Knox College
Knox College | |
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motto | Veritas |
founding | 1837 |
Sponsorship | Private |
place | Galesburg, Illinois , USA |
President | Teresa Amott |
Students | 1,407 |
Professors | 137 |
Foundation assets | $ 56 million |
University sports | Midwest Conference |
Website | www.knox.edu |
The Knox College is a private liberal arts -College in Galesburg, Knox County in the State of Illinois . There are currently 1,407 students enrolled. It can be obtained after four years of study of the Bachelor of Arts (BA) and the Bachelor of Sciences (B. Sc.).
history
Knox College was founded in 1837 by social reformers and abolitionists as the Knox Manual Labor College . The college was one of the first in the United States to be open to men, women, and all races from its inception. In 1857 the name was changed to Knox College , after its location in Knox County.
Education
39 major subjects and 51 minor subjects leading to a Bachelor's degree can be studied at the university . The annual tuition fee is approximately $ 54,600. The university is a member of the Midwest Conference . Your mascot is the Prairie Fire (Eng. Prairie fire).
Personalities
Lecturers
- Lloyd Burdick , college football team coach in 1934
- William Ernest Castle , geneticist
- James L. McConaughy , college president, former Connecticut governor
Graduates
- George Latimer Bates 1885, ornithologist, botanist and naturalist
- Amy Carlson 1990, actress
- Job Cooper 1867, 6th Colorado governor
- Lloyd William Daly 1932, classical philologist
- Jack Finney 1934, writer
- Robert Hanssen 1966, former FBI agent, agent for the Soviet Union
- John L. Kennedy 1882, Republican Party politician
- Ismat T. Kittani 1951, former State Secretary in the Iraqi Foreign Ministry and President of the 36th UN General Assembly
- Thomas E. Kurtz 1950, co-developer of the BASIC programming language
- Bishop W. Perkins , Republican Party politician
- Donald Robert Perry Marquis , writer, poet and journalist
- Edgar Lee Masters , writer
- Albinus Nance , 5th Governor of Nebraska
- James George Needham , entomologist
- John Podesta 1971, 23rd White House Chief of Staff
- Hiram Rhoades Revels in 1857, first black man elected to the US Senate
- Margaret A. Ryan , Judge
- Samuel Rinnah Van Sant , Minnesota Governor 1901-1905
- Samuel S. McClure (1857–1949), founder and editor of McClure's Magazine
Web links
- Official Homepage (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Knox College: About Knox - Our History . Accessed March 28, 2010
- ↑ Knox College: About Knox - Cost and Financial Aid (English). Accessed September 13, 2017
Coordinates: 40 ° 56 ′ 34.6 " N , 90 ° 22 ′ 15.5" W.