The word derives from a Latin word for "field" and was first used to describe the large field adjacent Nassau Hall of the … See more

The tradition of a campus began with the medieval European universities where the students and teachers lived and worked together in a cloistered environment. The notion of the importance of the setting to academic li… See more

The meaning expanded to include the whole university institutional property during the 20th century, with the old meaning persisting into the 1950s in some places.
In the early 1990s the term began to be used to des… See more

• Campus novel
• Campus university
• History of college campuses and architecture in the United States
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