Wayland Baptist University
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| Established | 1908 |
| Type | private, coeducational |
| President | Dr. Paul Armes |
| Location | Plainview, Texas, USA |
| Campus | suburban: |
| Nickname | Pioneers |
| Affiliations | Southern Baptist |
| Website | www.wbu.edu |
Wayland Baptist University is private, coeducational Baptist university based in Plainview, Texas, U.S.A. Wayland Baptist has a total of twelve campuses in several other states and Texas cities. On August 31, 1908, the university was chartered by the state of Texas, under the name Wayland Literary and Technical Institute. The university would have another name change in 1910 as Wayland Baptist College. In 1981, it attain university status and settled with the current name Wayland Baptist University.
In 1906, the Staked Plains Baptist Association purposed the creation of a school. Dr. and Mrs. James Henry Wayland offered $10,000 and 25 acres of land in Plainview if the Staked Plains Baptist Association and the citizens of the city would raise an additional $40,000. In 1910, the school offered its first classes despite the administration building not yet being fully built. A total of 225 students were taking classes in primary education through junior college levels during the school's first term. After a public school system was well established in Plainview, the elementary grades were discontinued. Wayland Baptist gained membership to the American Association of Junior Colleges in 1926 and would later be approved as a senior college by the Texas Department of Education and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the Texas Education Agency for teacher education training.
The Malouf Abraham Family Arts Center on the Wayland campus was endowed by the family of Malouf Abraham, Sr. and Malouf Abraham, Jr. Abraham, Jr., is a retired allergist and active art collector from Canadian, the seat of Hemphill County in the northeastern Texas Panhandle.
[edit] References
- "About Wayland Baptist University", Wayland Baptist University, January 21, 2006.
- Wayland Baptist University from the Handbook of Texas Online. Accessed January 21, 2006
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