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  1. 69 relations: Affluence in the United States, African Americans, American Bar Association, American lower class, American middle class, Andrea Barber, Arena Football League, Asian Americans, Association of American Law Schools, Austrian Football League, Cassey Ho, Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges, Costa Mesa, California, Don Coryell, Duval Love, Economic diversity, Foreign national, Full House, Fuller House (TV series), Geoff Stults, George Allen (American football coach), George Stults, German Football League, Green Bay Packers, Hancock Park, Los Angeles, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Hispanic-serving institution, Hugh Mendez, Inside Higher Ed, Jacksonville Jaguars, Jerry Burns, Jessamyn West (writer), John Godfrey (American football), John Greenleaf Whittier, Kristine Dillon, Leo Calland, Liberal arts colleges in the United States, Linda Oubré, Los Angeles, Mary Chawner Woody, Minnesota Vikings, Multiracial Americans, National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA Division III, New Orleans Saints, Non-Hispanic whites, Oberlin Group of Libraries, Occidental Tigers, Occidental–Whittier football rivalry, Omarr Smith, ... Expand index (19 more) »

  2. Liberal arts colleges in California
  3. Quaker universities and colleges

Affluence in the United States

Affluence refers to an individual's or household's economical and financial advantage in comparison to others.

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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American Bar Association

The American Bar Association (ABA) is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students; it is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States.

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American lower class

In the United States, the lower class are those at or near the lower end of the socioeconomic hierarchy.

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American middle class

Though the American middle class does not have a definitive definition, contemporary social scientists have put forward several ostensibly congruent theories on it.

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Andrea Barber

Andrea Laura Barber (born July 3, 1976) is an American actress.

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The Arena Football League (AFL) was a professional arena football league in the United States.

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Asian Americans

Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of those immigrants).

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Association of American Law Schools

The Association of American Law Schools (AALS), formed in 1900, is a non-profit organization of 176 law schools in the United States.

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The Austrian Football League (AFL) is the highest level of American football in Austria founded in 1982.

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Cassey Ho

Cassey Ho Vinh (born January 16, 1987 in Los Angeles, California) is an American social media fitness entrepreneur with a YouTube channel and a website that sells fitness apparel.

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Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges

The Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (CLAC) is a nonprofit organization of 75 American liberal arts colleges which formed in 1984 under the leadership of Oberlin College's president S. Frederick Starr.

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Costa Mesa, California

Costa Mesa (Spanish for "Mesa Coast") is a city in Orange County, California, United States.

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Don Coryell

Donald David Coryell (October 17, 1924 – July 1, 2010) was an American football coach.

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Duval Love

Duval Love (born June 24, 1963) is an American former professional football player who was a guard in the National Football League (NFL).

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Economic diversity

Economic diversity or economic diversification refers to variations in the economic status or the use of a broad range of economic activities in a region or country.

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Foreign national

A foreign national is any person (including an organization) who is not a national of a specific country.

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Full House

Full House is an American television sitcom created by Jeff Franklin for ABC.

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Fuller House (TV series)

Fuller House is an American sitcom created by Jeff Franklin and produced by Warner Bros. Television Group that aired as a Netflix original series as the sequel to the ABC television series Full House, which ran from 1987 to 1995.

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Geoff Stults

Geoff Stults is an American actor.

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George Herbert Allen (April 29, 1918 – December 31, 1990) was an American football coach.

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George Stults

George Sheehy Stults (born August 16, 1975) is an American actor and former fashion model.

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The German Football League (GFL) is an American football league in Germany and was formed in 1979.

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Green Bay Packers

The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

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Hancock Park, Los Angeles

Hancock Park is a neighborhood in the Wilshire area of Los Angeles, California.

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Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanic and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of full or partial Spanish and/or Latin American background, culture, or family origin.

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Hispanic-serving institution

A Hispanic-serving institution (HSI) is defined in U.S. federal law as an accredited, degree-granting, public or private nonprofit institution of higher education with 25% or higher total undergraduate Hispanic or Latino full-time equivalent (FTE) student enrollment.

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Hugh Mendez

Hugh Brooks Mendez (1935 – 2013) was an American football and baseball player and coach.

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Inside Higher Ed

Inside Higher Ed is an American online publication of news, opinion, resources, events and jobs in the higher education sphere.

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Jacksonville Jaguars

The Jacksonville Jaguars are a professional American football team based in Jacksonville, Florida.

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Jerry Burns

Jerome Monahan Burns (January 24, 1927 – May 12, 2021) was an American college and professional football coach.

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Jessamyn West (writer)

Mary Jessamyn West (July 18, 1902 – February 23, 1984) was an American author of short stories and novels, notably The Friendly Persuasion (1945).

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John Henry "Tiger" Godfrey (August 13, 1921 – September 14, 2008) was an American football player and coach.

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John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States.

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Kristine Dillon

Kristine Elaine Dillon is an American academic administrator serving as the interim president of Whittier College since 2023.

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Leo Calland

Leo Blakely Calland (February 24, 1901 – March 17, 1984) was an American football and basketball player and coach who later became a San Diego city parks administrator.

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Liberal arts colleges in the United States

Liberal arts colleges in the United States are undergraduate institutions of higher education in the United States that focus on a liberal arts education.

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Linda Oubré

Linda Oubré is an American academic administrator who served as president of Whittier College from 2018 to 2023.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Mary Chawner Woody

Mary Chawner Woody (December 22, 1846 – December 25, 1928) was an American Quaker minister, educator, and temperance leader.

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Minnesota Vikings

The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis.

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Multiracial Americans

Multiracial Americans or mixed-race Americans are Americans who have mixed ancestry of two or more races. The term may also include Americans of mixed-race ancestry who self-identify with just one group culturally and socially (cf. the one-drop rule). In the 2020 United States census, 33.8 million individuals or 10.2% of the population, self-identified as multiracial.

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National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, and one in Canada.

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NCAA Division III

NCAA Division III (D-III) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States.

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New Orleans Saints

The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans.

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Non-Hispanic whites

Non-Hispanic Whites or Non-Latino Whites are White Americans classified by the United States census as "white" and not Hispanic.

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Oberlin Group of Libraries

The Oberlin Group of Libraries is a consortium of American liberal arts colleges, led by a board elected from its members' libraries' directors.

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Occidental Tigers

Located in Los Angeles, Occidental College competes in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) at the NCAA's Division III level.

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The Occidental–Whittier football rivalry was a college football rivalry between the Occidental College Tigers and the Whittier College Poets, both members of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

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Omarr Smith

Omarr Ali Hasan Smith (born April 7, 1977) is a former American football defensive back who was most recently the head coach of the Baltimore Brigade of the Arena Football League (AFL).

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Pell Grant

A Pell Grant is a subsidy the U.S. federal government provides for students who need it to pay for college.

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President of the United States

The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Private university

Private universities and private colleges are higher education institutions not operated, owned, or institutionally funded by governments.

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The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame for professional American football, located in Canton, Ohio.

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Quakers

Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.

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Samie Parker

Samie Jabar Parker (born March 25, 1981) is an American football coach and former player.

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San Jose SaberCats

The San Jose SaberCats were a professional arena football team based in San Jose, California.

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Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

The Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference that operates in the NCAA's Division III.

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Ty Knott

Ty Knott (born December 9, 1965) is an American football who recently served as the wide receivers coach and special teams coordinator for the Seattle Sea Dragons of the XFL.

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United States Department of Education

The United States Department of Education is a cabinet-level department of the United States government.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.

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University of Southern California

The University of Southern California (USC, SC, Southern Cal) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Whittier College and university of Southern California are private universities and colleges in California and schools accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

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Wallace Newman

Wallace Joe "Chief" Newman (c. 1901 – November 6, 1985) was an American football and baseball player and coach.

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Western Collegiate Lacrosse League

The Western Collegiate Lacrosse League (WCLL) is a conference that participates in the Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association (MCLA).

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Whittier Law School

Whittier Law School was a law school in Costa Mesa, California founded in 1966. Whittier College and Whittier Law School are private universities and colleges in California.

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Whittier, California

Whittier is a city in Southern California in Los Angeles County, part of the Gateway Cities.

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Woman's Christian Temperance Union

The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is an international temperance organization.

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See also

Liberal arts colleges in California

Quaker universities and colleges

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittier_College

Also known as Sachsen Society, Whittier Poets, Whittier Poets baseball, Whittier Poets football, Whittier Poets men's basketball, Whittier Poets track and field, Whittier Quakers, Whittier Quakers football, Whittier University.

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