The University of Oklahoma University College is the college that new student are part of until they have declared a major and are admitted another college. Unlike the other colleges, the University College does not grant degrees. The purpose of the University College is to aid in the transition to college and to hopefully prepare students for academic success.
Since the University College was founded in 1942 it has been a model for programs for freshmen at other universities.
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“The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.”
—Allan Bloom (1930–1992)
“I know only one person who ever crossed the ocean without feeling it, either spiritually or physically.... he went from Oklahoma to France and back again ... without ever getting off dry land. He remembers several places I remember too, and several French words, but he says firmly, “We must of went different ways. I don’t rightly recollect no water, ever.””
—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)
“The logical English train a scholar as they train an engineer. Oxford is Greek factory, as Wilton mills weave carpet, and Sheffield grinds steel. They know the use of a tutor, as they know the use of a horse; and they draw the greatest amount of benefit from both. The reading men are kept by hard walking, hard riding, and measured eating and drinking, at the top of their condition, and two days before the examination, do not work but lounge, ride, or run, to be fresh on the college doomsday.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)