Educational InstitutionsEducational Organization

William Rainey Harper College

William Rainey Harper College is a public community college in Palatine, Illinois. It was established by referendum in 1965 and opened in September 1967. It is named for William Rainey Harper, a pioneer in the junior college movement in the United States and the first president of the University of Chicago.

Identifiers

OPEID6 Six-digit base OPE ID (without the two-digit branch suffix)
3961
OPEID Office of Postsecondary Education Identifier, used for federal financial aid program participation
396100
IPEDS UNITID Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System identifier assigned by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
149842
DAPIP ID Database of Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs identifier from the U.S. Department of Education
114497

Location

Palatine, IL, 60067-7398

42.081829, -88.072811

Accreditation

Higher Learning Commission

External Links

For AI Agents & Language Models

Agent Instructions

This is a reference record for William Rainey Harper College in the Educational Institutions vocabulary of the Hooray Media Knowledge Graph.

This concept is typed EducationalOrganization in Schema.org. Use its URI (https://data.hooray.media/vocab/institutions/149842) as the value for schema:alumniOf, schema:affiliation, or schema:memberOf when linking person or organization entities to this institution.

Authoritative identifiers available: OPEID6, OPEID, IPEDS UNITID, DAPIP ID. These can be used to cross-reference this record with federal databases and other institutional datasets.

Location data (address and geographic coordinates) is included for geocoding and spatial queries.

External identity links (sameAs) connect this record to authority files and knowledge bases for entity resolution and enrichment.

Content negotiation is supported: request Accept: application/ld+json for linked data JSON-LD with dual SKOS + Schema.org typing, or Accept: text/turtle for RDF. The parent vocabulary at /vocabularies/institutions provides search (?q=) and a full concept listing.

Machine-Readable Formats