Earlham College

Earlham College is a liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. It was founded in 1847 by Quakers and has approximately 1,200 students.

In keeping with Friends' belief in equality, everyone addresses each other at Earlham by his or her first name, without the use of titles such as "doctor" or "professor"; likewise, "freshmen" are referred to as "first year (students)". While Earlham is primarily a residential undergraduate college, it also has two graduate programs — the master of arts in teaching and the master of education — which provide a route for teacher licensure to students with liberal arts undergraduate degrees. Earlham College is listed in Loren Pope's book, Colleges That Change Lives, and has produced two Nobel laureates (both in chemistry).

History
Earlham was founded in 1847 as a boarding high school for the religious education of Quaker adolescents. In 1859, Earlham became Earlham College, upon the addition of collegiate academics. At this time, Earlham was the second Quaker college in the United States (Haverford College was first), and the second to be coeducational (Oberlin College was first). Though the college initially only admitted students who belonged to the Religious Society of Friends, Earlham began admitting non-Quakers in 1865. The college was named for Earlham Hall, home of the Gurneys, an important English Quaker family.

Over time, as Quakerism in America became more progressive, Earlham's practices changed with them, though the college has remained faithful to its Quaker roots. In 1942 Earlham enrolled several dozen Japanese-American students to prevent their internment during World War II, a decision that was very controversial in Richmond. 1960 marked the establishment of the Earlham School of Religion, then the only Friends seminary in the world.

Campus
Earlham's 800 acre campus lies at the southwestern edge of Richmond, Indiana, a city of 36,812 (2010 census). The main quadrangle of the campus is called "the Heart." It is surrounded by Earham Hall (with the Runyan Center student union directly behind it), Olvey-Andis Hall, Lilly Library, Carpenter Hall, Landrum Bolling Center, the science buildings (Stanley Hall, Noyes Hall and Dennis Hall), Tyler Hall, Bundy Hall and Barrett Hall. Ninety-four percent of Earlham students live on campus in a variety of settings. The campus includes eight residence halls (Barrett Hall, Bundy Hall, Earlham Hall, Mills Hall, Hoerner Hall, Olvey-Andis Hall, Warren Hall and Wilson Hall) and 28 theme and friendship houses, which border the North and East edges of the campus. U.S. Route 40 runs along the edge of the campus.

The Joseph Moore Museum is a natural history museum located on campus and run by students and biology department faculty, focusing on Indiana's natural history. It is open to the public (free of charge) and tours are available upon request. The majority of Earlham College's campus is undeveloped forest and meadow, including the undeveloped "back campus" area, which serves as an outdoor classroom.

Five major building projects are underway on Earlham's campus which cost a combined $62.3 million. The science complex (Stanley, Dennis, and Noyes Halls) is undergoing a complete renovation which is expected to receive LEED Silver certification. Stanley Hall is expected to be complete by Fall 2013, whereas the other buildings' renovation has yet to begun and is likely to finish in 2015. Tyler Hall, originally built thanks to a Carnegie Grant, fell into a mild state of disrepair over the last several decades and is also being renovated to a LEED Silver standard. Tyler Hall will house Earlham's Admissions department. A new Fine Arts building is currently being constructed which is expected to finish by August 2014. A new baseball stadium is expected to be complete by Fall 2013, and major renovations to the football field were completed prior to the 2012 season.

Earlham College has been singled out in the National Wildlife Federation's national report card on sustainability in higher education as having exemplary programs. Earham's Environmental Plan (approved 2005) is an assessment of how Earlham impacts the environment, what steps have been or can be taken to reduce impacts.

Curriculum and community
Earlham ranks ninth in the nation (out of 1,306 colleges and universities) in its percentage of graduates who go on to receive a Ph.D. in the biological sciences and twenth-ninth in the percentage of students going on to Ph.D. programs in all fields. Roughly 70% of Earlham students go on a semester-length off-campus program to such destinations as Mexico, the U.S./ Mexican border, Vienna, Martinique, Northern Ireland, Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, New Zealand, Japan and Tanzania. This high rate is possible because a student's financial aid helps to offset the full cost of one semester on any Earlham-approved program. In addition, there are a number of shorter off-campus May terms, with destinations both within the U.S. and abroad (Australia, Galapagos, Senegal, Menorca, and Turkey, as recent examples). Earlham has an exchange program with Waseda University in Japan, which has existed since 1963. In addition, Earlham College offers the SICE program in Morioka, Japan, a program in which about twelve to fourteen students teach English in middle schools in Morioka.

In the sciences, Earlham places a large emphasis on integrating research into the undergraduate curriculum. Through Ford/Knight grants, most science faculty have been or are currently involved with students in research. Earlham has good representation in the Butler Undergraduate Research Conference, held each year in the spring. The pre-medicine program is particularly distinguished, in that over the last ten years all but one of its graduates have been accepted into medical school. Earlham's biology and chemistry departments have a long history of producing distinguished graduates, such as Warder Clyde Allee, Wendell Stanley, Jim Fowler, and Larry E. Overman.

The choir department organizes regional and national tours every year for its ensembles. In January 2012, the concert choir performed in Indianapolis, IN, the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, and Chicago, IL. The choral and instrumental music departments collaborate on a biennial basis, performing works such as Carmina Burana and Michael Tippett's A Child of Our Time. The College has a full Gamelan ensemble, which performs concerts in the Spring. Earlham has an entirely student-managed public radio station, WECI 91.5FM.

Earlham has students from 77 countries, the most out of any liberal arts college in the United States. This equates to roughly 200 students, which is the highest total number of international students for any co-educational liberal arts college in the country (Mount Holyoke has more, but is a female-only institution). This high diversity is due in part to a strong relationship with the United World College network of international boarding high schools. Since 2004, Earlham College has been a part of the Davis United World Scholars program, which offers need-based scholarships for UWC graduates to continue their education at select institutions in the United States The Davis Cup, which is awarded to the college with the most current students from this program, has been awarded to Earlham several times in recent memory, though as of 2011 Brown University regained the title by a margin of five students. The college also draws from all regions of the United States, with students from 42 states. Domestic minorities represent 15% of the student body.

Earlham is known for having the United States' only Equestrian program which is run entirely by students. Lessons are available for students of the college and community members.

In keeping with Quaker tradition, Earlham students voluntarily invest many hours of community service into the Richmond community. Students report an average of 23,000 hours of volunteering work every year, and Earlham's Bonner program offers financial aid in exchange for volunteering work for students with high financial need.

Earlham College is a member of the Great Lakes Colleges Association.

Adjacent Institutions
There are two institutions located adjacent to the Earlham College undergraduate campus: Earlham School of Religion, a Quaker theological graduate school and Bethany Theological Seminary, an independent Church of the Brethren institution offering graduate and non-degree programs. Earlham College students can take courses at these institutions (which share facilities with the college).

Athletics
Earlham competes in NCAA Division III. The women's sports are basketball, cross country, field hockey, indoor track, outdoor track, soccer, tennis, and volleyball. The men's sports are baseball, basketball, cross country, football, indoor track, outdoor track, soccer, and tennis. Earlham College was a member of the North Coast Athletic Conference and starting in Fall 2010 will be a member of the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference. Earlham has won championships in men's cross country. The athletics teams are known as the Quakers. They originally had been the Fightin' Quakers; although the name was meant tongue-in-cheek, it was changed in the 1980s to the Hustlin' Quakers after the college's board of regents decided that it was inappropriate for Quakers to fight. In the 1990s, the name was changed again to simply Quakers. Perhaps the Quakers' most notable football game was against Japan's Doshisha University Hamburgers in 1989.

In the 2010-11 season, the Earlham College Men's Tennis team became the first squad in Earlham history to qualify for the NCAA Div. III Championships by winning the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Tournament title. Earlham College Men's Tennis Team Website

Earlham has many Club teams: some of the more successful ones are Ultimate Frisbee, Women's and Men's rugby. Other clubs include the Bike Co-Op, Cheerleaders, Earthquakers (Competitive Dance), Equestrian Program, martial arts groups, Men's Volleyball, and Outdoors Club. A $13-million Athletics and Wellness Center opened at the beginning of the Fall 1999 semester. Students are not charged to use the facility, which features an energy center for cardiovascular and strength training, a group fitness studio for aerobics and yoga, Weber Pool (25 meters by six lanes), racquetball courts, tennis courts, a running track, a climbing wall and Schuckman Court (a performance gymnasium with seating for 1,800). In 2007, Earlham opened its new 2,000 seat Darrell Beane Stadium, with a football field and running track.

Wilderness programs
Earlham was one of the first colleges in the country to initiate student and faculty led wilderness programs, back in 1970 {Earlham College Wilderness Program Instructors Manual, 1975, by Douglas Steeples, Phil Shore, Alan Kesselheim, Henry Merrill "and others", edited by Phil Shore and Alan Kesselheim}. These programs were designed for incoming first-year and transfer students who received credit for them. The program is divided into the Water August Wilderness and the Mountain August Wilderness and lasts for approximately three weeks; the former canoes in Wabakimi Provincial park in Ontario and the latter hikes in the Uinta Mountains in Utah. Students have taken ice climbing, dog sledding, caving, white water kayaking, rock climbing, trail construction and canoeing courses for credit. The program in the past has lead spring break canoeing trips to Big Bend National Park in southwestern Texas, a semester course to  New Zealand and a  May Term (a condensed three-week term after the spring semester) instructor training  course for its August Wilderness program. Challenge/experiential education courses on the college's own high and low ropes is offered as well as the chance to be certified as Wilderness First Responders in an intensive spring break course. In the past students have also had the opportunity to rappel of the College's three story science building.

Earlham College remains the only American institution of tertiary education that allows students to study aardvarks extensively in their native habitat in the Kakamega Forest.

Student life
Earlham's "dry campus" policy is controversial among members of the student body and some faculty members. Drinking is fairly commonplace; some students refer to the campus as "pleasantly moist." In August 2007, as part of New Student Orientation for the incoming class of 2011, the Earlham faculty revealed their new approach to dealing with alcohol issues. Although the official alcohol policy remains the same, the primary focus is now on education and personal responsibility, as opposed to enforcement.

Tension sometimes arises between students and the Quaker Indiana and Western Yearly Meetings over issues of sexuality. Western and, to an even greater degree, Indiana Yearly Meeting tend to be more conservative on issues such as condom distribution, pregnancy, and homosexuality. Tension over the issue of homosexuality led to a decision in 2011 to split Indiana Yearly Meeting.

In 2005, the Committee on Campus Life approved a new pregnancy policy, stating that pregnant women may reside in on-campus housing, but are also offered a housing exemption if they so desire.

Most students stay on-campus during the weekends. The Student Activities Board, Earlham Film Series, student bands, theater productions, etc. offer a variety of activities on the weekends.

In March 2005, William Kristol, founder and editor of The Weekly Standard, was hit in the face with an ice cream pie by a student during a lecture he gave on campus. This event made national and international news and was carried by many leading news outlets. Some students and faculty at the lecture showed strong disapproval of the act. The event sharply divided students and faculty, with some showing support for the act of pieing and some showing strong disapproval. Many, however, felt that the act was unjustly punished by the President (who was also indirectly hit by the pie). The student was subsequently suspended for the rest of the semester and dropped out the following year. Additionally, President Doug Bennett overturned a College Judiciary Council ruling that found the students who knew about the pieing ahead of time not guilty; this act further divided the campus. Shortly after the incident, conservative commentators Pat Buchanan and David Horowitz were 'attacked' (with salad dressing and a pie, respectively) and a 'teach-in' at Earlham was conducted which featured three faculty members sharing their views. Several years ex post facto, the pieing, the punishment, and whether William Kristol should have even been invited to speak at Earlham all continue to be issues of contention amongst the faculty and student body.

Notable alumni (A–M)

 * Marjorie Hill Allee - author
 * Warder Clyde Allee-known for his research on animal behavior, protocooperation, and for identifying the Allee effect. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
 * Carl W. Ackerman—First head of the Columbia University School of Journalism.
 * John S. Allen—Founding president of the University of South Florida; interim president of the University of Florida.
 * Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sä)- famous writer and Native American activist. Founded National Council of Indian Americans.
 * Howard Boyer - Former editor at Harvard University Press who published the work of prominent scientists like Stephen Jay Gould, Edward O. Wilson and Ernst Mayr.
 * Laurence G. Brown MD - Director, Office of Medical Services, US State Department.
 * Richard Butler- Former executive director of Church World Service.
 * Greg Burdwood - State Legislator in the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
 * Rick Carter - Head Football coach, College of the Holy Cross. His 1983 team remains the only Holy Cross team to ever qualify or the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs. Named N.C.A.A. Division I-AA Coach of the Year.
 * Al Cobine - Big band leader and tenor saxophonist. Worked closely with Henry Mancini and often associated with the Pink Panther theme song.
 * Joseph John Copeland - former president of City College of New York
 * Tony DeBlase - Designer of the Leather Pride flag.
 * David W. Dennis - Congressman from Indiana
 * Juan Dies - Co-founder and executive director of Sones de Mexico Ensemble. Nominated for a Latin Grammy.
 * Joseph M. Dixon, Representative, Senator, and the seventh Governor of Montana.
 * Liza Donnelly, Cartoonist for the New Yorker.
 * Clifton O. Dummett, a dental professor at LSU who helped integrate the New Orleans Yacht club, now deceased. He was a known for his dental lectures on pediatric dentistry.
 * John Porter East- former U.S. Senator for North Carolina.
 * Ken Edgett - Lead investigator for a camera (Mars Hand Lens Imager or MAHLI) on the Curiosity rover on Mars.
 * Amelia Epler Musser - Her Scottish terrier 'Sadie' won 'Best in Show' at the 134th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden in 2010.
 * Brigadier General Bonner F. Fellers, General MacArthur's psychological warfare director during World War II, and later, during the subsequent occupation of Japan, worked with fellow Earlhamite Isshiki Yuri (see below) to persuade MacArthur to preserve the institution of the Emperor and clear Emperor Hirohito of war crimes.
 * Jim Fowler, star of Wild Kingdom.
 * Sara Gelser, member of the Oregon House of Representatives.
 * Bobbie Gottschalk - Co-founder of Seeds of Peace She was also presented with the Medal of Honor, by King Hussein of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
 * Robert Graham - Endowed Chair, Department of Family Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine.
 * Tim Grimm - Played FBI agent Dan Murray alongside Harrison Ford in the film Clear and Present Danger (film) (1994).
 * Mary Haas-Linguist-pioneer in the field of Siamese language studies. Served as President of the Linguistic Society of America
 * William Hadley - Established the Hadley School for the Blind
 * Michael C. Hall - Actor on HBO's Six Feet Under and star of Showtime's Dexter for which he was nominated for an Emmy and won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards.
 * Margaret Hamilton – headed the team that wrote the onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo Program.
 * Robert M. Hirsch, Former Chief Hydrologist and head of water science for the United States Geological Survey.
 * Mary I. Hussey- Semitic text authority. First women to teach at American Society for Oriental Research in Jerusalem.
 * Yuri Isshiki (née Watanabe), Japanese Christian and classmate of Brig. Gen. Bonner F. Fellers (see above) who helped to define the institution of the Emperor of Japan after World War II.
 * John Herndon James - Chief Justice of the 4th Court of Civil Appeals in San Antonio.
 * Rolin Roscoe James -founding father of Sigma Pi international college social fraternity.
 * C. Francis Jenkins- demonstrated the first practical motion picture projector.
 * Walter Jessup - Former head of the Carnegie Corporation and president of the University of Iowa
 * Henry Underwood Johnson - US Congressman from Indiana
 * Robert Underwood Johnson - Former US Ambassador to Italy.
 * Andrew Johnston (critic) (1968–2008), Film Critic for Time Out New York, Us Weekly, Radar magazine, Editor of the Time In section and TV Critic for Time Out New York
 * Joseph Henry Kibbey - Territorial Governor of Arizona.
 * Peter D. Klein - chaired Rutgers University's Department of Philosophy.
 * Frances Moore Lappé - activist and author of three-million-copy bestseller: Diet For a Small Planet.
 * Jennifer Laurin - Professor at The University of Texas School of Law.
 * John Loose - Former Corning Inc., CEO
 * Maurice Manning - Pulitzer-Prize finalist poet.
 * Howard Marmon- Former president of American Society of Automotive Engineers.
 * Manning Marable - Professor at Columbia University Author of Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012.
 * Edward Matney - He received an Emmy for a 1998 segment of "Nightline" on the Clinton White House.
 * Dan McCoy - Writer for The Daily Show and host of The Flop House podcast.
 * Jack Mutti - Economist, served on the White House's Council of Economic Advisors

Notable alumni (N–Z)

 * Katherine Nash - English Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. Research focus includes narrative ethics.
 * Larry Overman - Organic Chemist. Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
 * Robert T. Pennock - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Elected 2006
 * Polly A. Penhale - Acting Head, Office of Polar Environment, Health and Safety, Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation. Recipient of 2011 Explorer's Club Finn Ronne Memorial Award. Recipient of Ocean Sciences Award from the American Geophysical Union. Recipient of 2000 Distinguished Alumni Award from Earlham College.
 * Josh Penn - producer of Beasts of the Southern Wild which won the narrative grand jury prize and the cinematography award at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2012.
 * Susan A. Porter - Appointments Secretary to US First Ladies Nixon and Ford.
 * Newton K. Wesley-Japanese American optometrist who was one of the early developers of commercially successful rigid contact lenses in the 1950s.
 * Robert Quine - named by Rolling Stone as one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.
 * Marc Reisner - Author of the books "A Dangerous Place" and Cadillac Desert'' the latter of which was described in his New York Times obituary as "a seminal work about the environmental cost of Western water projects."
 * Hugh Roberts- Noted banker and philanthropist in North Carolina
 * Willard A. Roberts- Helped develop fluorescent and black light for GE.


 * Jose Royo - CEO of Ascent Media Group, a provider of large-scale digital services to creative media companies including film studios.
 * Olive Rush - Artist
 * Andrea Seabrook - contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered and former Congressional Correspondent to NPR.
 * David Shear - US Ambassador to Vietnam.
 * William E. Simkin- helped prevent national strikes and resolved thousands of labor disputes as the Federal Government's chief labor mediator and as a leading private arbitrator.
 * Preston L. Smith - Founder of Killington Ski Resort
 * Walter E. Spahr - Economist, advocate of the 'gold standard'. Headed NYU economics department between 1928 and 1956.
 * Steve Specht - NFL High School Coach of the year 2012
 * Wendell Meredith Stanley - American biochemist. He shared a 1946 Nobel Prize for discovering methods of producing pure enzymes and virus proteins.
 * Laura Sessions Stepp - Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for The Washington Post
 * Edwin Way Teale - naturalist writer, won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1966. Elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Staff Writer at Popular Science.
 * Ralph Waldo Trueblood - Editor-in-Chief, The Los Angeles Times 1934-37. Mr. Trueblood was co-inventor of the telephotographer, the first device used by newspapers for sending pictures by wire.
 * Thomas Trueblood - President of the National Society of Elocutionists. His golf teams won two NCAA National Championships and five Big Ten Conference championships.
 * Harold Urey - Received the Chemistry Nobel prize in 1934. Most well known for his discovery of deuterium.
 * Frederick Van Nuys, U.S. Senator from Indiana 1932-1944.
 * Amy Walters - Producer, National Public Radio.
 * Zach Warren - Ran the Boston Marathon while juggling in 2 hours, fifty-eight minutes.
 * Robert Wissler - biochemist, discovered the damaging effects of smoking and cholesterol on the vascular system.
 * Kenneth Wollack - President of the National Democratic Institute
 * Stanley T. Wray- awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross of the Royal Air Force.
 * Harry N. Wright - former president of City College of New York.
 * Herman B. White - physicist

Notable faculty

 * Landrum Bolling - President of Earlham from 1958 to 1973, Current Director at Large of Mercy Corps. Back channel between Yasir Arafat and Jimmy Carter.
 * Wayne C. Booth - (former) Professor of English- Literary Critic; author of The Rhetoric of Fiction and The Company We Keep.
 * John Elwood Bundy, impressionist painter.
 * Evan Ira Farber, Emeritus Library Director, named Academic Research Librarian of the Year in 1980.
 * Ferit Guven - Professor of Philosophy.
 * Del Harris, former Earlham basketball coach; current NBA coach.
 * Robert L. Kelly- Former Earlham College president, made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French government.
 * Thomas R. Kelly- Author of A Testament of Devotion
 * Tom Kirk - Emeritus Library Director & Coordinator of Information Services, named Academic Librarian of the year in 2004.
 * Paul Lacey- Professor Emeritus of English. Literary executor to the late poet Denise Levertov. Presiding Clerk of the American Friends Service Committee (since 2005).
 * Joann Martin - Professor of Anthropology.
 * Kevin Miles - Professor of Philosophy.
 * Dale Edwin Noyd — decorated fighter pilot and Air Force captain who became a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War.
 * E. Merrill Root, distinguished American poet.
 * Peter Suber - Senior Research Professor of Philosophy, creator of the game Nomic, and a leader in the open access movement.
 * Joanna (Gypsy) Swanger - Associate Professor of Peace and Global Studies.
 * D. Elton Trueblood - noted Quaker author and theologian.
 * John Iverson, a Herpetologist credited with establishing the most complete life table for turtles.