Eastern Nazarene College

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Eastern Nazarene College

Image:EasternNazareneCollegeLogo.jpg Eastern Nazarene College Logo (Trademark of Eastern Nazarene College)
Motto	Via, Veritas, Vita
Established	1900
Type	Private
President	Dr. Corlis McGee
Location	Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
Campus	Suburban
Colors	Red and White
Nickname	Crusaders
Website	www.enc.edu

Eastern Nazarene College (ENC) is a small liberal arts college south of Boston in Quincy, Massachusetts. Part of the higher education system of the Church of the Nazarene, ENC is the college for the Eastern United States Region of the Church of the Nazarene. It aims to offer a competitive education while offering a Christian lifestyle with campus life. Currently, ENC students have a 100% acceptance rate into law school. The school itself is just over 100 years old, and historical information is available in two books by Professor James Cameron, The First 50 Years of ENC and The Second 50 Years of ENC. ENC is a member of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities.

1 Ranking and reputation
2 Student life
- 2.1 Lifestyle covenant
- 2.2 Programs
3 Past Presidents
4 People Associated With Eastern Nazarene College
5 Trivia
6 See also
7 Further reading
8 References
9 External links

[edit] Ranking and reputation

Eastern Nazarene College claims a 93% acceptance rate into medical school and a 100% acceptance into law school since 2000. ^[1]

[edit] Student life

The small size of the student body stimulates a close community atmosphere not found in larger colleges. Positive relationships develop between students and faculty, providing both spiritual formation on campus and contacts for internship and research opportunities.

Students live in single sex dorms with visitation hours throughout the week. Each dorm houses a parlor where all students are welcome. Social events, student ministries, and study groups use these parlors extensively during the week. Students often use Munro parlor for quiet study, while "The Underground" parlor is another hub of campus life, offering tv, pool, ping-pong, and foosball tables.^[2]

Students are required to attend many chapel services, and are encouraged to find a church home. There exist numerous campus oriented and community oriented ministries, facilitated through student-led ministries and ENC's Spiritual Development Program.

The school food is provided by Pioneer College Caterers, Inc. The Student Center houses "The Commons" for a sit-down meal, as well as "The Dugout" for made-to-order takeout meals.

Students are encouraged to actively participate in student government, academic clubs, student ministries, and school sports. There are no fraternities or sororities, only "Societies".

The student newspaper is the Campus Camera.

[edit] Lifestyle covenant

The Eastern Nazarene College application form requires the student to sign a Lifestyle Guideline, stating in part:

each student, upon registering, voluntarily agrees to abstain from the use of illegal drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, and to avoid attendance at bars, clubs, or other activities or places of entertainment that promote themes of inappropriate sexuality, violence, profanity, pornography, or activities demeaning to human life.... All students will be asked to sign a Lifestyle Covenant.^[3]

Although the application form says that students are "asked" to sign the Covenant, the 2005-2006 Undergraduate Catalog says that each student is "required" to sign it.^[4] The catalog goes on to specify that "Sexual intimacy, while honorable in marriage, is inappropriate outside the bonds of marriage and must be avoided." Excessive displays of affection in public areas, bare feet outside of residence halls, "abbreviated shorts and tops (e.g., midriffs, cutaway shirts, halter and tube tops, etc.)" are prohibited, shirts must be worn in public "except by men engaging in athletic activities," sport bras and spandex shorts "should be covered by outerwear," and public sunbathing is not allowed.

Although theatergoing was on the school's list of illegal activities as recently as 1980^[5], the current guideline merely notes that

We encourage students to evaluate critically all forms of literature, music, media, and other forms of entertainment and to abstain from supporting those that promote themes of violence, profanity, pornography, or activities demeaning human life.

Individual Nazarene colleges draft their own community covenants; Eastern Nazarene's is slightly more liberal than its sister schools. Even so, in 2005 a senior mentioned to a Boston Globe reporter that he had been reprimanded for "reclining" with a female friend, while they were fully clothed, not touching, and in full view.^[6]

One student, in a 2005 account published in the Globe, indicated that in his experience the covenant was largely obeyed. "Most people just don't drink or smoke or get high on campus." The last Ivy League school to require chapel attendance was Princeton, which abolished it in 1964; but at Eastern Nazarene "Going to chapel a few times a week is another school requirement.... the school keeps track of how often you go and fines you if you don't go enough." He calls his alma mater a "real curiosity" and says "My goal is usually to protect this information when people ask me about college. It's not that I'm ashamed, exactly; it's more the fact that it's really hard for anyone from a 'normal' college to understand a college with such strict rules."^[7]

[edit] Programs

Earlier Campus of ENC at Lapham Institute in Scituate, Rhode Island

For the 2006-2007 academic year, Eastern Nazarene College undergraduate education offers many majors within the following programs^[8]:

ENC also has adult and graduate courses of study^[9]:

Associate of Arts in General Business
Bachelor of Arts in Business Management
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems
Master of Science in Management
Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy
Master of Education and/or Teacher Licensure in:
- Administration Certification
- Middle School Education
- Early Childhood Education
- Elementary Education
- Teacher of Reading
- Educational Technology
- Secondary Education
- Special Needs Education
- Program Development

[edit] Past Presidents

Fred Shields
Floyd Nease (1924-30)
Wayne Gardner
G.B. Williamson
Samuel Young
Edward Stebbins Mann
Leslie L. Parrott
Donald Irwin
Stephen W. Nease
Cecil R. Paul
Kent R. Hill (Emeritus, 1992-2001) ^[10]
J. David McClung (2002-2005)
Corlis McGee (2005-present) ^[11]

[edit] People Associated With Eastern Nazarene College

Eldon C. Hall, alumni c.1950 ^[12]
Karl Giberson, current faculty
Thomas Jay Oord, former faculty
Neil Nicoll (current President and CEO of YMCA) ^[13]
David A. Dein, Radio Personality STAR 99.1 WAWZ, New York City^[14], alumni c.2001

[edit] Trivia

One of the gravity monuments erected by Roger Babson is located at Eastern Nazarene College just outside Shrader Hall.

[edit] See also

[edit] Further reading

James R. Cameron, Eastern Nazarene College: The first fifty years, 1900-1950, Nazarene Publishing House, 1968
James R. Cameron, The spirit makes the difference: The history of Eastern Nazarene College, part II, 1950-2000, ENC Press, 2000

[edit] References

^ Eastern Nazarene College Undergraduate Program
^ Eastern Nazarene residential life
^ Eastern Nazarene College Application for Admission, pdf (674 KB); undated, downloaded 2006-08-14
^ Eastern Nazarene College, 2005-2006, Undergraduate Catalog, pdf (1.4MB), downloaded 2006-08-14
^ Johnson, Carolyn Y. (2005) "A Calling to Educate: New Head of Christian College Aims to Train 'People of Value'", The Boston Globe, July 31, 2005, Globe South p. 1
^ Johnson, Carolyn (2005), "Religious focus remains as rules evolve", The Boston Globe, July 31, 2005, Globe South p. 3
^ Alspach, Kyle (2005), "What I Learned From Nazarene Life," The Boston Globe, July 31, 2005, Globe South p. 4
^ Eastern Nazarene College Undergraduate Programs
^ Eastern Nazarene College areas of graduate study
^ USAID Bio of Kent Kill
^ USAMission News Release, May 2005
^ Smart Computing Encyclopedia entry for Eldon Hall
^ YMCA Press Release
^ STAR 99.1 WAWZ

[edit] External links

Eastern Nazarene College
"School's Religious Focus Remains as Rules Evolve," The Boston Globe July 31, 2005
"What I Learned from Nazarene Life," The Boston Globe, July 31, 2005
"College’s students extend giving hands," The Patriot-Ledger, January 9, 2006

Commonwealth Coast Conference
Anna Maria • Colby-Sawyer • Curry • Eastern Nazarene • Endicott • Gordon • New England College University of New England • Nichols • Regis • Roger Williams • Salve Regina • Wentworth