Fictional academic institutions

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 60. Chapters: Fictional military academies, Fictional schools, Fictional universities and colleges, Springfield Elementary School, School and university in literature, Miskatonic University, Starfleet Academy, Unseen University, Dharma Initiative, Otokojuku, List of Xavier Institute students and staff, Empire State University, Malory Towers, Greyfriars School, Gravedale High, Baxter Building, Chalet School, Sweet Valley University, St Trinian's School, List of fictional Oxford colleges, List of fictional Cambridge colleges, The Devon School, Crafthalls of Pern, Poppleton University, The Rebel Angels, GURPS Illuminati University, Hudson University, Academy of Law, Medfield College, List of fictional military schools and academies, University of Edgestow, Maguire University, Plainfield Teacher's College, USND at Hoople, Domdaniel, Harper Hall, Wossamotta U, Camden College, Coal Hill School, List of fictional Oxbridge colleges, Université Notre Dame des Ombres, University of Muri, University of Okoboji. Excerpt: The Dharma Initiative, also written DHARMA (Department of Heuristics and Research on Material Applications), was a fictional research project featured in the television series Lost. It was introduced in the second season episode "Orientation". In 2008, the Dharma Initiative website was launched. Dharma's interests were directly connected with fringe science. Dharma is a Sanskrit term used in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism. The Dharma Initiative and its origins are first explored in the episode "Orientation" by an orientation film in the Swan Station. Dr. Pierre Chang (Francois Chau), explains that the project began in 1970, created by two doctoral candidates from the University of Michigan, Gerald and Karen DeGroot (Michael Gilday and Courtney Lavigne), and was funded by Alvar Hanso (Ian Patrick Williams) of the Hanso Foundation. They imagined a "large-scale communal research compound", where scientists and free thinkers from around the globe could research meteorology, psychology, parapsychology, zoology, electromagnetism, and a sixth discipline that the film begins to identify as "utopian social-" before being cut off. The episodes "LaFleur" and "He's Our You" indicate that mathematician Horace Goodspeed was in charge of Dharma Initiative operations on the Island, at least from the very early 1970s through the time of "the Incident." Key decisions that needed to be made on the Island were taken by a committee, which included all department heads, including Head of Research Stuart Radzinsky and security head LaFleur (the name the time-traveling Sawyer was assuming). They, in turn, answer to the Dharma Initiative HQ based at the University of Michigan, as evidenced when Radzinsky threatens to call the University to override a key decision by Goodspeed. In the episode "The Variable", Daniel Faraday confirmed that Dharma Initiative Headquarters, at least through 1977, was located at Ann Arbor, Michigan. The "Lost Experience", an alternate reality game which