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The David Bishop Skillman Library is the main library on the college campus with a collection of over 600,000 volumes. It was built in 1965 to replace Van Wickle Hall as the main library after a 1956 Middle States Association survey of the college revealed the need for a more adequate library facility for a rapidly growing student population ...
A lithograph of Lafayette College, c. 1875 South College, one of Lafayette's largest residence halls, housing approximately 220 students in a coeducational setting. A group of Easton, Pennsylvania residents, led by James Madison Porter, son of General Andrew Porter of Norristown, Pennsylvania, met on December 27, 1824, at White's Tavern to discuss founding a college in town. [14]
The Lafayette Library and Learning Center was first proposed to the City of Lafayette at the end of 2003. The city voted to support the Library in January 2004. [4] In 2004 the membership of the Glenn Seaborg Learning Consortium was finalized and funding was pursued. In November 2004 the project was awarded $11.9M by the State of California.
The Lafayette Public Library Committee met on Monday, Nov. 18 to address facility updates, financial reports and book discards.
Lafayette Public Library is offering its Museum Pass program in partnership with five museums and historic sites throughout Lafayette Parish.
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Walbridge was living near Wellsboro, Pennsylvania in what was then known as Stony Fork [2] when he enrolled at Lafayette in 1894. Walbridge was right halfback and captain of Lafayette's 1896 team, which was named the national co-champion of college football 37 years later by the team's coach, Parke H. Davis, who had become the sport's leading historian.
Nicole Hurd (born 1970) is an American academic who became the 18th president of Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, on July 1, 2021.She is the founder and CEO of College Advising Corps (CAC), the largest college access program in the country which aims to aid low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented high school students to enter and complete higher education.