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Whittier College

Former name	Whittier Academy (1887–1901)
Motto	Latin: Lux, Poesis, Veritas, Pax, Amor Eruditionis
Motto in English	Light, Poetry, Truth, Peace, and Love of Knowledge
Type	Private liberal arts college
Established	1887
Religious affiliation	Secular (historically Quaker[1])
Endowment	$97.3 million (2015)[2]
President	Linda Oubré
Academic staff	113
Students	2,259 (Fall 2016)
Undergraduates	1,670 (Fall 2017)[3]
Postgraduates	73 (Fall 2017)[3]
Location	Whittier, California, U.S.
Campus	Suburban, 75 acres (30 ha)
Colors	Purple & Gold
Athletics	NCAA Division III – SCIAC
Nickname	The Poets
Affiliations	Annapolis Group Oberlin Group CLAC
Mascot	Johnny Poet
Website	www.whittier.edu

Whittier College in 1912

Hoover Hall and Library

Whittier College is a private liberal arts college in Whittier, California, United States. As of fall 2015, the college has approximately 1,725 enrolled (undergraduate and graduate) students.^[3]

Overview

Whittier College is a residential four-year liberal arts institution. About one-third of Whittier's student body is Latino, and approximately 25 percent of the professors are minorities or are from foreign countries.^[3] A majority of the student body hails from California, Hawaii, and the Pacific Northwest, but the college also draws students from the East Coast and the Midwest and overseas students. As of 2017, there are students from at least 27 states and 14 countries.^[3]

Whittier offers over 30 majors and 30 minors in 23 disciplines, and claims emphasis on interdisciplinary learning. Students may also apply for entry into the Whittier Scholars Program, in which each student, under the guidance of a faculty member, designs their own major and course of study based on individual interests and career goals. Professional internships and service projects are required or recommended as part of many academic programs. Study abroad is offered in semester- or year-long affiliated programs. There is also an optional January interim session, which is a four-week intensive "mini-semester" that typically involves fieldwork and faculty-led international travel.

Whittier College hosts a Faculty Masters Program, which is modeled after similar programs at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. In this program, faculty are selected as faculty-in-residence for a multi-year term, live in houses located on-campus, and create and host in their homes educational and social programs around a specific theme, such as health and society, writers and writing, alumni connections, and Spanish culture.

Additionally, the college’s graduate program in education offers both credential and Master of Arts in education degree programs. Broadoaks Children's School – a private, non-profit demonstration school on the Whittier campus – serves as a learning laboratory for Whittier faculty and students, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Whittier College has approximately 90 registered, student-run organizations. The College also has Societies similar to fraternities and sororities. There are 11 societies: the Franklin Society (male), the Lancer Society (male), the Orthogonian Society (male), the William Penn Society (male), Palmer Society (female), the Ionian Society (female), the Metaphonian Society (female), the Thalian Society (female), the Athenian Society (female), the Sachsen Society (coed), and the Paragonian Society (gender neutral). Most of these societies began as literary societies.

Other campus groups include student publications, the Quaker Campus newspaper and television; the student-run radio station, KPOET Radio; Video Productions Studios; and the Whittier College Sports Network.^{[citation needed]}

Alumni include: Former U.S. President Richard Nixon; actress Andrea Barber, known from the television comedy Full House and Fuller House; social media entrepreneur Cassey Ho; actor Geoff Stults; author Jessamyn West; and Susan Herrman, who was one of two white female "student Freedom Riders" who sought to desegregate interstate bus travel in the South in 1961.^{[citation needed]}

History

The liberal arts university was founded in 1887 as the Whittier Academy by members of the Religious Society of Friends, sponsored by local business leaders Washington Hadley and Aubrey Wardman.^{[citation needed]} It was named after Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier.^[4] Student athletes at Whittier College are still known as the "Poets" in his honor. Whittier College grew from the academy and was chartered by the State of California in 1901 with a student body of 25.

Although no longer affiliated with the Society of Friends, the College remains committed to Quaker values. Its newspaper, published since 1914, is known as the Quaker Campus.^[5] In 2002 an electronic bugging device was found in the office of the Quaker Campus.^{[citation needed]} The discovery was noted on the Drudge Report website, the Student Press Law Center and other media outlets.

In the 1940s, World War II and the call to enlist caused the college-bound and college-enrolled male population to sharply decline; so much so that Whittier College agreed to absorb the entire student body of neighboring Chapman University. This began a prosperous time for the College, and a construction boom soon followed. Most of the major buildings on campus have been built since the late 1940s, five since 1990. The lCampus Center was completed in 2008, while the Graham Athletic Center and Lillian Slade Aquatics Center completed a major renovation and expansion project at the start of 2012.

Rankings

Both The Princeton Review and U.S. News & World Report have featured Whittier in its “Best Liberal Arts Colleges” listings, and U.S. News & World Report has consistently ranked Whittier among the top liberal arts colleges for “Ethnic Diversity.”

Athletics

Southwest Quadrant

The Whittier College Poets compete in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) of NCAA Division III. The school has fielded sports teams for over 100 years. Its current teams include football, men’s and women’s basketball, cross country, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, lacrosse and water polo, women’s softball and volleyball, and men’s baseball and golf.

The history of the Whittier College football program began in 1907, and since the inception of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in 1915, the Poets have captured 26 conference titles. From 1957–1964, Whittier won eight straight SCIAC titles under the direction of legendary coaches George Allen (1951–56, 32-22-5), Don Coryell (1957–59), and John Godfrey (1960–1979). Their most recent championships came back-to-back in 1997 and 1998. Twenty-three Poets have earned All-American honors, the most recent coming in 2007. The football program plays out of Newman Memorial Field, which seats 7,000. Whittier maintains a century-long football rivalry with the Tigers of Occidental College; the two schools play for the shoes of 1939 All-American Myron Claxton.

The Whittier Lacrosse Program was established in 1980. That year, the Poets became a member of the Western Collegiate Lacrosse League (WCLL). From 1980 to 1999, Whittier won ten championships. As a result of their success, Whittier decided to become the first and only NCAA lacrosse program on the west coast. In 1990, they were recognized by the NCAA, but continued to compete in the WCLL. The Poets were the team to beat throughout the 1990s and it was not until 2000 when Whittier made the decision to make their mark on the national scene by leaving the WCLL and focus on being selected for the NCAA tournament. The lacrosse team has been a national contender every year since 2000 in the NCAA, as a quarter-finalist in 2003, and a semi-finalist in 2004.

The Whittier College men's water polo team has gone number 1 in the Collegiate Water Polo Association Polls (CWPA) in Division III no fewer than four times. Starting in 2004, another time in 2009, and two years in a row starting in 2013 and 2014. On the season the Poets finished 23-10 and ranked No. 1 in the country among Division III programs. Whittier shared the top honor with Redlands and was ranked No. 18 in the Men’s National Collegiate Top 20 Poll – a poll that ranks all divisions of collegiate water polo.

The Whittier Cross Country team made its mark in 2016. For the first time in program history, the Whittier College Men's Cross-Country team earned a national ranking announced by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. The Purple & Gold ranked #32 out of 400 teams. T

The Whittier College Men's & Women's Swimming & Diving teams earned Academic All-American status – the women for the fourth straight year and the men for the first time, after the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) announced the programs who achieved this honor for the 2015 Fall Semester. Five hundred forty-seven swimming and diving teams representing 354 colleges and universities have been named College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Scholar All-American Teams. The awards are in recognition of teams that achieved a grade point average of 3.0 or higher during the 2015 fall semester. That is up 40 teams from the previous fall semester. The women's team finished with a 3.35 overall G.P.A. and the men had a 3.00 G.P.A.

Whittier Law School

Whittier Law School, located on a satellite campus in Costa Mesa, California,^[9] started in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles in 1966 as Beverly Law School. In 1975, Beverly College joined Whittier with the law school moving to Costa Mesa in 1997. Whittier Law School has 4,500 alumni, practicing in 48 states and 14 countries. The school has been accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA) since 1978 and has been a member of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) since 1987.^[10]

On April 19, 2017, the Law School announced that it would stop admitting students and begin the process of shutting down.^[11]

Notable alumni

Government

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  Florence-Marie Cooper, former United States federal judge
  


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  Robert D. Durham, justice, Oregon Supreme Court
  


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  John Fasana, mayor of Duarte, California
  


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  Wayne R. Grisham, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
  


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  Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States
  


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  George E. Outland, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives


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  Gregory Salcido, former mayor of Pico Rivera, California
  


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  Tony Strickland, former California state senator

Arts

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  Jessamyn West, author


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  Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Newbery Award-winning author; best known for The Egypt Game
  


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  James Adomian, comedian


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  Salvador Plascencia, author, best known for his novel The People of Paper
  


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  Dorothy Baker, author


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  Charles Bock, author, best known for his novel Beautiful Children which was selected by The New York Times as one of their "100 Notable Books of 2008"^[12]
  


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  Ken Davitian, actor, Borat
  


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  Cheryl Boone Isaacs, immediate past president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
  


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  Arthur Allan Seidelman, Emmy Award-winning director


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  Chris Jacobs, actor and co-host of Discovery Channel's television show Overhaulin'
  


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  Roger Lodge, television host


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  Andrea Barber, actress, best known for playing Kimmy Gibbler on the ABC sitcom Full House and its Netflix spin-off Fuller House
  


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  Geoff Stults, actor, October Road
  


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  George Stults, actor, 7th Heaven
  


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  Bill Handel, radio personality


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  Linda Vallejo, artist

Business

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  Fred D. Anderson, former CFO of Apple Computer
  


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  Peter L. Harris, former CEO of FAO Schwarz, former CEO of the San Francisco 49ers
  


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  Arturo C. Porzecanski, Wall Street economist and university professor

Medicine

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  Albert R. Behnke, U.S. Navy physician who established the U.S. Naval Medical Research Institute
  

Religion

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  R. Kent Hughes, former pastor of College Church in Wheaton, Illinois and author of numerous books


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  David Moyer, bishop in the Traditional Anglican Communion
  

Academia

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  Willa Baum, historian and pioneer of oral history
  


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  Lilian Katz, Professor Emerita of Early Childhood Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  

Sports

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  Peter Baron, team manager of Starworks Motorsport.


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  Ila Borders, first female pitcher to start in a professional baseball game


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  Jim Colborn, former Major League Baseball pitcher
  


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  Elvin Hutchison, former National Football League player and official


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  Gary Jones, former Major League Baseball pitcher


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  Greg Jones, Whittier College baseball pitcher


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  Steve Jones, former Major League Baseball pitcher


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  Timo Liekoski, Finnish soccer coach


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  Brian Kelly, former Major League Lacrosse player


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  Wally Kincaid, college baseball coach


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  Chuck McMurtry, former defensive tackle in the American Football League
  


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  Tony Malinosky, former Major League Baseball player


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  Russ Purnell, former special teams coach for the NFL team Jacksonville Jaguars
  


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  Jamie Quirk, former Major League Baseball player


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  Brendan Schaub, (attended) member of football and lacrosse teams; former NFL candidate, currently a mixed martial artist for the Ultimate Fighting Championship
  


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  Jim Skipper, assistant coach for the Carolina Panthers of the NFL
  

Notable people

Coaches

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  George Allen, head football coach for the Poets from 1951–56. Former NFL head coach and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.


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  Jerry Burns, former head coach Minnesota Vikings of the NFL. Assistant coach for Poets football team in 1952.


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  Leo B. Calland, former college football and basketball coach; highest winning percentage of any basketball coach at USC
  


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  Don Coryell, head football coach for the Poets from 1957–59. First and only coach to win at least 100 games at both the collegiate level and in the NFL


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  Ty Knott, former assistant coach for the Poets. Former NFL assistant coach with the Jacksonville Jaguars, New Orleans Saints, and Green Bay Packers.


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  Duval Love, offensive line coach for the Poets in 2008. Former NFL offensive lineman.


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  Omarr Smith, defensive backs coach for the Poets in 2004. Defensive back for the San Jose SaberCats of the Arena Football League
  

Faculty

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  Betty Miller Unterberger, associate professor of history from 1954–61^[13]
  

References

External links

• Official website


• Official Athletics Website


• KPOETradio student radio station

Coordinates: 33°58′41″N 118°01′47″W / 33.97809°N 118.02960°W / 33.97809; -118.02960