Lake Erie College

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Lake Erie College
Lake Erie College logo.svg
Former name
Lake Erie Female Seminary (1856–1898) [1]
Type Private liberal arts college
Established1856
Academic affiliations
 Council of Independent Colleges, Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges
President Jennifer Schuller
Location
Painesville, Ohio
,
U.S.

41°43′00″N81°15′06″W / 41.71667°N 81.25167°W / 41.71667; -81.25167
CampusSuburban, 52 acres (21 ha) [2]
Colors    Green and white [2]
Nickname Storm
Sporting affiliations
 NCAA Division II – Great Midwest Athletic Conference
MascotStormy the Cyclone [3]
Website lec.edu
Royce Hall for the Fine and Performing Arts, built in 1970, on the campus of Lake Erie College. Royce Hall for the Fine and Performing Arts.jpg
Royce Hall for the Fine and Performing Arts, built in 1970, on the campus of Lake Erie College.
Helen Rockwell Morley Memorial Music Building, built in 1927, on the campus of Lake Erie College. Morley Music Hall with sign.jpg
Helen Rockwell Morley Memorial Music Building, built in 1927, on the campus of Lake Erie College.

Lake Erie College is a private liberal arts college in Painesville, Ohio. Founded in 1856 as a female seminary, the college converted to a coeducational institution in 1985. [4]

Contents

In addition to 63 programs of study for undergraduate students, Lake Erie offers master's programs in education and physician assistant studies, as well as the IACBE-accredited Parker Master of Business Administration program, first founded in 1981.

College Hall, built in 1857, on the campus of Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio LEC College Hall.jpg
College Hall, built in 1857, on the campus of Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio

History

Lake Erie Female Seminary

Founded as the Lake Erie Female Seminary in 1856, the institution toppled the belief that women were not capable of significant intellectual improvement. The only single-sex institution of higher education for women in the Western Reserve, it took after its sister seminary, Mount Holyoke.

The seminary was relocated to Painesville after Willoughby Seminary, founded in 1847, burned to the ground. [4] Its founders include prominent local citizens Timothy Rockwell, general store owner Silas Trumbull Ladd, Judge William Lee Perkins, Mayor and Judge Aaron Wilcox, Charles Austin Avery and Judge Reuben Hitchcock, a president of the Cleveland and Mahoning Railroad and cousin of Edward Hitchcock. [4]

Scholarship was not a chief concern at the Seminary in its earliest years, however. Educating future mothers through domestic work, physical education and etiquette ranked among the Seminary's chief aims. For a tuition of $160, seminarians trained as teachers. [5]

Over 40 years, the seminary raised standards, finally delivering a college degree. It took on the official name of Lake Erie College in 1908 when a charter was passed.

Expansion

The Arts took up a home in the halls of Lake Erie. Helen Rockwell Morley Memorial Music Building, opened in 1927, still shines – its classic Greek design, Corinthian pillars, seating for more than 1,000, and four-manual E.M. Skinner organ with 4,359 pipes. [6]

The Civil Aeronautics Authority approved Lake Erie for a civilian pilot program in 1939, several years after Amelia Earhart visited the campus to speak to its Aviators Club. [7]

In the 1940s, President Helen D. Bragdon, a Harvard alumna, moved the college from more Victorian ideals toward an active, responsible citizenry. [4] Her successor, Paul Weaver, initiated a required general studies lecture series to demonstrate the interconnectivity of fields of study, three 10 week terms, and the establishment of study centers in many European cities.

In 1954, Lake Erie College became the first institution of higher education in the United States to require a term abroad for its students.

In 1967, Lake Erie added a School of Equine Studies to its equestrian riding program developed by Laddie Andahazy, an influential horseman who founded the Cleveland Grand Prix.

A special exhibit of Modern art signaled the opening of Royce Hall for the Fine and Performing Arts in 1970. Prints, sculpture, graphics and more by celebrated artists such as Dali, dekooning, Magritte, Miro and Picasso were on display. R. Buckminster Fuller spoke at the facility's ground-breaking. [8]

In 1985, Lake Erie College became coeducational, merging Garfield Senior College with Lake Erie College for Women, and men were admitted officially as students. [9]

Presidents

#NameTerm of Office
1Lydia Sessions1859–1866
2Anna M. Edwards1866–1868
3Mary Evans1868–1909
4Vivian Blance Small1909–1941
5Helen Dalton Bragdon1941–1950
Alfred T. Hill1950–1951 (interim)
6Paul S. Weaver1951–1976
Paul Newland1976–1977 (interim)
7Charles E.P. Simmons1977–1984
Marilyn S. Jones1984–1985 (interim)
8Edward Q. Moulton1985–1986
9Clodus R. Smith1986–1992
10Hal Laydon1992–2005
M. Sue Dreitzler2005–2006 (interim)
11Michael T. Victor2006–2015
Peter M. Gerhart2015–2016 (interim)
12Brian Posler2016–2023
13Jennifer Schuller2023 -

Academics

Lake Erie College houses five academic schools: the School of Business, the School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, the School of Education and Professional Studies, and the School of Equine Studies. Each maintains its own majors, minors, and programs under the direction of its respective dean. All students complete a general curriculum, called CORE, as a foundation to courses required by their major field(s) of study.

School of Business

The IACBE-accredited School of Business offers its students ten undergraduate majors and six minors. The MBA program is nationally ranked as well as being one of the top 10 MBA programs in Ohio. The program is offered fully online or in a hybrid learning format. [10]

Center for Entrepreneurship

Lake Erie College is a member of the Entrepreneurship Education Consortium and its programming integrates entrepreneurship concepts and collaborative retreats and competitions such as ideaLabs and Entrepreneurship Immersion Week into traditional academic studies. Its Center for Entrepreneurship consists of business faculty and a resident entrepreneur.

School of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

The School of Arts and Humanities offers its students 13 undergraduate majors and 16 minors. Some popular majors include criminal justice, psychology, communication and English. Minors such as gender, sexuality & women's studies as well as comedy studies fall outside the scope of major fields of study. While most major fields lead to a Bachelor of Arts degree, a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree is also offered. [11]

School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

The School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics offers its students four majors. [12] Students have access to regional land preserves due to the School's partnership with The Nature Conservancy. [13]

School of Education and Professional Studies

In addition to three undergraduate programs, the School of Education and Professional Studies also offers endorsements in TESOL and reading, post-baccalaureate programming, and an M.Ed. degree. [14]

School of Equine Studies

The School of Equine Studies offers its students four majors. [15] It was founded in 1955 and there have been 304 Equine Studies graduates since 2000. [16]

Equestrian Teams

Lake Erie College's equestrian teams compete throughout the calendar year in English and Western events, including the IHSA Hunt Seat Team, IHSA Western Team, and IDA Dressage Team. The college hosts shows, clinics and events, most notably the annual Prix de Villes, at its George M. Humphrey Equestrian Center.

Athletics

The Lake Erie athletic teams are called the Storm. The college is a member of the Division II level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), primarily competing in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC) since the 2017–18 academic year. The Storm previously competed as a member of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) from 2010–11 to 2016–17; as well as an NCAA D-II Independent from 2008–09 to 2009–10. [17] [18] Prior joining to NCAA Division II, the Storm competed as a member of the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) of the NCAA Division III ranks from 1997–98 to 2007–08 (when it completed the process of moving to Division II at the conclusion of the 2008–09 academic year).

Lake Erie competes in 19 intercollegiate varsity sports: Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, track & field and wrestling; while women's sports include basketball, cross country, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, track & field and volleyball.

About

The official nickname of the college's athletics teams is the Storm. This name was chosen after Lake Erie College started competing nationally, at which point they held a contest to name the team. "Contestants had to supply the name and a suitable logo and rationale for the name. A Madison woman won by suggesting the name the Storm." [4] The name was chosen to replace the nickname Unicorns when the college added men's intercollegiate athletics beginning in 1988. Their mascot is Stormy. [19]

Lake Erie College sponsored the first women's national collegiate tennis tournament in 1922, won by Evelyn Ennes of Sandusky, Ohio. [20] [21]

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