Allegheny College

History

Early history

Allegheny College was founded in April 1815{{cite news | first = Anne W. | last = Stewart | title = Nothing New Under the Sun | work = The Wall Street Journal | date = February 7, 2003 | url = https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1044579789897852013 | access-date = August 26, 2009 | archive-date = December 23, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151223052031/http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1044579789897852013 | url-status = live}} by Timothy Alden, a graduate of Harvard's School of Divinity. The college has been affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1833 but does not integrate religion into the classroom or pedagogy.

The first class, consisting of four male students, began their studies on July 4, 1816, without any formal academic buildings. Within six years, Alden accumulated sufficient funds to begin building a campus. The first building erected, the library, was designed by Alden himself, and is a notable example of early American architecture. Bentley Hall is named in honor of William Bentley, who donated his private library to the college, a collection of considerable value and significance. In 1824, Thomas Jefferson wrote to Alden, expressing the hope that his University of Virginia could someday possess the richness of Allegheny's library.{{cite book | access-date = March 16, 2016 | archive-date = June 27, 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140627123622/http://books.google.com/books?id=XuwTAAAAIAAJ | url-status = live

Allegheny began admitting women in 1870, early for a US college; a woman was valedictorian of the Allegheny class of 1875.{{cite web |access-date=August 28, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724192313/http://puka.cs.waikato.ac.nz/cgi-bin/cic/library?a=d&d=p82 |archive-date=July 24, 2011

In 1905, Allegheny built Alden Hall as a new and improved preparatory school. Over the decades, the college has grown in size and significance while still maintaining ties to the community.

Recent history

In 1970, the film Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me based on the Richard Fariña novel was filmed on college grounds.

While the word "Allegheny" is a brand for the college, it is also the name of a county, a river, and a mountain range, and the school has tried to prevent other entities from using this word. For example, Allegheny objected in 2006 when Penn State tried to rename one of its campuses "Allegheny".{{cite news

Under president Richard J. Cook, Allegheny was reported to have had a "stronger endowment, optimal enrollment, record retention rates, innovative new programs and many physical campus improvements." These years were marked by significant growth in the endowment, marked by a $115-million fund-raising drive, bringing the endowment to $150 million. In 2008, James H. Mullen Jr. took office as the 21st president of Allegheny.

The college and the town cooperate in many ways. One study suggested the Allegheny College generates approximately $93 million annually into Meadville and the local economy.

Campus

The campus has 40 principal buildings on a 79 acre central campus located just north of downtown Meadville, a 203 acre outdoor recreational complex north of campus, called the Robertson Athletic Complex, and the 283 acre Bousson nature reserve, protected forest, and experimental forest.

Non-residential buildings

• The Pelletier Library (in 2008) had 922,540 volumes (491,284 microform titles).{{cite news
• Newton Observatory houses a nine-inch refracting telescope and a computer-interfaced 10-inch Meade LX200 telescope with CCD camera. The Office of Public Safety and Security is also housed in the Newton Observatory.{{cite news | access-date = May 20, 2013 | archive-date = September 23, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120923213542/http://sites.allegheny.edu/physics/facilities-and-strengths/ | url-status = live
• The Allegheny College Center for Experiential Learning (ACCEL) coordinates career internships, off-campus study programs, service-learning, pre-professional advising, and leadership development.
• A Counseling Center, which has joined the Winslow Health Center in Schultz Hall, offers guidance for students in adjusting to student life. The center is staffed by registered therapists and provides crisis and walk in hours to students, free of charge.
• Winslow Health Center is staffed by a registered nurse and offers routine diagnosis and treatment. The center also offers free STI testing to students on a monthly basis.
• The main dining facility is in Brooks Hall, and students can also dine at McKinley's Food Court in the campus center. There have been efforts by students to support the relationship between food services and local farmers.{{cite news | access-date = August 26, 2009 | archive-date = July 11, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110711104457/http://goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20080505%2FGREEN01%2F805050368 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130201113517/http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS201542+20-May-2009+PRN20090520 | url-status = dead | archive-date = February 1, 2013 | access-date = August 26, 2009
• The Center for Political Participation was founded at Allegheny in 2002 by political science professor Daniel M. Shea, following concerns about low youth voter turnout in the 2000 presidential election. The CPP conducts scholarly research related to youth political participation; sponsors on-campus events related to politics and the electoral process, such as panel discussions; and conducts community-outreach efforts, including the Model Campaign USA program, a campaign simulation designed to get high school students interested in electoral politics.
• Henderson Campus Center was recently renovated and includes McKinley's food court, the bookstore, the game room, Grounds for Change—the student-run coffee house, the post office, and campus offices of college departments as well as student organizations.{{cite web |access-date=August 26, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091112150607/http://studentactivities.allegheny.edu/campus.php |archive-date=November 12, 2009 | access-date = August 28, 2009
• Sports facilities include the $13 million David V. Wise Sport & Fitness Center, which opened in 1997.
• A Women's Center which is located in the basement of Walker Hall was established in 2003 to be a resource for research on gender issues and women's history.{{cite news | access-date = August 28, 2009 | archive-date = May 29, 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220529213151/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=ET&p_theme=et&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F9FF59158257781&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D | url-status = live
• The college established the Center for Economic and Environmental Development in 1997.{{cite news | access-date = August 28, 2009

File:Brooks side.jpg|alt=Picture of a four-story building with white columns|Brooks Hall File:Bentley Hall.jpg|alt= Historic Bentley Hall which housed the college administration, including the Registrar and Office of the President, prior to its current renovations|Bentley Hall File:Doane Hall of Chemistry and Envi Sci.jpg|alt=Picture of a three-story building with walkways on an autumn day, The Doane Hall of Chemistry and Steffee Hall of Life Sciences|The Doane Hall of Chemistry File:Ravine hall.jpg|alt=Picture of a building with trees (leaves turning) in the foreground. Ravine Hall is a coed residence hall currently housing students of all class years|Ravine Hall File:Wise center.jpg|alt=Picture of a campus building with a walkway on an autumn day|Student entrance to the Wise Center File:Oddfellows building.jpg|alt=Picture of a building with a road leading up to it. The Oddfellows building houses the departments of English, Religious Studies, and Philosophy as well as the Meadville Community Theater and Child Care programs. Photo courtesy|The Oddfellows building File:Ford Chapel outside.jpg|Ford chapel

Academics

Allegheny College's majors and minors fall into three spheres: Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences. There are some majors, such as Environmental Studies or International Studies, which fall into the interdisciplinary category. The college requires students to choose a minor as well as a major and encourages "unusual combinations" of majors and minors.{{cite web | access-date = August 26, 2009 | archive-date = January 19, 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100119042312/http://www.allegheny.edu/academics/ | url-status = live | access-date = August 25, 2009 | archive-date = February 17, 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090217051219/http://post-gazette.com/pg/09041/947948-298.stm | url-status = live

Allegheny is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE).{{cite web | access-date = August 28, 2009 | archive-date = November 27, 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091127123014/http://www.4icu.org/reviews/6410.htm | url-status = live

About 30% of the college's 2,100 students graduate in one of the STEM disciplines—science, technology, engineering, and math. Students must take at least two courses (8 semester credit hours) in a discipline other than their major or minor.{{cite web |access-date = August 26, 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090307033841/http://www.allegheny.edu/academics/degree_req.php#senior |archive-date = March 7, 2009 |url-status = dead

The most popular majors, in terms of 2021 graduates, were Biology/Biological Sciences (35), Psychology (34), and Environmental Science (33).

Total credits for graduation are 128 semester credit hours and no more than 64 credit hours can be from any one department.

The college requires all students to take a three-seminar series which "encourages careful listening and reading, thoughtful speaking and writing, and reflective academic planning and self-exploration," to be completed in their first two years. Sophomores typically meet with faculty advisers eight times a year.{{cite web | access-date = August 28, 2009 | archive-date = August 18, 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090818001414/http://www.collegebound.net/college-university/article/allegheny-college/5682/ | url-status = live

Allegheny requires seniors to complete a senior project in their major. Some senior projects can be quite ambitious; in 2007, one senior project involved comprehensive instructions for installing solar panels on the roof of a campus building.{{cite news |access-date=September 2, 2009 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090903014320/http://scholar.google.com/ |archive-date=September 3, 2009

Allegheny divides its academic calendar into two 15-week semesters. The school year typically runs from the last week of August to mid-May, with a short fall break in mid-October, a Wednesday-to-Sunday Thanksgiving break, a month-long winter break from mid-December to mid-January, and a week-long spring break in the third week of March.

It formerly had a Chinese language minor, which was discontinued with the Chinese program itself in 2022.

Study abroad

Allegheny offers direct enrollment programs at Lancaster University, England; James Cook University, Australia; University of Natal, South Africa; Capital Normal University, China; and Karl-Eberhard University, Germany. It also offers language and area studies programs in Seville, Spain; Angers, France; Karls-Eberhard University, Germany; and Querétaro, Mexico and internship programs in London, England; Paris, France; and Washington D.C. Programs geared to specific majors are also available, including environmental studies at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, Israel; and the Center for Sustainable Development, Costa Rica; marine biology at the Duke University Marine Lab in North Carolina; and political science at American University. Allegheny faculty members have led domestic summer-study tours to New York, Yellowstone, Austria, Costa Rica, and South Africa.

Cooperative and reciprocal programs

Allegheny has medical school cooperative programs available with three institutions: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Drexel University{{cite web |access-date=August 28, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100118183216/http://webcampus.drexelmed.edu/Admissions/linkage.asp |archive-date=January 18, 2010 |url-status=dead

Faculty

Four faculty won Fulbright Awards in March 2001.{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528035658/http://www.allegheny.edu/magazine/archive/2008winterspring/thecookyears.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=2010-05-28 |access-date=August 28, 2009 | access-date = August 28, 2009 | archive-date = June 7, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110607015724/http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20090819%2FNEWS02%2F308199973%2F-1%2FRSS | url-status = live

Admissions

There were 5,479 applications for admission to the class of 2022 (enrolling fall 2018): 3,485 were admitted (63.6%) and 474 enrolled (an admissions yield of 13.6%). The average high school GPA of enrolled freshmen was 3.51, and 35% had a high school GPA of 3.75 or higher. The middle 50% range of enrolled freshmen on SAT scores was 560–680 for reading and writing, and 560-660 for math, while the ACT Composite middle 50% range was 24–30.

Rankings

Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked Allegheny 60th among the top 100 U.S. liberal arts colleges for 2022.

U.S. News & World Report ranked Allegheny as tied for 80th among liberal arts colleges, 16th in "Best Undergraduate Teaching," tied for 38th in "Top Performers for Social Mobility", and 58th in "Best Value Schools" in the United States for 2025.

Washington Monthly, which rates schools based on the degree to which they "contribute to the public good" by improving social mobility, producing research, and promoting service, ranked Allegheny 42nd among 203 liberal arts colleges in 2022.

Student life

Students

Students generally are required to live on campus for all four years, and may reside in traditional dormitories, apartment-style housing, or college-owned houses.

The demographics of students as of fall 2015 were: White (non-Hispanic) 75.9%; Hispanic/Latino 7.0%, Black (non-Hispanic) 5.9%; Two or more races 4.7%, Non-resident alien 2.8%, Asian & Pacific Islander 2.4%; American Indian or Alaskan native 0.1%; Unknown 1.2% .

Allegheny students in 2008 come from 33 states and 25 other countries. Allegheny had a "diversity index" of .15 on a scale of .99=extremely diverse to .01=not diverse.{{cite news | access-date = August 28, 2009 | archive-date = August 26, 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090826180222/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/liberal-arts-campus-ethnic-diversity | url-status = live

Students participate in volunteer activities: in the fall semester of 2011, the student body contributed 25,000 hours of volunteer service to the community.{{cite news | access-date = August 25, 2009 | archive-date = July 24, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080724014748/http://www.post-gazette.com/businessnews/20011216dicker1216fnp6.asp | url-status = live

Information about students is generally kept private in keeping with the 1974 "Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act" which prohibits colleges from releasing information about their students without student permission.{{cite news |access-date = August 25, 2009 |archive-date = July 31, 2022 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220731022254/https://old.post-gazette.com/pg/06232/714938-85.stm |url-status = live | access-date=August 26, 2009 | archive-date=July 31, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220731022301/https://www.wsj.com/news/types/the-americas | url-status=live

Official college policy is to discourage underage drinking, although there have been incidents of violations at off-campus parties. Incoming students are required to take an online course about the dangers of alcohol abuse. The school punishes transgressions with disciplinary action.{{cite news | access-date = August 28, 2009 | archive-date = May 29, 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220529213143/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=ET&p_theme=et&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=114882A1E51E0B70&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D | url-status = live

Media

Students run a campus radio station WARC 90.3 FM and a publication called "The Allegheny Review" of undergraduate literature.{{cite news |access-date=August 26, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610050614/http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/review/ |archive-date=June 10, 2010 | access-date = August 26, 2009 | archive-date = June 7, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110607015645/http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20081121%2FNEWS02%2F311219868%2F-1%2FRSS | url-status = live | access-date = August 26, 2009 | archive-date = July 31, 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220731022258/https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fa%2Fallegheny.edu%2Fstudentorgs%2FHome&followup=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fa%2Fallegheny.edu%2Fstudentorgs%2FHome&hd=allegheny.edu&service=jotspot&sacu=1&rip=1 | url-status = live

Allegheny has welcomed a variety of entertainers and guest speakers over the last several years including John Updike, Dave Matthews, Dick Cheney,{{cite news |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130129014730/http://www.meadvilletribune.com/local/local_story_305225824.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 29, 2013 |access-date=August 28, 2009 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130128112435/http://www.meadvilletribune.com/tribmovies/local_story_110194106.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 28, 2013 |access-date=August 28, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528042740/http://www.allegheny.edu/news/releases/live_from_meadvilleits_jimmy_fallon_saturday_night_live_comedian_to_perform_at_allegheny_college.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 28, 2010 |access-date=August 28, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528003241/http://www.allegheny.edu/news/releases/comedian_wayne_brady_to_appear_live_at_allegheny.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 28, 2010 |access-date=August 28, 2009 | access-date = August 28, 2009 | archive-date = May 29, 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220529213145/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PG&p_theme=pg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F1AEA94C334ABD0&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D | url-status = live

Athletics

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Allegheny, known athletically as the Gators, belongs to the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) and has NCAA Division III teams.{{cite web | access-date = August 26, 2009 | archive-date = August 22, 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090822075959/http://www.alleghenysports.com/ | url-status = live | access-date = August 25, 2009 | access-date = August 25, 2009 | archive-date = May 15, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080515211820/http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06355/747532-134.stm | url-status = live | access-date = August 25, 2009 | archive-date = May 15, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080515201217/http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07055/764711-134.stm | url-status = live | access-date = August 25, 2009 | archive-date = October 12, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081012054112/http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/other/20030902where0902p5.asp | url-status = live | access-date = August 25, 2009 | archive-date = November 22, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081122143949/http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07305/829910-139.stm | url-status = live | access-date = August 25, 2009 | access-date = August 25, 2009 | archive-date = September 29, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080929232517/http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06320/738487-134.stm | url-status = live | access-date = August 25, 2009 | archive-date = November 22, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081122143312/http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07305/829893-134.stm | url-status = live |access-date=August 26, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090918110558/http://www.alleghenysports.com/sports/2009/7/1/Facilities.aspx?tab=facilityphotos |archive-date=September 18, 2009

Branch Rickey was Allegheny College Athletic Director from 1904 to 1905, and coached baseball, basketball, and football. Rickey also served as instructor of Shakespeare, English, and History.

The 1990 Allegheny football team, led by first-year head coach Ken O'Keefe, won the Division III football national championship with a 13–0–1 record and a 21–14 victory over in the Stagg Bowl.

Green Initiatives

Allegheny College has undertaken several projects to become more a sustainable campus. One such project is the October Energy Challenge, in which students are encouraged to save electricity for a one-month period. The difference in cost between that month and the previous month's electrical power is then reinvested back into sustainable campus infrastructure. Previous energy challenge have resulted in the addition of water-bottle stations to encourage use of reusable water bottles and solar panels on the biology building.

Other projects include the Carrden, a student-lead garden that grows organic produce, multiple rain gardens, a green box program for reusable takeout containers, as well as the college itself becoming the first college in Pennsylvania to achieve Carbon Net-Neutrality

There are multiple student groups dedicated to environmental protection including SEA (Students for Environmental Action), AC Food Rescue, and Creek connections.

Traditions

One tradition is that a female student is not a "real co-ed" until she's been kissed on the thirteenth plank of the Rustic bridge over the stream.{{cite web | access-date = August 28, 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110722194157/http://wiki.worldflicks.org/allegheny_college.html#coords=(41.6494755,%20-80.1449425)&z=16 | archive-date = July 22, 2011 | url-status = dead | access-date = August 27, 2009 | archive-date = July 31, 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220731022301/https://books.google.com/books?id=0oQ3XkXjUQkC | url-status = live | access-date = March 16, 2016 | archive-date = April 25, 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220425013745/https://books.google.com/books?id=Fub2bbqUSZcC | url-status = live

Fraternities and sororities

Allegheny College also has a number of fraternities and sororities on campus. These include Kappa Kappa Gamma, Kappa Alpha Theta, Delta Delta Delta, Alpha Delta Pi, and Alpha Chi Omega for the sororities. In 2009, 34% of Allegheny women belonged to a sorority.{{cite news | access-date = August 26, 2009 | archive-date = August 27, 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090827163605/http://rankings.usnews.com/best-colleges/most-sororities | url-status = live

Administration

Location and transportation

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

Administration and staff

The acting president since September 2022 is Ron Cole, the college's former provost and Dean of college. There are approximately 150 administration and staff personnel in 2008. The staff breakdown is as follows: 157 full-time employees doing instruction, research, and public service; 43 executive, administrative, and managerial personnel; 103 other professionals (support/service); 9 technical and paraprofessionals; 68 clerical and secretarial employees; 12 skilled craftspersons; and 27 service & maintenance staff.{{cite web | access-date = August 26, 2009 | archive-date = July 31, 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220731022305/https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/use-the-data | url-status = live |access-date = August 28, 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110716145703/http://www.e-heds.org/Default.aspx?tabindex=1&tabid=34 |archive-date = July 16, 2011 |url-status = dead

Notable people

Main article: List of Allegheny College people

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