By definition, colleges are institutions of higher learning that grant the bachelor's degree in liberal arts or science or both. Universities are institutions for higher learning with teaching and research facilities constituting a graduate school and professional schools that award master's degrees and doctorates and an undergraduate division that awards bachelor's degrees.
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On October 15, 1881, the institution held its first class in Bethany Lutheran Church in Lindsborg. Starting as an academy, the school amended its charter in 1886 and became a college with the right to confer baccalaureate degrees. The four-year college program was introduced in 1887 and the first class graduated in 1891.
Bethany College has always enjoyed a close relationship with the Lutheran Church. Having been founded by the pastor of Bethany Lutheran Church, the Rev. Carl A. Swensson, the College was adopted by the Kansas Conference of the Augustana Lutheran Church one year after its inception. Today the institution is governed and supported by the Central States and Arkansas-Oklahoma synods of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, with additional covenant support and board representation from the Rocky Mountain Synod. The Board of Directors consists of twenty-eight members, including the bishops of the three supporting synods and the president of the College as ex officio members.
Bethel recognizes the value of a strong liberal arts education. Therefore, the College seeks to admit students who appreciate a broad-based education and demonstrate a desire to learn. Consideration is given to many different expressions of a student's ability, including intellectual capacity, the potential to complete College work, maturity, motivation, talent in extracurricular areas, a desire to participate in campus activities, and a lifestyle that will contribute to the life of the community. Admission is granted on the basis of a wide range of abilities, not just class rank, test scores or grade point average.
Orleans Seminary, the forerunner of Central Christian College, was founded on the Nebraska plains in 1884 by Free Methodist preacher Rev. C.M. Damon and his wife. (At that time, "seminary" designated a Christian school regardless of grade levels.) The school endured years of small enrollments, repeated faculty turnover, and deteriorating facilities.
Because of deteriorating facilities and a more central location in the support area, Orleans Seminary was moved to McPherson, Kansas, in 1914. The relocated school was named Central Academy and College. Along with its elementary and secondary grades, Central added the first two years of college to its curriculum at this time. Occupying a four-story brick building left by the relocated Covenant Church affiliated Walden College, Science Hall was a welcome change to the faculty and students of Central.
Kansas Wesleyan University was founded in 1886 and is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Enrollment consists of 750 students, the majority from Kansas and surrounding states.
The institution offers more than 27 major programs: MBA, BA, BS, BASB, BSN, AA, AAS degrees; plus evening degree completion programs for adults in nursing, business management and criminal justice. Average class size is 20 with a student-faculty ratio 14:1. Member of the Associated Colleges of Central Kansas (ACCK), a consortium of six academic institutions within 70 miles of KWU through which students may enroll in courses and resources.
Recognizing the need for a college west of the Mississippi River to serve the educational needs of families moving westward, Church of the Brethren leaders at their Annual Meeting in 1887 decided to investigate potential sites. In August of the same year McPherson, Kansas, was chosen and McPherson College and Institute was founded.
With the construction of the Dormitory, a single building which served as residence hall, college, and library, the first academic semester opened on September 5, 1888, with 60 students and a faculty of seven. By the end of the first school year nearly 200 students had enrolled and the foundation had been laid for the main building. In 1898 Main Building was completed, though it had been used for school purposes for some time while still incomplete. On February 12, 1898, the school was officially christened 'McPherson College.'
The present campus, with its 15 major buildings and 23-acre setting, has matured into an institution of which its founders would be proud. To celebrate its 100th anniversary in 1987-88, McPherson College architecturally redesigned its entire campus, a factor which has improved the quality of living and learning at McPherson.
Newman University is a private, Catholic liberal arts university sponsored by the Sisters Adorers of the Blood of Christ.
Newman University sponsors twelve intercollegiate NAIA sports: men's and women's basketball, men's baseball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's golf, men's and women's soccer, women's softball and men's and women's volleyball.
Founded in 1885 by the Southwest Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the college graduated its first class of three students in June 3, 1889. The city of Winfield contributed resources for the original campus. In 1909 its name was changed from Southwest Kansas Conference College to Southwestern College, and in 1917 the school earned accreditation by the North Central Association of Schools and Colleges.
Founded in 1887 by the Synod of Kansas of the United Presbyterian Church of North America, Sterling College continues to affirm its historical ties with the Presbyterian Church. Through the years of denominational change and reshaping, the College has held solidly to its covenant relationship with what is now the Presbyterian Church (USA). The College is governed by an independent self-perpetuating Board of Trustees. Sterling College holds strong the mandate of the original charter to be thoroughly Christian, but not in any sense sectarian, and cherishes its covenant relationship to the PCUSA. The diversity of God's people is welcomed and the College respects the differences in denominational distinctives and worship traditions.
On September 5, 1908, 39 students and three instructors began the first session of Tabor College. Before that school year ended, enrollment grew to one hundred and four with a faculty of five.
This beginning came as Mennonite Brethren and Krimmer Mennonite Brethren Churches of North America recognized the need for an institution of higher education. On April 30, 1918, fire destroyed the building which had housed the College for its first ten years. Two new buildings, a dormitory-dining hall and administration-classroom building, replaced the first at a cost of more than $130,000.
The Tabor College Corporation owned and operated the College until 1934, when the property was transferred to the Board of Trustees of the Conference of the Mennonite Brethren of North America. The College now operates under its own charter. Its Board of Directors are responsible to the churches which make up the Central, Southern, Latin American and North Carolinian Districts of the Mennonite Brethren Church Conference.
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