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Bucknell University is a private liberal arts college located alongside the West Branch Susquehanna River in the town of Lewisburg , in ___MASK99___ ___MASK54___ , United States . The university consists of the College of Arts and Sciences , School of Management , and the College of Engineering . Bucknell was founded in 1846 , and features programs in the arts , humanities , sciences , social sciences , engineering , management , education , and music , as well as programs and pre - professional advising that prepare students for study in law and medicine . It offers nearly 50 majors and over 60 minors . The University of ___MASK55___ Press ( UDP ) is a publishing house and a department of the University of ___MASK55___ in the United States , whose main campus is at ___MASK81___ , ___MASK55___ , where the University Press is also based . The University of ___MASK55___ ( colloquially " UD ") is the largest university in ___MASK55___ . The main campus is in ___MASK81___ , with satellite campuses in ___MASK92___ , ___MASK37___ , Lewes , and Georgetown . It is medium - sized  approximately 18 , 500 undergraduate and 4 , 500 graduate students . UD is a privately governed university which receives public funding for being a land - grant , sea - grant , space - grant and urban - grant state - supported research institution . A university press is an academic publishing house specializing in academic monographs and scholarly journals . Most are nonprofit and an integral component of a large research university . They publish work that has been reviewed by scholars in the field . They produce mainly scholarly works , but also often have " popular " titles , such as books on religion or on regional topics . Because scholarly books are mostly unprofitable , university presses may also publish textbooks and reference works , which tend to have larger audiences and sell more copies . Most university presses operate at a loss and are subsidized by their owners ; others are required to break even . Demand has fallen as library budgets are cut and the online sales of used books undercut the new book market . Many presses are experimenting with electronic publishing . ___MASK53___ is a state in the Northeastern United States and mid - Atlantic regions of the United States . It is bordered on the north and east by ___MASK50___ , on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean , on the west by Pennsylvania , and on the southwest by Delaware . ___MASK53___ is the fourth - smallest state but the 11th - most populous and the most densely populated of the 50 United States . ___MASK53___ lies entirely within the combined statistical areas of ___MASK50___ City and Philadelphia and is the third - wealthiest U . S . state by per capita income as of 2014 . Hidden Ivies : Thirty Colleges of Excellence is a college educational guide published in 2000 . It concerns college admissions in the United States . The authors define both the title of this book as well as their goals in writing it on page one in the following manner : " Our ___MASK36___ in writing this book for students and parents is to create greater awareness of the small , distinctive cluster of colleges and universities of excellence that are available to gifted college - bound students ." In the introduction , the authors further explain their aim by referring specifically to " the group historically known as the ' Little Ivies ' ( including ___MASK3___ , Bowdoin , Middlebury , Swarthmore , Wesleyan , and Williams )" which the authors say have " scaled the heights of prestige and selectivity and also turn away thousands of our best and brightest young men and women ." The second edition includes the assessment of all the institutions considered " Little Ivies " except Connecticut College . Connecticut College is referenced on three occasions in the book for its affiliation and student exchange program with other Little Ivies , and the college is included in Appendix II as another college of excellence . Lehigh University Press is the publishing house of Lehigh University . Lehigh ' s university press was a member of the Associated University Presses consortium ; other members included Bucknell University Press , University of ___MASK55___ Press , Susquehanna University Press and Fairleigh Dickinson University Press . When Associated University Presses ceased most new publishing in 2010 , a new distribution agreement between Lehigh University Press , Bucknell University Press , University of ___MASK55___ Press , and Fairleigh Dickinson University Press was struck with Rowman & Littlefield . Founded in 1985 , the current director of the press is Lehigh English professor Kate Crassons . The press ' s three main areas of focus are 18th - century studies , local history , and science and technology in society . Active series : Studies in Eighteenth - Century America and the Atlantic World Studies in Christianity in China Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe New Directions in Africana Studies Research in Technology Studies Text and Print Culture Fairleigh Dickinson University is a private , coeducational and nonsectarian university founded in 1942 . Fairleigh Dickinson University is the first American university to own and operate an international campus and currently offers more than 100 individual degree programs to its students . The school has four campuses , two in ___MASK53___ ( United States ), and one each in Vancouver , ___MASK73___ , and in the ___MASK45___ . Susquehanna University is a four - year , co - educational , private liberal arts university in Selinsgrove , in ___MASK99___ ___MASK54___ , United States . The university is situated in the Susquehanna Valley approximately north of ___MASK54___ ' s state capital , ___MASK6___ . ___MASK62___ is a city in Lehigh and Northampton counties in the Lehigh Valley region of the eastern portion of the U . S . state of Pennsylvania . As of the 2010 census , the city had a total population of 74 , 982 , making it the seventh largest city in Pennsylvania , after Philadelphia , Pittsburgh , Allentown , Erie , Reading , and Scranton . Of this , 55 , 639 were in Northampton County , and 19 , 343 were in Lehigh County . A research university is a university that expects all its tenured and tenure - track faculty to continuously engage in research , as opposed to merely requiring it as a condition of an initial appointment or tenure . Such universities can be recognized by their strong focus on innovative research and the prestige of their ___MASK86___ names . On the one hand , research universities strive to recruit faculty who are the most brilliant minds in their disciplines in the world , and their students enjoy the opportunity to learn from such experts . On the other hand , new students are often disappointed to realize their undergraduate courses at research universities are overly academic and fail to provide vocational training with immediate " real world " applications ; but many employers value degrees from research universities because they know that such coursework develops fundamental skills like critical thinking . Asa Packer ( December 29 , 1805  May 17 , 1879 ) was an American businessman who pioneered railroad construction , was active in ___MASK54___ politics , and founded Lehigh University . A conservative and religious man , he reflected the image of the typical ___MASK5___ Yankee . His knowledge of construction and engineering was put to good use on behalf of his university . Packer also served two terms in the United States House of Representatives ( 1853  1857 ). Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ( FDU Press ) is a publishing house under the operation and oversight of Fairleigh Dickinson University , the largest private university in ___MASK53___ . Associated University Presses ( AUP ) is a publishing company based in the United States , formed and operated as a consortium of several American university presses . AUP was established in 1966 , with the first titles published through AUP appearing in 1968 . There were five constituent members in the AUP consortium  Bucknell University Press , University of ___MASK55___ Press , Fairleigh Dickinson University Press , Lehigh University Press , and Susquehanna University Press . Each member university press maintained its own imprint and editorial control over their published titles , while book production and distribution ( both national and international ) was the responsibility of AUP . ___MASK81___ is a small city in New Castle County , Delaware , west - southwest of ___MASK37___ . According to the 2010 Census , the population of the city is 31 , 454 . ___MASK81___ is the home of the University of Delaware . Lehigh University is an American private research university located in ___MASK62___ , Pennsylvania . It was established in 1865 by businessman Asa Packer and has grown to include studies in a wide variety of disciplines . Its undergraduate programs have been coeducational since the 1971  72 academic year . As of 2014 , the university had 4 , 904 undergraduate students and 2 , 165 graduate students . Lehigh is considered one of the twenty - four Hidden Ivies in the Northeastern United States . ___MASK55___ is a state located in the Mid - Atlantic and / or Northeastern regions of the United States . It is bordered to the south and west by ___MASK79___ , to the northeast by ___MASK53___ , and to the north by ___MASK54___ . The state takes its name from Thomas West , 3rd Baron De La Warr , an English nobleman and Virginia ' s first colonial governor .