state university

noun

1. a university maintained by the government of a state.

Word History and Origins

Origin of state university¹

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35

Example Sentences

“We have allowed employment to become more and more precarious, even as we have created a system in which the only way to fully access benefits is to fully participate,” says Sarah Damaske, a sociology professor at Pennsylvania State University, adding that health insurance, SNAP, unemployment insurance and Social Security are tied to work and having a work history.

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"This fossil doesn't just settle the debate. It flips decades of T. rex research on its head," says Lindsay Zanno, associate research professor at North Carolina State University and head of paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.

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“Each robot has minimal functionality,” says Igor Aronson, an engineer at Pennsylvania State University who led the project.

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“My mind goes to how he must have been feeling as the object of public humiliation in a community that he values so much and in a community that his self-worth and self-esteem are tied to,” psychologist Michael Stanton, of California State University, East Bay, told Slate.

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The relationship is a "rebranding for both of them in a very interesting and unexpected way", said Jose Rodriguez, a professor of Communication Studies at California State University Long Beach.

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