free university

noun

a school run informally by and for college students, organized to offer courses and approaches not usually offered in a college curriculum.

He was one of the founders of the Ateneo, the free university of Madrid, and up till 1840 was director of a college at Cadiz.

The students thereupon left the university, and founded a free university, in which Reclus is at present a professor.

From this came the idea of founding a free university which should be supported entirely by private subscription.

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