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A list of Quaker-originated colleges and universities; Another list of Friends schools; Friends Council on Education (includes school finder) List of Friends Schools in the U.K. and bibliographical sources for their study (including schools now closed) A Quaker Education from the Friends' Schools' Council (includes school finder)
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In 1859, Earlham became Earlham College, upon the addition of collegiate academics. At this time, Earlham was the third Quaker college in the United States (Haverford College was first, Guilford College the second), and the second U.S. institution of higher education to be coeducational (Oberlin College was first). Though the college initially ...
Guilford College is the only Quaker-founded college in the southeastern United States and the first co-ed college in the South. [7] Opening in 1837 as New Garden Boarding School, the institution became a four-year liberal arts college under its current name, Guilford College, in 1888. [8]
In 1988 FAHE co-hosted the International Congress on Quaker Education [4] [5] with the Friends Council on Education. In 2019 the conference was held at FAHE member institutions Swarthmore College and Pendle Hill in suburban Philadelphia. In June, 2020, FAHE will meet at Earlham College and Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Indiana.
Rooted in Wilmington College's Quaker identity, the Peace Resource Center is the only academic center and archives in the United States wholly devoted to the human experience of nuclear war, vis-a-vis the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan on August 6 and 9, 1945.