36 Facts About Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio.

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.

Since its founding, Oberlin College has graduated 16 Rhodes Scholars, 20 Truman Scholars, 12 MacArthur fellows, 4 Rome Prize winners, 7 Pulitzer Prize winners, and 4 Nobel laureates.

Oberlin College was to be a pious, simple-living community in a sparsely populated area, of which the school, training ministers and missionaries, would be the centerpiece.

Oberlin College had brought social Christianity to an isolated region of France, just as they hoped to bring to the remote Western Reserve region of northeastern Ohio.

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Oberlin College was very much a part of the Utopian perfectionist enthusiasm that swept the country in the 1830s.

Oneida was founded by George Washington Gale, of whom Oberlin College President Charles Grandison Finney was a disciple.

Such matters arose only when Oberlin College's trustees agreed to admit the Lane Seminary Rebels from Cincinnati to Oberlin College.

Oberlin College organized and led a group exodus of Oneida students, and others from upstate New York, to come to Lane.

Nonetheless, Oberlin graduates accounted for a significant percentage of African-American college graduates by the end of the 19th century.

In 1881, students at Oberlin College formed the Oberlin College Band to journey as a group to remote Shanxi province in China.

Ten died of disease, and in 1900, fifteen of the Oberlin College missionaries, including wives and children, were killed by Boxers or Chinese government soldiers during the Boxer Rebellion.

Oberlin College recruited and hired the first four African-American athletic coaches at a predominantly white American college or university, including Tommie Smith, the gold medalist sprinter from the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

In 1970, Oberlin made the cover of Life as one of the first colleges in the country to have co-ed dormitories.

In 1983, following a nationwide search, Oberlin hired S Frederick Starr, an expert on Russian and Eurasian affairs and skilled musician, as its 12th president.

Oberlin College resigned in March 1993, effective in June of that year.

On May 30, 2017, Carmen Twillie Ambar was announced as the 15th president of Oberlin College, becoming the first African-American person and second woman to hold the position.

In January 2016, hundreds of Oberlin College alumni signed a letter to the Oberlin College administration stating that this protest was an example of anti-Semitism on the campus.

Oberlin College SFP responded with their own letter, detailing why protest of Israel does not constitute anti-semitism.

The following week, the home of a Jewish professor at Oberlin College was vandalized and a note that read "Gas Jews Die" was left on his front door.

Oberlin College Libraries has branches for art, music, and science, a central storage facility, and the Mary Church Terrell Main Library.

Oberlin College supplied a disproportionate number of participants in Mississippi Freedom Summer, rebuilt the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church in the Carpenters for Christmas project, supported NAACP sponsored sit-ins in Cleveland to integrate the building-trades, and with the SCLC participated in demonstrations at Hammermill Paper.

Oberlin College Students have protested instances of fracking in Ohio such as "the first natural gas and fracturing industry conference in the state, " in 2011.

Oberlin College Student Cooperative Association, or OSCA, is a non-profit corporation that houses 174 students in four housing co-ops and feeds 594 students in eight dining co-ops.

Outside of OSCA, other Oberlin College co-ops include the Bike Co-op, Pottery Co-op, and SWAP: The Oberlin College Book Co-op.

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Oberlin College Taiko, founded in 2008, explores and shares Japanese taiko drumming as both a traditional and contemporary art form.

The entirely student-run Oberlin College Marching Band, founded in 1998, performs at various sporting events including football games, women's rugby, and pep rallies throughout the year.

In 2006, Oberlin College became one of the charter institutions to sign the ACUPCC and set a target climate neutrality date for 2025.

The Green EDGE Fund, created in 2007, allocates grants for environmental sustainability projects and verifiable carbon offsetting projects within the Oberlin community, as well as loans from a revolving fund for projects at Oberlin College that reduce resource consumption and have calculable financial savings for the college.

In 2007, Oberlin received a grade of "B+" from the Sustainable Endowments Institute's annual College Sustainability Report Card, and was featured among schools as a "Campus Sustainability Leader".

In 2008, Oberlin received an "A-" on the annual College Sustainability Report Card.

Oberlin College participated in AASHE's Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System in early 2012.

Oberlin College was one of only 43 institutions to receive a grade of Gold in STARS.

The Oberlin College Review is a traditional weekly newspaper, focusing on current events, with a circulation of around 1, 700.

In 2011, Oberlin College began its most recent attempt to feature a cheerleading squad.

Oberlin College has both men's and a women's Ultimate club teams, known as the Flying Horsecows and the Preying Manti respectively.