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Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest coeducational liberal arts college in the United States and the second-oldest continuously operating coeducational institute of higher learning in the world. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. In 1835, Oberlin became one of the first colleges in the United States to admit African Americans, and in 1837, the first to admit women (other than Franklin College's brief experiment in the 1780s). It has been known since its founding for progressive student activism.The College of Arts & Sciences offers more than 50 majors, minors, and concentrations. Oberlin is a member of the Great Lakes Colleges Association and the Five Colleges of Ohio consortium. Since its founding, Oberlin alumni and faculty include 16 Rhodes Scholars, 20 Truman Scholars, 12 MacArthur fellows, 4 Rome Prize winners, and 4 Nobel Prize laureates. In 2021, Oberlin was the 4th highest Baccalaureate producer of Fulbright scholars. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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- Sinclair Lewis
- Paolo Bacigalupi
- Jen Trynin
- Rollo May
- Charles A. Reich
- Alison Bechdel
- Cathy Park Hong
- James Wyatt
- Gary Shteyngart
- Josh Ritter
- S. J. Rozan
- John Langalibalele Dube
- Matthew Sharpe
- Theodore Dwight Weld
- Osborne Perry Anderson
- Patrick Skene Catling
- Paul Drennan Cravath
- Robert A. Millikan
- Edwin O. Reischauer
- Willard Van Orman Quine
- Kenneth Waltz
- Stephen Zunes
- E. Ann Matter
- Jason Little
- Michelle Malkin
- William Goldman
- Margaret Eliza Maltby
- Antoinette Brown Blackwell
- Robert Maynard Hutchins
- David M. Halperin
- Mary Turzillo
- Michael Dirda
- Milt Okun
- Thornton Wilder
- Tracy Chevalier
- Lena Dunham
- George Herbert Mead
- John Wesley Powell
- Eric Bogosian
- Sheldon Wolin
- Thylias Moss
- David P. Weikart
- Erec Stebbins
- James F. Calvert
- Jennifer Rohn
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