32-687: ABAC or Abac may refer to: Àbac , a restaurant in Barcelona, Spain Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College , a public college in Tifton, Georgia Anti-bribery/anti-corruption solutions, see Foreign Corrupt Practices Act § Anti-bribery/anti-corruption (ABAC) solutions Assumption University (Thailand) , formerly known as Assumption Business Administration College Attribute-based access control Topics referred to by
64-494: A Writer's Harvest and contributions to the George Scott Day festival. ABAC also has its own radio station, WPLH 103.1. Intercollegiate sports teams include baseball, golf, and tennis for men, and softball, tennis, and soccer for women. ABAC has five national championships, three in softball and two in men's tennis. ABAC has achieved international attention through its music program. The music program at ABAC includes
96-527: A destination restaurant named Lincoln, as well as offices. Subsequent projects were added which addressed improvements to the main plazas and Columbus Avenue Grand Stairs. Under the direction of the Lincoln Center Development Project, Diller Scofidio + Renfro in association with FXFOWLE Architects and Beyer Blinder Belle Architects provided the design services. Additionally, Turner Construction Company and RCDolner, LLC were
128-455: A jazz band, jazz choir, concert band, concert choir, bluegrass band, and pep band. The ABAC jazz band has been on three tours of Europe. ABAC vocalists performed in 2011 at Lincoln Center . The ABAC Arts Connection brings art and cultural events to Tifton and surrounding counties. The Baldwin Players theatre troupe stage performances during the fall and spring semesters. Recently, ABAC became
160-770: A member institution of the Georgia Poetry Circuit. ABAC has a Greek system on campus with the Sigma Gamma Rho , Sigma Alpha , Lambda Sigma Upsilon , Alpha Gamma Rho and Kappa Sigma fraternities. One of the more active clubs on campus is the Agricultural Engineering Technology Club. It is known for holding truck and tractor pulls on campus each fall and spring. The club maintains the ABAC Crackerjack pulling tractor, an Allis Chalmers 190XT, built in
192-669: A renovation. The main auditorium was renamed the Tsai Hall after a $ 50 million donation from Joseph Tsai and Clara Wu Tsai . Architects who designed buildings at the center include: The center has 30 indoor and outdoor performance facilities including: The center serves as home for eleven resident arts organizations: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) is one of the eleven resident organizations, and serves as presenter of artistic programming, leader in arts and education and community relations, and manager of
224-766: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College ( ABAC ) is a public college in Tifton, Georgia . It is part of the University System of Georgia and offers baccalaureate and associate degrees . The college is named after Abraham Baldwin , a signer of the United States Constitution from Georgia and
256-656: Is the largest area of study at ABAC. The Forestry track of the Natural Resources Management program is accredited by the Society of American Foresters . Nursing is the largest single major. This associate degree program prepares students to be certified as a Registered Nurse (R.N.). Learning laboratories such as the J.G. Woodroof Farm and the Forest Lakes Golf Club enhance the academic curriculum. ABAC's 516-acre campus also includes
288-762: The New York Philharmonic , the Metropolitan Opera , the New York City Ballet , the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Juilliard School . A consortium of civic leaders and others, led by and under the initiative of philanthropist John D. Rockefeller III , built Lincoln Center as part of the "Lincoln Square Renewal Project" during Robert Moses 's program of New York's urban renewal in
320-577: The 1950s and 1960s. Respected architects were contracted to design the major buildings on the site. Rockefeller was appointed as the Lincoln Center's inaugural president in 1956, and once he resigned, became its chairman in 1961. He is credited with raising more than half of the $ 184.5 million in private funds needed to build the complex, including drawing from his own funds; the Rockefeller Brothers Fund also contributed to
352-521: The 1970s by former staff member Jimmy Grubbs. The AET club has also recently completed work on a new pulling tractor, an AGCO Allis 9650, making the ABAC AET club the only college organization in the U.S. that currently has two running and competitive Super Farm pulling tractors. Almost all of the work building the new tractor and the work needed to maintain Crackerjack is performed by the students in
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#1732801353229384-578: The Forestry-Wildlife Club. The Stallion is the premier student newspaper in both the state and the southeast region. It wins annual awards for excellence in all categories, such as editorials, feature writing, photography, layout and design, given by the Georgia Press Association. Staff of the literary magazine, Pegasus , and creative writing faculty sponsor numerous poetry readings each year. Other events include
416-630: The Georgia Museum of Agriculture and Historic Village, located one mile south of the main campus. Key components of the museum include an 1890s village, a blacksmith shop, a grist mill, a cotton gin, a print shop, a saw mill, and a steam locomotive. There are numerous student organizations on the ABAC campus. Students have the opportunity to get involved with organizations ranging from the Student Government Association to
448-618: The Lincoln Center Institute's educational background and archives. Lincoln Center Cultural Innovation Fund is the first of its kind as a grant program that seeks to make the arts accessible to all people, focusing on those who live in some of New York City's poorest neighborhoods. Partnering with the Rockefeller Foundation , the new pilot grant program offers one-time grants to non-profit organizations to provide cultural activities in these communities in
480-490: The New York Municipal Archives from that time have no record of a Lincoln surname; they only list the names Johannes van Bruch, Thomas Hall, Stephen De Lancey , James De Lancey, James De Lancey Jr. and John Somerindyck . One speculation is that references to President Lincoln were omitted from the records because the mayor in 1906 was George B. McClellan Jr. , son of General George B. McClellan , who
512-577: The New York Philharmonic's fear that it might lose audiences and revenue while it was displaced. Among the architects that have been involved were Frank Gehry ; Cooper, Robertson & Partners ; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill ; Beyer Blinder Belle ; Fox & Fowle ; Olin Partnership ; and Diller & Scofidio . In March 2006, the center launched the 65th Street Project – part of a major redevelopment plan continuing through
544-612: The Performing Arts Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center ) is a 16.3-acre (6.6-hectare) complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan . It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 million visitors annually. It houses internationally renowned performing arts organizations including
576-550: The President's Bridge over West 65th Street. When first announced in 1999, Lincoln Center's campus-wide redevelopment was to cost $ 1.5 billion over 10 years and radically transform the campus. The center management held an architectural competition, won by the British architect Norman Foster in 2005, but did not approve a full scale redesign until 2012, in part because of the need to raise $ 300 million in construction costs and
608-577: The center was named as a tribute to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln or for its location in the Lincoln Square Neighborhood. The name was bestowed on the area in 1906 by the New York City Board of Aldermen , but records give no reason for choosing that name. There has long been speculation that the name came from a local landowner, because the square was previously named Lincoln Square. However, property records from
640-781: The center's campus. LCPA has some 5,000 programs, initiatives, and events annually, and its programs include American Songbook, Great Performers, Lincoln Center Festival, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, the Mostly Mozart Festival , Target Free Thursdays, the White Light Festival and the Emmy Award –winning Live from Lincoln Center . In July 2006, the LCPA announced it would join with publishing company John Wiley & Sons to publish at least 15 books on performing arts, and would draw on
672-513: The club. The club uses both tractors as recruiting tools not only for the organization, but for the school as well. Over 1,200 students live on the ABAC campus in modern housing units. In ABAC Place, every student has a private bedroom in a four-bedroom, two-bath apartment. The ABAC Lakeside facility offers suite-style living for freshmen on the north shore of Lake Baldwin. 31°28′30″N 83°31′23″W / 31.475°N 83.523°W / 31.475; -83.523 Lincoln Center for
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#1732801353229704-476: The construction managers for the projects. Another component to redevelopment was the addition of the David Rubenstein Atrium designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects , a visitors' center and a gateway to the center that offers free performances, day-of-discount tickets, food, and free Wi-Fi . Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall (previously Avery Fisher Hall) reopened in 2022 after
736-481: The diverse neighborhoods of Central Brooklyn and the South Bronx . Each of the 12 grantees will receive support and financial backing for their project based on organizational budget size. These are one-year long projects, and grant amounts range from $ 50,000–$ 100,000. The over-all goal of the program is to support non-profit organizations in creating cultural innovative strategies that cultivate participation in
768-480: The fall of 2012 – to create a new pedestrian promenade designed to improve accessibility and the aesthetics of that area of the campus. Additionally, Alice Tully Hall was modernized and reopened to critical and popular acclaim in 2009 and Film at Lincoln Center expanded with the new Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center. Topped by a sloping lawn roof, the film center is part of a new pavilion that also houses
800-749: The first president of the University of Georgia . ABAC was established in 1908 as the Second District A&;M School . The name was changed to the South Georgia A&;M College in 1924, and to the Georgia State College for Men in 1929. It became Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in 1933 when ABAC became a part of the newly formed University System of Georgia. At that time, ABAC's mission
832-466: The main campus. In 2004, the center expanded through the addition of Jazz at Lincoln Center 's newly built facilities, the Frederick P. Rose Hall, at the new Time Warner Center , located a few blocks to the south. In March 2006, the center launched construction on a major redevelopment plan that modernized, renovated, and opened up its campus. Redevelopment was completed in 2012 with the completion of
864-557: The project. Numerous architects were hired to build different parts of the center (see § Architects ). The center's first three buildings, David Geffen Hall (formerly Avery Fisher Hall, originally named Philharmonic Hall), David H. Koch Theater (formerly the New York State Theater), and the Metropolitan Opera House were opened in 1962, 1964, and 1966, respectively. It is unclear whether
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928-530: The well-manicured grounds of the college. A renovation project was recently completed for the original three buildings on campus, Tift, Lewis, and Herring Halls. New landscaping and a new front lawn for ABAC were also a part of the renovation process. ABAC has a lab science building that was opened in 2016. ABAC also has an instructional site in Bainbridge . The college became the owner of Possum Poke in 1999. The School of Agriculture and Natural Resources
960-712: Was general-in-chief of the Union Army early in the American Civil War and a bitter rival of Lincoln's. In 1955, the first city institution to commit to be part of the Lincoln Square Renewal Project, an effort to revitalize the city's west side with a new performing arts complex that would become the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, was the Fordham Law School of Fordham University . In 1961, Fordham Law School
992-474: Was devoted to associate level studies in agriculture, home economics, and related fields. Today, ABAC offers a variety of bachelor's degree programs as well as associate degrees. The ABAC campus is used as an open-air classroom for students in the School of Agriculture and Natural Resources due to the large number of trees, plants, shrubs, and fields on campus. ABAC faculty, staff, students and visitors also enjoy
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1024-570: Was the first building to open as part of the renewal project, and in 1968, Fordham College at Lincoln Center welcomed its first students. The development of the condominium at 3 Lincoln Center, completed in 1991, designed by Lee Jablin of Harman Jablin Architects, made possible the expansion of The Juilliard School and the School of American Ballet . The center's cultural institutions also have since made use of facilities located away from
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