Oberlin College

CLEVELAND (AP) — Owners of a market in a famously liberal town were awarded $44 million in damages this week in their lawsuit claiming Oberlin College hurt their business and libeled them in a case some observers said embodied racial hypersensitivity and political correctness run amok. A jury in Lorain County awarded David Gibson, son […]

Oberlin College placed professor on leave over alleged anti-Semitic comments. Her comments outraged the college's board of trustees.

Lucy Stanton Day Sessions is considered by some historians the first Black woman to graduate from a four-year college in 1850. Although another pioneer, Mary Jane Patterson, was officially awarded a bachelor’s degree in 1862, Mrs. Day Sessions’ coursework was considered by Oberlin College to be equal to a four-year degree although it lacked some […]

OBERLIN, Ohio (AP) — Scrawls of racially offensive graffiti and, more recently, a report of someone wearing what looked like a Ku Klux Klan-type hooded robe on campus have shaken students at historically liberal Oberlin College, one of the nation’s first universities to admit blacks. A day after the school canceled classes and students marched […]