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Lafayette College

Lafayette College is a private liberal arts college in Easton, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter and other citizens in Easton, the college first held classes in 1832.[8] The founders voted to name the college after General Lafayette, a hero of the American Revolution.

Motto

Veritas liberabit (Latin) Cur Non? (Latin)

1826 (1826)

$1.063 billion (2021)[3]

Robert E. Sell

John Meier[4]

229 full-time members[5]

2,729 (all undergraduate) (Spring 2023)[6]

Suburban
110-acre (45 ha) main campus
and additional 230-acre (93 ha) athletic complex.[7]

    Maroon and white

Located on College Hill in Easton, the campus is in the Lehigh Valley, about 70 mi (110 km) west of New York City and 60 mi (97 km) north of Philadelphia. Lafayette College guarantees campus housing to all enrolled students.[9] The college requires students to live in campus housing for their first three years unless approved for residing at home as a commuter. Seniors can apply to live off campus. [9]


The student body, consisting entirely of undergraduates, comes from 46 U.S. states and territories and nearly 60 countries.[10][11] Students at Lafayette have access to more than 250 clubs and organizations, including athletics, fraternities and sororities, special interest groups, community service clubs, and honor societies.[12]

Admissions[edit]

For the class of 2027, the college received 9,866 applications, of which 3032 were accepted, for an acceptance rate of 30.7 percent.[36]

former chemistry department head, pioneer in rheology theory

Eugene C. Bingham

former head of the Bible department, reverend to early aviators

John Franklin Bruce Carruthers

former chair of ancient languages, scholar of religion

Lyman Coleman

assistant professor, physics, and astronomy

Guy Consolmagno

former professor of chemical engineering, analytical chemist, and metallurgist

Thomas Messinger Drown

History Department chairman, 1931–1942

Clement Eaton

visiting lecturer of engineering

Terry Jonathan Hart

former professor of economics, known for his ratchet effect theory

Robert Higgs

former professor of religion and theological scholar

Caspar Wistar Hodge, Jr.

first and third president of Lafayette College

George Junkin

former head of the art department, known for his contributions to abstract expressionism

Ed Kerns

mathematician and quilter

Chawne Kimber

former lecturer of municipal law, member of the United States House of Representatives

William Sebring Kirkpatrick

first professor of English Literature at any American college or university

Francis March

writer and war historian

Donald L. Miller

former professor of economics, eighth president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Michael H. Moskow

Supreme Court Scholar

Bruce Allen Murphy

historian of foreign policy, former president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

Arnold A. Offner

Canadian novelist, associate professor of English

Alix Ohlin

former professor of botany and zoology

Thomas Conrad Porter

poet

Theodore Roethke

former professor of English, Fulbright scholar and fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities

Len Roberts

former professor of music, composer

Anna Rubin

former professor of philosophy, known for her contributions to bioethics and health care reform

Rosemarie Tong

poet, writer in residence, professor of English

Lee Upton

former professor of English, researcher of American Transcendentalism

Laura Walls

former professor of English, American-Israeli literary scholar

Hana Wirth-Nesher

Official website

Official athletics website

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Lafayette College