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Trinity College, Connecticut

Trinity College
Trinity College Connecticut Seal.svg
Former names
Washington College (1823–1845)
Motto Pro Ecclesia Et Patria (Latin)
Motto in English
For Church and Country
Type Private liberal arts college
Established May 1823
Endowment $524.3 million (2016)
President Joanne Berger-Sweeney
Dean Tim Cresswell
Academic staff
267
Students 2,350
Undergraduates 2,259 (Fall 2016)
Postgraduates 91 (Fall 2016)
Location Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Campus Urban
Colors Blue and old gold          
Athletics NCAA Division IIINESCAC
Sports 29 varsity teams
Nickname Bantams
Mascot Bantam
Affiliations CIC, Annapolis Group, Oberlin Group, CLAC
Website www.trincoll.edu
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University rankings
National
Forbes 84
Liberal arts colleges
U.S. News & World Report 38
Washington Monthly 85

Trinity College is a private liberal arts college in Hartford, Connecticut. Founded in 1823, it is the second-oldest college in the state of Connecticut after Yale University. The college is an urban campus.

Coeducational since 1969, the college enrolls 2,300 students. Trinity offers 38 majors and 26 minors, with a student to faculty ratio of 10:1. The college is a member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) and is often referred to as one of the "Little Ivies". U.S. News & World Report ranked Trinity tied for 38th in its 2017 ranking of best national liberal arts colleges in the United States.

Early Connecticut was dominated by Congregationalists. Episcopalians, who'd long sought to set up their own college, were provided an opportunity when the Connecticut Constitution disestablished the Congregationalist Church 1818. It was taken by Bishop Thomas Brownell, who opened Washington College in 1824 to nine students and the vigorous protest of Yale alumni.

A fourteen-acre site was chosen, at the time about a half-mile from the city of Hartford. Over time Bushnell Park was laid out to the north and the east, creating a beautiful space.

The college was renamed Trinity College in 1845; the original campus consisted of two Greek Revival buildings, one housing a chapel, library, and lecture rooms and the other, a dormitory.

The site next to Bushnell Park, where Trinity College then stood, was deemed to be an ideal location to build a state house. So the trustees were persuaded to sell the entire campus to the city in 1872 for $600,000. The trustees moved the college to an 80 acre site on a ridge on the western edge of Hartford. Then-president Abner Jackson hired an English architect to draw up plans for an entire campus. Construction of the new campus was begun under the presidency of Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1874–1883).


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