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Allegheny College is a private liberal arts college located in northwestern Pennsylvania in the town of Meadville.
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Amherst College
Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009. Students choose courses from 35 major programs in an unusually open curriculum.
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Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic (, ), is the second largest country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires. It is the eighth-largest country in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations, though Mexico, Colombia and Spain are more populous.
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Bard College
Bard College, founded in 1860, is a small four-year liberal arts college located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
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Bennington College
Bennington College is a liberal arts college located in Bennington, Vermont, USA. The college was founded in 1932 as a women's college and became co-educational in 1969.
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Berea College
Berea College is a liberal arts work college in Berea, Kentucky (south of Lexington), founded in 1855. Current full-time enrollment is 1,514 students. Berea College is distinctive among post-secondary institutions for providing low-cost education to students from low-income families and for having been the first college in the Southern United States to be coeducational and racially integrated. Berea College charges no tuition; every admitted student is provided the equivalent of a four-year, full-tuition scholarship (currently worth $102,000; $25,500 per year).
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Carleton College
Carleton College is an independent non-sectarian, coeducational, liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, USA. The college currently enrolls 1,958 undergraduate students, and employs 198 full-time faculty members. Steven G. Poskanzer is the current President. In 2010 U.S. News and World Report ranked Carleton College the 8th best liberal arts college in the United States and in 2011 US News ranked Carleton number one for undergraduate teaching at a national liberal arts college.
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Centre College
Centre College is a private, four-year liberal arts college located in Danville, Kentucky, USA, a community of about 16,000 in Boyle County, approximately south of Lexington, KY. Centre was founded by Presbyterian leaders in 1819.
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Chatham University
Chatham University is an American liberal arts women's college with coeducational graduate programs through the doctoral level, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Shadyside neighborhood. The campus population of approximately 2,400 includes undergraduate women and graduate women and men. The University grants degrees including certificates, bachelor, master, first-professional, and doctorate. In 2005 the University expanded its programs to include online degrees through the School of Continuing Education, now the College for Continuing and Professional Studies.
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Clark University
Clark University is a private research university and liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Coe College
Coe College is a private, four-year, liberal arts college in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Founded in 1851, the institution is historically affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA). Its current president is James R. Phifer. It is one of the smaller universities to have a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. It is one of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM).
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Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University) is a private research university in New York City and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution. It was founded in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain, and is one of only three United States universities to have been founded under such authority.
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Connecticut College
Connecticut College (Conn College or Conn) is a private liberal arts college located in New London, Connecticut.
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Cornell University
Cornell University (, {{respell|kor-) is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York. It is a private land-grant university which receives funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions.
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Costa Rica
:For the plant genus Costarica, see its synonym Sicyos.
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Drew University
Drew University is a private university located in Madison, New Jersey.
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Eckerd College
Eckerd College is a private 4-year coeducational liberal arts college at the southernmost tip of St. Petersburg, Florida, in the Tampa Bay metropolitan area. The college is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
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Gettysburg College
Gettysburg College is a private four-year liberal arts college founded in 1832, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States, adjacent to the famous battlefield. Its athletic teams are nicknamed the Bullets. Gettysburg College has about 2,600 students, with roughly equal numbers of men and women. Gettysburg students come from 40 states and 35 countries.
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Harvard College
Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of two schools within Harvard University granting undergraduate degrees. Founded in 1636, it is also Harvard's oldest school. Instruction of its students is the responsibility of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation (officially The President and Fellows of Harvard College) chartered in the country.
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Harvey Mudd College
Harvey Mudd College is a private residential liberal arts college of science, engineering, and mathematics, located in Claremont, California. It is one of the institutions of the contiguous Claremont Colleges, which share adjoining campus grounds.
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Hendrix College
Hendrix College is a private liberal arts college located in Conway, Arkansas. The student body averages around 1,400 attendees and currently represents thirty-five states and ten foreign countries. In ''US News and World Report's'' America's Best Colleges, Hendrix is ranked annually in the top tier of liberal arts colleges. In the 2008 edition Hendrix is ranked 71st in the nation. In 2009, Forbes ranked it 81st of America's Best Colleges. The college is affiliated with the United Methodist Church; however, the curriculum is secular and the student body is composed of people from many different religious backgrounds. Hendrix is a member of the Associated Colleges of the South. Its current president is Dr. James Timothy Cloyd. Hendrix College is listed in Loren Pope's Colleges That Change Lives.
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Hiram College
Hiram College ( ) is a private liberal arts college located in Hiram, Ohio. Founded by Amos Sutton Hayden of the Disciples of Christ Church in 1850, the institution has, since its first days, been nonsectarian and coeducational, and throughout its existence Hiram College has sustained this egalitarian tradition of educating men and women from diverse backgrounds. U.S. President James A. Garfield was a student, instructor, and principal of the institution while it was still the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute. Today the College is known for its unique academic calendar and for its study abroad programs. Hiram College is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Hiram is listed in Loren Pope's Colleges That Change Lives.
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Hollins University
Hollins University is a four-year institution of higher education, a private university located on a campus on the border of Roanoke County, Virginia and Botetourt County, Virginia. Founded in 1842 as Valley Union Seminary, it is one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States.
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Hope College
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India
India (), officially the Republic of India ( ; see also official names of India), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.18 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Mainland India is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east; and it is bordered by Pakistan to the west; Bhutan, the People's Republic of China and Nepal to the north; and Bangladesh and Burma to the east. In the Indian Ocean, mainland India and the Lakshadweep Islands are in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, while India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share maritime border with Thailand and the Indonesian island of Sumatra in the Andaman Sea. India has a coastline of .
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Juniata College
Juniata College is a private liberal arts college located in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. It is named after the Juniata River — one of the principal tributaries of the Susquehanna River. In 1876 it became the first college founded by the Church of the Brethren and has been co-educational since that time. Juniata has a current enrollment of approximately 1,500 students from 28 states and territories and 26 foreign countries.
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Manhattan College
Manhattan College is a Roman Catholic liberal arts college in the Lasallian tradition in New York City. Despite the college's name, it is no longer located in Manhattan but in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, roughly 10 miles north of Midtown. Manhattan College offers undergraduate programs in the arts, business, education, engineering, and science. Graduate programs are offered for education and engineering.
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Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts () is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. Most of its population of 6.6 million lives in the Boston metropolitan area. The eastern half of the state consists of urban, suburban, and rural areas, while Western Massachusetts is mostly rural. Massachusetts is the most populous of the six New England states and ranks third among U.S. states in GDP per capita.
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Mead Art Museum
Mead Art Museum is an art museum associated with Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts and is a member of Museums10.
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Middlebury College
Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in Middlebury, Vermont, United States. Founded in 1800, it is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States. Middlebury is the first American institution of higher education known to have granted a bachelor's degree to an African-American, graduating Alexander Twilight in the class of 1823. Middlebury was also one of the first formerly all-male liberal arts colleges in New England to become a coeducational institution, following the trustees' decision in 1883 to accept women.
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Mills College
Mills College is an independent liberal arts women's college founded in 1852 that offers bachelor's degrees to women and graduate degrees and certificates to women and men. Located in Oakland, California, Mills was the first women's college west of the Rockies. The institution was initially founded in 1852 in Benicia as a young ladies' seminary. In 1865, Susan Tolman Mills and her husband Cyrus Mills bought the school, renamed it Mills College, and then moved it to Oakland in 1871. Mills received its charter in 1885 and introduced graduate programs for women and men in 1920.
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MIT
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Morehouse College
Morehouse College is a private, all-male, historically black college located in Atlanta, Georgia. Along with Hampden-Sydney College and Wabash College, Morehouse is one of three remaining traditional men's colleges in the United States.
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Muhlenberg College
Muhlenberg College is a private liberal arts college located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1848, Muhlenberg is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and is named for Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, the patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America.
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New Zealand
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Oberlin College
Oberlin College is a selective private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, noteworthy for having been the first American institution of higher learning to regularly admit female and black students. Connected to the college is the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the country. The college's motto is "Learning and Labor." While its school colors are often casually referred to as "crimson and gold," they are actually cardinal red and mikado yellow. Those colors were formally designated for the college by a faculty committee in 1889 and were drawn from the family coat of arms of John Frederick Oberlin. They remain in the official registry of school colors maintained by the American Council on Education. Oberlin is known for having more alumni that earn PhDs than any other liberal arts college in the nation.
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Pitzer College
Pitzer College is a private residential liberal arts college located in Claremont, California, a college town approximately east of downtown Los Angeles. Pitzer College is one of seven institutions of higher learning known as The Claremont Colleges and coordinated through the Claremont University Consortium. The school has a curricular emphasis on the social sciences, behavioral sciences, international programs, and media studies.
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Pomona College
Pomona College is a private, residential, liberal arts college located in Claremont, California. It has ranked in the top ten of liberal arts colleges nationally according to the U.S. News & World Report rankings since their inception and is currently ranked sixth. In 2009, Kiplinger ranked Pomona first among the liberal arts colleges in America. Founded in 1887 in Pomona, California, by a group of Congregationalists, the college moved to Claremont in 1889 to the site of a donated hotel, retaining its name. The school enrolls 1,548 students.
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Presbyterian College
Presbyterian College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton, South Carolina, USA. Presbyterian College, or PC, is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church USA. PC was founded in 1880 by William Plumer Jacobs, a prominent Presbyterian minister who also founded the nearby Thornwell Home and School for Boys and Girls. The college's current President is Dr. John V. Griffith.
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Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution.
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Rhodes College
Rhodes College is a private, predominantly undergraduate, liberal arts college located in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Originally founded by freemasons in 1848, Rhodes became affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in 1855. Rhodes enrolls approximately 1,700 students pursuing bachelor's and master's degrees. The college is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
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Rollins College
Rollins College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Winter Park, Florida (a suburb of Orlando, Florida), along the shores of Lake Virginia.
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Salem College
:See also Salem State College in Massachusetts.
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Scripps College
Scripps College is a liberal arts women's college in Claremont, California, United States. It is a member of the Claremont Colleges.
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Senegal
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Skidmore College
Skidmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college with an enrollment of approximately 2,500 students. The college is located in the town of Saratoga Springs, New York State.
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Spelman College
Spelman College is a four-year liberal arts women's college located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The college is part of the Atlanta University Center academic consortium in Atlanta. Founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, Spelman was the first historically black female institution of higher education to receive its collegiate charter in 1924. It thus holds the distinction of being America's oldest historically black college for women.
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St. Olaf College
St. Olaf College is a coeducational, residential, four-year, private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota. It was founded in 1874 by a group of Norwegian-American immigrant pastors and farmers, led by Pastor Bernt Julius Muus. The college is named after Olaf II of Norway, former king and patron saint of Norway.
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Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university located in Stanford, California, United States. The university is located on an campus in northwestern Santa Clara Valley approximately southeast of San Francisco and approximately northwest of San Jose.
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Tufts University
Tufts University is a private research university in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. The university is home to the nation's oldest graduate school of international relations, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Ursinus College
Ursinus College is a liberal arts college in Collegeville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
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Vassar College
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Wesleyan University
:This article is about Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. For a list of other colleges and universities with names including "Wesleyan," see Wesleyan University (disambiguation).
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Williams College
Williams College is a private liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, Williams is one of the oldest academic institutions in the United States. Originally a men's college, Williams became co-educational in 1970. Fraternities were also phased out during this period, beginning in 1962. Williams forms part of the historic Little Three colleges, along with Wesleyan University and rival Amherst College.
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Yale
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Alexander Meiklejohn
Alexander Meiklejohn (February 1, 1872—December 17, 1964) was a philosopher, university administrator, and free-speech advocate. He served as dean of Brown University and president of Amherst College.
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Anthony Marx
Anthony W. Marx (born 1959) is the current president of Amherst College, in Amherst, Massachusetts. He was inaugurated on October 26, 2003. Prior to assuming the post, Marx was Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies of Political Science at Columbia University. On October 6, 2010, it was announced that he would become president of the New York Public Library in July 2011, succeeding Paul LeClerc.
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Arthur Stanley Pease
Arthur Stanley Pease (September 22, 1881 – January 7, 1964) was a professor of Classics, a respected amateur botanist, and the tenth president of Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Pease was once described by his fellow faculty members as an "indefatigable pedestrian, and New Englander to the core."
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Austin Sarat
Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He is also a Five College Fortieth Anniversary Professor. He has written, co-written, or edited more than fifty books in the fields of law and political science. Professor Sarat received a B.A. from Providence College in 1969, and both an M.A. and Ph.D from the University of Wisconsin in 1970 and 1973, respectively. He also received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1988.
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Beowulf
Beowulf (; in Old English or ) is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature.
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Carolyn Martin
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Charles W. Cole
Charles W. Cole (1906-1978) was president of Amherst College from 1946 to 1960. Cole was also involved with the Committee on the National Security Organization, American Cancer Society, U.S. Air Force, Merrill Foundation for the Advancement of Financial Knowledge, Educational Testing Service, and Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association.
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Debby Applegate
Debby Applegate (born 1968) is an American historian and biographer. She is the author of The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, for which she won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
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Edward Hitchcock
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Hadley Arkes
Hadley P. Arkes is a political scientist and the Edward N. Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions at Amherst College, where he has taught since 1966.
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Heman Humphrey
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Ilan Stavans
Ilan Stavans (born Ilan Stavchansky on April 7, 1961, in Mexico City) is a Mexican-American, essayist, lexicographer, cultural commentator, translator, short-story author, TV personality, and teacher known for his insights into American, Hispanic, and Jewish cultures.
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Joseph Hardy Neesima
was a Japanese educator of the Meiji era, the founder of Doshisha University and Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts.
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Julian Gibbs
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Julius Hawley Seelye
Julius Hawley Seelye (September 14, 1824-May 12, 1895) was a missionary, author, United States Representative, and former president of Amherst College. The system of Latin Honors in use at many universities worldwide is said to have been created by him.
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Katherine Haley Will
Katherine Haley Will served as the 13th President (and first woman in the position) of Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania from 2004 until 2008, when she stepped down for family reasons. She also served as chair of the Annapolis Group. She was succeeded as president by Janet Morgan Riggs, former provost and a member of the college's Class of 1977.
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Lawrence Douglas
Lawrence Douglas is the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College. He received his A.B. in 1982 from Brown University, M.A. in 1986 from Columbia University, and J.D. in 1989 from Yale Law School. In 2005 he became honorary A.M. at Amherst College. He is also a board member of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center.
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Lewis Spratlan
M. Lewis Spratlan Jr. (born September 5, 1940) is an American music academic and composer of contemporary classical music.
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Merrill Edward Gates
Merrill Edward Gates, LL.D. (1848 – 11 August 1922) was the ninth President of Rutgers College (now Rutgers University) serving from 1882 to 1890, and the sixth President of Amherst College, serving from 1890 to 1899.
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Peter R. Pouncey
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Stanley King
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Tom Gerety
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
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William Taubman
William Chase Taubman (born in 1940) is an American political scientist. His biography of Nikita Khrushchev won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2004 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2003.
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Amherst College Virtual Tour: Part 1
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- Duration: 3:11
- Published: 28 Jul 2010
- Updated: 06 Sep 2012
In the first part of our virtual tour, visit a traditional Japanese garden, the three oldest buildings on Amherst's campus and more.
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Flash mob in Valentine- Amherst College
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- Duration: 3:08
- Published: 13 Jun 2011
- Updated: 05 Mar 2012
Amherst College 2011 Dorm Move In Video.avi
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- Duration: 7:34
- Published: 03 Sep 2011
- Updated: 18 Jul 2012
Amherst College 2011 Dorm Move-In during/before/after hurricane Irene
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Colleging 2010--Amherst College
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- Duration: 1:09
- Published: 20 Apr 2010
- Updated: 01 Apr 2012
TTT bloggers Alex, Elaine, and Elise visit New England colleges. This is Amherst College and Northampton, MA
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Amherst College: It Gets Better
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- Duration: 2:24
- Published: 12 Jan 2012
- Updated: 16 Sep 2012
Amherst College says It Gets Better.
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"Blood on your hands!"
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- Duration: 2:39
- Published: 05 Dec 2007
- Updated: 14 Mar 2012
Crazy protester at Former UN Ambassador John Bolton's Amherst College speech.
http://wn.com/Blood_on_your_hands!
College Quidditch Middlebury Vs. Amherst Part 1
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- Duration: 5:50
- Published: 30 Mar 2008
- Updated: 26 Sep 2012
Quidditch being played on Colleges, featuring Middlebury and Amherst.
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AMHERST COLLEGE ZUMBYES "SINGLE LADIES (PUT A RING ON IT)"
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- Duration: 1:25
- Published: 23 Feb 2009
- Updated: 22 Sep 2012
Zumbyes JAMBO performance February 20 2009
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DBJ at Amherst College Asian Night Market
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- Duration: 4:56
- Published: 18 Apr 2010
- Updated: 21 Aug 2012
SNSD (Girls' Generation) Dance Cover 1) Tell me your wish(Genie) 2) Oh! @ Amherst College Campus Center @ Asian Night Market @ April 17th 2010 by. UMass Amherst DBJ Crew
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Amherst College Zumbyes Perform "True Colors"
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- Duration: 5:14
- Published: 08 Nov 2011
- Updated: 07 May 2012
Zumbyes performance of "True Colors" during Family Weekend at Amherst College, 11.5. 2011.
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Amherst College Mixed Martial Arts Organization Spring shiai blue to green
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- Duration: 11:02
- Published: 03 May 2012
- Updated: 13 Jul 2012
Hey guys, same deal as always. I'm a sophomore at Amherst College, and in the mixed martial arts club. I mostly stick to Isshin-ryu karate (as evidenced by my terrible ground game in the above video), and this is a video of my promotion matches (shiai) for my green belt that I did today. Any criticism is great (but please keep in mind that I have severe tendinitis in my knees, and at the time of this video was battling a viral infection). Thanks!
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Amherst College Ninja Tour
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- Duration: 3:04
- Published: 10 Mar 2010
- Updated: 26 Jul 2012
Amherst College vs. Middlebury Quidditch Game Start
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- Duration: 1:09
- Published: 02 Apr 2008
- Updated: 10 Aug 2012
The beginning of Middlebury's game against Amherst College.
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Everything (Michael Bublé) - Amherst College A Capella Group
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- Duration: 3:07
- Published: 23 Oct 2011
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
Song: Everything - Michael Bublé A performance by Amherst College's only coed a capella group during an open house!
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Amherst College in 3D
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- Duration: 2:17
- Published: 15 Feb 2012
- Updated: 23 Sep 2012
A collection of buildings on the Amherst College campus in Amherst, MA. These buildings were created by students in the BCT420 / ECO697SB classes at UMass.
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Karin Brown and Susannah Rudel Sideline Interview
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- Duration: 2:02
- Published: 21 Dec 2010
- Updated: 21 Dec 2010
Karin Brown, Amherst College assistant swimming coach, and Susannah Rudel, a junior and member of the swim team, discuss the swim team's prospects and the annual "Ted Mullin Hour of Power," a nationwide swim-a-thon to raise cancer awareness and funds in memory of Karin's former teammate and friend at Carleton College, Ted Mullin.
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Amherst College Zumbyes @ ICCA Finals-Thriller
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- Duration: 4:15
- Published: 24 Jun 2007
- Updated: 09 Aug 2012
The Amherst College Zumbyes perform Michael Jackson's "Thriller" at ICCA Finals in Alice Tully Hall on April 21, 2007. This was the last song of their 3 song set, which earned them 3rd place for the night. Arrangement: Michael Kohl Z'06 VP: Tim Deary Z'09 Solo: Greg Curreri Z'09 Choreo: Chris GIllyard Z'08 and James Park Z'08 For more information on the Zumbyes, check out their website at www.zumbyes.com
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What Are You Doing This Summer?
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- Duration: 3:29
- Published: 11 May 2012
- Updated: 04 Sep 2012
At Amherst, summer break means continuing study as well as summer employment and internships. Many students maintain their Amherst connection throughout the vacation: some with campus jobs, and some through career opportunities provided by alumni.
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Hotel Song - Amherst College Sabrinas
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- Duration: 4:15
- Published: 10 Mar 2009
- Updated: 30 Jan 2012
The Amherst College Sabrinas singing Hotel Song by Regina Spektor at their Valentine's Day Show on 2/15/2009. Click on "HQ" to watch it in high-quality! Soloists: Kat Libby '11 Arranger: Emily Joy Sullivan '09 Visit our website: www.amherst.edu
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Amherst College Convocation 2011
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- Duration: 30:20
- Published: 18 Oct 2011
- Updated: 18 Oct 2011
President Biddy Martin, in her first Convocation address, noted similarities between her own recent arrival and that of the Class of 2015, and urged first-years to "treasure what Amherst has and what Amherst is: an unapologetic love of inquiry."
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Muggle Quidditch Match At Amherst College
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- Duration: 4:41
- Published: 28 Mar 2008
- Updated: 23 Sep 2012
Friday, March 28th, 2008 On Friday, Amherst College took its first step into a new world of sports -- one that had everything *but* flying brooms. Amherst hosted Middlebury College in an earthbound version of Quidditch, the sport made famous by the wizards in the Harry Potter books and movies. A fair-sized crowd came out on a raw, rainy morning at the college quad to support the two teams as they played a modified Muggle version of the game. Amherst, in purple and white capes, and Middlebury, wearing dark blue, played the game carrying broomsticks between their legs to remain true to the series. Quidditch, which contains elements of dodgeball, soccer, and basketball is played with four balls, with two of these used for scoring and the other two to be avoided. The goal is to score points by throwing the ball, called the Quaffle, through one of the opponents three goal hoops, all while dodging balls and running with broomsticks. The players who were drenched in rain, and some soaked in mud, played to a well received gathering, amidst the sounds of a joking announcer. Middlebury, which may be home to the nation's first college Quidditch team, held Quidditch World Cup festivals in 2006 and 2007. With a little more experience, they won the match -- but cast a spell on everyone who played and watched.
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Amherst College Zumbyes - Anytime (Brian McKnight)
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- Duration: 4:26
- Published: 04 Jan 2009
- Updated: 28 May 2012
The Amherst College Zumbyes perform an a cappella version of Brian McKnight's "Anytime". This performance was in May, 2008 at Buckley Recital Hall at Amherst College. For more information on the Zumbyes, please visit their website at www.zumbyes.com Arranger: Michael Kohl Z'06 Soloist: Jorrell Bonner Z'11
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Amherst College vs. Middlebury Quidditch
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- Duration: 1:30
- Published: 02 Apr 2008
- Updated: 10 Aug 2011
Amherst College takes on Middlebury at home in their Quidditch team debut.
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30 Sep 2012
KABUL, Afghanistan -- U.S. military deaths in the Afghan war have reached 2,000, a cold reminder of the human cost of an 11-year-old conflict that garners little public interest at home as the United...
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The US president and the Israeli PM have expressed agreement on the goal of preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, the White House said. Barack Obama and Binyamin Netanyahu sought on Friday...
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Islamist militants in Somalia say they have withdrawn from their southern stronghold of Kismayo, following an African Union military attack. Kenyan and Somali forces launched a beach assault on...
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Somali and Kenyan armed forces have entered the southern port city of Kismayo, a former rebel stronghold, from the west. The African Union forces entered the city from the west, and did not face any...
Bloomberg
Amherst College, one of the wealthiest U.S. liberal-arts institutions, lost its top credit rating because of an increase in debt relative to revenue, Standard & Poor’s said yesterday in a report. The school in western Massachusetts was cut one step to AA+ from AAA as a result of a “significant...(size: 2.8Kb)
Bradley Keigwin, UMass Student, Arrested For Allegedly Painting Swastikas On Amherst College Health Center
17 Sep 2012
Huffington Post
A University of Massachusetts student was arrested this weekend after police say he broke into neighboring Amherst College where he allegedly stole two computers and spray painted swastikas on the health center's walls, the Daily Hampshire Gazette reports. Bradley Keigwin, 20, of North Falmouth,...(size: 3.3Kb)
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Amherst College Archives and Special Collections has a copy of a 19th Century daguerreotype that could be the second photograph in existence of Emily Dickinson as an adult. We’ve embedded a photo of the daguerreotype...(size: 1.5Kb)
The Examiner
Related topics Natural HistoryMuseumNatural Historydinosaurs Advertisement The Beneski Museum of Natural History is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. It make a great summer day trip from Connecticut. Open to the public for free the museum has an extensive collection of dinosaur...(size: 6.8Kb)
Amherst College paid interns help nonprofits
22 Jul 2012
CNBC
AMHERST, Mass. - With tutoring experience already under her belt, Tian Buzbee is now getting some practice in the administrative side of education before graduating college prepared for a career teaching math. The Amherst College student, who will graduate next year, previously tutored math at...(size: 5.3Kb)
Writer elected head of Amherst College trustees
05 Jul 2012
The Boston Globe
AMHERST, Mass.-Writer and journalist Cullen Murphy has been elected chairman of the Amherst...(size: 0.6Kb)
Amherst College president inaugurated
16 Oct 2011
The Boston Globe
AMHERST, Mass.-Amherst College has inaugurated its new president, the first female to hold the spot since the school's founding in 1821....(size: 0.9Kb)
Bloomberg
At Amherst College’s Pratt Hall in 1970 and 1971, a handful of students from Greece spent countless hours decrying the military junta ruling their country. George Papandreou, a bluejean-clad freshman whose father as prime minister had founded the country’s Socialist Party, would agree with Antonis...(size: 20.3Kb)
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Amherst College picks new president
15 Jun 2011
The Boston Globe
The chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been selected as the next president of Amherst College, school officials said yesterday. Carolyn "Biddy'' Martin, one of the nation's top openly gay university leaders, will become Amherst's 19th president later this summer. She served as...(size: 3.6Kb)
Not to be confused with University of Massachusetts Amherst.
| Amherst College | |
|---|---|
| File:Amherst College Seal.png Seal of Amherst College |
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| Motto | Terras Irradient (Latin) |
| Motto in English | Let them give light to the world |
| Established | 1821 |
| Type | Private |
| Endowment | $1.641 billion (2011) [1] |
| President | Carolyn Martin |
| Admin. staff | 190 |
| Undergraduates | 1,795[2] |
| Location | Amherst, MA, USA |
| Campus | Rural 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) |
| Colors | Purple and white |
| Nickname | The Singing College, The Fairest College, Lord Jeffs, Lady Jeffs, Jeffs |
| Mascot | Lord Jeffery Amherst |
| Website | amherst.edu |
| Amherst College logo | |
Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution[3] and enrolled 1,795 students in the fall of 2010.[2] Students choose courses from 35 major programs[4] in an unusually open curriculum.
Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its President Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher education in Massachusetts.[citation needed] Amherst remained a men's college until becoming coeducational in 1975.
Amherst has historically had close relationships and rivalries with Williams College and Wesleyan University which form the Little Three colleges. It is also a member of the Five College Consortium.
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History[link]
Founded in 1821, Amherst College developed out of the secondary school Amherst Academy. The college was originally suggested as an alternative to Williams College, which was struggling to stay open. Although Williams remained open, Amherst was formed and diverged from its Williams roots into an individual institution.
Amherst Academy[link]
In 1812, funds were raised in Amherst for a secondary school, Amherst Academy. The institution was named after the town, which in turn had been named after Jeffery, Lord Amherst, a veteran from the Seven Years' War and later commanding general of the British forces in North America. On November 18, 1817, a project was adopted at the Academy to raise funds for the free instruction of "indigent young men of promising talents and hopeful piety, who shall manifest a desire to obtain a liberal education with a sole view to the Christian ministry." This required a substantial investment from benefactors.
During the fundraising for the project, it became clear that without larger designs, it would be impossible to raise sufficient funds. This led the committee overseeing the project to conclude that a new institution should be created. On August 18, 1818, the Amherst Academy board of trustees accepted this conclusion and began building a new college.
Williams College relocation debate[link]
According to Tyler, an Amherst historian:
As early as 1815, six years before the opening of Amherst College, the question of relocating Williams College to some more central part of Massachusetts was agitated among its friends and in its board of trustees. At that time Williams College had two buildings and fifty-eight students, with two professors and two tutors. The library contained fourteen hundred volumes. The funds were reduced and the income fell short of the expenditures. Many of the friends and supporters of the college were fully persuaded that it could not be sustained in its present location. The chief ground of this persuasion was the extreme difficulty of the access to it. At the same meeting of the board of trustees at which Professor Moore was elected president of Williams College, May 2, 1815, Dr. Packard of Shelburne introduced the following motion: "That a committee of six persons be appointed to take into consideration the removal of the college to some other part of the Commonwealth, to make all necessary inquiries which have a bearing on the subject, and report at the next meeting." The motion was adopted, and at the next meeting of the board in September, the committee reported that "a removal of Williams College from Williamstown is inexpedient at the present time, and under existing circumstances." But the question of removal thus raised in the board of trustees and thus negatived only "at the present time and under existing circumstances," continued to be agitated. And at a meeting on November 10, 1818, influenced more or less doubtless by the action of the Franklin County Association of Congregational Ministers, and the Convention of Congregational and Presbyterian Ministers in Amherst, the board of trustees resolved that it was expedient to remove the college on certain conditions. President Moore advocated the removal, and even expressed his purpose to resign the office of president unless it could be effected, inasmuch as when he accepted the presidency he had no idea that the college was to remain at Williamstown, but was authorized to expect that it would be removed to Hampshire County. Nine out of twelve of the trustees voted for the resolutions, which were as follows:
"Resolved, that it is expedient to remove Williams College to some more central part of the State whenever sufficient funds can be obtained to defray the necessary expenses incurred and the losses sustained by removal, and to secure the prosperity of the college, and when a fair prospect shall be presented of obtaining for the institution the united support and patronage of the friends of literature and religion in the western part of the Commonwealth, and when the General Court shall give their assent to the measure."
In November, 1819, the trustees of Williams College voted to petition the Legislature for permission to remove the college to Northampton. To this application, Mr. Webster says, "the trustees of Amherst Academy made no opposition and took no measures to defeat it." In February, 1820, the petition was laid before the Legislature. The committee from both houses, to whom it was referred, after a careful examination of the whole subject, reported that it was neither lawful nor expedient to remove the college, and the Legislature, taking the same view, rejected the petition. ... Thus the long and exciting discussion touching the removal of Williams College and the location of a college in some more central town of old Hampshire County at length came to an end, and the contending parties now directed all their energies to building up the institutions of their choice. (William S. Tyler, A History of Amherst College (1895))
Opening of Amherst College[link]
Moore, then President of Williams College, however, still believed that Williamstown was an unsuitable location for a college, and with the advent of Amherst College was elected its first president on May 8, 1821. At its opening, Amherst had forty-seven students. Fifteen of these had followed Moore from Williams College. Those fifteen represented about one-third of the whole number at Amherst, and about one-fifth of the whole number in the three classes to which they belonged in Williams College. President Moore died on June 29, 1823, and was replaced with a Williams College trustee, Heman Humphrey. Williams alumni are fond of an apocryphal story ascribing the removal of books from the Williams College library to Amherst College, but there is no contemporaneous evidence to verify the story. In 1995, Williams president Harry C. Payne declared the story false, but many still nurture the legend.
Amherst grew quickly, and for two years in the mid-1830s it was the second largest college in the United States, second only to Yale. In 1835, Amherst attempted to create a course of study parallel to the classical liberal arts education. This parallel course focused less on Greek and Latin, instead focusing on English, French, Spanish, chemistry, economics, etc. The parallel course did not take hold, however, until the next century.
Amherst was founded as a non-sectarian institution "for the classical education of indigent young men of piety and talents for the Christian ministry." (Tyler, A History of Amherst College) One of the hallmarks of the new college was its Charity Fund, an early form of financial aid that paid the tuition of poorer students.[5] Although officially non-denominational, the initial Amherst was widely seen as a religiously conservative institution with a strong connection to Calvinism, and as a result, there was considerable debate in the Massachusetts government over whether the new college should receive an official charter from the state, and a charter was not granted until February 21, 1825.[5] As a result of the official charter being granted four years after the official founding of the college, the Amherst seal lists a date of 1825 (MDCCCXXV). A tradition of religious conservatism persisted at Amherst until the mid-nineteenth century; students who consumed alcohol or played cards were subject to expulsion, and there were a number of religious revivals at Amherst where mobs of righteous students would herd less religious students into the chapel and berate them for lack of piety.[5] Towards the end of the twentieth century, however, the college began a transition towards secularism, culminating in the demolishing of the college church in 1949.[6]
Academic hoods in the United States are traditionally lined with the official colors of the school, in theory so watchers can tell where the hood wearer earned his or her degree. Amherst's hoods are purple (Williams' official color) with a white stripe or chevron, said to signify that Amherst was born of Williams.
Amherst records one of the first uses of Latin honors of any American college, dating back to 1881.[citation needed]
Presidents of the college[link]
- Zephaniah Swift Moore, 1821—1823
- Heman Humphrey, 1823—1845
- Edward Hitchcock, 1845—1854
- William Augustus Stearns, 1854—1876
- Julius Hawley Seelye, 1876—1890
- Merrill Edward Gates, 1890—1899
- George Harris, 1899—1912
- Alexander Meiklejohn, 1912—1924
- George Daniel Olds, 1924—1927
- Arthur Stanley Pease, 1927—1932
- Stanley King, 1932—1946
- Charles W. Cole, 1946—1960
- Calvin Plimpton, 1960—1971
- John William Ward, 1971—1979
- Julian Gibbs, 1979—1983
- Peter R. Pouncey, 1984—1994
- Tom Gerety, 1994—2003
- Anthony Marx, 2003—2011
- Carolyn Martin, 2011—
Academics and resources[link]
Reputation[link]
| University rankings (overall) | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Forbes[8] | 4[7] |
| Liberal arts colleges | |
| U.S. News & World Report[11] | 2[9] |
| Washington Monthly[12] | 5[10] |
Since the inception of the U.S. News & World Report rankings, Amherst College has been ranked ten times as the first overall amongst 266 liberal arts colleges in the United States,[13] and is currently ranked second, behind Williams.[9]
In 2010, Forbes ranked Amherst College as the third best college or university in the United States, ahead of MIT, Stanford University, Caltech and every Ivy League institution except Princeton University.[7]
Amherst College ranked second overall in 2007, according to the fifth annual report by the National Collegiate Scouting Association, which ranks colleges based on student-athlete graduation rates, academic strength, and athletic prowess.[14]
Amherst ranked as having the second-highest graduation rate of any institution in the United States, second only to Harvard according to a 2009 American Enterprise Institute Study.[15]
Amherst ranks fifth in the 2010 Washington Monthly rankings,[10] which focus on key research outputs, the quality level and total dollar amount of scientific (natural and social sciences) grants won, the number of graduates going on to earn Ph.D. degrees, and certain types of public service.
Amherst ranks ninth in a 2004 Wall Street Journal survey of the "feeder schools" to the top fifteen business, law, and medical schools in the country.[16]
According to The Princeton Review, Amherst ranks in the top 20 among all colleges and universities in the nation for "Students Satisfied With Financial Aid," "School Runs Like Butter," and "Top 10 Best Value Private Schools."[17]
The Carnegie Foundation classifies Amherst as one of the "more selective" institutions whose first-year students’ test scores places these institutions in roughly the top fifth of baccalaureate institutions.[18]
Amherst also participates in the University and College Accountability Network (U-CAN) developed by the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU). Amherst’s sustainability efforts earned it an overall grade of “A-” on the College Sustainability Report Card 2010 published by the Sustainable Endowments Institute.[19] No institution received an "A" or "A+."
Admission[link]
Amherst College is the most selective liberal arts college in the United States.[20] In 2012, Amherst College set a record low overall acceptance rate of 11.9% for freshman applicants, with 1,020 out of the 8,555 applicants garnering acceptance.[21] The transfer admissions process was more selective, with less than four percent being admitted out of the 516 applicants.
Academic program[link]
Amherst College offers 36 fields of study (with 850 courses)[22] in the sciences, arts, humanities, mathematics and computer sciences, social sciences, foreign languages, classics, and several interdisciplinary fields (including premedical studies[23][24]) and provides an unusually open curriculum. Students are not required to study a core curriculum or fulfill any distribution requirements and may even design their own unique interdisciplinary major.[25] Freshmen may take advanced courses, and seniors may take introductory ones.
Nonetheless, for freshmen, the only course requirement mandated by the course registrar is one of the roughly twenty First-Year Seminars, which are often limited to no more than 15 students[citation needed] and, despite having varying topics, shares a common focus on critical analysis and development of written and oral argument. Besides a first-year seminar course, the other 31 courses (usually four are taken per semester) required for graduation can be elected by the students themselves. Nevertheless, to complete their major, students must still adhere to departmental course requirements, including satisfactory performance on comprehensive examinations in their major field.
Faculty advisors are committed to guiding students through the process of majoring, and each faculty advisor works with no more than five first-year students to ensure a course of study that has breadth and depth, is integrated across disciplines, and is intellectually fulfilling. Faculty advising continues for the remainder of each student's undergraduate education.
Thirty-five percent of Amherst students in the class of 2007 were double majors.[26] A small number triple major and many create, with faculty advice, an interdisciplinary major. Fifty percent write theses during their senior year[citation needed], and those students who choose to write a senior thesis have additional faculty advisors whose areas of expertise mirror each thesis topic. Within five years of graduation, seventy-four percent of Amherst alumni attend graduate school.[citation needed]
Traditionally, Amherst has made intensive writing for students a priority for all four years of study at all levels of instruction, throughout the curricula, and across disciplines.[citation needed] As a result, over the course of their undergraduate careers, students are expected to refine the form, logic, depth, and substance of their writing for a variety of audiences (in the sciences, arts, social sciences, and humanities).[citation needed] Amherst also has as priorities an emphasis on quantitative analysis across the disciplines and fostering global comprehension.[citation needed]
Amherst College has been the first college to have undergraduate departments in the interdisciplinary fields of American Studies; Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought; and Neuroscience[27][28] and has helped to pioneer other interdisciplinary programs, including Asian Languages and Civilizations.[citation needed]
Teaching[link]
Amherst College is widely recognized for its commitment to quality teaching, with rigorous professor-student interaction, so much so that Harvard and Columbia University looked to Amherst in 2007 when they were in the throes of reviewing their teaching program.[29]
Maintaining a student-faculty ratio of 8:1 and an average class size of fifteen students,[30] Amherst places a high priority on meaningful interaction between students and their professors. Faculty members are leading scholars and researchers in their fields, as well as effective teachers who strive to develop better and more innovative ways to teach their students to learn, discover, and create.[citation needed] The historic guiding principle at Amherst is dialogue between professor and student. Amherst classes are characterized by interchanges among students and faculty adept at asking challenging and probing questions and offering alternative points of view.[citation needed]
A substantial number of faculty members hold appointments in two departments, a traditional academic discipline, and one of the many interdisciplinary programs[citation needed] and are thus familiar with, and accessible to, their students (both inside and outside the classroom). Professors have also built face-to-face, professor-to-student learning into the campus culture.[citation needed] To this end, professors serve as mentors and advisors, as well as teachers.[citation needed]
Professors have also drawn students early into independent or small group research, or creative work, which results in an original scholarly product.[citation needed] Under the mentorship of faculty members, science students also commonly participate in sophisticated graduate-level research, using state-of-art equipment and facilities, and are regularly listed as co-authors on faculty articles.[citation needed] Amherst students also often present their work, whether it is self-directed or in collaboration with faculty, at regional or national conferences.
Notable faculty members include, among others, modern literature and poetry critic William H. Pritchard, Beowulf translator Howell Chickering, Jewish and Latino studies scholar Ilan Stavans, novelist and legal scholar Lawrence Douglas, physicist Arthur Zajonc, Pulitzer Prize-winning Nikita Khrushchev biographer William Taubman, African art specialist Rowland Abiodun, Natural Law expert Hadley Arkes, Mathematician Daniel Velleman, Biblical scholar Susan Niditch, law and society expert Austin Sarat, and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Lewis Spratlan, professor emeritus of the music faculty. (See List of Amherst College people.)
Students[link]
Amherst's resources, faculty, and rigorous academic life allow the college to enroll students with a range of talents, interests, and commitments. Students represent all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and fifty countries. Ninety-seven percent of students live on campus. Ninety-seven percent of Amherst freshmen return for their sophomore year; ninety-six percent graduate, among the highest retention and graduation rates in the country.[citation needed]
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The Kirby Memorial Theater
Five College Consortium[link]
Amherst is a member of the Five Colleges consortium, which allows its students to attend classes at four other Pioneer Valley institutions. These include Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In addition to the 850 courses available on campus, Amherst students have an additional 5,300 classes to consider through the Consortium (without paying additional tuition) and access to 8 million library volumes.[citation needed] The Five Colleges are geographically close to one another and are linked by buses that run between the campuses.
The Five Colleges share resources and develop common academic programs. Museums10 is a consortium of local art, history and science museums. The Five College Dance Department is one of the largest in the nation.[citation needed] The joint Astronomy department shares use of the Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory, which contributed to work that won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics.[31]
The Five College Coastal and Marine Sciences Program offers an interdisciplinary curriculum to undergraduates in the Five Colleges.[32] Through active affiliations with national centers for marine study, students engage in hands-on research to complement course work. Faculty from the natural and social sciences teach courses in the program. The disciplines represented include biology, botany, chemistry, ecology, geology, physics, wildlife management, and zoology in the sciences, and economics, government, and public policy in the social sciences. Many students in the program go on to advanced study or professional work in various areas of marine science.
Resources[link]
Among the resources on the 1,000-acre (4.0 km2) campus at Amherst College are more than 100 academic and residential buildings, athletic fields and facilities, a wildlife sanctuary, a forest for the study of ecology, and trails and areas for walking and cycling. Notable resources include the Mead Art Museum (with over 16,000 works); the Amherst Center for Russian Culture; four libraries (the main Robert Frost Library—having one million plus volumes, nearly 400,000 media materials, extensive Archives and Special Collections, and a media center and language lab, as well as separate libraries dedicated to science, math, and music); the Amherst College Museum of Natural History (including the Hitchcock Ichnological Cabinet, the world's largest collection of dinosaur tracks[33][34]); the Basset Planetarium; the Wilder Observatory; science facilities (including the Merrill Science Center, Beneski Earth Sciences Building, and McGuire Life Sciences Building); the Quantitative Skills Center; the Writing Center; the Career Center; art studios; rehearsal and performance facilities for music, theater, and dance (including the Arms Music Center named after Winifred and Robert Arms, the Kirby Memorial Theater, and the Holden Experimental Theater); the Center for Creative Writing; the Center for Community Engagement; and a student run radio station (WAMH 89.3 FM).
Internet access is available in all student residences (one connection for each student in every room), and wireless access is available almost everywhere on campus. There are thirty-seven residence buildings, nine theme houses, and two language houses (supporting four languages). Just off campus, Amherst is caretaker and owner of the Emily Dickinson Museum in downtown Amherst, in addition to about half of the poet's manuscripts. Amherst maintains a relationship with Doshisha University in Japan, which was founded by Amherst alumnus Joseph Hardy Neesima. In accordance with the will of Amherst alumnus Henry Clay Folger, Amherst College is charged with the governance of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.; Amherst maintains a close relationship with the Folger.
Sustainability[link]
Amherst College is reducing its energy consumption through a computerized monitoring system for lighting and the use of an efficient cogeneration facility. The cogeneration facility features a gas turbine that generates electricity in addition to steam for heating the campus.[35] Amherst also operates a composting program, in which a portion of the food waste from dining halls is sent to a farmer in Vermont.[35]
Student groups[link]
There are more than 140 student groups at Amherst.[36] Students can pursue their interests through more than one hundred autonomous, student-led organizations funded by the student government, including a variety of student groups, cultural and religious groups, publications, fine and performing arts and political advocacy and service groups.
Particularly, numerous forms of community service exist at Amherst, and community service (locally - through the Center for Community Engagement, nationally, and internationally) is a priority at Amherst and for a former President of Amherst, Anthony Marx, who helped start a secondary school for black students in apartheid South Africa.[citation needed]
Study abroad and off-campus[link]
Forty-two percent of Amherst students, usually juniors, study abroad and can select from more than 260 study-abroad programs in countries including Argentina, Costa Rica, Egypt, England, France, India, New Zealand, Spain, and Senegal, as well as Japan where Amherst maintains a special relationship with Doshisha University, founded in 1875 by Amherst alumnus Joseph Hardy Neesima.
Off-campus, Amherst students have the opportunity to study at a number of institutions, from the National Theater Institute in Connecticut to Amherst's own Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. The Twelve College Exchange program, of which Amherst is a member, has special exchange arrangements with Bowdoin, Connecticut, Dartmouth, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Trinity, Vassar, Wellesley, Wheaton and Williams Colleges and Wesleyan University for programs not available in the Five College area.
Folger Shakespeare Library[link]
Amherst's relationship with the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. offers various opportunities for students and faculty to study and learn and engage in cultural and arts programs. The Folger, a primary repository of rare materials from the modern period (1500–1750), holds the world's largest collection of the printed works of William Shakespeare, as well as collections of other rare Renaissance books and manuscripts. The Folger is an internationally recognized research library and center for scholarship and learning. The Folger is also an innovator in the preservation of rare materials and an award winning producer of cultural and arts programs, including theater, early music concerts (performed by the Folger Consort), poetry, exhibits, lectures, and family programs. Each year, more than 200,000 visitors attend events and exhibitions at the Folger.[citation needed] Millions visit its website (www.folger.edu), which includes event listings, virtual exhibitions, access to an on-line catalog of the collection, and teaching plans for educators.[citation needed] The Folger produces its own scholarly journal, "Shakespeare Quarterly," and the Library continues to publish the Folger Library Shakespeare editions, which outsell all other editions of the bard's plays.
Fellowships and internships[link]
The Amherst Tom Gerety Fellowships for Action and the Winternship program allow more than 100 students to receive funding from the college each year to do public service work around the country and the world. Students also can select internships beginning as early as the first year, opting from among 15,000 opportunities nationwide through the Liberal Arts Center Network, as well as the "Amherst 100" internships that are sponsored by alumni.[citation needed] Internships are available with a variety of employers in the Pioneer Valley through the Center for Community Engagement; a campus-based literary magazine, The Common (Magazine), also offers internships exclusively to Amherst College students.
In the spring 2008, the College's Center for Community Engagement launched the Active Citizen Summer Program. This opportunity allows rising freshmen, sophomores, and juniors to participate in a summer internship with a local, national, or international not-for-profit organization while receiving housing, food, and transportation funding, as well as a modest salary paid by the Center for Community Engagement.[citation needed]
Amherst students and alumni have also received external scholarships including Fulbright scholarships, Goldwater scholarships, Rhodes scholarships, and Watson fellowships.
Cost of attendance and financial aid[link]
Amherst's comprehensive tuition, room, and board fee for the 2012-13 academic year is $55,510. Once miscellaneous expenses are factored in the total cost to attend for the 2012-13 academic year amounts to $60,809 - $63,259.[37]
Despite its high cost of attendance, Amherst College meets the full demonstrated need of every admitted student.[38] 60% of current students receive scholarship aid, and the average financial aid package award amounts to $41,150; the average net price of attendance is $13,809 per year. College expenditures are approximately $80,000 per student each year.[39]
In July 2007, Amherst announced that grants would replace loans in all financial aid packages beginning in the 2008-09 academic year. Amherst had already been the first school to eliminate loans for low-income students, and with this announcement it joined Princeton University, Cornell University and Davidson College, then the only colleges to completely eliminate loans from need-based financial aid packages. Increased rates of admission of highly qualified lower income students has resulted in greater equality of opportunity at Amherst than is usual at elite American colleges.[40]
In the 2008-2009 academic year, Amherst College also extended its need-blind admission policy to international applicants. As of the 2010-2011 academic year[update], Amherst remains the only liberal arts college and one of the six higher education institutions, which include Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT and Dartmouth College, in the United States with need-blind admission for both domestic and international applicants.
Athletics[link]
Varsity athletics[link]
Amherst claims its athletics program as the oldest in the nation,[41] pointing to its compulsory physical fitness regimen put in place in 1860.[42] One-third of the student body participates in sports at the intercollegiate level, and eighty percent participate in intramural and club sports teams.[41] The school's twenty-seven intercollegiate sports teams are known as the Lord Jeffs; women's teams are sometimes referred to as "Lady Jeffs", though the official title covers all teams.
The school participates in the NCAA's Division III, the Eastern College Athletic Conference, and the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), which includes Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Connecticut College, Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity, Tufts, Wesleyan, and Williams College.
Amherst is also one of the "Little Three", along with Williams and Wesleyan. This rivalry, over one hundred years old, can be considered the oldest athletic conference in the nation. A Little Three champion is informally recognized by most teams based on the head-to-head records of the three schools, but three-way competitions are held in some of the sports.
Amherst has placed in the top ten of the NACDA Director's Cup in the NCAA Division III in seven of the last ten years, including fourth in 2007 and 2008 and third in 2009.[43][citation needed] The 2007 "National Collegiate Scouting Association's Collegiate Power Ranking" ranked Amherst College second "overall", ahead of Duke, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Notre Dame, Stanford, Northwestern, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and MIT.
- The first intercollegiate baseball game was played between Williams and Amherst on July 1, 1859. Amherst won, 73-32.[44]
- The first Harvard College loss on Soldiers Field was in 1903. They lost 6-0 to Amherst.
- The last scoreless tie in an NCAA football game was on November 11, 1995, when Amherst and Williams tied 0-0 on Weston Field in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
- In 1999, the Amherst women's tennis team won the Division III National Championship, by a score of 5-2, over arch-rival Williams College. It was Amherst's first team National Championship.
- In 2003, the Amherst women's lacrosse team won the Division III National Championship, by a score of 11-9, over NESCAC rival Middlebury College.
- In 2007, the Amherst men's basketball team won the Division III National Championship, by a score of 80-67, over Virginia Wesleyan College.
- In 2007, the Amherst women's cross country team won the Division III Cross Country National Championship.
- In 2009, the Amherst women's ice hockey team team won the Division III National Championship, by a score of 4-3 in OT over Elmira College.
- In 2010, the Amherst women's ice hockey team repeated and won the Division III National Championship, by a score of 7-2 over Norwich University. This was the first team in the school's history to repeat as national champions.
- In 2011, the Amherst women's basketball team won the Division III National Championship for the first time in the program's history.
- In 2011, the Amherst men's tennis team won the Division III National Championship for the first time in the program's history.
On May 3, 2009, Williams College and Amherst alumni played a game of vintage baseball at Wahconah Park according to 1859 rules to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first college baseball game played on July 2, 1859, between the two schools.[44]
Club and intramural athletics[link]
Amherst fields several club athletic teams, including rugby union, water polo, ultimate, equestrian, mountain biking, crew, fencing, sailing and skiing. Intramural sports include soccer, tennis, golf, basketball, volleyball and softball.
The sport of Ultimate was started and named at Amherst College in the mid-1960s by Jared Kass '69.[45][46]
Student life[link]
Amherst has more than 150 officially recognized student groups, including a medieval sword-fighting club, a knitting club, and a club devoted to random acts of kindness.
Fraternities[link]
Amherst banned on-campus fraternities in 1984, renaming the houses after past President's of the College, Staff and Alumni,[47] though some fraternities maintain an off-campus presence. In February 2010, President Tony Marx banned membership in the off-campus Psi Upsilon fraternity because of an unexplained "serious violation involving the leadership and members."[48]
Music[link]
Nicknamed "the singing college," Amherst has many a cappella and singing groups, some of them affiliated with the college music department, including the Concert Choir, the Madrigal Singers, the Women's Chorus, the Gospel Choir and the Glee Club, which is the oldest singing group on the campus. The a cappella groups include the Zumbyes, the Bluestockings, Route 9, the Sabrinas, the DQ, and Terras Irradient (the co-ed Christian a cappella group). Amherst's symphony orchestra, which has more than 70 members and no hired professional musicians, is the only one of its size among national liberal arts colleges.[citation needed] A variety of other instrumental groups also rehearse and perform regularly and include: Javanese gamelan, chamber music, South Indian, and jazz. The Amherst College Arms Music Center has 25 listening and practice rooms (thirteen of which are equipped with pianos), an electronic and recording music studio, separate rehearsal space for instrumental and vocal groups, classrooms, a library, and a 500-seat recital hall that serves during the year as a performance venue for students and visiting artists.
Alumni[link]
Main article: List of Amherst College people
Although a relatively small college, Amherst has many accomplished alumni, including Nobel, Crafoord Prize and Lasker Award laureates, MacArthur Fellowship and Pulitzer Prize winners, National Medal of Science and National Book Award recipients, and Academy, Tony, Grammy Award and Emmy Award winners; a U.S. President, the current Sovereign Prince of Monaco, a former prime minister of Greece, a Chief Justice of the United States, three Speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives, a U.S. Poet Laureate, the legal architect of Brown v Board of Education, and the inventor of the blood bank; leaders in science, religion, politics, the Peace Corps, medicine, law, education, communications, and business; and acclaimed actors, architects, artists, astronauts, engineers, human rights activists, inventors, musicians, philanthropists, and writers.
There are approximately 20,000 living alumni, of which about 60% make a gift to Amherst each year—one of the highest alumni participation rates of any college in the country.[citation needed]
See also[link]
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| Background information | |
| Born | (1969-06-05) June 5, 1969 (age 43) |
| Origin | Buffalo, New York, United States |
| Genres | R&B, soul, quiet storm |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, Producer |
| Instruments | Vocals, Piano, Keyboards, Guitar, Bass guitar, Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Trombone, Tuba, Percussion |
| Years active | 1988–present |
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Mercury (1988–1997) |
| Website | bmcknight.com |
Brian McKnight (born June 5, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, producer, and R&B musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist who plays eight instruments including piano, guitar, bass guitar, percussion, trombone, tuba, flugelhorn and trumpet.[1]. McKnight is perhaps most recognized for his strong falsetto range, and is widely regarded as one of the strongest talents in the adult urban contemporary R&B genre, although his recent efforts have received mixed reviews.
McKnight's work has earned him 16 Grammy Awards nominations, but currently holds the record for having won none.
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Biography[link]
1969-1986: Early life and career beginnings[link]
McKnight was born in Buffalo, New York. His musical career began in childhood when he became a member of his church choir and a band leader for his high school, Sweet Home High School.[2].
1987-1997: Mercury Records[link]
In 1987, McKnight's older brother, Claude McKnight III, and his band, Take 6, signed a record deal with Warner Brothers. This encouraged McKnight to shop his own demo tapes and by the age of 19, he'd signed his first recording deal with Mercury Records subsidiary, Wing Records.[2] In 1992, Brian McKnight was released, and his self-titled debut peaked at fifty-eight in the Billboard 200 chart, which primarily featured the ballad (and top twenty single) "One Last Cry". It was followed by two more albums for Mercury, 1995's I Remember You and 1997's Anytime. Anytime, McKnight's final album with Mercury, sold over two million copies and was nominated for a Grammy. The video for "Anytime", directed by Darren Grant, was nominated for Best Male Video at the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards.
In 1997, McKnight recorded "Remember the Magic" for Disney World's 25th anniversary.
1997-2003: Motown Records[link]
McKnight signed with Motown in 1998 and released the Christmas album Bethlehem. In 1999, McKnight released Back at One, his most successful album at date, which eventually went on to sell over 3 million copies.
2004-2012: Warner Brothers and Television/Radio Career[link]
In 2004, McKnight co-wrote with Australian Soul artist Guy Sebastian the song "Wait", off Sebastian's Beautiful Life album.
In October 2007, McKnight made his Broadway debut in the show Chicago.
From 2006 to 2010 he hosted a radio show, The Brian McKnight Morning Show with Pat Prescott on KTWV The Wave in Los Angeles, CA. The show was briefly simulcast on KHJZ-FM, Smooth Jazz 95.7 The Wave in Houston, TX from 6AM-9AM CST.
On January 26, 2009, McKnight hosted "The Brian McKnight Show" from 7PM-Midnight on 98.7 KISS FM in New York City.
In 2009, he appeared in the second season of Celebrity Apprentice.[3] Each celebrity played to raise money for the charity of his or her choice; McKnight elected to play for Youthville USA.
From September 2009 to May 2010, McKnight hosted [4] The Brian McKnight Show, a late night talk show billed as a combination of talk and variety, aired in syndication. The show was cancelled on May 29, 2010 after one season.
On March 31, 2011 McKnight sang the National Anthem for MLB Opening Day in Cincinnati, Ohio with his sons Brian, Jr. and Niko. He had previously sung the National Anthem for the 1997 NBA All-Star Game in Cleveland, Ohio, Game 6 of the 2002 World Series in Anaheim, California, near his Los Angeles home, and the 2005 Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Detroit. McKnight has also made numerous other "National Anthem" appearances throughout his career.
On April 23, 2012 McKnight posted to youtube "If You're Ready To Learn", which has been characterized by Billboard as a "filthy jam." Billboard selected this lyric from the work to quote: "Let me show you how your p---y works/Since you didn't bring it to me first." [5] Other media outlets such as MTV and the Toronto Sun have also written about McKnight's recent, more adult-orientated efforts.[6][7]
Artistry[link]
McKnight's vocal style draws from Stevie Wonder (particularly in his use of melisma), Michael Sembello, Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins, and his own brother, Take 6 co-founder Claude V. McKnight. Soul singer James Ingram also strongly influenced McKnight. His music production sensibilities, including his penchant for piano based pop ballads, method of background vocal recording and melismatic voice inflections all draw from Ingram. McKnight also has the uncanny ability to mimic the timbre and style of other singers such as Nat King Cole, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and Prince.
Throughout his career, McKnight has collaborated with a variety of musicians including Mariah Carey, Sin Bandera, Mase, Sean "Puffy" Combs, Marcus Cole, Mary J. Blige, Justin Timberlake, Nelly, Vanessa Williams, Ivete Sangalo, Kirk Franklin, For Real, Canibus, Quincy Jones, Boyz II Men, Christina Aguilera, Regine Velasquez, Shoshana Bean, Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, Rascal Flatts, Willie Nelson, Talib Kweli, MJG (of the Southern Rap duo Eightball & MJG), Josh Groban (on his 2007 #1 Christmas album Noel Schajris), and CeCe Peniston.
In 1992, he released his self-titled debut album, Brian McKnight, which peaked at fifty-eight in the Billboard 200 chart and features the Billboard Hot 100 top twenty hit single "One Last Cry".
McKnight's work has earned him 16 Grammy Awards nominations but holds the record for having won none.
Personal life[link]
McKnight is divorced and has three sons: Brian Jr., Niko and Clyde. McKnight currently lives in Los Angeles, California.[8]
Religion[link]
Brian McKnight was previously a Seventh-day Adventist. He grew up attending Emmanuel Temple. He also attended Oakwood University, a Seventh-day Adventist university, in Huntsville, Alabama from 1987-1989. McKnight explains, concerning his musical beginnings in the church[citation needed]:
"I'm the fifth generation of Seventh Day Adventists and the youngest of four brothers. When I was still very small, we formed a gospel quartet. Our models were the great gospel groups, the Swan Silvertones and Mighty Clouds of Joy. The McKnight brothers were serious singers. The reputation went out: these boys could shout. My big brothers—Claude (a part of the gospel group Take 6), Freddie and Michael—man, they were my heroes. Each was a leader in his own right. Outside church, they listened to jazz. Church music thrilled me, but jazz stimulated me."[citation needed]
Discography[link]
Main article: Brian McKnight discography
- Studio
- Brian McKnight (1992)
- I Remember You (1995)
- Anytime (1997)
- Bethlehem (1998)
- Back at One (1999)
- Superhero (2001)
- U Turn (2003)
- Gemini (2005)
- Ten (2006)
- Evolution of a Man (2009)
- Just Me (2011)
- Compilation
- From There to Here: 1989-2002 (2002)
- Gold (2007)
- 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection – The Best of Brian McKnight (2007)
- Ultimate Collection (2009)
- Icon: Love Songs (2011)
Awards and nominations[link]
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- 1999, Favorite R&B/Soul Album: Anytime (Nominated)
2010
- BET Awards
- 2007, BET J Cool Like Dat: (Nominated)
- Grammy Awards
- 2005, Best R&B Male Vocal Performance: "What We Do Here" (Nominated)
- 2004, Best R&B Male Vocal Performance: "Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda" (Nominated)
- 2003, Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group: "All the Way" w/ Kenny G (Nominated)
- 2002, Outstanding Song Written for a Motion Picture of Television Series: "Win" from Men of Honor (Nominated)
- 2002, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: "Still" (Nominated)
- 2002, Best Pop Collaboration w/ Vocals: "My Kind of Girl" w/ Justin Timberlake (Nominated)
- 2002, Best R&B Song: "Love of My Life" (Nominated)
- 2002, Best R&B Male Vocal Performance: "Love of My Life" (Nominated)
- 2001, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: "6, 8, 12" (Nominated)
- 2001, Best R&B Male Vocal Performance: "Stay or Let It Go" (Nominated)
- 2001, Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group: "Coming Back Home" w/ Bebe Winans & Joe (singer) (Nominated)
- 2000, Best R&B Album: Back at One (Nominated)
- 2000, Best Short-Form Music Video: "Back at One" (Nominated)
- 1999, Best R&B Male Vocal Performance: "The Only One For Me" (Nominated)
- 1999, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: "Anytime" (Nominated)
- 1994, Best Pop Collaboration w/ Vocals: "Love Is" w/ Vanessa L. Williams (Nominated)
McKnight holds a Grammy Awards record having received 16 nominations without a win.
- Image Awards
- 2002, Outstanding Male Artist: Superhero (Nominated)
- 2001, Outstanding Male Artist: "Stay or Let It Go" (Nominated)
- 2000, Outstanding Male Artist: "Back at One" (Winner)
- MTV Video Music Awards
- 2000, Best R&B Video: "Back at One" (Nominated)
- 1998, Best R&B Video: "Anytime" (Nominated)
- Soul Train Awards
- 2002, Best R&B/Soul Male Single: "Love of My Life" (Nominated)
- 2000, Best R&B/Soul Single Male: "Back at One" (Nominated)
- 2000, Best R&B/Soul Male Album: Back at One (Nominated)
- 1999, Best R&B/Soul Male Album: "Anytime" (Winner)
References[link]
- ^ Collier, Aldore (July 2000). "Brian McKnight On Fame, Family and Female Fans". FindArticles.com. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_9_55/ai_63165399/pg_3. Retrieved 2007-01-08.
- ^ a b "Brian McKnight Back at One". SuperiorPics.com. 2009. http://www.superiorpics.com/brian_mcknight/. Retrieved 2010-01-15.
- ^ Trump Rounds Up Celebs for New Season of the Apprentice NY Times, January 8, 2009
- ^ "Stevie Wonder Confirmed as First Guest on Premiere of The Brian McKnight Show". PRLog.org. August 2009. http://www.prlog.org/10325400-stevie-wonder-confirmed-as-first-guest-on-premiere-of-the-brian-mcknight-show.html. Retrieved 2010-01-15.
- ^ http://www.billboard.com/column/the-juice/brian-mcknight-previews-adult-mixtape-with-1006856562.story#/column/the-juice/brian-mcknight-previews-adult-mixtape-with-1006856562.story
- ^ http://www.torontosun.com/2012/04/25/brian-mcknight-vulgar-sex-song-a-joke
- ^ http://rapfix.mtv.com/2012/04/26/brian-mcknight-sexual-song-adult-mixtape-boredom/
- ^ "Brian McKnight: Official Fan club Site (Biography)". Brian McKnight's Official Fan site. Archived from the original on 2007-04-28. http://web.archive.org/web/20070428041643/http://www.bmcknight.com/bio.htm. Retrieved 2007-01-08.
External links[link]
- Brian McKnight official website
- Brian McKnight entertainment website
- Brian McKnight's Biography from VH1
- Brian McKnight's Profile from VIBE
- Brian McKnight Fans Website
- Blogs.OrlandoSentinel.com
- Brian McKnight JUST ME 2011 World Tour
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| Name | Macknight, Brian |
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| Date of birth | June 5, 1969 |
| Place of birth | Symone Atkins' Apartment. |
| Date of death | December 23, 2012 |
| Place of death | Concert stage in Tula, MS. |
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