A liberal arts college or liberal arts institution of higher education is a college with an emphasis on undergraduate study in the liberal arts of humanities and science. Such colleges aim to impart a broad general knowledge and develop general intellectual capacities,in contrast to a professional or vocational curriculum. Students in a liberal arts college generally major in a particular discipline while receiving exposure to a wide range of academic subjects,including general sciences as well as the traditional humanities subjects taught as liberal arts. Although it draws on European antecedents,the liberal arts college is strongly associated with American higher education,and most liberal arts colleges around the world draw explicitly on the American model.
Bucknell University is a private liberal-arts college in Lewisburg,Pennsylvania,United States. Founded in 1846 as the University at Lewisburg,it now consists of the College of Arts and Sciences,the Freeman College of Management,and the College of Engineering. It offers 65 majors and 70 minors in the sciences and humanities. Located just south of Lewisburg,the 445-acre (1.80 km2) campus rises above the West Branch of the Susquehanna River.
Carleton University is an English-language public research university in Ottawa,Ontario,Canada. Founded in 1942 as Carleton College,the institution originally operated as a private,non-denominational evening college to serve returning World War II veterans. Carleton was chartered as a university by the provincial government in 1952 through The Carleton University Act, which was then amended in 1957,giving the institution its current name. The university is named after the now-dissolved Carleton County,which included the city of Ottawa at the time the university was founded.
Carleton College is a private liberal arts college in Northfield,Minnesota. Founded in 1866,the 200-acre (81 ha) main campus is between Northfield and the approximately 800-acre (320 ha) Cowling Arboretum,which became part of the campus in the 1920s.
The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York is a public research institution and postgraduate university in New York City. Formed in 1961 as Division of Graduate Studies at City University of New York,it was renamed to Graduate School and University Center in 1969. Serving as the principal doctorate-granting institution of the City University of New York (CUNY) system,CUNY Graduate Center is classified among "R1:Doctoral Universities –Very High Research Activity".
Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury,Vermont. Founded in 1800 by Congregationalists,Middlebury was the first operating college or university in Vermont.
Lafayette College is a private liberal arts college in Easton,Pennsylvania. Founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter and other citizens in Easton,the college first held classes in 1832. The founders voted to name the college after General Lafayette,a hero of the American Revolution.
Richard Halleck Brodhead is an American scholar of 19th-century American literature. He is a former dean of Yale College,and served as the 9th president of Duke University in North Carolina,from 2004 to 2017.
Robert Morris University (RMU) is a private university in Moon Township,Pennsylvania,United States. It was founded in 1921 and is named after Robert Morris,known as the "financier of the American Revolution". It enrolls nearly 5,000 students and offers 60 bachelor's degree programs and 35 master's and doctoral programs.
Amanda Anderson is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English and Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University. She is a literary scholar and theorist who has written on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture as well as on contemporary debates in literary and cultural theory.
Carol Tecla Christ is an American former academic administrator. She served as the 11th Chancellor of the University of California,Berkeley,from 2017 to 2024.
The Posse Foundation is a nonprofit organization that partners with colleges and universities in the United States to provide student scholarships and leadership training. Posse has partnered with 64 U.S. colleges and universities. The organization is centered on a cohort-based model that admits students to attend college as part of a "Posse" of 10 peers.
Lake Erie College is a private liberal arts college in Painesville,Ohio. Founded in 1856 as a female seminary,the college converted to a coeducational institution in 1985.
Laurie L. Patton is an American academic,author,and poet who is the 17th president of Middlebury College and incoming president of President of the American Academy of Arts &Sciences. She will complete her service to Middlebury in December 2024 and begin her presidency of the Academy in January 2025.
Shirley M. Collado is an American psychology professor and academic administrator. She was the 9th president of Ithaca College. Collado was the second woman to hold the post and the first person of color. She is the first Dominican American to be named president of a four-year college in the United States. Prior to joining Ithaca,Collado was assistant professor of psychology,dean of the college and vice-president for student affairs at Middlebury College,then vice president for institutional planning and community engagement at Lafayette College. After returning to Middlebury College to serve as dean of the college,she became executive vice chancellor and chief operating officer at Rutgers University-Newark. She earned her doctorate at Duke University in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience.
Katherine Anandi Rowe is an American scholar of Renaissance literature and media history. She was named the twenty-eighth president of the College of William &Mary on February 20,2018. She began her service on July 2,2018 succeeding W. Taylor Reveley III,who had served as president since 2008 and is the first woman to be named president. After seven months in office,Rowe was formally inaugurated on February 8,2019 as part of the university's annual Charter Day ceremony.
The Lafayette College campus is a 110-acre suburban area located on College Hill in Easton,Pennsylvania,United States. Lafayette College also owns and maintains a 230-acre athletic complex,the Metzgar Fields Athletic Complex. The school is roughly 70 mi (110 km) west of New York City and 60 mi (97 km) north of Philadelphia.
Lorraine Janzen Kooistra is a Canadian professor of English and a member of the Yeates School of Graduate Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is the founding co-director of TMU's Centre for Digital Humanities. She was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2018.
Gene Andrew Jarrett is an American professor,literary scholar,and academic administrator. He is Dean of the Faculty and William S. Tod Professor of English at Princeton University.
Katherine Elkins is professor of humanities and Comparative Literature and faculty in Computing at Kenyon College.
