Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin,Ohio,United States. Founded in 1833,it is the oldest coeducational liberal arts college in the United States and the second-oldest continuously operating coeducational institute of higher learning in the world. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. In 1835,Oberlin became one of the first colleges in the United States to admit African Americans,and in 1837,the first to admit women. It has been known since its founding for progressive student activism.
Rutgers University,officially Rutgers,The State University of New Jersey,is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766,Rutgers was originally called Queen's College,and was affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States,the second-oldest in New Jersey after Princeton University,and one of nine U.S. colonial colleges that were chartered before the American Revolution.
Seton Hall University (SHU) is a private Roman Catholic research university in South Orange,New Jersey. Founded in 1856 by then-Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley and named after his aunt,Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton,Seton Hall is the oldest diocesan university in the United States.
The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school provides an array of comprehensive coursework in the fields of international development,foreign policy,science and technology,and economics and finance through its undergraduate (AB) degrees,graduate Master of Public Affairs (MPA),Master of Public Policy (MPP),and PhD degrees.
Henry Rutgers was a United States Revolutionary War hero and philanthropist from New York City. Rutgers University was named after him,and he donated a bond which placed the college on sound financial footing. He also gave a bell that is still in use.
Edmund Aloysius Walsh was an American Roman Catholic priest of the Society of Jesus and career diplomat from South Boston,Massachusetts. He was also an author,professor of geopolitics and founder of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service,the first school for international affairs ever founded in the United States. He founded the school in 1919,six years before the U.S. Foreign Service existed,and served as its first regent.
The Law School at the College of New Jersey was a department of Princeton University from 1847 until 1852. It began instruction in 1847 as a modest effort consisting of three professors:Joseph Coerten Hornblower,Richard Stockton Field,and James S. Green. Only seven students obtained a law degree before the school closed in 1852. The short-lived experiment was the furthest the university got in a recurring ambition,marked by varying levels of effort,to establish a law school. Previously,in the 1820s,an attempt was made to organize teaching in law,but this plan ended following the death of the designated professor.
The Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA) is a non-profit educational organization of graduate schools of international affairs,with 42 members and 37 affiliates around the world.
Douglass Residential College is a non-degree-granting program established in 2007 and open to female undergraduate students at any of the degree-granting schools of Rutgers University-New Brunswick. It replaced the liberal arts degree-granting Douglass College which had been opened in 1918. Douglass,originally named New Jersey College for Women,was renamed in 1955 after its founder and first dean,Mabel Smith Douglass.
Mary Ingraham Bunting was a bacterial geneticist and an influential American college president;Time profiled her as the magazine's November 3,1961,cover story. She became Radcliffe College's fifth president in 1960 and was responsible for fully integrating women into Harvard University.
Edmund Daniel Pellegrino was an American bioethicist and academic who served as the 11th president of The Catholic University of America (CUA) from 1978 to 1982. For 35 years,Pellegrino was a distinguished professor of medicine and medical ethics and the Director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. Pellegrino was an expert both in clinical bioethics,and in the field of medicine and the humanities,specifically,the teaching of humanities in medical school,which he helped pioneer). He was the second layman to hold the position of President of Catholic University.
Cedar Crest College is a private liberal arts women's college in Allentown,Pennsylvania. At the start of the 2015-2016 academic year,the college had 1,053 undergraduate and 387 graduate students. Men may pursue various degrees at the college,but are sometimes limited to evening or weekend programs.
The Philoclean Society at Rutgers University in New Brunswick,New Jersey is one of the oldest collegiate literary societies in the United States,and among the oldest student organizations at Rutgers University. Founded in 1825,the society was one of two such organizations—the other being the Peithessophian Society—on campus devoted to the same purpose.
Mabel Smith Douglass was the first dean,in 1918,of the New Jersey College for Women in New Brunswick,New Jersey. In 1955,the college was renamed Douglass College in her honor. Douglass College is now part of Rutgers University and the library is named for Mabel Smith Douglass. The library "has a primary collection focus on women’s,gender,and sexuality studies. It is also home to the Performing Arts Library and the New Brunswick Libraries media collection."
The Institute for Women's Leadership (IWL) at Rutgers University is a consortium of ten units based at the Rutgers-New Brunswick campus. It is dedicated for the study of women and gender advocacy on behalf of gender equity,and the promotion of women's leadership locally,nationally,and globally. Established in 1991 by former Dean of Douglass Residential College,Mary S. Hartman. The institute has been led by Rebecca Mark since January 2020.
The President of Oberlin College is the chief administrator of both Oberlin College and Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Each is appointed by and is responsible to the other members of that body,who delegate to him or her the day-to-day running of the university. The current incumbent is Carmen Twillie Ambar. As part of Oberlin's inherent mission of a vastly interdisciplinary education,presidents have been chosen from a wide range of fields as diverse as musical performance (Starr),theology (Finney) physics (Fuller),law (Krislov),athletics (Stevenson) and pure mathematics (King). Thus,each president is a qualified academic professor who has the opportunity to teach classes.
Maud Mandel is an American historian and academic administrator. She is the 18th and current President of Williams College,the first woman to hold that role. Mandel was previously a Professor of History and Judaic Studies and Dean of the College at Brown University. She specialises in twentieth-century French history,with a particular focus on the interaction of Muslim,Jewish,and Armenian communities in France. She is the daughter of Ruth Mandel who was the director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University.
The role of slavery at American colleges and universities has been a focus of historical investigation and controversy. Enslaved Africans labored to build institutions of higher learning in the United States,and the slave economy was involved in funding many universities. People,forced to labor and seen as less than human,were used to build academic buildings and residential halls. Though slavery has long been presented as a uniquely Southern institution,colleges and universities in Northern states benefited from the labor of slaves. The economics of slavery brought some slave owners great wealth,enabling them to become major donors to fledgling colleges. Many colleges founded in states with legalized slavery utilized enslaved people and benefited from the slavocracy. Slaves were also sold by university administrators to generate capital. In some parts of the nation it was also not uncommon for wealthy students to bring an enslaved person with them to college. Ending almost 250 years of slavocracy did not end white supremacy,structural racism,or other forms of oppression at American colleges and the legacy of slavery still persists in many establishments.
Gibson's Bakery v. Oberlin College was an Ohio legal case concerning libel,tortious interference,and infliction of distress. The case ultimately involved questions about the responsibilities of universities during student protests.
