Wesleyan College

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Wesleyan College


Established	Chartered 1836, Opened 1839
Type	Private Women's college
Location	Macon, Georgia, USA
Colors	Deep Purple and Lavender
Website	http://www.wesleyancollege.edu

Wesleyan College is a private, liberal arts women's college located in Macon, Georgia.

1 Students
2 Campus
3 History
4 Well-known alumnae
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Students

Wesleyan College has an undergraduate student population of around 700. It has a student-faculty ratio of 11:1, and an average class size of 20 students. Students from more than 20 states and 20 countries around the world attend the school each year. Wesleyan offers 35 majors, 29 minors, and pre-professional programs for its students. It is affiliated with the United Methodist Church.

These majors are: Advertisting and Marketing Communication, Art History, Biology, Business Administration with concentrations in Acounting and Management, Chemistry, Communication, Computer Information Systems, Dual Degree Engineering, Early Children Education, Economics, English, English with Secondary Certification, Environmental Science, French, History, History with Secondary Certification, History/Political Science, Inderdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, International Business, International Relations, Mathematics, Mathematics with Secondary Certification, Middle Grades Education, Music (Emphasis in Organ, Piano, or Voice), Music & Theatre, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Self-Designed Interdisciplinary Major, Spanish, Studo Art, and Theatre.

The minors are: African Studies, African-American Studies, Art History, Biology, Business Management, Chemistry, Communication, Computer Science, Economics, Environmental Studies, English, Finance, French, History, Mathematics, Music, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Photography, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Socio-Cultural Studies, Spanish, Studio Art, Technology in Business Administration, Theatre, and Women's Studies.

Wesleyan also has Pre-professional programs in: Pre-Engineering, Pre-Medicine, Pre-Dental, Pre-Veterinary, and Health Services, Pre-Law, or Pre-Seminary

[edit] Campus

Wesleyan College has an arboreal 200 acre (800,000 m²) campus dotted with revivalist Georgian style brick buildings. It features a 6.3 acre (25,000 m²) lake, Foster Lake, as well as the Nancy Ellis Knox Equestrian Center, Porter Gymnasium, Anderson Cabin, and Mathews Atletic Complex. It also has five academic Buildings, Tate Hall, Taylor Hall, Murphey Art Building, Porter Fine Arts Building, and the new Munroe Science Center (scheduled to open in Fall 2007). It also has 7 dormitories for students. Banks and Wortham Hall house first year studednts. Jones, Persons, and Hightower Halls house upperclasswomen. Corn North and South Apartments also house upperclasswomen.

Wesleyan Athletic mascot is the Pioneers and they are in the NCAA Division III. The Pioneers have Vasity Basketball, Cross-Country, Soccer, Softball, Tennis, Junior Varsity Volleyball, and IHSA Equestrian.

There are 5 Major Student Boards: SGA (Student Government Association, CRC (Council on Religious Concerns), CJA (Council on Judicial Affairs), CAB (Campus Activities Board), SRC (Student Recreation Council). They also have 25 special interest clubs, academic honor socities, musical groups, service organizations, religious groups, and departmental leadership groups. It also three publications : The Veterropt (yearbook), The Pioneer (online newspaper), and the Visionary (Creative Arts Magazine).

Wesleyan's Campus hosts many diverse events each year. Midsummer Macon, a music and arts program for children and young adults, is held here every summer. The school also hosts several popular events of the Macon Cherry Blossom Festival every springtime, such as the annual hot air balloon launch. Porter Auditorium was once the home of the Macon Symphony Orchestra and it still hosts many musical and theatrical events and competitions. Wesleyan is also important to the community as it holds many award day programs for the public schools around Macon.

[edit] History

Initially chartered on December 23, 1836 as the Georgia Female College, and opening its doors to students on January 7, 1839, it is one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States and the first college in the world chartered to grant degrees to women. It was renamed Wesleyan Female College in 1843 and later shortened to the present name Wesleyan College in 1917. It remains an all female college to this day. Wesleyan is also home to the world's oldest alumnae association, begun in 1859. Seniors are inducted into the association during a candle lighting ceremony at Alumnae Weekend.

Wesleyan College was also the birthplace of the first sororities: the Adelphean Society in 1851, now known as Alpha Delta Pi, and the Philomathean Society (not associated with the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania) in 1852, now known as Phi Mu. The school no longer has sororities (1914), and uses a class system. Incoming first years are assigned a class based on the outgoing seniors of the previous school year. The classes are the Green Knights and their sister class the Purple Knights, and the Red Pirates and their sister class the Golden Hearts. The 2006-2007 seniors are the Golden Hearts.

The school colors are deep purple and lavender.[1]

Current President: Ruth Knox

[edit] Well-known alumnae

The Soong Sisters
Neva Langley Fickling, Miss America 1953
Sandra Deer, playwright
Harriet Stratemeyer
Kathryn Stripling Byer, poet
Toni Jennings, Florida Lieutenant Governor
Catherine Brewer Benson, first woman to earn a college degree
Mary Houston, wife of Young John Allen, the Methodist missionary who preached in China and first mentioning of Karl Marx in China