Five Colleges of Ohio

Consortium of private liberal arts colleges in Ohio, US The Five Colleges of OhioFormation1995Legal statusAssociation of American-based collegesRegion servedOhio, United StatesMembersDenison UniversityKenyon CollegeOberlin CollegeOhio Wesleyan UniversityThe College of WoosterChairMatthew vandenBergWebsiteohio5.org The Five Colleges of Ohio, Inc. is an American academic and administrative consortium of five private liberal arts colleges in the state of Ohio. It is a nonprofit educational consortium established in 1995 to promote the broad educational and cultural objectives of its member institutions. Members The members of The Five Colleges of Ohio consortium are: Denison University, Granville, Ohio Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio History The designation Ohio Five first appeared in Ohio newspapers in the early twentieth century. The grouping, predating any formal agreement, was immediately adopted by the press as a foreshadowing of an Ohio league of schools with similar academic and athletic reputations, which at the time was a common perception. The Church of the Holy Spirit