Whois & Analysis for dickinson.edu

Dickinson College is a private, residential liberal arts college in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States.

Founded in 1773 as Carlisle Grammar School, Dickinson was chartered September 9, 1783, six days after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, making it the first college to be founded after the formation of the United States.

Dickinson was founded by Benjamin Rush, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and named "John and Mary's College" in honor of John Dickinson, a signer of the Constitution who was later the Governor of Pennsylvania, and his wife Mary Norris Dickinson.

They donated much of their extensive personal libraries to the new college.

Carlisle is a borough in and the county seat of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States.

The name is locally pronounced as in British English with emphasis on the second syllable.

Carlisle is located within the Cumberland Valley, a highly productive agricultural region.

As of the 2010 census, the borough population was 18,682; the estimated population as of 2014 was 18,916.

Including suburbs in the neighboring townships, 37,695 live in the Carlisle urban cluster.

Carlisle is an exurb of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to the east.

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.