Colby College is a private liberal arts college in Waterville,Maine. Founded in 1813 as the Maine Literary and Theological Institution,it was renamed Waterville College in 1821. The donations of Christian philanthropist Gardner Colby saw the institution renamed again to Colby University before settling on its current title,reflecting its liberal arts college curriculum,in 1899. Approximately 2,000 students from more than 60 countries are enrolled annually. The college offers 54 major fields of study and 30 minors.
Bowdoin College is a private liberal arts college in Brunswick,Maine. When Bowdoin was chartered in 1794,Maine was still a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The college offers 35 majors and 40 minors,as well as several joint engineering programs with Columbia,Caltech,Dartmouth College,and the University of Maine.
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 New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference that competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III comprising sports teams from eleven highly selective liberal arts institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The eleven institutions are Amherst College,Bates College,Bowdoin College,Colby College,Connecticut College,Hamilton College,Middlebury College,Tufts University,Trinity College,Wesleyan University,and Williams College.
Bates College is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston,Maine. Anchored by the Historic Quad,the campus of Bates totals 813 acres (329 ha). It maintains 600 acres (240 ha) of nature preserve known as the "Bates-Morse Mountain" near Campbell Island and a coastal center on Atkins Bay.
The University of North Alabama (UNA) is a public university in Florence,Alabama. It is the state's oldest public university. Occupying a 130-acre (0.5 km2) campus in a residential section of Florence,UNA is located within a four-city area that also includes Tuscumbia,Sheffield and Muscle Shoals. The four cities compose a metropolitan area with a combined population of 140,000 people.
Missouri Southern State University is a public university in Joplin,Missouri. It was established in 1937 as Joplin Junior College. The university enrolled 4,087 students in Fall 2023.
Colby–Sawyer College is a private college in New London,New Hampshire. It was founded as a coeducational academy in 1837 and sits on a 200-acre (0.81 km2) campus.
George Colby Chase was an American intellectual and professor of English who served as the second President of Bates College succeeding its founder,Oren Burbank Cheney,from March 1894 to November 1919.
Lane Hall is a later 20th-century neoclassical building serving as the principal workplace and headquarters of the central administration of Bates College,located at 2 Andrews Road in Lewiston,Maine. It has been the principle administrative headquarters of every Bates president since Thomas Hedley Reynolds in 1964. Lane Hall was named after George Lane Jr.,who served as treasurer of the college and secretary of the corporation.
West Campus is a residential section of Cornell University main campus in Ithaca,New York. It is bounded roughly by Fall Creek gorge to the north,West Avenue and Libe Slope to the east,Cascadilla gorge and the Ithaca City Cemetery to the south,and University Avenue and Lake Street to the west. It now primarily houses transfer students,second year students,and upperclassmen.
Barry Mills is an American attorney and academic who served as the fourteenth president of Bowdoin College.
Roger Howell Jr. was the tenth president of Bowdoin College in Brunswick,Maine,and the fourth to be an alumnus of the college.
Arthur LeRoy Greason,Jr. was the twelfth president of Bowdoin College in Brunswick,Maine,serving from 1981 to 1990.
Allen Hungerford Morgan was an ornithologist,environmental advocate,and founder of Sudbury Valley Trustees.
Peyton Randolph "Randy" Helm was the eleventh president of Muhlenberg College,located in Allentown,Pennsylvania. Helm took office on July 1,2003,and departed on June 30,2015.
William R. Cotter was an American lawyer and the 18th president of Colby College from 1979 to 2000,the longest serving president in the college's history.
Robert E. L. Strider was the 17th President of Colby College from 1960 to 1979.
Rev. Beniah Longley Whitman was the 11th president of Colby College,and later Columbian College.
The history of Bates College began shortly before Bates College's founding on March 16,1855,in Lewiston,Maine. The college was founded by Oren Burbank Cheney and Benjamin Bates. Originating as a Free Will Baptist institution,it has since secularized and established a liberal arts curriculum. After the mysterious 1853 burning of Parsonsfield Seminary,Cheney wanted to create another seminary in a more central part of Maine:Lewiston,a then-booming industrial economy. He met with religious and political leaders in Topsham,to discuss the formation of such a school,recruiting much of the college's first trustees,most notably Ebenezer Knowlton. After a well-received speech by Cheney,the group successfully petitioned the Maine State Legislature to establish the Maine State Seminary. At its founding it was the first coeducational college in New England. Soon after it was established,donors stepped forward to finance the seminary,developing the school in an affluent residential district of Lewiston. The college struggled to finance its operations after the financial crisis of 1857,requiring extra capital to remain afloat. Cheney's political activities attracted Benjamin Bates,who was interested in fostering his business interests in Maine. Bates donated installments of tens of thousands of dollars to the college to bring it out of the crisis.
