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Whitman College



         


Founded in 1883, Whitman College is located in Walla Walla, Washington.

Whitman is an independent, co-ed, non-sectarian residential liberal arts college. It was originally established in 1859 as a seminary in honor of the late missionary Marcus Whitman but was re-chartered in 1883 as a four-year, degree granting college. Whitman currently has about 1400 students and a 10 to 1 student-faculty ratio.

Whitman is widely regarded as having a very strong curriculum. In 1931 it was one of the first schools to require students to orally defend their mastery of a major to the professors of the major before graduation was allowed. The college prides itself on letting very few professors use teaching assistants, thus allowing students ready access to their professors. It also boasts the highest graduation rate, endowment per student, and alumni giving of any college in the Pacific Northwest.

The Whitman campus is located in a mostly residential area just a few blocks from downtown Walla Walla. It is spread over a three block area with most of the academic buildings and the library built around a central grass field. Many students live in dormitories on campus. Other common living arrangements are in fraternity houses, special interest houses, rental houses, and a few small apartment buildings.

Whitman College has a very strong fraternity/sorority system which encompasses more than half of the student body in most years, and focuses on leadership sound learning as much as the inherent social aspects. The campus fraternities include Phi Delta Theta, whose alumni include actor Dirk Benedict of Battlestar Galactica and The A-Team, and Beta Theta Pi, whose alumni include actor Adam West of the Batman

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