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1833: Oberlin is founded by settlers led by Revs. John Jay Shipherd and Philo Penfield Stewart. The first structure in town is the Peter Pindar Pease cabin, built near the Historic Elm. Oberlin College, then known as Oberlin Collegiate Institute, is founded at the same time.
Knowledge of History is a Powerful Tool in an Uncertain Age. From oral histories to theories of state formation, history majors at Oberlin draw on an array of methods to investigate a range of questions. Our students learn about how people lived in the past as well as the structures and institutions that shaped their experience.
Oberlin College, private coeducational institution of higher learning at Oberlin, Ohio, offering programs in liberal arts and music. It was founded by Presbyterian minister John J. Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart in 1833 as the Oberlin Collegiate Institute to educate ministers and schoolteachers for.
Timeline of Oberlin History. We welcome you to browse through our timeline of Oberlin Community+College history. The information here represents a snapshot of some of the milestones, facts, and trivia on the City and College during the past 175 years. For specific details, visit College Archives or Electronic Oberlin Group. « ‹. ||. › »
Dec 6, 2019 · Find out more about Oberlin’s history. Oberlin History. "In Oberlin History" is a series dedicated to notable events in Oberlin College history. In December of 1833, 29 men and 15 women began classes as the first students of the Oberlin Collegiate Institute.
Oberlin was the first college to have a policy of not discriminating against African-Americans – race-blind admissions, if you will, beginning in 1835. It was also the first college to grant a degree to an African-American woman: Mary Jane Patterson, OC 1862.
Dec 3, 2021 · On December 3, 1833, twenty-nine men and fifteen women began classes at the newly established Oberlin Collegiate Institute in Oberlin, Ohio. This small beginning would grow into an institution that championed social justice and played an important role in integration and abolition in the years leading up to the Civil War.
