| Fast
Facts | Mission |
Academics | Faculty | Students | Athletics | Campus | Finance
Academic Distinctions
The key to educational excellence lies not in the memorization of vast amounts of information, but rather in fostering habits of mind that enable students to continue their learning, engage new questions, and reach informed judgments.
— "College Learning
for the New Global Century," The National
Leadership Council for Liberal Education & America's
Promise, Association of American Colleges
and Universities, 2007.
President:
Douglas C. Bennett
Provost:
Nelson Bingham
Academic Dean:
Gregory Mahler |
|
Programs of Study
Earlham offers the Bachelor of Arts degree in 40
disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields, as well as self-designed
studies and a cooperative program in engineering. The
College’s Graduate
Programs in Education Department makes Master of Arts in Teaching
and Master of Education degrees available.
Earlham graduates are well prepared for further study; nearly half of Earlham alumni graduating in the last 10 years enrolled in graduate or professional school. 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. In addition, Earlham is among the nation's
top colleges in the production of Fulbright
Scholars.
Libraries and Information
Services
Long considered one of the nation’s finest
teaching libraries, Earlham‘s Lilly
and Wildman Science libraries have 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.
Off-Campus
Programs
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 at some time during their four-year undergraduate
careers. (Institute of International Education, 2007) Sixty-four
percent of Earlham students take part in off-campus study
in more than 20 countries and throughout the United States.
Faculty members are active in international education as
well, leading and participating in off-campus programs
alongside their students.
For the 2008-09 academic year, Earlham enrolled
the second highest number of Davis/United
World Colleges Scholars of any school in the country. The Davis/UWC program,
which provides scholarships to exceptional students with
great financial need, is the largest international scholarship
program in the world.
The College's commitment to global education
recently was 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 new programs in South
Asia; a May Term in Australia,
exploring the Art, Culture and Ecology of Aboriginal Australians;
and Environmental Studies Semester in New
Zealand.
Service and Engagement
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 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll in each of the past three years.
Each year Earlham's students collectively
contribute nearly 30,000 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 27 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.
Computing Services
Through updated computing and network resources, students have high-speed
access to e-mail and the Internet. Seven computing labs provide 92
PCs and 43 Macs for student use.
Two of the these labs, located in Lilly Library, are open 24 hours
providing a total of 16 PCs and 13 Macs, two printers and a scanner.
There also are seven other discipline-specific
labs throughout the campus providing an additional 62 computers.
In addition, undergraduates with their own units, who
represent 94 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 101 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.
Assessment
Earlham also is active in educational assessment, collecting
and evaluating data about students' intellectual and personal growth. Earlham
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. A leader
in educational assessment, the College shares a great deal of statistical
information with the public at Fact
Book 2008 — Earlham By the Numbers.
|