Vesalius College
The logo of Vesalius College
Motto	Scientia Vincere Tenebras (Conquering the darkness through science)
Established	1988
Type	Private university
Dean	Jean-Louis Luyckx
Location	Brussels, Belgium
Campus	2 Pleinlaan, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
Enrollment	400 (undergraduate)
Faculty	54
Sports Team	Silver Weasels
Colours	Blue & Orange
Homepage	http://www.vub.ac.be/VECO/

Vesalius College, also known commonly as VeCo is a private Liberal Arts university situated in the heart of Brussels, Belgium. The college is operated in association with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (the VUB). It is named after Andreas Vesalius, one of the first and foremost institutions in the study of Anatomy who lived during the Renaissance period - he is also one of the most famous sons of Belgium. Image File history File linksMetadata Vesalius_College_DC_logo. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Vesalius_College_DC_logo. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A private university is a university that is run without the control of any government entity. ... Hotel de Ville de Bruxelles Map showing the location of Brussels in Belgium Emblem of the Brussels-Capital Region Flag of The City of Brussels Brussels (Dutch: Brussel, pronounced ; French: Bruxelles, pronounced in Belgian French and often by non-Belgian speakers of French; German: Brüssel) is the capital of... Species Mustela africana Mustela altaica Mustela erminea Mustela eversmannii Mustela felipei Mustela frenata Mustela kathiah Mustela lutreola Mustela lutreolina Mustela nigripes Mustela nivalis Mustela nudipes Mustela putorius Mustela sibirica Mustela strigidorsa Mustela vison Mustela Whitus Weasels are mammals in the genus Mustela of the Mustelidae family. ... Blue is any of a number of similar colors. ... Wiktionary has related dictionary definitions, such as: orange Orange has several meanings. ... In the history of education, the seven liberal arts comprise two groups of studies, the trivium and the quadrivium. ... Hotel de Ville de Bruxelles Map showing the location of Brussels in Belgium Emblem of the Brussels-Capital Region Flag of The City of Brussels Brussels (Dutch: Brussel, pronounced ; French: Bruxelles, pronounced in Belgian French and often by non-Belgian speakers of French; German: Brüssel) is the capital of... The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) is a Flemish university situated in Brussels, Belgium. ... Andreas Vesalius or Andreas Vesal (1514 - Belgian anatomist and the author of the first complete textbook on human anatomy: De Humanis Corporis Fabrica (On the workings of the Human Body) (Basel, 1543). ... Anatomical drawing of the human muscles from the Encyclopédie. ... In the traditional view, the Renaissance is understood as an historical age that was preceded by the Middle Ages and followed by the Reformation. ...

The college introduced a three-year Bachelors Degree program in 2004 in accordance with the Bologna process and is currently slowly phasing out the previous four-year degree program. Vesalius College is one of the few educational institutions in Belgium teaching exclusively in English. It has a relatively small Student Body of around 400 students - a quarter of whom are "study abroad" students who are visiting the college for one or two semesters to obtain transfer credits back at their home universities. A bachelors degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course that generally lasts three or four years. ... The purpose of the Bologna process is to create the European higher education area by harmonising academic degree standards and quality assurance standards throughout Europe for each faculty and its development. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

Location

The college has its own administration buildings, lecture rooms and other offices located around Triomflaan and Schoofslaan in the Brussels borough of Oudergem, adjacent to the main Etterbeek campus of the VUB. It also rents a number of classrooms from the VUB for lectures. Auderghem/Oudergem within the Brussels-Capital Region Auderghem (French) or Oudergem (Dutch) is one of the nineteen municipalities located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. ... Etterbeek within the Brussels-Capital Region Etterbeek is one of the nineteen municipalities located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. ...

Facilities

On the Triomflaan campus, the Vesalius College has its administrative offices, four classrooms, one conference room, one computer lab, one laptop room equipped with wireless internet access as well as a Student Lounge and Writing Centre. An illustration of a modern personal computer. ... Wi-Fi (or Wi-fi, WiFi, Wifi, wifi), short for Wireless Fidelity, is a set of standards for wireless local area networks (WLAN) currently based on the IEEE 802. ...

On the VUB campus, the college enjoys all of its facilities such as all of the classrooms, the large lecture halls (Aula), computer facilities scattered throughout the campus, the library, the cafeteria, the sports complex with indoor basketball courts, soccer pitches, and gymnasium facilities. Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005 For other uses, see Basketball (disambiguation). ... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ... Gymnasium can have following meanings: Gymnasium (ancient Greece)—an educational and sporting institution in Ancient Greece Gymnasium—a school of secondary education found in several European countries (approx. ...

Organisation

Vesalius College has three Majors under the current three-year program: The Major Championships, often referred to simply as the Majors are the four most prestigious annual tournaments in mens professional golf. ...

• Business Major - Faculty Chaired by Dr Alea Fairchild
• Communications Major - Faculty chaired by Dr Georgios Terzis
• International Affairs Major - Faculty chaired by Dr Michael Palo, associate professor for History

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Student Organisations

The Student Body elects a Student Government every academic year starting at the Fall until the end of Spring. The Vesalius Student Government or VSG for short includes four members: a president, vice-president, treasurer and secretary. A technical representative acts as a fifth member.

Vesalius College Sports Team

Students are asked to represent their Majors on the Student Council in which issues regarding the school and all things academic are discussed and necessary votes taken. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (800x800, 18 KB) Summary Vesalius College Mascot - Silver Weasels Originally created by Hans Vanlancker; digitized, vectorized and formatted by Danny Chen Voted by an All-College vote in Spring 2006 as the official mascot, under supervision by the Vesalius Student Government... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (800x800, 18 KB) Summary Vesalius College Mascot - Silver Weasels Originally created by Hans Vanlancker; digitized, vectorized and formatted by Danny Chen Voted by an All-College vote in Spring 2006 as the official mascot, under supervision by the Vesalius Student Government...

The college also hosts a variety of clubs with which the students can participate:

• Vernacular College Newspaper
• Sports Club
• Vitalis Yearbook Project
• African Students Club
• Slavic Students Club
• Beer Club (VOBC) - reflecting the spirit of Brussels
• Vesalius Business Club

Partner Institutions

At present, the College has agreements of varying types with the following colleges, universities and study abroad organizations:

The American University, Washington, D.C., United States of America
Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America
Brethern Colleges Abroad
The Council for International Educational Exchange
EDC, Paris, France
Educational Programmes Abroad, London, United Kingdom
Huron University College, London, Ontario, Canada
Tec de Monterrey, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea
Kansai Gaidai University, Osaka, Japan
Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, USA
New Anglo-American College, Prague, Czech Republic
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, USA
Solvay Business School, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Universidad de Especialidades Espiritu Santo, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico

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External links

• Vesalius College Homepage
• Vesalius College Student Government
• Vesalius College Alumni Yahoo! Group