Lawrence University is a private liberal arts college and

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. Founded in 1847, its first classes were held on November 12, 1849. Lawrence was the second college in the U.S. to be founded as a

coeducational Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to ...

institution. (The first was long-vanished New York Central College.)

History

Lawrence's first president, William Harkness Sampson, founded the school with Henry R. Colman, using $10,000 provided by philanthropist

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, and matched by the

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church. Both founders were ordained Methodist ministers, but Lawrence was Episcopalian. The school was originally named Lawrence Institute of Wisconsin in its 1847 charter from the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature, but the name was changed to Lawrence University before classes began in November 1849. Its oldest extant building, Main Hall, was built in 1853.Council of Independent Colleges,
Main Hall
, Historic Campus Architecture Project. Lawrence University was the second coeducational institution in the country. Lawrence's first period of major growth came during the thirty-year tenure (1894―1924) of alumnus Samuel G. Plantz as president, when the student body quadrupled, from 200 to 800. From 1913 until 1964, it was named Lawrence College, to emphasize its small size and

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education focus. The name returned to Lawrence University when it merged with Milwaukee-Downer College. The state of Wisconsin then purchased the Milwaukee-Downer property and buildings to expand the campus of the

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. Initially, the university designated two entities: Lawrence College for Men and Downer College for Women. This separation has not lasted in any material form, though degrees are still conferred "on the recommendation of the Faculty of Lawrence and Downer Colleges" and the university by-laws still make the distinction. During

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, Lawrence College was one of 131 colleges and universities in the nation that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program, which offered students a path to a Navy commission. The Lawrence Conservatory of Music, usually referred to as "the Con", was founded in 1874. Lawrence offers two degrees: a

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and a

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. It also offers a five-year dual degree program, where students can receive both B.A. and B.Mus. degrees. Freshman Studies at Lawrence is a mandatory two-term class, in which all students study the same selected 11 classic works of literature, art, and music, the list varying from year to year. President Nathan M. Pusey is credited with initiating the program in 1945, although Professor Waples chaired the Freshman Studies Committee and was responsible for implementing the program. The program continues to this day, despite being temporarily suspended in 1975. In 2005, LU initiated a capital campaign called "More Light!", which aimed at raising $150 million. By October 2011 the college had raised $160,272,839, with the conclusion event held on October 28, 2011. In January of 2014, LU embarked on a new capital campaign called "Be The Light!". Upon the conclusion of the campaign on December 31, 2020, more than $232,613,052 had been raised in total toward four campaign priorities: Lawrence Fund, Full Speed to Full Need, Student Journey, and Campus Renewal. Lawrence University is part of the Oberlin Group, a consortium of liberal arts college libraries.

Milwaukee-Downer traditions

The traditions and heritage of Milwaukee-Downer are woven into the Appleton campus, from the grove of hawthorn trees (called Hawthornden) between Brokaw and Colman halls, to the sundial on the back of Main Hall, to the bestowing upon each class a class color and banner. The Lawrence Dean of Women was referred to as the "Dean of Downer", but when the offices of Dean of Men and Dean of Women were merged to form the Dean of Students, the substantive duties of the "Dean of Downer" came to an end; the title is still borne by a senior female professor, but her only duty is to carry the Downer Mace in academic processions. For many years the women's choir was called the Downer Chorus. At one time the BA was conferred upon women in the name of "Downer College of Lawrence University" and upon men in the name of "Lawrence College of Lawrence University"; now all B.A. degrees are conferred in the name of "Lawrence & Downer Colleges of Lawrence University." (The B.Mus. degree is from "the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music.)

Presidents

University presidents

* 1849–1853 William Harkness Sampson, principal * 1853–1859 Edward Cooke, president * 1859–1865 Russell Zelotes Mason, president * 1865–1879 George McKendree Steele, president * 1879–1889 Elias DeWitt Huntley, president * 1883–1889 Bradford Paul Raymond, president * 1889–1893 Charles Wesley Gallagher, president * 1893–1894 L. Wesley Underwood, acting president * 1894–1924 Samuel G. Plantz, president * 1925–1937 Henry Merritt Wriston, president * 1937–1943 Thomas Nichols Barrows, president * 1944–1953 Nathan Marsh Pusey, president * 1954–1963 Douglas Maitland Knight, president * 1963–1969 Curtis William Tarr, president * 1969–1979 Thomas S. Smith, president * 1979–2004 Richard Warch, president * 2004–2013 Jill Beck, president * 2013–2021 Mark Burstein, president * 2021–present () Laurie Carter, president

Presidents of Milwaukee-Downer College

* 1895–1921 Ellen Sabin * 1921–1951 Lucia Russell Briggs * 1951–1964 John Johnson

Academics

Lawrence University operates on a trimester calendar. The academic year runs from mid-September to mid-June. The student/faculty ratio at Lawrence is 9:1. Lawrence grants Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music degrees, with a

double degree A double degree program, sometimes called a dual degree, combined degree, conjoint degree, joint degree or double graduation program, involves a student's working for two university degrees in parallel—either at the same institution or at diffe ...

possible. Lawrence offers a number of cooperative degree programs in areas such as

engineering Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more speciali ...

, health sciences and environmental studies. The college offers majors in most of the

. The school also offers the option of interdisciplinary areas of study and allows students to design their own majors. All students are required to take First-Year Studies during their first two trimesters, which introduces students to broad areas of study and provides a common academic experience for the college. Known as Freshman Studies until 2021, the program was established in 1945, and aside from a brief interruption in the mid-1970s it has remained a consistent fixture of the school's liberal arts curriculum. Lawrence's First-Year Studies program focuses on a mixture of

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and more contemporary, influential works, which include non-fiction books, fiction books, and various other types of works, such as paintings, photographs, musical recordings, and even the periodic table of the elements. Readings are replaced every few years, with the exception of

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's '' Republic'', which has been included on the list since 1945. The school has an independent study option that allows students to design their own courses. This allows students to explore academic interests not covered by Lawrence's classes or to explore topics more deeply. Over 90% of the students take advantage of the independent study program.

Conservatory of Music

The

Lawrence University Conservatory of Music Lawrence University Conservatory of Music is a conservatory on the campus of Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. Founded in 1894, it is the one of the oldest operating conservatories in the United States. Attached to a liberal arts colleg ...

was founded in 1874 and has been a part of Lawrence University ever since. The Conservatory offers Bachelor of Music degrees in Performance, Theory/Composition, Music Education, and a five-year double degree option that grants both a BM degree from the Conservatory and a BA degree from the College. Approximately 25% of the Lawrence student body, or 350 students, is in the Conservatory. The Conservatory has three choirs, two bands, two jazz ensembles, a symphony orchestra, an improvisation collective, five world music ensembles, and numerous chamber music groups. Students take about 2/3 of their classes in Music and about 1/3 in other subjects for the B.Mus., and the reverse for B.A. in Music. The Conservatory offers also a Bachelor of Musical Arts, primarily—but not exclusively—for students whose interest is in other than Western Classical Music; students take 3/4 of their classes in Music, and 1/4 in other subjects.

Academic affiliation

Lawrence is a member of the

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, an academic consortium of 14 liberal arts colleges in the Midwest and Colorado which coordinates several off-campus study programs in a large number of countries as its primary activity.

Campus

The campus is located in downtown Appleton, divided into two parts by the Fox River. The academic campus is on the north shore of the river, and the major athletic facilities (including the 5,000-seat Banta Bowl) are on the southeast shore. Lawrence also has a northern estate called Björklunden (full name: Björklunden vid sjön), which serves as a site for retreats, seminars, concerts, and theatrical performances. It contains a chapel for weddings. Donald and Winifred Boynton of Highland Park,

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, donated the property in Door County to Lawrence in 1963.

Campus development

In the mid-1980s, the Physics Department built a $330,000 small laser laboratory (known as the "laser palace"), which includes 800 5 mW small lasers and more than 500 mirrors. In 2009, Lawrence opened the Richard and Margot Warch Campus Center, a gathering place for students, faculty, staff, alumni, and guests from the Fox Cities community. The building is situated on the Fox River on the site of the former Hulburt House. The Warch Campus Center includes a cinema, campus dining services, campus mailboxes, and various meeting and event spaces. The building has earned a LEED Gold certification for meeting sustainability goals in energy conservation, environmental friendliness, and green building. The college has a long history of razing buildings on its campus, because of the limited land available for constructing new buildings. Many buildings on campus are built on the site of former buildings. Some razed buildings include: * Peabody Hall of Music (20th century) * Hamar Union (1960) * Underwood Observatory (1962) * Alexander Gym I (1962) * Carnegie Library (1964) * Worcester Art Center (1987) * Stephenson Hall of Science (1998) * Hulbert House (2006) (new construction: Warch Campus Center, 2009)

Student body

Lawrence enrolls about 1,500 students who hail from nearly every U.S. state. The total enrollment in academic year 2010–11 was 1,566 students,As of Fall 2010. the largest student body in Lawrence University's history. Over 75% of the students identify as white, about 12% are

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s, and about 25% of students study in the conservatory of music. In the fall of 2014, a quarter of the incoming class were domestic students of color. Lawrence students have been named Rhodes Scholars seven times. Since 1976, 57 students and nine faculty have received Fulbright Scholarships. Since 1969, 73 students have been named Watson Fellows.

Student traditions

At the beginning of every academic year in September, incoming freshmen arrive a week before returning students to partake in Welcome Week. During Welcome Week, various activities are planned in order to help the incoming class get to know one another and to help them acclimate to college life. During the first night of Welcome Week, students and their parents attend the President's Welcome, which concludes with the traditional matriculation handshake, where every member of the incoming class shakes hands and exchanges words with the university's president. During the fall term, the on-campus fraternity Beta Theta Pi hosts the annual Beach Bash. For this event, the brothers of ΒθΠ shovel approximately 14 tons of sand into the fraternity house basement, and install a boardwalk and a lifeguard station that doubles as a DJ booth.This tradition was skipped in 2020, due to the

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. During spring term, Lawrence hosts a music festival, LU-aroo (a play on words on the popular music festival

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). Held on the quad, the festival features many talented student bands, both from the college and the conservatory. In 2016, the musician The Tallest Man on Earth played at the festival. Also during spring term, many seniors participate in the Senior Streak, which typically happens during the eighth week of the term. The goal of the senior streak is to provide seniors with one last opportunity to let loose before finals, graduation, and post-college life. Although rumor says that the senior streak was created as a result of former president Richard Warch's aversion to the activity, this has been proven to be false. Students, often coming from Lawrence's on-campus bar, the Viking Room, strip their clothes and run around the area of Main Hall, as one last hurrah before finals and graduation.

Media

The student newspaper, '' The Lawrentian'', has been published for over a century. Lawrence University hosts the '' Great Midwest Trivia Contest'' webcast every January over the college radio station WLFM.

Athletics

Lawrence University's intercollegiate athletic teams, known as the

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since 1926, compete in the Midwest Conference in

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(NCAA)

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. Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, fencing, football, golf, ice hockey, soccer, swimming & diving, tennis, and track & field; women's sports include basketball, cross country, fencing, golf, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field, and volleyball. In 2005–06, the men's basketball team was ranked first in Division III for much of the season, after starting the season unranked. The Vikings were the only undefeated team in all divisions of college basketball for the last six weeks of the season, ending with a record of 25–1. Star forward Chris Braier won the Josten's Award as the top player in the country for both playing ability and community service. Coach John Tharp was named Division III Midwest Coach of the Year. Beginning in 2004, Lawrence qualified for the Division III national tournament in five of the next six years (2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009). Their best result was in 2004, advancing to the quarterfinals (Elite 8), but fell to eventual national champion Wisconsin–Stevens Point by a point in overtime at

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. In 2011, Lawrence's men's cross country team won the Midwest Conference championships for the first time since 1985, beating

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and ending its 14-year winning streak.

Recognition

Lawrence was ranked 56th on the 2013 U.S. News: List of Best U.S. National Liberal Arts Colleges.

Notable faculty

* Warren Beck, fiction writer and Faulkner scholar *

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, historian * Richard N. Current, historian * William H. Riker, political scientist * Charles B. Schudson, judge * Fred Sturm, jazz composer and musician * Arthur Thrall, artist * Harry Dexter White, economist, first U.S. Director of IMF (1946–47), and Soviet informant * John Holiday, opera singer, music professor, and finalist on season 19 of

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. * Peter N. Peregrine, renowned anthropologist and archaeologist

Notable alumni

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, Wisconsin State Representative * Martha Bablitch, judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals * John Miller Baer, 1909, Congressman from

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* Charles A. Barnard, Wisconsin State Representative * Sam Barry, college basketball and baseball coach (attended) * Myrt Basing, NFL player * Jennifer Baumgardner, 1992, feminist writer and activist *

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, 1925, NFL head coach *

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, NFL player * Thomas Boyd, Wisconsin State Representative * Alexander Brazeau, Wisconsin State Representative *

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, Congressman from Wisconsin (attended) * Bonnie Bryant, 1968, author of children's books * Louis B. Butler Jr., 1973, associate justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court * Thomas Callaway, Actor and Interior Designer * Robert A. Collins, Wisconsin State Representative * Julia Colman (1828–1909), American temperance educator, activist, editor, writer * Charles Rankin Deniston, Wisconsin State Representative * James Dinsdale, Wisconsin State Representative * William Diver, 1942,

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and founder of the Columbia School of Linguistics *

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, 2006, filmmaker and photographer * William Draheim, Wisconsin State Senator * Paul Driessen, 1970, author and lobbyist * Dale Duesing, 1967, operatic baritone * Siri Engberg, curator, Walker Art Center * Cynthia Estlund, 1978, law professor and author * Edna Ferber, author and playwright (attended) * James A. Frear, Congressman from Wisconsin (attended) * Earle W. Fricker, Wisconsin State Representative * William Fuller, 1975, Poet and senior vice president and chief fiduciary officer of Northern Trust Corporation * Dominic Fumusa, 1991, actor * John Rankin Gamble, 1872, Congressman from

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* Robert J. Gamble, 1874, Congressman from South Dakota * Ed Glick, NFL player (attended) *

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, governor of Wisconsin (attended) * Suzanne Graff, actress * Robert C. Greene, 1988, Founder of Starbobs Coffee * Michael P. Hammond, 1954, chairman of the

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, confidante of

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(attended) *

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, 1903, physical anthropologist * John D. Huber,

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political scientist *

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, Congressman from Wisconsin (attended) * Frank W. Humphrey, 1881, Wisconsin State Representative *

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, founder of

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* Lester Johnson, Congressman from Wisconsin *

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, 2001, singer-songwriter and creator of

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, 1968, actor * Kaja Kallas, 1999, Prime Minister of Estonia * Scott Klug, 1975 former congressman from

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* Peter Kolkay, bassoonist * Eddie Kotal,

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player * Takakazu Kuriyama, Japanese ambassador to the United States (attended) *

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, 1987,

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* Fred Lerdahl, 1965, composer and

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* John A. Luke Jr., 1971, CEO of

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* Harry N. MacLean, 1964, true crime author * Momodu Maligie, 2004, Minister of Water Resources for

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* William H. Markham, Wisconsin State Senator * Gerry Max, author and Richard Halliburton scholar * John McDonald, NFL player * James H. McGillan, mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin * James Merrell, 1975, professor of history at

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major general * Terry Moran, 1982, chief White House correspondent for

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* David Mulford, 1969, United States Ambassador to India * William F. Nash, Wisconsin State Senator * George Allen Neeves, Wisconsin State Representative * Tom Neff, 1975, CEO and founder of The Documentary Channel * Justus Henry Nelson, missionary in the Amazon (attended) * Garth Neustadter, 2011 Emmy winner, Outstanding Music Composition for a Series * Angelia Thurston Newman, poet, author, lecturer * Roger Nicoll, 1963, neuroscientist at

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* Jessica Nelson North, 1917, author * Arnold C. Otto, Wisconsin State Representative * Rip Owens, NFL player (attended) * Alice Peacock, 1992 singer-songwriter
* Charles Pettibone, Wisconsin State Senator * Cindy Regal, 2001, experimental physicist * Scott Reppert, 1983, member of the College Football Hall of Fame * Eben Eugene Rexford, author of works on gardening (attended) * Carl W. Riddick, member of the U.S.

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* Josh Sawyer, video game designer at

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* Melvin H. Schlytter, Wisconsin State Representative *

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, 1983, actor *

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player, NFL player and assistant coach, head coach of the

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* Janet Steiger, 1961, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission * Thomas A. Steitz, 1962, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at

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laureate * Heidi Stober, 2000, operatic soprano * Fred Sturm, 1973, jazz composer and arranger * William T. Sullivan, Wisconsin State Representative * Gladys Taber (1899–1980), author * Anton R. Valukas, 1965, U.S. attorney, author of the Valukas Report * Madhuri Vijay, 2009, novelist, author of ''The Far Field'' *

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, 1871, legislator * William Warner, U.S. Senator from Missouri (attended) * Iva Bigelow Weaver, soprano and music educator based in Milwaukee * Alexander B. Whitman, Wisconsin State Senator * George W. Wolff, Wisconsin State Representative and Senator * Tom Zoellner, 1991, author, journalist * Al Zupek, 1944, NFL player

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