Private university in Delaware, Ohio, US
This article concerns Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, US. For a list of other colleges and universities with names that include "Wesleyan," see
Wesleyan University (disambiguation)
.
Ohio Wesleyan University
(
OWU
) is a
private
liberal arts college
in
Delaware, Ohio
. It was founded in 1842 by
Methodist
leaders and
Central Ohio
residents, and is a member of the
Ohio Five
? a consortium of Ohio liberal arts colleges.
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The 200-acre (81
ha
) site is 27 miles (44 km) north of
Columbus, Ohio
. It includes the main
academic and residential campus
, the
Perkins Observatory
, and the Kraus Wilderness Preserve.
[9]
History
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Founding (1841?1855)
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In 1841, Ohio residents Adam Poe and Charles Elliott decided to establish a university "of the highest order" in central Ohio.
[10]
To that end, they purchased the
Mansion House Hotel
, a former health resort with its Sulphur Spring, using funds raised from local residents.
[11]
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Poe and Elliott wrote a charter emphasizing "the
democratic
spirit of teaching", which was approved by the
Ohio
State
Legislature
. Early in the following year they opened the
college preparatory
academy and formed a
board of trustees
.
[13]
Ohio Wesleyan University, named (like several other U.S. colleges and universities) after
John Wesley
, founder of
Methodism
, opened on November 13, 1844, as a Methodist-related but
nonsectarian
institution, with a College of Liberal Arts for male students.
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Ohio Wesleyan's first president,
Edward Thomson
, stated in his
inaugural address
on August 5, 1846, that the school was "a product of the
liberality
of the local people."
[17]
This liberal philosophy contributed to Ohio Wesleyan's vocal opposition to
slavery
in the 1850s.
[18]
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In the annual celebration for
George Washington
's birthday in 1862, second president Frederick Merrick endorsed Ohio Wesleyan's "ideals of democracy" during his oration.
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Early growth (1855?1930)
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During the mid-19th century, Ohio Wesleyan focused on attracting students, adding fields of study, and fundraising, by which it significantly increased its endowment.
[21]
Sturges Hall
was constructed as the university's first library in 1855.
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In 1873, the school added the Department of Natural History housed in
Merrick Hall
.
[23]
The
Ohio Wesleyan Female College
, established in 1853, merged with the university in 1877.
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Between 1876 and 1888, enrollment tripled and
music education
greatly increased, yet no major buildings were built in this time.
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By the end of the 19th century, Ohio Wesleyan had added a School of Music (1877), School of Fine Arts (1877), School of Oratory (1894), and Business School (1895) to the original College of Liberal Arts (founded in 1844).
[28]
To address the need for new departments and specialized instruction, the administration improved the facilities and courses to make them on par with OWU's new academic position.
University Hall
,
Slocum Library
, extensions to the
Monnett campus
, and athletic facilities were all constructed during that period.
[29]
Between 1891 and 1895, Ohio Wesleyan specialized the curriculum by establishing departments for
physics
,
zoology
,
geology
,
speech
,
history
,
French
,
English
, and
economics
.
[30]
This specialization encouraged undergraduates to continue studies at graduate level, allowed professional preparation for the Doctor of Philosophy degree, and promoted exchange study in Europe.
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Two professional schools for
law
and
medicine
were formed in 1896.
In 1905, the board of trustees decided to keep Ohio Wesleyan a college, despite the expansion of the curriculum and campus and the word "university" in the institution's name.
[32]
The
Bachelor of Science
degree was abolished, which left only the
Bachelor of Arts
. Two students were selected as
Rhodes Scholars
in 1905 and 1909.
[33]
Edwards Gymnasium
was built in 1906.
[34]
In 1907, the United Societies of
Phi Beta Kappa
, the oldest undergraduate honor society in the United States, installed the "Eta of Ohio" ΦΒΚ chapter on campus.
[35]
In 1909, the school added
Sanborn Hall
, housing the Music Department.
[36]
In the 1920s, academic requirements for the bachelor's degree were reduced, and Latin and mathematics were no longer emphasized.
[37]
During the presidency of
John W. Hoffman
(1916?1928), the academy and School of Business were closed; the academy had started in 1842 as a
preparatory school
, and throughout its seventy-five years frequently outnumbered the college in enrollment.
[38]
Also in the 1920s, the chapel service was dropped and
sororities
were formed. Ohio Wesleyan also increased the number of buildings on campus, including Selby Stadium, Austin Manor, and
Perkins Observatory
; another building, Stuyvesant Hall, was in planning; and Edgar Hall was opened.
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Curriculum changes (1930?1984)
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During
the Great Depression
, both enrollment and
alumni
donations shrank.
[40]
While the
faculty
size remained stable, lack of tuition and alumni revenues precipitated financial problems which threatened the college's survival in the administrations of
Edmund D. Soper
(1928?1938), Acting President
Edward Loranus Rice
(1938?1939), and
Herbert John Burgstahler
(1939?1949).
[41]
The administration adjusted the curriculum during the early 1930s to address these problems.
[42]
Greek and Latin declined, while business administration and economics thrived and the highest enrollments were in the social sciences, English, pre-medicine, and history. The registrar reported that, in these years, the number of students from
New England
states, urban Ohio areas, and from international locations increased. By the 1930s, the Methodist students were a minority among the student body;
[43]
formal ties to the Methodist church were severed in the 1920s
[44]
and led to debate among board members in the 1930s, eventually resulting in the university's current active but loose historical affiliation with the
United Methodist Church
.
[45]
In a study into the relationship between American educational institutions and the Christian denominations they were historically affiliated with, James Tunstead Burtuchell writes that it was during this period that "in its personnel, its resources, and its students", Ohio Wesleyan lost its "symbiotic intimacy with the United Methodist Church."
[46]
In 1946, Ohio Wesleyan introduced a new "Centennial Curriculum", which enacted seven distribution requirements across the sciences and humanities; the new requirement for a foreign language course was added to the existing humanities requirement.
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Thomson and Bashford Halls, originally men's dorms, were built between 1951 and 1954.
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In the 1960s, faculty, staff and administrators fought over administrative structure and control.
[48]
They eventually settled on a new "statement of aims" that stressed values, rather than religious goal statements, and instituted a more internationalized curriculum, a new Women's Studies Program, and an International Business major; the faculty senate also introduced a new academic calendar with three 10.5-week terms.
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Thomas Wenzlau's presidency (1968?1984) began with the challenge of campus unrest: Ohio Wesleyan students took over the
ROTC
building, demanded its shut-down, and eventually eliminated ROTC in 1970.
[50]
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Students also demanded participation in departmental meetings and faculty committees, and the democratic process in the governance of Ohio Wesleyan grew in this period.
[52]
Wenzlau's presidency witnessed decline in students' test scores, an unusually high attrition rate, lack of adequate research to identify potential major donors and a growing "
party school
" image,
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leading to a rocky relationship between him and the student body.
[54]
Between 1979 and 1982, the campus newspaper
The Transcript
frequently criticized Wenzlau's presidency, blaming it for "severely affecting the reputation of the college".
[55]
This exchange resulted in a
Washington Post
report on the school that eventually precipitated the end of Wenzlau's presidency.
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Contemporary period (1984?present)
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The president, David Warren, increased admission standards in 1985, engaged students in a "live-in" presidency, expanded media exposure and established a National Colloquium focused on the liberal arts. Warren engaged in forty-one interviews on the
ABC
and
NBC
networks.
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More recently, Ohio Wesleyan has achieved several academic and athletic recognitions. A 1986 study, titled "Educating America's Scientists: The Role of the Research Colleges," identified Ohio Wesleyan as one of 48 highly selective "science-active" liberal arts institutions in the nation.
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The
Battling Bishops
won
NCAA
Division III
national championships in men's
basketball
(1988) and men's (1998, 2011) and women's (2001, 2002)
soccer
.
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Despite these efforts, Ohio Wesleyan is one of many
liberal arts
colleges in the United States that is experiencing declining enrollment. The 2017 incoming class was 9% smaller than the year before.
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Ohio Wesleyan continues to undertake construction projects. The Hamilton-Williams Campus Center opened in 1991. The Memorial Union Building was renovated in 2001 to accommodate the Economics Department, the Academic Resource Center, the Information Services portion of the combined Libraries and Information Services department, and the Woltemade Center for Economics, Business and Entrepreneurship. The
Schimmel/Conrades Science Center
opened in 2004 to provide 52,000 square feet (4,800 m
2
) of additional space for the science departments.
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In 2011, the Meek Aquatics Center opened as a state-of-the-art facility, also used by the Delaware community.
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In 2018, the university opened the Delaware Entrepreneurial Center at OWU in collaboration with the City of Delaware and Delaware County.
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In 2019, Ohio Wesleyan announced an ambitious Residential Renewal project, committing $60M to renovating existing buildings and the construction of a new village of apartments.
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Academics
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Profile
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Ohio Wesleyan University is accredited by
The Higher Learning Commission
, and is a member of the
Great Lakes Colleges Association
,
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the
Oberlin Group
,
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and the
Five Colleges of Ohio
, a consortium of Ohio liberal arts colleges which also includes
Kenyon College
,
Oberlin College
,
The College of Wooster
, and
Denison University
.
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For 2011, Ohio Wesleyan accepted approximately 52% of its
regular decision
applicants, 33% of its transfer applicants, and had a
yield rate
of 26%.
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In 2010, the college accepted 36% of its international applicants.
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The middle 50% range of matriculating students for the class of 2010 was 1125?1320 for the
SAT
(old scale) and 24?30 for the
ACT
.
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Approximately 35% of accepted applicants were granted internal
scholarships
.
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Ohio Wesleyan follows a
need-blind admission
policy; financial circumstances are not considered when deciding whether to admit applicants.
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As of 2010, OWU's 1,950 students come from 43 states and 57 countries; 47% are from
Ohio
, 11% are international, and 54% are female.
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The student body is about 10%
Asian
, 6%
Hispanic
, and 9%
Black
. Fifty-nine percent of Ohio Wesleyan students claim no religious affiliation.
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The student-faculty ratio is 11:1 and faculty members teach all classes.
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Excluding independent studies and
senior theses
, nearly 60% of Ohio Wesleyan's class sections have fewer than twenty students enrolled.
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Ohio Wesleyan is generally known for a strong
"left-leaning"
student body and an administration with a "permissive" attitude. In 2007, 60% of OWU students favored the
Democratic Party
.
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In its 2015 edition of U.S. college rankings,
Niche (company)
ranked Ohio Wesleyan 56th (out of 880 colleges) most politically liberal college in the U.S.
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Ohio Wesleyan admits students of all cultures, lifestyles, and socio-economic backgrounds. An index examining gay-friendly policies places OWU among the nation's
gay-friendly
colleges,
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and the university enacts policies to meet the six criteria developed by the Campus-Pride organization for recruiting and supporting students from a
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
population.
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Nearly 18% of students at Ohio Wesleyan receive
Federal
Pell Grants
, which mostly go to students whose family incomes are below $40,000.
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This measure indicates the degree to which economically disadvantaged groups are represented at OWU.
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The
faculty
consists of 142
tenured
members. As of 2010, all the university's tenured or tenure-track faculty members hold a
PhD
or other
terminal degree
.
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The faculty is 37% female and 63% male, with 10% from underrepresented groups. Also as of 2006, women constitute 37% of the tenured professors and earn 94% of what male professors earn ? numbers which suggest favorable gender circumstances.
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Curriculum, degrees and majors
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Freshmen are paired early in their first year with academic advisors who oversee their students' academic progress.
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Upon completing 34 units of coursework, students may earn diplomas in Bachelor of Science,
Bachelor of Arts
,
Bachelor of Fine Arts
, or
Bachelor of Music
.
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Ohio Wesleyan has research departments and teaching faculties in most academic disciplines; as of 2019, OWU offered nearly 90 majors.
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In its early days, OWU's curriculum began with classical studies, for the course catalogue maintained that "the classical course in Greek and Latin and pure mathematics bring correctness in mental processes that an applied art, or a living and slightly inflected language, do not permit."
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Scientific courses were added to Ohio Wesleyan's curriculum in 1849, and since then,
scientific
subjects have become a foundation to the liberal arts curriculum.
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OWU also has a highly respected
music
department.
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Its most popular majors, based on 2021 graduates, were:
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- Zoology/Animal Biology (23)
- Psychology (21)
- Sports, Kinesiology, & Physical Education/Fitness (16)
- Business Administration & Management (15)
- History (15)
- Political Science & Government (12)
Emphasis on internationalism
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Ohio Wesleyan has upheld academic
internationalism
since its early years; since the 19th century, the college has established links with several international schools. In 1879, OWU alumna Elizabeth Russell founded
Kwassui Women's College
in
Nagasaki
, Japan, when predominant Japanese culture considered women's education unimportant.
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Today, Kwassui College is one of the top finishing schools for young women in Japan.
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In 1899, William Ehnis (from the class of 1898) traveled to Africa and opened a school in
Mutare
,
Zimbabwe
, that eventually became the
Africa University
.
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Ada M. Coe
was an early woman Spanish Professor here in 1917.
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The school also manifests international interest in the percentage of international students it recruits and enrolls annually. Since 1983, Ohio Wesleyan has been listed in
U.S. News & World Report
among colleges that attract the highest percentage of international students.
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The percentage of international students grew in the early and mid-1990s.
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In a study adjusted for school size, Ohio Wesleyan came ninth among 118 American colleges and universities in total aid awards to international students and 69th in average award per international student among both large universities and small liberal arts colleges.
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South East Asian
students have significantly contributed to this growth.
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The
United Nations
flag, along with the flags of more than sixty represented
nations
and the U.S. flag, flies in University Hall in honor of the ideal of peaceful international relations.
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High participation in formal exchange programs constitutes a third target of the school's international focus.
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Under a
Great Lakes Colleges Association
agreement, OWU established an exchange program with
Waseda University
in 1962 to provide approximately 30 American students with opportunities to study in Japan and 30 Japanese students to study at Ohio Wesleyan each year.
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The Salamanca program, founded by Conrad Kent in 1988,
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conducts the exchange of approximately one hundred students and faculty between OWU and the
University of Salamanca
in Spain. The academic collaboration frequently extends to joint participation in academic symposia: in 1993, members of the Salamanca faculty participated in a symposium on the
Golden Age
in Salamanca.
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Libraries
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The Beeghly Library is the main library of OWU. The library contains nearly 500,000 volumes in its collection, and is also home to the Archives of Ohio United Methodism, the Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Artifacts collection, as well as an archival collection of materials related to the history of the university.
The Hobson Science Library is part of the Schimmel Conrades Science Center and supports research in the earth, life, and physical sciences.
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OWU has 11 full-time librarians, with subject liaisons for each academic department, as well as a full-time archivist.
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Campus
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The Ohio Wesleyan campus is next to downtown Delaware, and is bisected by Sandusky Street, the main north?south street through the heart of the city. The street informally divides the campus into an eastern sector composed mainly of academic buildings and a western sector composed mainly of residential and administrative buildings. Many facilities have been constructed in the last two years, with substantial benefit to science, art, and athletic programs on campus.
Other facilities and off-campus programs
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OWU operates several facilities outside campus: The Philadelphia Business Center, Wesleyan in Washington,
The New York Arts Program
for the performing, visual, and media arts (a GLCA arts program),
Perkins Observatory
,
The Strand Theatre
, and the
Kraus Wilderness Preserve
.
Perkins Observatory is situated in Delaware on land separate to the main campus.
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The observatory is named after
Hiram Perkins
, a former professor of mathematics and astronomy at the college.
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When the observatory was built in 1931, it housed the third-largest
telescope
in the world, which has since been moved to
Arizona
.
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The Perkins dome now houses a 32-inch (810 mm) telescope, which is the second-largest in Ohio.
The university also maintains offices for
study abroad
, US domestic study, and
internship
programs. Such programs include: Wesleyan in Washington, which allows students to study for a semester in
Washington, D.C.
, in research and
internship
positions.
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The Philadelphia Center offers students hundreds of internship and field placement opportunities off-campus and the chance to live independently.
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and the New York Arts Program, which allows students of the arts to gain a semester of hands on experience in the arts in
New York City
.
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OWU has strong community ties with the City of Delaware.
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Students participate in Delaware's community through a variety of educational, social, and cultural programs. The student-led Columbus Initiative, founded in 1989, is an
experiential learning
partnership between OWU and Columbus public schools.
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More than 150 Ohio Wesleyan students from this program tutor and mentor underprivileged pupils from Columbus.
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The Ohio Wesleyan Ambassadors Program (ISAP) promotes cultural diversity and ethnic awareness within the local community,
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and exposes international students to
American culture
through the community. The program's ambassadors visit local schools to give presentations and participate in events for local
non-profit
community organizations.
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Campus organizations cooperate with local residents on issues of
civic engagement
and
activism
. Progress OWU allows students from Ohio Wesleyan and local schools to express their voices on
politics
,
public policy
, and
corporate
and
social issues
, both on campus and in the local community.
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Cultural programs also take part in community relations. In the 1960s, Ohio Wesleyan donated the Arts Castle, then part of the Fine Arts department, to the City of Delaware. It is now home to the Delaware County Cultural Arts Center. The Arts Castle hosts a variety of community programs in art, and offers classes ranging from ballet to fine arts.
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In 2004, the OWU received a donation to rehabilitate the historic
Strand Theatre
in downtown Delaware.
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The university and the City of Delaware sponsor several events in town throughout the year: the Delaware Arts Festival, the
Little Brown Jug
, the Delaware County Fair, and the Castle Arts Affair.
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The Delaware Arts Festival is an annual event held the weekend after
Mother's Day
on the streets of Historic Downtown Delaware.
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The festival hosts over 170 booths featuring works of local, regional, and other artists. OWU professors chair the committees that select winners.
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The Little Brown Jug, a
harness race
, is run during the Delaware County Fair in September.
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The OWU president and the college mascot traditionally award the trophy for the first division of the first heat of the race.
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Student life
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Organizations and activities
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Ohio Wesleyan University has 95 student clubs and organizations.
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The university offers three
chapels
as well as several
Christian
and other religious groups for its students.
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Its social organizations cover a wide range of interests, including
chess
,
ultimate
,
finance
, and medieval sword fighting.
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There are two
a cappella
singing groups on campus, "The OWtsiders," a student-run group formed in 1999, and the all-female "Pitch Black" established in 2005.
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Another entertainment-related club is "The Babbling Bishops", an
improvisational comedy
troupe.
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The "Babbling Bishops" started in the fall of 1990 when a group of theatre concentration students formed a performance-oriented project for their theatre degrees. The project became an
improv
comedy troupe, rehearsing in
Stuyvesant Hall
and performing with other college improv
troupes
since 1996.
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Socially conscious students can join organizations such as the
activist
group "Young Democratic Socialists" or participate in
student government
groups, such as the Campus Programming Board and the Wesleyan Council on Student Affairs.
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The "PRIDE" organization offers support to OWU's
LGBT
students.
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Fewer than a third of Ohio Wesleyan's students are involved in
Greek life
,
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but that percentage has fluctuated significantly throughout the university's history.
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All six fraternities and five sororities on campus are currently involved in many
philanthropic
and community programs.
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The OWU chapter of Phi Kappa Psi (Phi Psi) was closed after the death of Luke Anthony Gabbert, a pledge who fell into a creek in 2016 after drinking large amounts of alcohol.
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OWU's oldest student organizations are its literary clubs, including a number of student journals, magazines, and newspapers. The school's student-run weekly newspaper,
The Transcript
, is the oldest continuously published, independent, college newspaper in the United States.
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The OWL
, an annual literary publication, features students' work and is one of the nation's oldest college
literary magazines
.
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Other student publications include
The Civic Arts Review
, the electronic
Connect2OWU
bulletin, and
@Wesleyan
, a quarterly online magazine.
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OWU Radio, formerly WSLN, broadcasts from Phillips Hall, and offers show times to students, faculty, and local citizens of Delaware.
The university also has a student government, the Wesleyan Council on Student Affairs (WCSA).
Activism
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Activism
as represented in OWU's founding vision has had a significant role in Ohio Wesleyan's history.
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The first president,
Edward Thomson
, staunchly supported the
abolition of slavery
and
liberalism
.
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Other individuals associated with the university have fought racism.
Branch Rickey
, an alumnus, broke the
racial barrier
in baseball.
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Mary King, a civil rights activist,
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worked alongside
Martin Luther King Jr.
in the U.S.
civil rights movement
while she was a staff member of OWU's
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC).
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In the 1980s, Ohio Wesleyan's administration fully divested holdings connected to South Africa.
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As of September 2007, Ohio Wesleyan joined a small group of liberal colleges that opposed the methodology and questioned the usefulness of
U.S. News & World Report
college rankings, despite the fact that the magazine ranked Ohio Wesleyan highly.
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OWU has partisan political groups ranging from liberal to socialist, such the College Democrats and Young Democratic Socialists of America, and several activism awareness groups such as Black Men of the Future, Black Student Union (formerly Student Union on Black Awareness), PRIDE, Viva Latinx, and Rafiki Wa Afrika. Many students complete internships for state representatives in the nearby state capitol, Columbus.
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Traditions
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Many Ohio Wesleyan traditions originate from its early years. Monnett Weekend, beginning in 1896, welcomes female alumni, parents, and friends of the university. Events include a "People's Parade" with clowns, banners and marching, faculty lectures, Maypole dancing, Choral Arts Society, and an all-campus carnival.
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It started as a girls' athletic fete held at the Monnett Athletic Club for Mothers Day. All events were held at the
Monnett Campus
, where female students danced around the
Maypole
, while men were barred. The men, in turn, developed their own tradition: they arrived at Monnett Campus early in the morning, and concealed themselves in trees to watch the festivities, discreetly.
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In 1884, Ohio Wesleyan held its first
Mock Convention
, which has recurred in every
United States presidential election
year since 1920.
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Its purpose is to inform participants, students, faculty staff, and Ohio residents about the
presidential nominating convention
,
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presidential candidate, and key issues in the upcoming election.
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Beginning in the 1920s, all freshmen were required to wear "dinks", red caps with black brims and a black W on the front.
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This tradition ended in the 1960s. The freshman class of 1957 wore dinks for half the first semester.
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Ohio Wesleyan's
Homecoming
takes place in early October,
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while the Ohio Wesleyan
football
team plays one of its traditional rivals.
The
President's Ball
, a recent gala organized by the college president, takes place on the first Saturday of December.
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Other traditions include
OWU vs. Denison
, which stages a "fierce" athletic rivalry between Ohio Wesleyan and
Denison University
;
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the
Sagan Colloquium
, spanning the fall semester, recently expanded to include the spring semester, which consists of speeches focusing on an issue of concern to the
liberal arts
;
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and
Orchesis
, an annual celebration of modern dance and the arts, which occurs at the end of the academic year. "Fresh-X" is an optional program for newly admitted students that occurs just before orientation in which students may choose between hiking, backpacking and other outdoor activities to make friends with their new classmates.
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The campus used to host two major musical events,
Unity through Music
and
Springfest
.
Unity through Music
occurred once a year in the fall semester, and covered various musical styles in a
carnival
atmosphere, during the day; during the evening, a huge dance is held in the Hamilton-Williams Campus Center.
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Springfest, the second musical event, proceeded in mid-April and had featured well-known music groups such as
Counting Crows
,
The Roots
,
Guster
,
Ben Folds
, and
Gym Class Heroes
. It was organized by the Campus Programming Board, who have changed the name to "Bishop Bash," in an attempt to create more campus pride.
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A rock next to Hayes Hall has been part of the residential campus for the last 50 years, and students continually repaint it with
graffiti
and
slogans
.
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Housing
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The university can house up to 1,600 students on campus.
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First-year students are required to live on campus in Smith Hall during their first two semesters. A lottery system matches second to fourth-year students with dormitories and another lottery system determines how many students are allowed to live in off-campus housing. Housing options include dormitories, small living units, fraternities, and cooperative housing.
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Thomson, Bashford, Stuyvesant, and Smith Halls are large mid-rise dormitories on campus. Welch Hall is designated as a "quiet" dorm for honors students.
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Hayes Hall is an all-female dorm.
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Approximately 90 non-freshmen students live in Small Living Units (SLUs), which are
co-ops
united voluntarily to meet shared economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations in democratically controlled houses. The houses allow students to live cooperatively with one another by sharing regularly scheduled house chores, participating in the decision process, and, in some, sharing the cooking duties. Each unit houses a group of 10?17 students, and is organized to promote a common theme, usually indicated by the co-op's name. As of the 2022?2023 academic year, the SLUs consist of The Creative Arts House
;
The Citizens of the World House
;
The Sexuality and Gender Equality House
;
The House of Linguistic Diversity (HOLD); LA CASA, The Tree House; The Service. Engagement, and Leadership House
;
and The Interfaith House. The university owns these houses; the co-ops, therefore, must follow the university's living policies. The co-ops do, however, elect their own members and do not have
resident advisers
or faculty in residence like other on-campus residence halls. They have a House Moderator who is selected by Residential Life and undergoes the same training as a resident advisor. At the end of each calendar year, every existing and potential co-op must submit a house proposal describing its plans for theme promotion for the next academic year. The University Housing office places co-ops in houses every year on a competitive basis.
[182]
In addition the school offers Theme Houses, which do not have to go through the renewal process. They include the Honors House (HoHo) and House of Black Culture.
Off-campus housing is available only to students residing in Delaware, Ohio while living with their spouse or direct family; 17 percent of students live off-campus.
[178]
[183]
Most students assert Ohio Wesleyan's policy of off-campus housing as one of the "worst things" about Ohio Wesleyan.
[184]
Athletics
[
edit
]
Ohio Wesleyan participates in the
NCAA's
Division III
as a member of the
North Coast Athletic Conference
(NCAC). Known as the
Battling Bishops
, Ohio Wesleyan competes in 25 varsity men's and women's sports. The newest sports, men's wrestling and women's rowing, begin competition during the 2018?2019 academic year.
[185]
The official school colors are red and black.
[186]
Formal athletics at the college date to 1875, when the first football teams were organized to play against other institutions. In the late 1880s, Ohio Wesleyan had perhaps the strongest amateur baseball team in the state of Ohio behind the pitching of
Phil "Lefty" Saylor
. The school joined the
Ohio Athletic Conference
in 1902. In 1983, Ohio Wesleyan joined with nine other colleges in Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania to create the North Coast Athletic Conference.
[187]
The NCAC seeks to bring together a group of liberal arts institutions that value the primacy of the academic mission over the athletic one.
[188]
The men's
lacrosse
,
golf
and
soccer
teams are the most historically successful of the varsity teams, and soccer is the university's most intently followed sport.
[189]
[190]
For seven of the last twelve years, Ohio Wesleyan has won the NCAC conference All-Sports Trophy for excellence in both women's and men's sports.
[191]
In the
Sears Director's Cup
standings, OWU is among the top 25 overall collegiate athletics programs in the country.
[192]
Because of the North Coast Athletic Association athletic agreement, the university is not permitted to offer academic scholarships for athletic recruiting.
[193]
Ohio Wesleyan has won five NCAA Division III Championships, including men's basketball (
1988
), men's soccer (
1998 and 2011
), and women's soccer (
2001
and
2002
). In addition, Ohio Wesleyan's varsity athletic teams have been NCAC champions over 100 times,
[189]
leading the
Denison Big Red
and the
Kenyon Owls
.
[194]
The nickname
The Battling Bishops
dates to 1925. This is also the name of the university's mascot,
The Battling Bishop
. Due to its ironic name, the mascot has been listed as one of the weirdest college mascots.
[195]
Due to its red robe,
The Battling Bishop
looks actually like a
Cardinal
.
[196]
Before 1925, Ohio Wesleyan's teams were referred to as "The Red and Black" and "The Methodists". Many schools, including several other Methodist ones, also claimed crimson and black as their colors, so the university decided to change the name.
[197]
Ohio Wesleyan maintains athletic
rivalries
with other NCAC institutions. The men's lacrosse team has a historic rivalry with the
Denison Big Red
, the football team with the
Wittenberg Tigers
, the soccer team with the
Kenyon Owls
, and the
field hockey
team with the
Oberlin Yeomen
.
[198]
Both Denison and Ohio Wesleyan issued alerts to their fans specifically for the OWU-Denison lacrosse game about unsportsmanlike behavior and profanity.
[199]
In addition to the school's varsity athletics, club sports teams, including
ultimate Frisbee
,
chess
,
indoor hockey
,
cricket
,
rugby
,
ski
, and
scuba
, have been organized as student organizations under the auspices of the Office of Student Activities. Ohio Wesleyan's intramural program includes 16 sports. Sports such as
skiing
,
squash
, and
water polo
have been offered, as well as a sports trivia competition.
[200]
"
Oh we're from dear old Wesleyan
" is Ohio Wesleyan University's primary
fight song
. The song's lyrics were written in 1914 by Chass Cupett '1916.
[201]
People
[
edit
]
Administration
[
edit
]
Under the charter granted by the State of Ohio, the board of trustees possesses the legal authority to operate the college. The charter and bylaws stipulate a board of 34 trustees, of whom one is the president. In general, it is the board that elects the president. Since Ohio Wesleyan's beginnings, sixteen people have held the title of
president
, and a few have served as interim president. Former presidents include lawyers, literary scholars, politicians, executives, and clergymen.
[202]
After several disagreements between Huddleston and the Ohio Wesleyan administration,
[203]
Huddleston accepted a position as president of the
University of New Hampshire
and left Ohio Wesleyan on June 30, 2007, giving him the second shortest presidency, behind David Lockmiller, 1959?1961. On May 29, 2007, the appointment of current university provost Dr. David O. Robbins as interim president was unanimously endorsed by OWU's board of trustees.
[204]
Dr. Robbins' term as Interim President began on July 1, 2007.
[204]
On December 17, 2007, Dr. Rockwell "Rock" Jones was elected to serve as the 16th president of Ohio Wesleyan University.
[205]
Dr. Jones' inauguration ceremony took place on October 10, 2008, in Ohio Wesleyan's Gray Chapel, in University Hall.
Alumni
[
edit
]
Ohio Wesleyan alumni are active in several annual events, organizations, and initiatives. The events and associations with significant alumni involvement are Homecoming, 'W' Association, and A/PART (the alumni admission team). For the 2005?2006 fiscal year, Ohio Wesleyan's alumni giving rate was 35%.
[206]
A number of the school's alumni have made notable contributions in the fields of government, law, academia, business, arts, journalism, and athletics, among others.
In academia,
Frank Sherwood Rowland
(class of 1948) won the 1995
Nobel Prize
for
chemistry
for his research on the depletion of the Earth's ozone layer.
Ezra Vogel
(1950) is a prominent author on
China-Japan issues
and was the director of
Harvard's
Fairbank Center for East Asian Research from 1995 to 1999.
[207]
William Hsiao
(1963) is an economist in the field of international health at
Harvard
,
[208]
and the designer of a landmark study to examine the United States' system of reimbursing physicians for medical services.
Dennis R. Appleyard
(1961) is the author of an
international economics
textbook.
[209]
In politics,
Kathryn Barger
serves as Los Angeles County's Fifth District Supervisor; Barger graduated in 1983.
[210]
John Wesley Hoyt
(1849) was the third Governor of the Wyoming Territory.
[211]
Charles Fairbanks
(1872) was the 26th
Vice-President of the United States
.
[212]
Jo Ann Emerson
(1972) served as a
U.S. Representative
from
Missouri
.
[213]
Arthur Flemming
(1927) was a Secretary of
Health, Education and Welfare
, was known for his commitment to
civil rights
,
[214]
was the recipient of two Presidential Medals of Freedom, and served as president of
University of Oregon
, Ohio Wesleyan University, and
Macalester College
.
Lucy Webb Hayes
(1853), wife of U.S. President
Rutherford B. Hayes
, was the first woman to be called
First Lady
, and the first First Lady to hold a college degree.
[215]
Notable journalists and media personalities include
Frank Stanton
(1930), a president of
CBS
known for supporting broadcast journalism before Congress;
Byron Pitts
(1982), a national correspondent for
CBS News
;
[216]
Wendie Malick
(1972), an
Emmy
-nominated actress known for her role on the NBC sitcom
Just Shoot Me!
and now as "Victoria Chase" on the TV Land sitcom "Hot in Cleveland";
[217]
Melvin Van Peebles
(1953), an actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, and composer;
Patricia Wettig
(1974), the actress who plays vice president Caroline Richards on
Prison Break
; and
Clark Gregg
(1984), the actor playing Richard in
The New Adventures of Old Christine
with
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
.
[218]
Numerous Ohio Wesleyan alumni have been associated with
social justice
.
Branch Rickey
(1904) was a baseball manager and executive known for signing
Jackie Robinson
as the first African-American in
Major League Baseball
.
[219]
Another graduate, Mary King (1962), worked alongside the Rev. Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
in the U.S.
civil rights movement
when she was a young student, and was a member of the staff of the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC).
[156]
Rev.
Norman Vincent Peale
(1920) was the author of
The Power of Positive Thinking
and the winner of a
Presidential Medal of Freedom
for his theological contributions.
[220]
Others found fame in other forms:
Mildred Elizabeth Sisk
(aka Axis Sally) was the first American woman to be tried and sentenced for
treason
, convicted of
broadcasting
for
Nazi Germany
during
World War II
. In 1917, she majored in dramatic arts, but did not graduate due to her failure to meet all university requirements. After serving a 12-year sentence, Sisk returned to OWU, where she received a bachelor's degree in speech in 1973.
[221]
James J. Nance
an Ohio born industrialist who became president of Hot-Point and later the Studebaker-Packard Corporation. He became chief executive of the Central National Bank of Cleveland, chairman of the executive committee of Montgomery Ward and chairman of the board of trustees of the Cleveland State University.
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