Hiram College

Hiram College

      private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Hiram, Ohio, U.S., about 35 miles (55 km) southeast of Cleveland. It is a liberal arts college affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Along with B.A. degrees in arts, sciences, religion, philosophy, business, and social sciences, it offers preprofessional programs in engineering, medicine, dentistry, law, optometry, and veterinary medicine. Among its cooperative program offerings are engineering degrees from Washington and Case Western Reserve universities and nursing degrees from Case and the University of Akron. Among its foreign exchange programs are those with Bosphorus University in Istanbul, Tur., and Kansai University of Foreign Studies in Ōsaka, Japan. Its teaching facilities include the James H. Barrow Field Station, which includes a maple-beech climax forest; the Northwoods Hiawatha Field Station, in Hiawatha National Forest near Lake Superior in Michigan's Upper Peninsula; and an electron microscope laboratory in the biology department.

      Hiram College was founded by Christian Church members in 1850 as Western Reserve Eclectic Institute. James A. Garfield, 20th U.S. president, was a student, English teacher, and, in 1857–60, principal of the institute. The school became Hiram College in 1867. In 1934 it pioneered a single-course plan, in which a student studied each subject exclusively for nine weeks. In 1977 Weekend College, for adult students, was initiated. Poet Vachel Lindsay attended Hiram College.

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