Editing Swarthmore College (section)

{{Short description|Liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania}}
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{{Infobox university
 | name                   = Swarthmore College
 | image                  = Formal Seal of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA.svg
 | image_upright          = .7
 | caption                =
 | city                   = [[Swarthmore, Pennsylvania|Swarthmore]]
 | state                  = Pennsylvania
 | country                = United States
 | motto                  = Mind the Light<ref>{{cite book|title=Minutes of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Corporation of Swarthmore College, Held Twelfth Month 6th, 1910|date=1911|publisher=Swarthmore College|page=21|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zjhJAQAAMAAJ&q=motto|access-date=August 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929005705/https://books.google.com/books?id=zjhJAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=motto&f=false|archive-date=September 29, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Chopp|first1=Rebecca|title=Stewarding Swarthmore|url=http://bulletin.swarthmore.edu/bulletin-issue-archive/index.html%3Fp=749.html|access-date=August 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191002151230/https://bulletin.swarthmore.edu/bulletin-issue-archive/index.html%3Fp=749.html|archive-date=October 2, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
 | established            = {{Start date and age|1864}}
 | campus                 = Suburban, {{cvt|425|acre}}
 | free_label             = College newspaper
 | free                   = ''The Phoenix''
 | type                   = [[Private college|Private]] [[Liberal arts colleges in the United States|liberal arts college]]
 | academic_affiliations  = {{hlist|[[Consortium on Financing Higher Education|COFHE]]|TCC|[[National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program|Space-grant]]}}
 | endowment              = $2.7 billion (2022)<ref>As of March 7, 2022. {{cite report |url=https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Nacubo/Documents/research/2022-NTSE-Public-Tables--Endowment-Market-Values--FINAL.ashx?la=en&hash=362DC3F9BDEB1DF0C22B05D544AD24D1C44E318D|title=U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2021 Endowment Market Value and Change in Endowment Market Value from FY20 to FY21 |publisher=National Association of College and University Business Officers and [[TIAA]] |date=2022 |access-date=June 5, 2023}}</ref>
 | undergrad              = 1,730 (2025)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-02-02 |title=Swarthmore by the Numbers :: Meet Swarthmore :: Swarthmore College |url=https://www.swarthmore.edu/meet-swarthmore/swarthmore-numbers |access-date=2025-02-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250202194747/https://www.swarthmore.edu/meet-swarthmore/swarthmore-numbers |archive-date=February 2, 2025 }}</ref>
 | faculty                = 207<ref name=CDS_2018-2019>{{cite web|url=https://www.swarthmore.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/institutional-research/2018-2019%20Common%20Data%20Set%20Swarthmore%20College.pdf|title=Common Data Set 2018–2019|publisher=Swarthmore College|access-date=September 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190421012928/https://www.swarthmore.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/institutional-research/2018-2019%20Common%20Data%20Set%20Swarthmore%20College.pdf|archive-date=April 21, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
 | president              = [[Valerie Smith (academic)|Valerie Smith]]
 | colors                 = Garnet and white {{Color box|#97133C|border=darkgray}}{{Color box|White|border=darkgray}}  
 | athletics_affiliations = [[NCAA Division III]] – [[Centennial Conference]]
 | sports_nickname        = The Garnet
 | mascot                 = Phineas the [[Phoenix (mythology)|Phoenix]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.swarthmore.edu/mascot.xml|title=The Phoenix :: Swarthmore College|website=www.swarthmore.edu|date=July 8, 2014|access-date=March 17, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100408134412/http://www.swarthmore.edu/mascot.xml|archive-date=April 8, 2010|url-status=live}}</ref>
 | website                = {{url|https://swarthmore.edu/|swarthmore.edu}}
 | logo                   = Formal Logo of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA.svg
 | logo_upright           = .9
 | footnotes              =
}}

'''Swarthmore College''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|w|ɔːr|θ|m|ɔːr}} {{respell|SWORTH|mor}}, {{IPAc-en|local|ˈ|s|w|ɑː|θ|m|ɔːr}} {{respell|SWAHTH|mor}})<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kenyon|first1=John Samuel|author1-link=John Samuel Kenyon|last2=Knott|first2=Thomas Albert|year=1949|title=A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English|title-link=A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English|location=Springfield, Massachusetts|publisher=Merriam|page=[https://archive.org/details/pronouncingdicti00unse/page/418/mode/1up 418]}}</ref> is a [[Private college|private]] [[Liberal arts colleges in the United States|liberal arts college]] in [[Swarthmore, Pennsylvania]], United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.princetonreview.com/SwarthmoreCollege.aspx|title=Swarthmore College|date=November 15, 2010|publisher=The Princeton Review|access-date=June 21, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430130755/http://www.princetonreview.com/SwarthmoreCollege.aspx|archive-date=April 30, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the earliest coeducational colleges in the United States.<ref name="facts">{{cite web|url=https://www.swarthmore.edu/about/facts-figures|title=Facts & Figures|publisher=Swarthmore College|access-date=April 30, 2018|date=July 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180501004651/https://www.swarthmore.edu/about/facts-figures|archive-date=May 1, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> It was established as a college under the [[Quakers|Religious Society of Friends]].<ref name="briefhist">{{cite web|url=https://www.swarthmore.edu/a-brief-history|title=A brief history|publisher=Swarthmore College|access-date=April 16, 2019|date=February 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419001930/https://www.swarthmore.edu/a-brief-history|archive-date=April 19, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> By 1906, Swarthmore had dropped its religious affiliation and officially became [[Nonsectarian|non-sectarian]].<ref name="phillyvoice">{{cite web|url=http://www.phillyvoice.com/12-swarthmore-colleges-greatest-alums/|title=12 of Swarthmore College's greatest alums|work=PhillyVoice|access-date=May 8, 2016|date=March 22, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160426231655/http://www.phillyvoice.com/12-swarthmore-colleges-greatest-alums/|archive-date=April 26, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

Swarthmore is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution.<ref name="Swarthmore by the Numbers">{{Cite web |date=2022-11-03 |title=Swarthmore by the Numbers|url=https://www.swarthmore.edu/about/facts-figures|access-date=2023-08-27 |language=en-US}}</ref> It is a member of the Tri-College Consortium, a cooperative academic arrangement with [[Bryn Mawr College]] and [[Haverford College]]. Swarthmore is also affiliated with the [[University of Pennsylvania]] through the [[Quaker Consortium]], which allows students to cross-register for classes at all four institutions.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.college.upenn.edu/quaker-consortium|title=The Quaker Consortium|access-date=May 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604195008/https://www.college.upenn.edu/quaker-consortium|archive-date=June 4, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Swarthmore College alumni|Swarthmore's alumni]] include six [[Nobel Prize]] winners, 13 [[MacArthur Foundation]] fellows, as well as winners of the [[Tony Awards]], [[Grammy Awards]], [[Academy Awards]], [[Emmy Awards]], and the [[Guggenheim Fellowship]].