Whittier College
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| Motto | Lux, Poesis, Veritas, Pax, Amor Eruditionis (Latin) |
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Motto in English
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Light, Poetry, Truth, Peace, and Love of Knowledge |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1887 |
| Affiliation | Secular, Historically Quaker |
| Endowment | $97.3 million (2015) |
| President | Dr. Sharon D. Herzberger |
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Academic staff
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113 |
| Students | 2,259 (Fall 2016) |
| Undergraduates | 1,650 (Fall 2015) |
| Postgraduates | 83 (Fall 2015) |
| Location | Whittier, CA, USA |
| Campus | Suburban, 75 acres (30 ha) |
| Colors | Purple & Gold |
| Nickname | The Poets |
| Mascot | Johnny Poet |
| Affiliations | NCAA Division III; SCIAC |
| Website | www.whittier.edu |
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| National | |
| Forbes | 344 (2016) |
| Liberal arts colleges | |
| U.S. News & World Report | 127 |
| Washington Monthly | 83 |
Whittier College is a private liberal arts college in Whittier, California, United States. As of fall 2015, the college has approximately 1,725 enrolled (undergraduate and graduate) students.
Whittier College is a private liberal arts college. About one-third of Whittier's student body is Latino, and approximately twenty-five percent of the professors are minorities or are from foreign countries. A majority of the student body hails from California, Hawaii, and the Pacific Northwest, but the college also draws students from the East Coast and the Midwest and overseas students. As of 2012, there are students from 28 states and 14 countries.
Whittier offers over 30 majors and 30 minors offered in 23 disciplines, and claims emphasis on interdisciplinary learning. Students may also apply for entry into the Whittier Scholars Program, in which each student, under the guidance of a faculty member, designs their own major and course of study based on individual interests and career goals. Professional internships and service projects are required or recommended as part of many academic programs. Study abroad is offered in semester- or year-long affiliated programs. There is also an optional January Interim session, available for an additional fee, which is a four-week intensive "mini-semester" that typically involves fieldwork and faculty-led international travel.
Whittier College hosts a Faculty Masters Program, which it says is modeled after similar programs at Oxford and Cambridge universities. In this program, three faculty are selected as faculty-in-residence for a multi-year term, live in houses located on-campus, and create and host in their homes educational and social programs around a specific theme, such as health and society, writers and writing, alumni connections, and Spanish culture. Events such as professionals—from artists to authors, musicians and entrepreneurs, politicians and scientists—and enable students to interact with, listen to, and often times dine with an invited speaker. Recent guest participants in this program include world-class authors Maxine Hong Kingston and Ray Bradbury, and filmmaker Morgan Spurlock.
Whittier College has approximately 90 registered, student-run organizations. The College also has Societies similar to fraternities and sororities. There are eleven societies: the Franklin Society (Male), the Lancer Society (Male), the Orthogonian Society (Male), the William Penn Society (Male), Palmer Society (Female), the Ionian Society (Female), the Metaphonian Society (Female), the Thalian Society (Female), the Athenian Society (Female), the Sachsen Society (Coed), and the Paragonian Society (Genderneutral). Each of these societies began as literary societies.
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