 {| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="right" style="margin:0.5em;" !colspan="2" align=center bgcolor="#2f3387" | the five colleges of ohio |- |colspan="2" align=center | |- !colspan="2" align=center bgcolor="#2f3387" | data |- |established || 1995 |- |members || denison, kenyon, oberlin, ohio wesleyan, wooster |- |continent || north america |- |country || united states |- |university type || private, 4-year, residential, undergraduate |- |other names || the ohio five, formerly the ohio six, the little six |- |} the five colleges of ohio is an academic and administrative consortium of five selective private liberal arts colleges in the us state of ohio. it is a nonprofit educational consortium established in 1995 to promote the broad educational and cultural objectives of its member institutions. the consortium developed from a range of highly successful collaborations including friendly academic and athletic rivalries among the five institutions. ==members== the members of the five colleges of ohio consortium are: * denison university, granville, ohio * kenyon college, gambier, ohio * oberlin college, oberlin, ohio * ohio wesleyan university, delaware, ohio * the college of wooster, wooster, ohio == history == the designation ohio five or ohio six first appeared in ohio newspapers in the early twentieth century. the grouping, predating any formal agreement, was immediately adopted by the press as a foreshadowing of an ohio league of schools with similar academic and athletic reputations, which, at the time was a common perception. during the 1800s, in their evangelistic campaign to build a christian community across the u.s. from the atlantic to the pacific, protestant churches of the 19th century used the denominational college as an intellectual stronghold. by the civil war era, the churches had founded some 40 colleges in ohio alone, to ensure for the state a christian core and to train the ministers who plodded after the frontiersmen across the plains. empty treasuries and denominational rivalry had closed all but 20 of these ohio colleges by the 1950s. of the survivors, six colleges -- denison university, kenyon college, oberlin college, ohio wesleyan university, the college of wooster and wittenberg college "the ohio six". time magazine. september 30, 1957 vol. lxx no. 14. -- were often grouped together because of their high academic standing. {|style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto" image:denison univ.jpg| denison's swasey chapel image:dscn4646 oberlincollegepetershall e2.jpg| oberlin's memorial arch <!-- deleted image removed: image:graychapeladjusted.jpg| [[ohio wesleyan university|ohio wesl
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