Ursinus College
Seal of Ursinus College
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| Motto | Super Firmum Fundamentum Dei |
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Motto in English
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On the Firm Foundation of God |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1869 |
| Affiliation | Secular |
| Endowment | $122 million |
| President | Brock Blomberg |
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Academic staff
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140 |
| Undergraduates | 1,650 |
| Location |
Collegeville, PA, USA 40°11′36″N 75°27′21″W / 40.1934°N 75.4559°WCoordinates: 40°11′36″N 75°27′21″W / 40.1934°N 75.4559°W |
| Campus | Suburban 170 acres (0.69 km2) |
| Colors | Red, Old Gold, and Black |
| Athletics | 23 Varsity Teams Centennial Conference NCAA Division III |
| Nickname | Ursinus Bears |
| Website | Official website |
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Ursinus College is a private, independent, coeducational, liberal arts college located in Collegeville, Pennsylvania.
Founded in 1869, Ursinus sits on a 170-acre campus approximately 30 miles from Center City Philadelphia. Ursinus is one of the eleven Centennial Conference schools, a Phi Beta Kappa college, and is a member of the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship list, Project Pericles, Project DEEP, the Bonner Leader Program, and the Annapolis Group. The college is also home to the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art.
1867: Members of the German Reformed Church begin plans to establish a college where "young men could be liberally educated under the benign influence of Christianity." These founders were hoping to establish an alternative to the seminary at Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, a school they believed was increasingly heretical to traditional Reformed faith.
1869: The college is granted a charter by the Legislature of Pennsylvania to begin operations in its current location on the grounds of Todd’s School (founded 1832) and the adjacent Freeland Seminary (founded 1848). Dr. John Henry Augustus Bomberger, for whom the campus' signature Romanesque building is named (see Gallery, below), served as the college’s first president until his death in 1890. Bomberger proposed naming the college after Zacharias Ursinus, a 16th-century German theologian and an important figure in the Protestant Reformation.
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