Swarthmore College

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• Swarthmore celebrates the life of the mind. Since its founding in 1864, Swarthmore has given students of uncommon intellectual ability the knowledge, insight, skills, and experience to become leaders for the common good. And they do. Swarthmoreans are CEO patent-holders who bring technology to underserved markets, investment bankers looking for alternative forms of energy, lawyers who become college presidents, doctors who serve in Congress, winners of the Nobel Prize. A Swarthmorean founded the first liberal arts college in Ghana. Another led the team that developed the Hubble Space Telescope. Swarthmoreans invented hypertext and helped women win the right to vote.
• The College offers more than 600 courses a year and more than 50 courses of study; an exceptional honors program; individual special majors; a program in education that leads to Pennsylvania secondary school certification; and undergraduate research opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and engineering.
• Swarthmore is part of the Tri-College Consortium, an inter-institutional collaboration with nearby Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges. Swarthmore students may enroll at courses at all three schools and take advantage of combined, on-line library catalogues and borrowing privileges. In addition, students may cross-register for courses at the University of Pennsylvania.
• There are currently over 100 student clubs and organizations for students on campus. Countless cultural and recreational opportunities await students in the surrounding area, including the City of Philadelphia located less than a half-hour away by train.
• Located 11 miles southwest of Philadelphia, Swarthmore's idyllic, 357-acre campus is a designated arboretum, complete with rolling lawns, creek, wooded hills, and hiking trails. From its state-of-the-art science complex to its new, environmentally friendly residence hall, Swarthmore's buildings and architecture stand as national models of curricular and co-curricular undergraduate facilities.
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In the News:

• More dead fish found in Crum Creek (With Video) (Delaware County Daily Times)
  posted on June 15, 2011 at 09:27:49 am
  SWARTHMORE — Robert Bonfitto was planning on collecting some bottles along Crum Creek near Swarthmore College on Monday morning.
• County’s top senior players will be on display in Barrett game at Neumann (Delaware County Daily Times)
  posted on June 4, 2011 at 08:31:16 am
  The first Joseph Barrett Memorial All-Star Baseball Game was played at Swarthmore College. A year later, the game moved to Villanova University.
• Local coach's donation saves a young life (6abc Philadelphia)
  posted on June 1, 2011 at 11:01:49 pm
  He is the fencing coach at Swarthmore College, and he savors every victory, but no triumph can compare to the experience he had this spring when he probably saved a young boy's life.
• Swarthmore College grads take next step (With Video) (Delaware County Daily Times)
  posted on May 30, 2011 at 09:21:51 am
  SWARTHMORE — As 366 distinct and unique young people prepared to clasp Swarthmore College diplomas in their hands, many of them had the same thought.
• Swarthmore College Introduces Spanish Translation Of Graduation Ceremony (The Huffington Post)
  posted on May 27, 2011 at 12:26:57 pm
  PHILADELPHIA — Deivid Rojas, a senior at Swarthmore College, has waited four years to hear the congratulatory remarks that will come with receiving his degree from the elite liberal arts school.

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