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Albright College is a private liberal arts college in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1856 and had an enrollment of 1,652 students as of fall 2023.
History
Albright College traces its founding to 1856 when Union Seminary opened. Present-day Albright was formed by the mergers of several institutions: Albright Collegiate Institute, Central Pennsylvania College, and Schuylkill College.
Albright Collegiate Institute opened in 1895 and was renamed Albright College three years later. Union Seminary, meanwhile, became Central Pennsylvania College in 1887 and merged with Albright College in 1902. Schuylkill Seminary, the third institution, was founded in 1881, became Schuylkill College in 1923, and merged into Albright in 1928.
Albright's campus relocated from Myerstown, to Schuylkill College's campus, which is the present location of Albright, at the base of Mount Penn in Reading.
The college is named for Pennsylvania-German evangelical preacher Jacob Albright, who founded the Evangelical Association (later known as the Evangelical United Brethren Church). Born in 1759 in Douglass Township, (now Montgomery County) with the given name of Johannes Jacob Albrecht, the family changed their surname to "Albright" following Jacob's 1808 death.
In the late 2010s, enrollment began to decline at the college. By 2023, enrollment had declined to 1,652 student, a decline of nearly one-third from what it was in 2010. This had significant financial implications for the college which had a $20.3 million deficit in 2023. In response, the college laid off 53 employees between 2022 and 2024. In late 2024, the college also requested permission to draw a $25 million loan from its $53.1 endowment. Shortly thereafter, the college's interim president also announced plans to cut two degree programs and launch several new programs and athletic teams.
Academics
Albright College students are encouraged to cross and combine areas of study without taking longer to graduate. The college offers Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees, as well as a Master of Arts and Master of Science degrees in education. The college also offers online and accelerated degree programs.
Albright offers a wide range of classical and pre-professional programs. It created one of the first undergraduate psychobiology programs in the nation in the 1960s. The college's liberal arts curriculum has a cross-program focus that allows students to create an individualized education. Fully half of Albright students have concentrations that combine two or three fields of learning.
The theatre program has been honored by the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival consistently for many years. Albright's Domino Players Company has been invited to perform at the Region II KCACTF Festival 10 times in the last 18 years (2004, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2020). At the National Conference held every April in Washington DC, Albright's theatre program has garnered dozens of awards for distinguished work in performance, direction, dramaturgy, scenic, sound, costume, and lighting design. Acclaimed productions of "Waiting for Godot" (2007), "Clybourne Park" (2016), "A Raisin in the Sun" (2018) have also been named "Outstanding Production of a Play" – recognizing them as the best college production of their years. "A Raisin in the Sun" also received eight other national awards, for distinguished performance, scenic and lighting design, director and performances.
The Albright Creative Research Experience (ACRE) is a multi-disciplinary program that affords undergraduate students the opportunity to conduct research or pursue creative endeavors during the three-week January Interim or summer break. The students, who work one-on-one with faculty members, can be from any discipline, from STEM subjects to the humanities.
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In 2017, Albright College was named one of the "Best Northeastern" schools by The Princeton Review; this was the fourteenth consecutive year that the college was included in that category. For 2024, U.S. News & World Report ranked the college tied at #146 out of 211 in National Liberal Arts Colleges and tied at #31 in Top Performers on Social Mobility. In 2018, U.S. News ranked Albright 33rd out of 208 national liberal arts colleges in the "Campus Ethnic Diversity" category, and in the "Economic Diversity" category, Albright ranked 27th out of 210 national liberal arts schools. The Economist magazine listed Albright among the top 50 American colleges and universities for economic value in 2015.
Athletics
Albright College athletic teams compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III as a member of the Middle Atlantic Conferences.
Charles "Pop" Kelchner founded the men's basketball team in 1900 and was athletic director at Albright College for 21 years. He was involved in aspects of Major League Baseball for over 50 years. Albright College dedicated the baseball field as Kelchner Field in 1952. Branch Rickey gave the dedication speech, with Connie Mack in attendance. Kelchner was a graduate of Lafayette College with two degrees and was proficient in German, French, Italian, Spanish, Classical Latin and Greek. He served as Professor of Languages and athletic director.
Doggie Julian was the head football coach at Albright from 1929 to 1930. Clarence Lester "Biggie" Munn was the head football coach at Albright College from 1935 to 1936, before coaching Syracuse University (1946), and most notably Michigan State College (1947–1953), where his 1952 squad won a national championship.
William "Lone Star" Dietz was the director of athletics and head football coach at Albright from 1937 to 1942. Dietz led the football team to their first undefeated season in 1937. He previously led Washington State to 1916 Rose Bowl victory. In the National Football League, Dietz had coached the Boston "Redskins" (1933–1934), the forerunner of the Washington Commanders. Dietz is in the Albright College Athletic Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame.
In 1948, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) and Albright College played the first intercollegiate football game between an Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) institution and a majority-white institution.
The Philadelphia Eagles held pre-season training camp at Albright from 1968 through 1972.
Wilbur G. Renken was athletic director and basketball head coach for 38 consecutive seasons. A highly regarded figure in collegiate athletics in general and specifically basketball, Renken was the president of the United States Olympic Basketball Team Selection Committee for the 1976 Olympic Games. He also served as the president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) in 1979–1980.
On October 11, 2017, sophomore backup quarterback Gyree Durante was dismissed from the football team for kneeling during the national anthem before the team's game against Delaware Valley University, going against a collective team decision made before the game to kneel for the coin toss and stand for the anthem. Then-president Jacquelyn Fetrow later offered reinstatement to the team to Durante (and two other players who did not fully kneel during the coin toss), saying that further review of the details surrounding the game's events found that "what we understood to be shared agreement among players, student leaders and coaches has not been adequately supported.". Durante, however, declined reinstatement, citing his former teammates' stated lack of trust in him.
WXAC
Albright's campus radio station, WXAC 91.3 FM is a student-operated college radio station. The initial call name was WALC, but was later changed to WXAC on March 8, 1965. WALC had been the same call name for the Alcoa Steamship Lines.
Notable alumni
Chester Anuszak (stage name: Jon Dough), class of 1984, adult film actor
Haps Benfer, class of 1914, college football, basketball, and baseball head coach
Joseph E. Coleman, class of 1948, politician, attorney and chemist; first African-American elected president of Philadelphia City Council
Leo Disend, class of 1938, played tackle with the Green Bay Packers and the Brooklyn Dodgers football team
Edwin Erickson, class of 1960, State Senator, Pennsylvania
Craig Fass, class of 1996, chef and co-creator of the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
Jacquelyn S. Fetrow, class of 1982, computational biologist, former president of Albright College, former Provost and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Richmond
John Fetterman, class of 1991, United States Senator, 2023–present; 34th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, 2019–2023
Doris Freedman, class of 1950, pioneer in the field of public art
Robert Gerhart, class of 1941, Pennsylvania State Senator for the 11th district from 1969 to 1972
Robert P. Hollenbeck (born 1931), politician who served six terms in the New Jersey General Assembly from the 36th Legislative District.
Thomas R. Kline, class of 1969, leading trial lawyer
Casey Lawrence, class of 2010, professional baseball pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball
Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ, class of 1994, Kenyan poet and author, Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies at Cornell University
Hidy Ochiai, class of 1966, author and actor, introduced the Washin-Ryu style of karate in the United States
Anthony Portantino, class of 1983, State Senator, California
Anthony Serianni, class of 1975, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame
Danene Sorace, class of 1994, Mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, former director of Answer program at Rutgers University.
Bob Spitz, class of 1971, celebrity biographer
Matthew Urbanski, class of 1985, landscape architect
Russell Weigley, class of 1952, Distinguished University Professor of History at Temple University
Victor Yarnell, class of 1951, 41st Mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania
References
External links
"Albright College" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.
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Repeatedly named a top national college a nd a top performer for social mobility, Albright College, in Reading, Pa., was founded in 1856, and is home to engaging faculty who believe that the best academic moments are when students feel inspired and ready to take action.
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Albright College students are encouraged to cross and combine areas of study without taking longer to graduate. The college offers Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees, as well as a Master of Arts and Master of Science degrees in education. The college also offers online and accelerated degree programs.
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As the oldest institution of higher learning in Berks County, Albright has a long history of providing generations of students with an education that enables them to live their best lives, now and in the future.
Facing a $20 million deficit, Albright College is making cuts
Jan 20, 2025 · Over the past year, Albright College in Berks County has cut 53 positions, canceled some academic majors, and considered selling property and art as part of an effort to close a $20 million...
'No plans to close': Albright College moving toward financially …
Feb 11, 2025 · Albright's vice president for advancement says the college has no plans to close, and the institution will be more financially sound.
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Albright College is a private institution that was founded in 1856. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 1,323 (fall 2023), and the campus size is 118 acres.
Albright College gets loan from endowment to prevent closure risk
Jan 20, 2025 · In Albright’s emergency petition, the college said it owes $50 million to “several financial institutions” and has experienced a “net asset decline of more than $46 million from 2022 to 2024,” which required the college to take “significant measures to lower its deficit.”
Albright again named Princeton Review Best College
Appearing on the Princeton Review’s Best Regional Colleges list 20 times in the last 21 years, Albright College has again been named an “academically outstanding” Best College in the Mid Atlantic by the publication for 2025.
