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West Virginia Wesleyan College is a private college in Buckhannon, West Virginia, United States. It has an enrollment of about 900 students from 35 U.S. states and 26 countries. The school was founded in 1890 by the West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and is currently affiliated with the United Methodist Church. West Virginia Wesleyan College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.




History






= Early history

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West Virginia Wesleyan College was founded in 1890 by the West Virginia Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The school opened in 1890, in a new three-story brick building where the current Lynch-Raine Administration Building now stands. Ohio Wesleyan University and Boston University School of Theology alumnus Bennett W. Hutchinson was the college's first president.
Following ten years focusing on college preparatory work, college-level instruction was first offered in 1900 culminating in the first baccalaureate degrees in 1905. For one year the institution was named Wesleyan University of West Virginia but it was quickly changed to West Virginia Wesleyan College in honor of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. Pre-college instruction continued until 1923 when it was discontinued because the high schools in the state had grown enough to adequately perform that task.




= Recent years

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Pamela Jubin Balch, a 1971 graduate of Wesleyan, became the college's 18th president in July 2006. Dr. Balch is the first woman to serve as president in the college's history. At the outset of her tenure as president, Balch reinstated the college's briefly-discontinued nursing program as well as its 3-2 engineering program. The college has since expanded its academic programs, adding graduate degrees in athletic training, business administration, English Writing, and nursing.




Academics


The college offers over 50 undergraduate majors and 33 minors. Wesleyan also has 3-2 engineering partnerships with Marshall University and West Virginia University. Undergraduate degrees are awarded in Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and Bachelor of Music Education. Graduate degrees awarded include the Master of Science in Athletic Training, Master of Business Administration, Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, and Master of Science in Nursing.
Approximately 80% of West Virginia Wesleyan's faculty have earned doctorates or comparable terminal degrees within their field. The student-faculty ratio is 14 to 1, with an average class size of 19.




Campus



The campus boasts 23 major buildings of Georgian architecture. The grounds are situated in a park-like setting of more than 100 acres.




Student life


Wesleyan has retained its residential character; about 90% of the students live on campus.
There are 21 NCAA Division II sports teams, and 70 clubs and organizations.
The college's athletics teams are the Bobcats, which compete in the NCAA Division II Mountain East Conference, of which it was a founding member in 2013. The Bobcats were former members of the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC), having been recognized as having the top athletic program in the WVIAC.by winning, over 151 conference championships and earning a conference dominance of 18 Commissioner's Cups during the past 20 years and eight Presidents' Cups in 14 years. Each year, Wesleyan's 21 NCAA II teams successfully compete at the regional and national levels.
The Greek system was initiated on campus in 1925, and many fraternities and sororities have been founded since.
Some Wesleyan students participate in community service through the Center for Community Engagement and Leadership Development (CCE). Students in the CCE also organized the first collegiate Jump Rope for Heart events in the United States.




Wesleyan traditions






= Athletics

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The college currently boasts 21 sports, competing in NCAA Division II. The college offers varsity men's sports in baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, swimming, tennis, indoor track and field and outdoor track and field. The college offers varsity women's sports in basketball, cross country, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, indoor track and field, outdoor track and field and volleyball. The 21st varsity sport, women's lacrosse, formally began competition in the fall of 2010.




= Wesley Chapel

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With the ability to seat 1,800 people, Wesley Chapel annually hosts the West Virginia United Methodist Annual Conference each June.




Notable alumni



Maggie Anderson (born 1948), poet
Ken Ash (1901–1979), baseball player
Chalmers Ault (1900–1979), football player
William E. Baker (1873–1954), judge
Pamela Balch, president of West Virginia Wesleyan College
Len Barnum (1912–1998), football player
Cliff Battles (1910–1981), football player
Thomas Bickerton (born 1958), bishop
Sheriff Blake (1899–1982), baseball player
Shannon Breen (born 1989), football player
Jim Brogan (born 1958), basketball player
Lewis C. Cantley (born 1949), cell biologist
Ted Cassidy (1932–1979), actor
Robin Davis (born 1956), jurist
Ray Dorr (1941–2001), football player
William Flanagan (1901–1975), football player
Matt Foreman, activist
Denise Giardina (born 1951), novelist
L. J. Hanifan (1879–1932), economist
Charles Hoyes, actor
John Kellison (1886–1971), football player
Jason Koon (born 1985), poker player
Oscar Lambert (1890–1970), athlete
Jean Lee Latham (1902–1995), writer
Blanche Lazzell (1878–1956), painter
Bil Lepp, TV host
Carl Martin, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates
John F. McCuskey (born 1947), justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
Irene McKinney (1939–2012), poet
Jim Miller (1908–1965), football player
Scott Douglas Miller, president of Virginia Wesleyan University
Ken Moore (1917–2003), American football player, New York Giants
Greasy Neale (1891–1973), football player
Daniel Pitt O'Brien (1900–1957), politician
Roy Earl Parrish (1888–1918), politician
Okey L. Patteson (1898–1989), politician
Anthony Peters (born 1983), soccer player
Nelson Peterson (1913–1990), football player
Edward G. Rohrbough (1874–1956), politician
Harry Shriver (1896–1970), baseball player
Stephen Skinner, politician
Margaret Smith (born 1952), politician
David E. Stuart, anthropologist
Chalmers Tschappat (1896–1958), football player
Peter D. Weaver (born 1945), bishop
Lillian Mayfield Wright (1894–1986), poet




References






Further reading


Haught, Thomas W., West Virginia Wesleyan College 1890-1940, Buckhannon, WV: West Virginia Wesleyan College Press, 1940.
McCuskey, Roy, All Things Work Together for Good to them that Love God, Buckhannon, WV: West Virginia Wesleyan College Press, ca. 1950.
Miller, Brett T., Our Home Among the Hills: West Virginia Wesleyan's First 125 Years, Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Company Publishers, 2014.
Plummer, Kenneth M., A History of West Virginia Wesleyan College, 1890-1965, Buckhannon, WV: West Virginia Wesleyan College Press, 1965.




External links


Official website

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