Wilmington College (Ohio)

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Wilmington College is a private liberal arts institution established by Quakers in 1870 in Wilmington, Ohio^[1]. The college is accredited by the North Central Association, Higher Learning Commission(in Chicago)^[2].

Wilmington College offers undergraduate major programs in a number of career areas including education, business, agriculture, equine studies, biology, chemistry, mathematics, and athletic training as well as in such areas as history, literature, Spanish language, art, psychology, religion, social work, and many more. The college also offers a master's degree program in education, with specialties in special education and reading and undergraduate courses at several sites in Cincinnati. The college welcomes transfer students and has a significant number of commuting students. More than half of the students participate in intercollegiate athletics.^[3]

Wilmington College students enjoy robust on-site and online library resources. The college's Watson Library^[4] is a member of the OPAL (Ohio Private Academic Libraries)^[5] consortium and the OhioLINK ^[6] consortium that provides an integrated catalog, e-resources, and more than100 research databases.

The Wilmington College Peace Resource Center, established in 1975, plays a major role in furthering the peacemaking and reconciliation elements in the mission statement of the college, in large part through providing peace education materials, both locally and throughout the country. The PRC is known, in particular, for its Hiroshima/Nagasaki Memorial Collection, which the college believes is "the world's largest collection (outside of Japan) of reference materials related to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki."^[7]

[edit] References

^ Wilmington College (Ohio. (2006). Official website URL: http://www.wilmington.edu/ Accessed 12/12/2006.
^ *North Central Association, Higher Learning Commission. (2006). Official member institutions verification URL: http://www.ncahlc.org/index.php?option=com_directory&Itemid=192 Accessed 12/12/2006.
^ Wilmington College (Ohio. (2006). Official website URL: http://www.wilmington.edu/ Accessed 12/12/2006.
^ Wilmington College Watson Library (Ohio. (2006). Official website URL: http://www2.wilmington.edu/academics/watson-library.cfm Accessed 12/12/2006.
^ OPAL Library Catalog. (2006). URL: http://cat.opal-libraries.org Accessed 12/12/2006.
^ OhioLINK (academic library consortium (Ohio). (2006). Official website URL: http://www.ohiolink.edu Accessed 12/12/2006.
^ http://www2.wilmington.edu/prc

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