Earlham College | Fast Facts

Faculty:	104
Full-time:	97
Men:	53
Women:	44
Part-time:	7
Men:	5
Women:	2

96% of Earlham's full-time faculty hold terminal degrees in their fields.

Student/Faculty
Ratio:

12/1

President:
Douglas C. Bennett

Provost:
Nelson Bingham

Academic Dean:
Gregory Mahler

Earlham offers the Bachelor of Arts degree in 40 disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields, as well as permitting self-designed studies and a cooperative program in engineering. Master of Arts in Teaching and Master of Education degrees also are offered.

Graduates are well prepared for graduate study with more than 75% of alumni eventually completing graduate degrees. In fact, the College ranks 23rd among 1,469 institutions of higher learning in the U.S. in the percentage of graduates who go on to receive Ph.D.s and is among the nation's top colleges in the production of Fulbright Scholars.

Earlham faculty have a strong commitment to interaction with students, and many of the College's professors have had their work published in scholarly journals. They enjoy excellent professional reputations not only as teachers but also as researchers within their respective fields. The scholarly work of Earlham faculty has earned the support of many foundations, including National Science Foundation and Camile and Henry Dreyfus, Inc. Enabled by a $360,000 grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation in February 2007, Earlham College will soon harness its impressive powers in science to develop multidisciplinary curriculum modules and student-faculty research projects focusing on metals in the environment. A team of nine faculty members from five departments joined in developing the project.

Earlham also is active in educational assessment, collecting and evaluating data about students' intellectual and personal growth. Earlham’s President Doug Bennett has been instrumental in encouraging colleges to share information about student learning outcomes more freely. Earlham has been an active participant in such efforts as the National Survey of Student Engagement and the Collegiate Learning Assessment. The College has long been committed to applying evaluative knowledge to improve our teaching methods and educational outcomes.

Long considered one of the nation’s finest teaching libraries, Earlham‘s Lilly and Wildman Science Libraries has received the Excellence in Academic Libraries Award from the Association of College and Research Libraries. In total, Earlham students and faculty have ready access to some 3.5 million volumes. Locally, Earlham houses more than 400,000 volumes and currently subscribes to some 700 print periodicals and newspapers, as well as maps, music and works of art. Another 20,000 periodicals are available online. Special holdings include the Herbert Hoover Peace Studies Collection and the Quaker Collection. Earlham is a Government Printing Office selective depository for government documents.

With more than 50 years of offering international study programs, Earlham ranks second among the nation's baccalaureate colleges in the proportion of students who study abroad some time during their four-year undergraduate careers. (Institute of International Education, 2007) Seventy-two percent of Earlham students take part in off-campus study in more than 20 countries and throughout the United States. Faculty are active in international education, as well, leading and participating in off-campus programs alongside their students.

The College's commitment to global education was recently recognized when Earlham was awarded the prestigious Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization from NAFSA: Association of International Educators. Constantly innovating, Earlham recently began a new program in South Asia and a May Term in Australia, exploring the Art, Culture and Ecology of Aboriginal Australians. Upcoming plans include an Environmental Studies Semester in New Zealand in Spring 2008.

To prepare students to be global citizens who are concerned with improving our world, Earlham has long emphasized volunteer service. The humanitarian efforts of many Earlham students, faculty and staff locally, regionally, and beyond, including attention in the Gulf Region in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have earned the College a place on the first President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.

Each year Earlham's students collectively contribute nearly 32,000 reported hours (and many more unreported hours) of community service to support important local city and county needs. Faculty and staff also are active as volunteers, giving more than 13,000 hours annually to civic organizations, nonprofit agencies and local government. The College is among 29 colleges hosting a Bonner Scholars Program that awards 15 first-year students with four-year scholarships for continued participation in community outreach; 60 Bonner Scholars are active during the current year.

Through updated computing and network resources, students have high-speed access to e-mail and the Internet. Nine computing labs provide 122 Dell computers and 42 Macs for student use. Two of the these labs, located in Lilly Library, are open 24 hours providing a total of 17 PCs and 12 Macs, two printers and a scanner.

There also are 12 other discipline-specific labs throughout the campus providing an additional 72 computers. In addition, undergraduates with their own units, who represent 93 percent of the student body, can connect to the campus network from ports in their residence hall rooms or via the wireless network from one of 65 access points around campus. Students can check out laptops from Lilly Library for use within the building for up to three hours, or from the Instructional Technology and Media Center for use around campus for up to three days.