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Grove City College (GCC) is a private, conservative Christian liberal arts college [4] [5] in Grove City, Pennsylvania, United States. [6] Founded in 1876 as a normal school, the college emphasizes a humanities core curriculum and offers 60 majors and six pre-professional programs with undergraduate degrees in the liberal arts, sciences, business, education, engineering, and music.
Ketler and Pew founded Pine Grove Normal Academy (eventually changing its name to Grove City College) in 1876. Ketler served as President of Grove City College for 37 years from 1876 to 1913. Joseph N. Pew provided much of the early funding for the school. Under Ketler's leadership: "[b]y the turn of the century, the enrollment had grown to 660 ...
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Pine Grove Academy, the precursor to Grove City College, was established in 1858. Around the same time, large coal deposits were discovered in the area, kickstarting a mining industry. [7] The Pittsburgh, Shenango and Lake Erie Railroad was extended to Pine Grove in 1872, and Pine Grove Normal Academy was chartered to grant degrees in 1876.
Grove City College v. Bell, 465 U.S. 555 (1984), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that Title IX, which applies only to colleges and universities that receive federal funds, could be applied to a private school that refused direct federal funding but for which a large number of students had received federally funded scholarships.
The current name, Pan Sophic, was adopted for official use on campus. Pan Sophic was thus the first and oldest of Grove City College's fraternities, noted as early as 1913. [2] Pan Sophic, like other fraternities and sororities on the Grove City campus, [5] is independent–a "local", unaffiliated with any national society or organization. [6]
Adelphikos was formed as an outgrowth of the two campus debate clubs, the Webster and the Shakespeare, where an intense rivalry inspired eight of the Webster men to invite two of their rivals to join in the formation of the fraternity, putting an end to the strife.
Richard G. Jewell was the eighth president of Grove City College, a Christian liberal arts college in Grove City, Pennsylvania, United States. [1] The 1967 Grove City graduate assumed the presidency in fall of 2003 after a successful career in law and business. He left his position in 2014 and was succeeded by Paul J. McNulty. [2]