Lake Forest University
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| Motto | Et veritas liberabit vos (Latin) |
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Motto in English
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And the truth shall set you free (John 8:32) |
| Type | Private liberal arts college |
| Established | 1857 |
| Affiliation |
Nonsectarian Presbyterian (historically) |
| Endowment | $89.1 million |
| President | Stephen D. Schutt |
| Provost | Michael T. Orr |
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Academic staff
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178 |
| Students | 1,592 |
| Location |
Lake Forest, Illinois, United States 42°14′59″N 87°49′43″W / 42.2496°N 87.8285°WCoordinates: 42°14′59″N 87°49′43″W / 42.2496°N 87.8285°W |
| Campus | Suburban, 107 acres (43 ha) |
| Colors | Red and black |
| Athletics |
NCAA Division III Midwest, NCHA |
| Nickname | Foresters |
| Mascot | Boomer the Bear |
| Affiliations |
ACM Annapolis Group Oberlin Group CLAC APCU |
| Website | www.lakeforest.edu |
Lake Forest College is a four-year coeducational private liberal arts college in Lake Forest, Illinois, on Chicago's North Shore. Founded in 1857 as Lind University by Presbyterian ministers, the college has been coeducational since 1876 and an undergraduate-focused liberal arts institution since 1903. Lake Forest enrolls approximately 1,600 students representing 47 states and 81 countries. Lake Forest offers 30 undergraduate major and minor programs in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, and features programs of study in pre-law, pre-medicine, communication, business, finance, and computer science. The majority of students live on the college's wooded 107-acre campus, which is located a half-mile from the Lake Michigan shore.
Lake Forest is affiliated with the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. The college has 19 varsity teams, which compete in the NCAA Division III Midwest Conference.
Lake Forest College was founded in 1857 by Reverend Robert W. Patterson as a Presbyterian alternative to the Methodist Northwestern University in Evanston. It was originally named Lind University after Sylvester Lind, who had given $80,000 to launch the school. Patterson and his fellow Chicago Presbyterians established the town of Lake Forest and the university roughly halfway between Evanston and Waukegan two years after the Chicago and Milwaukee Railway began service from Chicago. They hired St. Louis landscape architect Almerin Hotchkiss to design the town of Lake Forest with a university park at its center. Hotchkiss used the area's wooded ravines and forest as guidelines to plat a park-like, curvilinear layout for the town.
Lake Forest Academy, a boys' preparatory school and the first project of the university, began offering classes in 1858; collegiate-level courses began in 1860. By the mid-1860s, a small New England-style village had been established with an academy building, a Presbyterian church and several homes. The school had a medical college from 1859–1863, which later split off and eventually became part of Northwestern University, now known as the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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