Whois & Analysis for denison.edu

Denison University is a private, coeducational, and residential four-year liberal arts college in Granville, Ohio, about east of Columbus.

Founded in 1831, it is Ohio's second-oldest liberal arts college.

Denison is a member of the Five Colleges of Ohio and the Great Lakes Colleges Association, and competes in the North Coast Athletic Conference.

Granville is a village in Licking County, Ohio, United States.

The population was 5,646 at the 2010 census.

The village is located in a rural area of rolling hills in central Ohio.

It is 35 miles east of Columbus, the state capital, and 7 miles west of Newark, the county seat.

A liberal arts college is a college with an emphasis on undergraduate study in the liberal arts and sciences.

A liberal arts college aims to impart a broad general knowledge and develop general intellectual capacities, in contrast to a professional, vocational, or technical curriculum.

Students in a liberal arts college generally major in a particular discipline while receiving exposure to a wide range of academic subjects, including sciences as well as the traditional humanities subjects taught as liberal arts.

Although it draws on European antecedents, the liberal arts college is strongly associated with American higher education, and most liberal arts colleges around the world draw explicitly on the American model.

Academy is a type of secondary or tertiary education institutions.

Etymology.

The word comes from the Academy in ancient Greece, which derives from the Athenian hero, Akademos.

Outside the city walls of Athens, the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning.

The sacred space, dedicated to the goddess of wisdom, Athena, had formerly been an olive grove, hence the expression "the groves of Academe.".