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Ursinus College is a private liberal arts college in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. [6] It was founded in 1869 and occupies a 170-acre (0.69 km 2) campus. [6] Ursinus College's forerunner was the Freeland Seminary founded in 1848. [7] Its $127 million endowment supports about 1,500 students.
With that statement, the Centennial Conference was born. Those private colleges were Dickinson College, Franklin & Marshall College, Gettysburg College, Johns Hopkins University, Muhlenberg College, Swarthmore College, Ursinus College, and Western Maryland College, later renamed and now known as McDaniel College.
Zacharias Ursinus (18 July 1534 – 6 May 1583) was a sixteenth-century German Reformed theologian and Protestant reformer, born Zacharias Baer in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland). He became the leading theologian of the Reformed Protestant movement of the Palatinate, serving both at the University of Heidelberg and the College of Wisdom ...
Wesley Updike, (Class of 1923) teacher, father of John Updike. Lewis R. Linet, Jr. (Class of 1966): Founder of The Agency Of Ursinus College - Concert Production, Producer of The Philadelphia Folk Festival, Original Manager of Rock Group, KISS. Dave Nolan (Class of 1965): Professor of Music, Audio recording, and Music Production, Head Coach of ...
Founded as Alvernia College in 1958 by the Bernardine Sisters of St. Francis, the school gained university status in 2008. History [ edit ] Alvernia University was founded in 1958 by the Bernardine Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis first as college for the sisters and then as a four-year liberal arts college .
Fong grew up in Chinatown in Oakland, California, the son of Chinese immigrants. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a degree in English and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In 1978 he earned a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of California, Los Angeles, writing his dissertation on the works of Oscar Wilde. [2]
Ursinus College. John Henry Augustus Bomberger (January 13, 1817 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania – August 19, 1890 in Collegeville, Pennsylvania) was a German Reformed clergyman. He was president of Ursinus College, and did a translation and condensation of the Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. [1]
California Institute of Integral Studies. Stephen Brock Blomberg (born March 21, 1967) is the 8th president of California Institute of Integral Studies. [3] An internationally known scholar and former President of Ursinus College, Blomberg is best known in academia for his work on the economics of terrorism .