Westminster College, Pennsylvania
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Westminster College is a four year liberal arts college located in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1852, it is affiliated with the Presbyterian church (USA).
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[edit] Overview
Westminster is located in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, a relatively small town 50 miles north of Pittsburgh and 80 miles south of Erie and Cleveland on a 300 acre campus. With an undergraduate enrollment of about 1,450 consisting of 42% male and 58% female, Westminster bills itself as "one of the country's finest liberal arts colleges." It has been rated by U.S. News and World Report as one of America's Best Colleges, is on the Princeton Review's 351 Best Colleges list, and has been called a "character building college" by the Templeton Guide.
Westminster formed as a result of a meeting between the Ohio and Shenango Presbyteries who desired to create a college that endorsed the values of Christianity while at the same time focusing on the emotional, educational, and social development of its students.
[edit] Programs
Westminster offers the following programs (listed by their department):
- Biology department: Biology, Molecular biology
- Chemistry department: Chemistry, Biochemistry
- Communication Studies, Theater, and Art department: Broadcast communications, Fine art, Media art, Communications, Theater
- Education department: Elementary Education (Secondary education is offered as a minor combined with a certifiable major)
- Economics and Business department: Accounting, Business Administration, Economics
- English department: English, Public Relations
- Modern Languages department: Spanish, French
- Math and Computer Science department: Mathematics, Computer Information Systems, Computer Science
- Music department: Music Education, Performance, Sacred Music, Liberal Arts
- Physics department: Physics
- Political Science and Sociology department: Political Science, Sociology
- Psychology department: Psychology
- Religion, History, Philosophy and Classics department: Christian Education, History, Latin, Philosophy, Religion
In addition to these majors, the college offers an Exploratory major, which allows freshmen and sophomores to take a variety of classes from many disciplines in order to find the field which most interests the student, and an Individual Interdiscipinary major, which allows students to essentially construct their own program.
[edit] Athletics
The Westminster Titans compete in NCAA D-III athletics. Before moving to the NCAA, Westminster competed in the NAIA for several years. The Titans are a member of the Presidents' Athletic Conference, and compete in:
- Baseball (men)
- Men/Women's Basketball
- Men/Women's Cross Country
- Football (men)
- Men/Women's Golf
- Men/Women's Soccer
- Men/Women's Swimming
- Men/Women's Tennis
- Men/Women's Track and Field
- Volleyball (women)
- Softball (women)
[edit] Publications
[edit] Staff-produced
- Westminster College Magazine - a quarterly magazine detailing on-campus and alumni activities
- Westminster Weekly - a weekly email to alumni, parents, students and other subscribers, containing announcements and press releases
[edit] Student-produced
- The Holcad - student-run weekly newspaper
- Argo - student-run yearbook
- Scrawl - student-run yearly literary magazine
[edit] Greek Life
[edit] Fraternities
[edit] Sororities
[edit] Notable Alumni
- Amber (Brkich) Mariano, winner of Survivor: All Stars, wife of Rob Mariano.
- Thomas C. Cochran, congressman, R-PA, 70th - 74th Congresses (1927-1935)
- William N. Johnston, president, Iowa Wesleyan College, June 2002 - present
- Tim Kaiser, producer, Seinfeld and Will & Grace
- James Kennedy, congressman, R-OH, 58th - 61st Congress (1903-1911)
- Andrew J. McKelvey, chairman and CEO of Monster.com, December 1996 - October 2006
- Deborah Platt Majoras, chairman, Federal Trade Commission, August 2004 - present
- Samuel Henry Miller, congressman, R-PA, 47th, 48th and 64th Congress (1881-1885, 1915-1917)
- Benjamin M. Palmer, South Carolina native, first national moderator of the Presbyterian Church, longtime pastor of First Presbyterian of New Orleans
- R. C. Sproul, theologian and founder of Ligonier Ministries
[edit] External links
| Presidents' Athletic Conference |
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| Bethany • Chatham† • Geneva† • Grove City • Saint Vincent • Thiel • Thomas More • Washington & Jefferson • Waynesburg • Westminster † joining mid-2007 |
