California.
Wired Campus 2010
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Pekar is great, and DC comics is … well, the home of the “multiversity”.
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It is a classic American success story: Horatio Alger updated for the age of the multiversity and the therapy session.
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The first university disruptions at Berkeley were explicitly directed against the multiversity smorgasbord and, I must confess, momentarily and partially engaged my sympathies.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003
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The first university disruptions at Berkeley were explicitly directed against the multiversity smorgasbord and, I must confess, momentarily and partially engaged my sympathies.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003
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I heard it once, started to put it back on the shelf and then it hit me: multiversity!
Zenyatta Mondatta 1980
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The facelessness and impersonality of much that went on in the multiversity was, accordingly, all the more galling.
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The large corporation, the computerized government department, the vast multiversity, are indicative of this trend and the consequence of it is a considerable increase in shared attitudes among those who run our major institutions.
Why Students Rebel 1968
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