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43-519: On June 12, 1849, representatives of the Disciples of Christ voted to establish an academic institution, which would later become Hiram College. On November 7 that year, they chose the village of Hiram as the site for the school because the founders considered this area of the Western Reserve to be "healthful and free of distractions". The following month, on December 20, the founders accepted

86-421: A chapter of Phi Beta Kappa , the national honor society for the liberal arts. The school has also had a chapter of Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK), a national leadership honor society, since 1962. 41°18′37″N 81°08′46″W  /  41.310255°N 81.146145°W  / 41.310255; -81.146145 Connecticut Western Reserve The Connecticut Western Reserve was a portion of land claimed by

129-637: A group of investors who were mostly from Suffield, Connecticut . The initial eight men in the group (or possibly seven or 35 ) planned to divide the land into homestead plots and sell it to settlers from the east. But the Indian titles to the Reserve had not been extinguished. Clear title was obtained east of the Cuyahoga River by the Greenville Treaty in 1795 and west of the river in

172-566: A large historical theme. Such assessment and designation has been significant for recognizing assets, and encouraging new development and businesses, including heritage tourism, often related to adaptive re-use of waterways, and buildings, as well as totally new endeavors. The United States has designated 49 National Heritage Areas, including two in Ohio: the Ohio Canal of the Ohio and Erie Canal and

215-469: A line just south of present-day Youngstown , Akron , New London , and Willard , about 3 miles (4.8 km) south of present-day U.S. Highway 224 . The claim beyond Ohio included parts of Michigan , Indiana , Illinois , Iowa , Nebraska , Wyoming , Utah , Nevada , and California . The eastern boundary of the reserve follows a true meridian along Ellicott's Line , the boundary with Pennsylvania. The western boundary veers more than four degrees from

258-676: A meridian to maintain the 120-mile width, due to convergence. Connecticut gave up western land claims following the American Revolutionary War in exchange for federal assumption of its debt, as did several other states. From these concessions, the Articles of Confederation government organized the Northwest Territory (formally known as the "Territory Northwest of the River Ohio"). The deed of cession

301-701: A research report in 2005. It was introduced as an official set of rankings in the September 2006 issue. Its "National Universities Rankings", most recently published in 2023, began as a research report in 2005 with its first rankings appearing in the September 2006 issue. Washington Monthly rates schools "based on their contribution to the public good in three broad categories: Social Mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students), Research (producing cutting-edge scholarship and PhDs), and Service (encouraging students to give something back to their country)." The Washington Monthly receives financial support from

344-575: A small graduate program. Hiram confers the BA , BSN , and MA degrees. The college offers 33 majors and 40 minors for traditional undergraduates, in addition to pre-professional programs for specific fields. Interdisciplinary studies have also been a part of Hiram's curriculum for decades. Hiram's curriculum requires all students to complete one course in each of nine academic areas: creative methods, interpretive methods, modeling methods, experimental scientific methods, social and cultural analysis, experiencing

387-519: A student at the institute from 1851 to 1853 and then returned in 1856 as a teacher. As principal, Garfield expanded the institute's curriculum. He left the Institute in 1861 and in 1880 was elected the 20th President of the United States. In 1870, one of Garfield's best friends and former students, Burke A. Hinsdale, was appointed Hiram's president. Although there were two before him, Hinsdale

430-708: A trip through the Western Reserve to a boat to cross Lake Erie into what is today Ontario . The three oldest sons of the abolitionist John Brown — John Jr. , Jason, and Owen —together with other participants in John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry , were all living in Ashtabula County , for security; the Governor of Ohio, William Dennison Jr. , refused to honor Virginia's request for Owen's arrest and extradition. A U.S. Marshall, attempting to serve

473-530: A warrant requiring Owen to testify before a U.S. Senate committee, reported that without "an armed force" he could not be arrested; "in Ashtabula County...there is a secret and armed organization numbering several hundred." They proclaimed themselves safer there than in any other place in the U.S., or even in Canada. This area of Ohio became a center of resource development and industrialization through

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516-547: Is considered the college's first permanent president because the others served only briefly. The next president to have a major impact on the college was Ely V. Zollars, who increased enrollment significantly, established a substantial endowment and created a program for the construction of campus buildings. Later presidents who served for at least 10 years were Miner Lee Bates, Kenneth I. Brown, Paul H. Fall, Elmer Jagow, and G. Benjamin Oliver. In 1931, shortly before Hiram celebrated

559-549: Is currently marketed under the name Hiram Connect, which involves four steps: First Year Colloquium/Foundations of the Liberal Arts, Declaration of Major, Experiential Learning, and a Capstone Project. Hiram has five "Centers of Distinction" for interdisciplinary studies: Center for Integrated Entrepreneurship, Center for Scientific Engagement, Center for Literature and Medicine, Garfield Institute for Public Leadership, and Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature. Hiram

602-848: Is one of 40 schools included in Loren Pope 's book Colleges That Change Lives . Hiram is a member of the Annapolis Group , which has been critical of the college rankings process. Hiram is among the signatories of the Presidents Letter . The school's sports teams are called the Terriers. They participate in NCAA Division III and the North Coast Athletic Conference . In men's volleyball and men's wrestling, sports not sponsored by

645-584: The Colony of Connecticut and later by the state of Connecticut in what is now mostly the northeastern region of Ohio . The Reserve had been granted to the Colony under the terms of its charter by King Charles II . Connecticut relinquished its claim to some of its western lands to the United States in 1786 following the American Revolutionary War and preceding the 1787 establishment of

688-602: The National Aviation Heritage Area . The NPS study coordinator said that while the region had the historic assets, and there was considerable public support for such a designation, the Western Reserve lacked "a definitive coordinating entity or supporting group," which is required to gain Congressional approval. If such a body develops in the future, it might seek federal designation as a Heritage Area. The settlers in northern Ohio repeated

731-654: The Northwest Territory . Despite ceding sovereignty to the United States, Connecticut retained ownership of the eastern portion of its cession, south of Lake Erie . It sold much of this "Western Reserve" to a group of speculators who operated as the Connecticut Land Company ; they sold it in portions for development by new settlers. The phrase Western Reserve is preserved in numerous institutional names in Ohio, such as Western Reserve Academy , Case Western Reserve University , and Western Reserve Hospital . In

774-751: The Treaty of Fort Industry in 1805. The western end of the reserve included the Firelands or "Sufferers' Lands", 500,000 acres (2,000 km ) reserved for residents of several New England towns which had been destroyed by British-set fires during the Revolutionary War. The next year, the Land Company sent surveyors led by Moses Cleaveland to the Reserve to divide the land into square townships , 5 miles (8.0 km) on each side (25 square miles (65 km ). Cleaveland's team also founded

817-402: The 100th anniversary of Garfield's birth, there was a debate in the community about changing the name of the school to Garfield College. There were strong advocates on both sides of the issue. Among the 2,000 guests at the centennial celebration were three generations of Garfield's family, including two of his sons. The idea of changing the college's name was not mentioned at the event and the idea

860-559: The 19th century, the Western Reserve "was probably the most intensely antislavery section of the country". John Brown Jr. called it, in 1859, "the New England of the West". The Reserve encompassed all of the following Ohio counties: Ashtabula , Cuyahoga , Erie and Huron (see Firelands ), Geauga , Lake , Lorain , Medina , Portage , Trumbull ; and portions of Ashland , Mahoning , Ottawa , Summit , and Wayne . Prior to

903-569: The 2024–25 school year before fully joining the PAC. Hiram had been a full PAC member from 1971 to 1989. The Hiram College basketball team won the gold medal in the collegiate division of the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis . It was the first time that basketball was part of an Olympics; it was included as a demonstration sport and no foreign teams participated. The Cleveland Browns held their training camp at Hiram College from 1952 through 1974, making it

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946-436: The Institute incorporated as a college and changed its name to Hiram College. During the years before it was renamed Hiram College, 1850–1867, the school had seven principals, the equivalent of today's college presidents. The two that did the most in establishing and defining the nature of the institution were Disciple minister Amos Sutton Hayden, who led the school through its first six years, and James A. Garfield, who had been

989-838: The NCAC, Hiram competes in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference . Stunt, an all-female cheerleading discipline included in the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program, competes in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference . Hiram will join the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) for administrative purposes on July 1, 2024, coinciding with its move to that conference as a men's volleyball associate. It will continue to compete in other NCAC sports through

1032-1098: The Townhouses. Student Senate is the elected student governing body of the college. It serves as a liaison between students and the school's administration, and oversees all student clubs and organizations, collectively called the Associated Student Organizations (ASO). The Kennedy Center Programming Board (KCPB) falls under the auspices of Student Senate, and is responsible for planning educational, social, recreational, and cultural programs. Hiram has close to 70 registered student clubs and organizations in eight categories: Academic, Greek Social, Musical, Political and Activism, Publications and Communications, Religious, Special Interest and Service, and Sports and Recreation. Fraternities and sororities are not permitted on campus, but there are six Greek social clubs: Delta Chi Lambda, Kappa Sigma Pi, Lambda Lambda Lambda, Phi Beta Gamma, Phi Gamma Epsilon, Phi Kappa Chi, and Greek Social. Since 1971, Hiram has maintained

1075-473: The Western Reserve." Later, several more counties were carved out of the territory. The name "Western Reserve" survives in the area in various institutions such as the " Western Reserve Historical Society " and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland . The Western Reserve was arguably the most anti-slavery region of the country in the pre-Civil War period. Many Underground Railroad routes ended with

1118-618: The arrival of European colonists, the land surrounding the southern shore of Lake Erie was inhabited by the Erie people . At the close of a war against the Iroquois from 1654 to 1656, the Erie were almost completely annihilated. Their towns were destroyed, and any survivors were assimilated into neighboring tribes, mainly the Seneca . After the American Revolutionary War, Connecticut was forced by

1161-646: The city of Cleveland along Lake Erie, which became the largest city in the region. ( The first "a" was dropped ; spelling of names was not standardized at the time.) In 1798 surveyors laid out the Girdled Road, indicated by girdled trees, which ran from Cleveland to the Pennsylvania state line near Lake Erie. A modern portion of Girdled Road still exists by that name . The territory was originally named "New Connecticut" (later discarded in favor of "Western Reserve"), and settlers began to trickle in during

1204-529: The federal government to surrender the Pennsylvania portion ( Westmoreland County ) of its " sea-to-sea grant " following the Pennamite–Yankee Wars . Nevertheless, the state held fast to its claim on the lands between the 41st and 42nd -and-2-minutes parallels that lay west of the Pennsylvania state border. The claim within Ohio was to a 120-mile (190 km)-wide strip between Lake Erie and

1247-451: The importance of a vigilant " fourth estate " in keeping government honest. Washington Monthly features a continuing blog ; "Political Animal" was written principally by Kevin Drum for several years, with frequent guest contributions by Washington Monthly's current and alumni editors. In 2008, Steve Benen took over as lead blogger; in 2012, he was succeeded by Ed Kilgore. Kilgore left

1290-575: The lake ships. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, these cities attracted hundreds of thousands of European immigrants and migrants (both black and white) from the rural South to its industrial jobs. At the request of Congress in 2011, the National Park Service prepared a feasibility study for declaring the 14-county region of the Western Reserve as a National Heritage Area . This is a means to encourage broad-based preservation of such historical sites and buildings that are related to

1333-444: The liberal watchdog and advocacy group Common Cause considered acquiring Washington Monthly , but the deal fell apart. The politics of Washington Monthly are often considered center-left . Founder Charles Peters, who had long referred to himself as a New Deal Democrat, redefined himself as a neoliberal in the 1980s, becoming an early proponent of market-based reforms among Democrats. His columns also frequently emphasized

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1376-616: The longest–tenured training site in the team's history. The 2014 Hiram vs. Mount St. Joseph women's basketball game was named the Best Moment at the 2015 ESPY Awards . The game featured terminally ill Mount St. Joseph player Lauren Hill in the first of her four college games, which set the all-time attendance record for an NCAA women's game below the Division I level. The college's residential complexes include Booth-Centennial, East Hall, Whitcomb Hall, Miller Hall, Bowler Hall, and

1419-520: The magazine in 2015. In addition to "Political Animal," the magazine's website also hosts "Ten Miles Square," a general blog featuring posts from staff and political scientists, which debuted in 2011, and "College Guide," a blog about higher education, which the magazine began offering in 2009. Washington Monthly ' s annual college and university rankings , a deliberate alternative college guide to U.S. News & World Report and Forbes College Rankings among domestic publications, began as

1462-487: The mid-20th century. It was a center of the steel industry, receiving iron ore shipped through the Great Lakes from Minnesota, processing it into steel products, and shipping these products to the east. This industry stimulated the development of great freight lakers, as the steam ships were known, including the first steel ships in the 20th century. Railroads took over some of the freight and commodity transportation from

1505-458: The next few years. Youngstown was founded in 1796, Warren in 1798, Hudson and Ravenna in 1799, Ashtabula in 1803, and Stow in 1804. Connecticut finally ceded sovereignty over the Western Reserve in 1800. The United States absorbed it into the Northwest Territory , which organized Trumbull County within the boundaries of the Reserve. Warren, Ohio is the former county seat of the Reserve and identifies itself as "the historical capital of

1548-619: The style of structures and the development of towns with which they were familiar in New England; many buildings in the new settlements were designed in the Georgian , Federal , and Greek Revival styles. Towns such as Aurora , Bath , Canfield , Chagrin Falls , Gates Mills , Hudson , Medina , Milan , Norwalk , Oberlin , Painesville , Poland , and Tallmadge exemplify the expression of these styles and traditional New England town planning. For instance, Cleveland's Public Square reflects

1591-538: The suggestion of Isaac Errett and named the school the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute. The institute's original charter was authorized by the state legislature on March 1, 1850, and the school opened several months later, on November 27. Many of the students came from the surrounding farms and villages of the Western Reserve, but Hiram soon gained a national reputation and students began arriving from other states. On February 20, 1867,

1634-548: The traditional New England central town green. Notes Bibliography Further reading Washington Monthly Washington Monthly is a bimonthly, nonprofit magazine primarily covering United States politics and government that is based in Washington, D.C. The magazine also publishes an annual ranking of American colleges and universities, which serves as an alternative to Forbes ' and U.S. News & World Report ' s rankings. The magazine

1677-595: The world, understanding diversity at home, interdisciplinary, and ethics and social responsibility. Its education plan also includes international study and independent study opportunities, and faculty–guided research projects. Currently, almost all majors require some form of extensive independent project or apprenticeship experience. Hiram's academic program consists of five schools: Arts, Humantities & Culture; Business & Communication; Education, Civil Leadership & Social Change; Health & Medical Humanities; and Science & Technology. The college's curriculum

1720-402: Was abandoned. The following is a list of the school's leaders since its founding in 1850. As of the 2019–20 academic year, Hiram's student body consists of 1,116 undergraduates from 27 states and 11 foreign countries. Of the 81 full–time faculty, 95% hold a Ph.D. or other terminal degree in their field. Hiram specializes in the education of undergraduate students, though the college does have

1763-641: Was founded on February 19, 1969, by Charles Peters , who wrote the "Tilting at Windmills" column in each issue until 2014. Paul Glastris , former speechwriter for Bill Clinton , has been Washington Monthly' s editor-in-chief since 2001. In 2008, the magazine switched from a monthly to a bimonthly publication schedule, citing high publication costs. Past staff editors of the magazine include Jonathan Alter , Taylor Branch , James Fallows , Joshua Green , David Ignatius , Mickey Kaus , Nicholas Lemann , Suzannah Lessard , Jon Meacham , Timothy Noah , Joe Nocera , Nicholas Thompson , and Steven Waldman . In 2008,

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1806-594: Was issued on September 13, 1786. As population increased in portions of the Northwest Territory, new states were organized and admitted to the Union in the early 19th century. Connecticut retained 3,366,921 acres (13,625.45 km ) in Ohio, which became known as the "Western Reserve". The state sold the Western Reserve to the Connecticut Land Company in 1796 (or possibly 12 August, 2 September, or 5 September 1795 ) for $ 1,200,000. The Land Company were

1849-490: Was ranked #167 among National Liberal Arts Colleges by U.S. News & World Report in 2012. At the same time, Hiram is currently ranked #67 among Liberal Arts Colleges by Washington Monthly . Also, in 2018, Forbes ranked Hiram at #644 among all colleges and universities in the U.S, and #29 in Ohio . Hiram has regularly been included in The Princeton Review Best Colleges guide, and

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