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36-1610: Robert , Bobby , Robbie , Rob or Bob Fuller may refer to: Academics [ edit ] Robert W. Fuller (born 1936), American president of Oberlin College Robert C. Fuller (born 1952), American professor of religious studies Performers [ edit ] Robert Fuller (actor) (born 1933), American TV Western star Bob Fuller (1898–after 1935), American blues and jazz saxophonist and clarinetist Bobby Fuller (1942–1966), American rock and roll singer and guitarist Sportsmen [ edit ] Robert Fuller (footballer) (born 1964), Australian rules footballer Robbie Fuller, British speedway racer in 1984 through 1988 British League season Rob Fuller (racing driver) (born 1973), American stock car racing driver Wrestlers [ edit ] Robert Fuller (wrestler) (born 1949), American wrestler and manager, birth name Robert Welch Robert Fuller Jr. (born 1958), American wrestler, birth name Robert Gibson Others [ edit ] Robert Fuller (FBI agent) , American counter-terrorism agent since 1990s Robert E. Fuller (born 1972), English wildlife artist Robert L. Fuller (1996–2020), African American found hanged in California See also [ edit ] Robert Fuller House , American historic house in Massachusetts [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

72-423: A 93 (out of 99) for selectivity and in 2017 named Trinity as a best value college. Money.com magazine ranked Trinity College 55th among all colleges and universities in the nation. Trinity's mascot, the bantam , was conceived by Joseph Buffington , class of 1875, who was a federal judge and trustee of the college. The Trinity Tripod , founded in 1904, is Trinity College's student newspaper. According to

108-496: A World Without Rankism . Fuller frequently speaks at universities, conferences, and social policy organizations. Notable recent engagements include: As of 2021, Fuller maintains a blog at the Breaking Ranks website, and he also writes regular articles for The Huffington Post and Psychology Today . He explores the concepts of dignity and of dignitarian governance in his The Rowan Tree: A Novel (2013). Fuller

144-673: A central green known as the Main Quad, designed by famed architect Frederick Law Olmsted . The large expanse of grass is bound on the west by the Long Walk, on the east by the Lower Long Walk, on the north by the chapel, and on the south by the Cook and Goodwin-Woodward dormitories. Trinity's green is notable for its unusually large, rectangular size, running the entire length of the Long Walk and with no walkways traversing it. Trees on

180-472: A hood of black silk lined according to the degree: B.A. white silk, M.A. dove-colored silk, B.D. crimson silk, D.D. scarlet silk, L.L.D. pink silk, Mus.D. purple silk. In 1894, a year before the introduction of the intercollegiate code on academic costume , the college brought in a new scheme of academic regalia. The hoods and gowns followed the shape of those used at the University of Oxford except that

216-586: A mile southwest. Although the college sold its land overlooking the Park River and Bushnell Park in 1872, it did not complete its move to its Gallows Hill campus until 1878. The original plans for the Gallows Hill site were drawn by the noted Victorian architect William Burges but were too ambitious and too expensive to be fully realized. Only one section of the proposed campus plan, the Long Walk ,

252-460: A predominantly white American college or university, including Tommie Smith , Gold Medalist sprinter from the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City , and a woman for women's sports. Scott and Fuller were interviewed on campus by Howard Cosell and appeared on prime time television to talk about these changes they were seeking. In 1974, after four years as Oberlin's president, Fuller resigned

288-617: A student-to-faculty ratio of 9:1. Its most popular undergraduate majors, by number out of 517 graduates in 2022, were: Trinity College, Rome Campus (TCRC), is a study abroad campus of Trinity College. It was established in 1970 and is in a residential area of Rome on the Aventine Hill close to the Basilica of Santa Sabina within the precincts of a convent run by an order of nuns. The 2020 annual ranking by U.S. News & World Report categorizes Trinity as "more selective". For

324-617: Is a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences . Fuller lives in Berkeley, California with his wife, Claire Sheridan. He has four children and four grandchildren. Trinity College (Connecticut) Trinity College is a private liberal arts college in Hartford, Connecticut , United States. Founded as Washington College in 1823, it is the second-oldest college in the state of Connecticut . Coeducational since 1969,

360-523: Is connected to Hamlin Hall. To Hamlin's east is Cook, then Goodwin and then Woodward. The dormitories on the Long Walk end there, and the terminal building on the south end of the long walk is Clement/ Cinestudio . Clement is the chemistry building; Cinestudio a student run movie theater. If one travels to the south of Hamlin there will be Mather Hall and the Dean of Students Office. Trinity's campus features

396-519: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Robert W. Fuller Robert Works Fuller (born 1936) is an American physicist, author, social reformer, and former president of Oberlin College . Robert Fuller attended Oberlin College , leaving without graduating in order to earn his Ph.D. in physics at Princeton University in 1961. He taught at Columbia University , where he co-authored

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432-406: The "Campaign for Community" effort to establish more inclusive social traditions on campus. Trinity currently has several sororities and fraternities: The first buildings completed on the current campus were Seabury and Jarvis halls in 1878. Together with Northam Towers, these make up what is known as the " Long Walk ". These buildings are an early example of Collegiate Gothic architecture in

468-770: The Oval Office helped lead to the establishment of the Presidential Commission on World Hunger. During the 1970s and 1980s, Fuller traveled frequently to the Soviet Union , working as a citizen-scientist to improve superpower relations during the Cold War . This led to the creation of the Mo Tzu Project, a group of citizen-diplomats traveling the world seeking citizen to citizen understanding to create sustainable peace. It also resulted in

504-665: The Trinity Samba Fest from the Hartford waterfront featuring regional and international talent. Trinity followed the European pattern of using academic regalia from its foundation, and was one of only four US institutions (all associated with the Episcopal Church ) to assign gowns and hoods for its degrees in 1883. There were six degrees awarded at the time, all taking a black gown of silk or stuff and

540-640: The " Annapolis Group " in August 2007, an organization of more than 100 of the nation's liberal arts schools, in refusing to participate in the magazine's rankings. Trinity College is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education . In 2016, authors Howard and Matthew Greene continued to include Trinity in the third edition of Hidden Ivies : 63 Top Colleges that Rival the Ivy League . The Princeton Review has given Trinity

576-649: The Abuse of Rank (New Society Publishers). The book led a group in Virginia to set up the Dignitarian Foundation. He published a sequel that focused on building a dignitarian society, titled All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (Berrett-Koehler, 2006). In 2008, Fuller and co-author Pamela A. Gerloff released an 86-page "action-oriented guide" titled Dignity for All: How to Create

612-560: The Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival, one of the top competitions for young organists in North America. The festival features performances on the chapel organ, which was designed by Charles Nazarian, a college alumnus and pipe organ designer, in consultation with Clarence Watters , who was the chapel organist and head of the college's music department from 1932 to 1967. The organ incorporates pipes from

648-542: The Class of 2022 (enrolling fall 2018), Trinity received 6,096 applications, accepted 2,045 (33.5%) and enrolled 579. As of fall 2015, Trinity College does not require the SAT or ACT for students applying for admission. Of the 31% of enrolled freshmen submitting SAT scores , the middle 50% range was 630–710 for evidence-based reading and writing, and 670–750 for math, while of the 23% of enrolled freshmen submitting ACT results,

684-623: The Inter-Arts Program, which included the actor Bill Irwin and the director Julie Taymor . He encouraged The Oberlin Dance Collective, In what has been called the "Oberlin Experiment," he recruited and hired Jack Scott , writer about the sociology of sports, as chairman of the physical education department and athletic director. Scott, in turn, recruited and hired the first four African-American athletic coaches at

720-559: The Quad have been planted in a 'T' configuration (for Trinity) with the letter's base at the statue of Bishop Brownell (built 1867). and its top running the length of the Long Walk. Cinestudio is an art cinema with 1930s-style design. An article in the Hartford Advocate described this non-profit organization, which depends solely on grants and the efforts of volunteer workers who are paid in free movies. Trinity College hosts

756-745: The Trinity College Public Library, and later in Boardman Hall, a science building on campus. In 1968, the trustees voted to withdraw from the Association of Episcopal Colleges. Also in 1968, the trustees of Trinity College voted to make a commitment to enroll more minority students, providing financial aid as needed. This decision was preceded by a siege of the administrative offices in the Downes and Williams Memorial buildings during which Trinity students would not allow

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792-518: The USSR , Fuller's turn as a citizen-diplomat came to a close. Reflecting on the different roles he had played, he came to understand that he had, at various times, enjoyed the status of a "somebody" while at other times he had embraced the position of a "nobody." His experiences in "Nobodyland" led him to identify rankism —a term he coined, and defined as the abuse of the power inherent in rank. In 2003, Fuller published Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming

828-563: The United States, built to plans drawn up by William Burges , with F.H. Kimball as supervising architect. The Long Walk has been expanded and is connected with several other buildings. On the northernmost end there is the chapel, whose western side is connected to the Downes and Williams Memorial building. Heading south, the next building is Jarvis Hall, named after Abraham Jarvis . Jarvis becomes Northam Towers heading south, then Seabury Hall. Seabury Hall, named for Samuel Seabury ,

864-419: The book Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics . The mounting social unrest of the 1960s, and Fuller's commitment to educational reform—which he had already demonstrated as a Trinity College dean—led his alma mater, Oberlin College, in 1970, to make him its tenth president, succeeding Robert K. Carr . At age 33 Fuller became one of the youngest college presidents in the country. His Oberlin presidency

900-480: The chapel’s original 1932 Aeolian-Skinner organ and was built in 1971 by Austin Organs of Hartford. The Chapel Singers perform concerts on campus as well as on domestic and international tours. Trinity also hosts the annual Trinity International Hip Hop Festival . The festival was founded in 2006 with the goal of unifying Trinity with the city of Hartford. Since 2006, Trinity's WRTC FM radio station has broadcast

936-517: The college enrolls 2,235 students. Trinity offers 41 majors and 28 interdisciplinary minors. The college is a member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC). Bishop Thomas Brownell opened Washington College in 1824 to nine male students and the vigorous protest of Yale alumni. A 14-acre site was chosen, at the time about a half-mile from the city of Hartford. The college

972-486: The college, 18% of the student body are affiliated with a Greek organization. In 2012, then-president James F. Jones proposed a social policy for Trinity College which made a commitment, among other things, to require all sororities and fraternities to achieve gender parity within two years or face closure. Trinity College's co-ed mandate for fraternities and sororities was withdrawn in September 2015 and replaced with

1008-463: The creation of the nonprofit global corporation Internews, which promoted democracy via free and independent media. Fuller served as its chairman, working with Kim Spencer , David M. Hoffman and Evelyn Messinger (founders of Internews ), Alia Johnson, Robert Cabot, and John Steiner, among others. In 1982, Fuller appeared in the PBS documentary Thinking Twice About Nuclear War. With the collapse of

1044-1085: The hood for Doctors of Divinity was of the shape used at the University of Cambridge . A variety of different colours and fabrics were used for the hoods: B.A. black stuff edged palatinate purple , B.S. black stuff edged light blue silk, B.Litt. black stuff edged russet brown silk, B.D. black silk edged scarlet silk (not in use by 1957), L.L.B. black silk edged dark blue silk (not in use by 1957), Mus.B. black silk edged pink silk (not in use by 1957), M.A. black silk lined palatinate purple silk, M.S. black stuff lined light blue silk, D.D. scarlet cloth lined black silk, D.Litt. scarlet silk-lined russet brown silk, L.L.D. scarlet silk lined dark blue silk, D.C.L. crimson silk lined black silk, Mus.D. white silk-lined pink silk, D.Sc. black silk lined light blue silk, Ph.D. black silk lined people silk (not in use by 1957), M.D. scarlet silk lined maroon silk (not in use by 1957). D.P.H. black cloth lined salmon pink silk (1945), D.H.Litt. scarlet silk-lined people silk (1947), D.Hum. white silk-lined crimson (1957), and D.S.T. scarlet silk-lined blue with

1080-451: The middle 50% range for the composite score was 29–32. In 2022, Forbes magazine ranked Trinity College 12th amongst all liberal arts universities and 62nd amongst all colleges and universities. U.S. News & World Report ranked Trinity 39th in its 2022 ranking of best national liberal arts colleges in the United States. It was also ranked 46th for best value school. However, these US News rankings likely reflect that Trinity joined

1116-509: The office. He was succeeded by Emil C. Danenberg . In 1971 on a visit to India, Fuller had witnessed the famine caused by war with Pakistan; the war was a catalyst for the emergence of Bangladesh as an independent nation. With the election in the United States of President Jimmy Carter , Fuller began a campaign to persuade the new leader to end world hunger. In 1977, Fuller co-founded The Hunger Project , along with Werner Erhard and singer John Denver . His June 1977 meeting with Carter in

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1152-467: The president or trustees to leave until they agreed to the resolution. In 1969, Trinity College became coeducational and admitted its first female students, as transfers from Vassar College and Smith College . Trinity offers undergraduate degrees in 41 majors with options of 28 minors and a self-designed major, and Masters of Arts in a few subjects. Trinity is part of a small group of liberal arts schools that offer degrees in engineering. Trinity has

1188-407: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Fuller&oldid=1243162813 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

1224-460: Was a turbulent time on campus and in higher education generally. Fuller established a faculty-administration body to consider basic structural change in the curriculum and calendar, as well as a Commission on the Status of Women, tripled the enrollment of minorities, and the college established an African Studies program. He took special interest in the arts, as well. He recruited Herbert Blau to head

1260-485: Was completed. By 1889, the library contained 30,000 volumes, and the school graduated over 900 students. Enrollment reached 122 in 1892. President Remsen Ogilby (1920–1943) enlarged the campus, and more than doubled the endowment. The faculty grew from 25 to 62, and the student body from 167 to 530 men. Under President Keith Funston (1943–1951), returning veterans expanded the enrollment to 900. In 1962, Connecticut Public Television (CPTV) began its first broadcasts in

1296-500: Was renamed Trinity College in 1845; the original campus consisted of two Greek Revival buildings. One of the Greek Revival buildings housed a chapel, library, and lecture rooms. The other was a dormitory for the male students. In 1872, Trinity College was persuaded by the state to move from its downtown "College Hill" location (now Capitol Hill, site of the state capitol building ) to its current 100-acre (40 ha) campus

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