August 9, 2016

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio. In 1833, Presbyterian ministers John Jay Sipherd and Philo P. Stewart founded the institution as a college preparatory institute to promote Christian values. With its founding it is the oldest coeducational university in the United States and the second oldest continuously operating coeducational university in the world. Oberlin was the first school to accept not only women as well as men, in 1837, but black students as well as white, in 1835.