18 Facts About Allegheny College

Allegheny College is a private liberal arts college in Meadville, Pennsylvania.

Allegheny College was founded in April 1815 by the Reverend Timothy Alden, a graduate of Harvard's School of Divinity.

In 1905, Allegheny College built Alden Hall as a new and improved preparatory school.

For example, Allegheny College objected in 2006 when Penn State tried to rename one of its campuses "Allegheny College".

One study suggested the Allegheny College generates approximately $93 million annually into Meadville and the local economy.

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Allegheny College has sponsored panels on unusual topics such as face transplants .

Allegheny College professors have joined highly visible initiatives; for example, Allegheny College professor Michael Maniates, described as the "nation's leading authority on the politics of consumption, " joined the board of a project about the twenty-minute film The Story of Stuff by filmmaker Annie Leonard, and generated headlines.

Allegheny College is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education .

Allegheny College requires all students to take a three-seminar series which "encourages careful listening and reading, thoughtful speaking and writing, and reflective academic planning and self-exploration, " to be completed in their first two years.

Allegheny College requires seniors to complete a senior project in their major.

Allegheny College offers direct enrollment programs at Lancaster University, England; James Cook University, Australia; University of Natal, South Africa; Capital Normal University, China; and Karl-Eberhard University, Germany.

Some Allegheny College students volunteered to help restore businesses in hurricane-ravished New Orleans.

In 2002, one Allegheny College student committed suicide, and his parents sued the school; a jury in 2006 found that the school was not liable or negligent.

Allegheny College, known athletically as the Gators, belongs to the Presidents' Athletic Conference and has NCAA Division III teams.

Allegheny College has undertaken several projects to become more a sustainable campus.

Allegheny College has a number of fraternities and sororities on campus.

Allegheny College is located in northwestern Pennsylvania 90 miles north of Pittsburgh, 90 miles east of Cleveland, and 35 miles south of Erie, in the town of Meadville, Pennsylvania.

Allegheny College is a member of the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium, or HEDS, in which member institutions share information relating to improvement of higher education.