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Wheaton College was founded in 1860. Its predecessor, the Illinois Institute, had been founded in late 1853 by Wesleyan Methodists as a college and preparatory school. Wheaton's first president, Jonathan Blanchard, was a former president of Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and a staunch abolitionist with ties to Oberlin College.
J. Richard Chase (Ph.D., Cornell University) came to Wheaton College in 1982 after serving twelve years as president of Biola. He reinforced Wheaton's commitment to its biblical foundations and oversaw a period of significant growth relating to endowment, buildings, and academic programs.
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Lucy Larcom, who taught writing, literature and history from 1854 to 1862, may be the best known of Wheaton’s nineteenth-century faculty. She certainly characterized the innovative teacher-scholars who would follow her as Wheaton faculty members. The founder of the student literary magazine, Rushlight, which still remains in publication, Miss Larco...
Eliza Baylies Chapin Wheaton played an ongoing part in the life of the seminary. In the mid-1890s she was among the first to recognize that the age of the seminary was ending. Four-year colleges were becoming the rule rather than the exception, for women as well as men. Indeed, Wheaton’s enrollment in 1897 was a mere 25 students. Convinced that Whe...
A. Howard Meneely began his seventeen-year tenure as Wheaton president when Dr. Park retired in 1944. By the mid-1950s, pursuing a college education had become an increasingly desirable goal for growing numbers of students nationwide. Noting Wheaton’s own steady enrollment growth since World War II, President Meneely voiced his concern that unless ...
Wheaton built on its long-standing commitment to student and faculty research in the sciences with the opening of a new science facility in 1968. Since the late 1950s, students had been conducting original research in ultrasonics under the direction of professor of chemistry, Bojan Hamlin Jennings. Grants from the National Science Foundation, the A...
The 1970s also saw the inauguration of Wheaton’s first female president, Alice F. Emerson, former dean of students at the University of Pennsylvania. During her sixteen-year tenure, President Emerson continued the tradition of campus improvement and curricular innovation. Physical changes included a major addition to the library, a complete renovat...
Wheaton College, private, coeducational liberal arts college in Wheaton, Illinois, U.S. Wheaton College began as a preparatory school, the Illinois Institute, built by Wesleyan Methodists in 1854. It became a college in 1860 and was renamed for an early donor, Warren L. Wheaton, who also cofounded.
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Established in 1860 as a co-ed institution, Wheaton College is a private, residential, and interdenominational Christian liberal arts college, where the pursuit of faith and learning is taken seriously.
Wheaton College. Organized in 1853 by Wesleyan Methodists, Illinois Institute was rechartered in 1860 as Wheaton College. Jonathan Blanchard came from Knox College to become Wheaton's first president, separating the school from any denominational support.
Wheaton College is a Christian liberal arts college in Wheaton, Illinois (near Chicago). Founded in 1860, it built on the Wesleyan Methodist tradition established by its predecessor, the Illinois Institute, 7 years earlier as a college and preparatory school with rigorous academic standards and conservative evangelical beliefs.
