DENISON UNIVERSITY

private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Granville, Ohio, U.S. It offers an undergraduate curriculum in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and fine arts. Many students participate in off-campus study programs such as engineering in cooperation with Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and forestry in cooperation with Duke University in Durham, N.C. Campus facilities include a biological reserve, an observatory, and a high resolution spectrometer laboratory. Total enrollment is approximately 2,000. In 1831 the Ohio Baptist Education Society founded the Granville Literary and Theological Institution. In 1845 the school became Granville College. The name was changed by 1854 to honour benefactor William S. Denison. Graduate education was made available in 1887, but in the 1920s Denison adopted a policy of undergraduate instruction exclusively. Women were first admitted to Denison in 1927, when the university merged with Shepardson College, a women's college.