Company Profile
Earlham College
Company Overview
Earlham College is a small (~1200 students) liberal arts college affiliated with the Society of Friends (Quakers); approximately 11% of the students are Quakers. Our learning community is characterized by respect for every person, a commitment to social concerns and peacemaking, and a dedication to the integration of intellectual, emotional, moral, and spiritual growth of all members of the community. Global awareness and respect for cultural diversity are strongly emphasized.
The curriculum includes a strong general education component, and students choose majors either from traditional departments or from a number of interdisciplinary programs. Earlham is one of the leading institutions in the country in the number of students who complete doctoral programs.
Excellence in teaching is central to our Mission at Earlham. The college actively encourages and supports faculty research and professional development, as well as student-faculty collaborative research, and does so in the context of an undergraduate institution that emphasizes teaching excellence.
Company History
Earlham's historical beginning in Richmond, Indiana, is rooted in the Great Migration of Quakers from the eastern United States in the first half of the nineteenth century. Originally a co-educational "select" school, open only to Friends, by 1865 the school accepted non-Quaker students, and hired its first non-Quaker professor in 1886. Today, about 11% of Earlham's faculty and 12% of its students identify as Quakers.
Although Quakers are now a minority of students and faculty, the College maintains its Quaker identity through it Principles and Practices document, its governance by consensus-seeking, and through standard practices such as referring to everyone by first name (without titles) as a validation in the belief of equality.
Our students come from all over the U.S. and about 80 other countries. In fact, Earlham ranks 6th among national liberal arts colleges in the largest percentage of international students on campus, according to U.S. News and World Report, while appearing on their 2016 Best Colleges list at 61.