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St. John's College is a private liberal arts college with campuses in Annapolis, Maryland and Santa Fe, New Mexico.As the successor institution of King William's School, a preparatory school founded in 1696, St. John's is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the United States; [6] [7] the current institution received a collegiate charter in 1784. [8]
Scott Buchanan (1895 – 1968) was an American philosopher, educator, and foundation consultant.He is best known as the founder, together with Stringfellow Barr, of the Great Books program at St. John's College, at Annapolis, Maryland.
St John's College, formally the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge, [4] is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded by the Tudor matriarch Lady Margaret Beaufort. In constitutional terms, the college is a charitable corporation established by a charter dated 9 April 1511.
St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe), one college with campuses in Annapolis, Maryland and Santa Fe, New Mexico, noted for its "Great Books" curriculum St. John's College, Cleveland, (known as the Sisters' College, 1928–1947), a Catholic school for teachers and nurses operating until 1975; also
St John's participates in a number of sports such as cross country running, mixed lacrosse, rowing, men's football, badminton, hockey and rugby among others. St John's College Boat Club was founded in 1910 and operates out of two boathouses on the River Wear.
The current CTCL list [7] contains all of the colleges and universities above, except for Marlboro College, which closed in 2020, Birmingham–Southern College, which closed in 2024, and New College of Florida. It also places both branches of St. John's College under one listing.
St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. [2] Founded as a men's college in 1555, it has been coeducational since 1979. [ 3 ] Its founder, Sir Thomas White , intended to provide a source of educated Roman Catholic clerics to support the Counter-Reformation under Queen Mary .
The reading list mostly resembled those at other undergraduate colleges offering Great Books programs such as St. John's College [8] in Annapolis, Maryland, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, and at Thomas Aquinas College, [9] in Santa Paula, California.