Lawrence University

Lawrence University is a private liberal arts college located in Appleton, Wisconsin. Founded in 1847, the first classes were held on November 12, 1849. Lawrence was the second college in the United States to be founded as a coeducational institution. Lawrence University has a 425-acre (1.72 km) northern property, Björklunden, in Door County, Wisconsin, which serves as a site for retreats, seminars, concerts, and theatrical performances. Donald a... more

Lawrence University is a private liberal arts college located in Appleton, Wisconsin. Founded in 1847, the first classes were held on November 12, 1849. Lawrence was the second college in the United States to be founded as a coeducational institution. Lawrence University has a 425-acre (1.72 km) northern property, Björklunden, in Door County, Wisconsin, which serves as a site for retreats, seminars, concerts, and theatrical performances. Donald and Winifred Boynton of Highland Park, Illinois, donated the property to Lawrence in 1963. The student newspaper is known as The Lawrentian. Lawrence University is known by many for the Great Midwest Trivia Contest broadcast every January over the college radio station WLFM. The contest is now exclusively webcast because of WLFM's move away from traditional FM radio broadcast. Lawrence's first president, William Harkness Sampson founded the school with Henry R. Colman, using $10,000 provided by philanthropist Amos Adams Lawrence, and matched by... less