The Eastern Nazarene College (ENC) is a
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Christian college
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in
Quincy, Massachusetts
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. Established as a
holiness
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college in
Quincy, Massachusetts
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, in 1900, the college moved to Rhode Island for several years. With its expansion to a four-year curriculum, it relocated to
Wollaston Park
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It is bo ...
in 1919. It has expanded to additional sites in Quincy and, since the late 20th century, to satellite sites across the state. Its academic programs are primarily undergraduate, with some professional graduate education offered.
History
New York
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On September 25, 1900, several
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Methodist
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clergy and laymen affiliated with the 19th-century
Holiness movement
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opened a co-educational collegiate institute at the Garden View House in
Saratoga Springs, New York
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.
In a time when ''pentecostal'' served as a synonym for ''
holiness
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'', it was named the
Pentecostal Collegiate Institute (PCI). It was established to provide liberal education and ministry training in a preparatory academy, four-year college, and theological seminary.
[
] PCI operated under the auspices of the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America (APCA), a loose association of
Wesleyan
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-holiness churches from eastern Canada down to the Middle Atlantic, and its own board of education.
Lyman C. Pettit
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served as its first president. PCI was accredited by the
New York State Education Department
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's Board of Regents of the
University of the State of New York
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and was given state funding because a public school did not exist there at the time.
In 1901, the institute changed locations in Saratoga Springs, from the Garden View House to the former Kenmore Hotel.
Rhode Island
The plans for a liberal arts college were delayed, however.
There was a falling out between Pettit and the APCA. The school was moved to Rhode Island, where it re-opened on September 16, 1902, in
North Scituate, Rhode Island
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post-secondary
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curriculum. Having been the originator of the idea for establishing PCI and having already surveyed the Rhode Island location,
Fred A. Hillery
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had purchased the North Scituate campus on behalf of the association. Its
Greek Revival
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buildings were originally designed for the
Smithville Seminary
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in 1839 by
Russell Warren, the leading Greek Revival architect in New England in the 19th century. The campus had been empty since 1876, when the Lapham Institute closed. After the move, the school attracted students from a variety of denominations. Only one-quarter to one-third of the student body was affiliated with the school's supporting denomination during any given academic year.
In 1907, the APCA merged with the
Church of the Nazarene
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. In 1908 PCI was one of the first three schools chosen to be officially affiliated with the Nazarenes.
In 1917, it was decided to develop the planned liberal arts college. On June 14, 1918, the Eastern Nazarene College was chartered with degree-granting authority in the state of Rhode Island.
Secondary education was conducted by the Eastern Nazarene Academy.
Choosing a new name, however, would be difficult: the school was now a liberal arts college and a Nazarene institution. Candidates included: "Northeastern Nazarene College", "
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Memorial College", "Nazarene College of the Northeast", and "Nazarene College and Bresee Theological Institute".
General Superintendent John W. Goodwin is credited with the chosen name. He wrote to
Hiram F. Reynolds
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, a general superintendent and long-time supporter of the school: "I know you will do your best for our New England College. I should be glad if they would change the name to the Eastern Nazarene College, or something like that. It would seem we must have a school there, although it moves along hard and slow."
Massachusetts
In 1919, the college moved to its current location in the
Wollaston Park
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area of
Quincy, Massachusetts
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. The founders wanted the new college to be located near either Harvard or Yale, so that its graduates could attend graduate school at one or the other. Quincy won out over
New Haven, Connecticut
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because the educational standards were known to be higher in Massachusetts
In addition, president-elect
Fred J. Shields would accept the position only if the college were to be located near Boston.
At the time of purchase, the property was the site of the
Josiah Quincy Mansion
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(1848), built for
Josiah Quincy, Jr.
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Angell Hall was built here. Other buildings included one from 1896, used for the classroom building called the Manchester, stables (1848) (Memorial Hall was built in 1948 on this site), and one from 1901, which now serves as Canterbury Hall.
The former PCI campus in Rhode Island was purchased in 1920 by
William S. Holland, who moved his
Watchman Institute there in 1923. He served African-American youths at that location for decades.
The trustees of the college were incorporated by the state in 1920, by which time its liberal arts identity had been "quite firmly established."
It did not gain
Bachelor of Arts
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degree-granting power from the commonwealth for another decade, after the curriculum and faculty were established. On January 28, 1930, President
Floyd W. Nease
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appealed directly to the
General Court of Massachusetts
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for degree-granting authority, defending ed his petition before the Joint Committee on Education and the state House and Senate. He cited financial records, campus improvement plans, and prominent community leaders; the bill passed in both houses and was signed by Governor
Frank G. Allen
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on March 12, 1930. The news reached the college the following afternoon.
The next year under President
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, the trustees reaffirmed that the college would remain "distinctly interdenominational and cosmopolitan in service."
The college seal, designed by alumnus Harold G. Gardner and incorporating the college motto, ''
Via, Veritas, Vita
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'' (Way, Truth and Life), was adopted by the trustees on the recommendation of the president and the student body in 1932.
[It is derived from Jesus' words, "I am the way and the truth and the life...." from . Professor Jesse B. Mowry said, "Yea, the Truth points the Way and the Life, and these three determine man's destiny!" ] A college banner displayed the
emblem
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s of ''
Verbum
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...
'', ''
Lux
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'', ''
Spiritus
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'', ''
Crux
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''.
The college had been chartered in 1918 with a school of music,
President Gardner secured certification for the college as a teacher-training institution with the
Massachusetts Department of Education
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in 1933.
The college established a graduate program in theology starting in 1938.
It was one of two Nazarene schools before 1945 to offer graduate courses.
Evolutionary biology
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was taught in the classroom at least as early as 1937.
On May 8, 1941, Governor
Leverett Saltonstall
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approved Eastern Nazarene to grant Bachelor of Science degrees.
By 1943 ENC had a cooperative degree program in engineering with
Northeastern University
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.
Under President
Gideon B. Williamson on December 3, 1943, the Eastern Nazarene College gained accreditation from the
New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.
It was the second Nazarene college to gain institutional accreditation.
[ The first was the ]Northwest Nazarene College
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in Idaho. ENC was admitted to the
Association of American Colleges
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in 1944,
and an affiliation with
Quincy City Hospital for nurses' training began in that same year.
Eastern Nazarene was soon dubbed "Our Quincy's College" by the Quincy ''
Patriot Ledger
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Known for its thorough news coverage of the 26 communities south of Boston, ''The Patriot Ledger'' has won ...
''. It works to maintain good
town and gown
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relations with the city.
The Eastern Nazarene Academy closed after 1955.
Starting in 1956, professors
Timothy L. Smith and
Charles W. Akers
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began to establish a community college for the city of Quincy.
In 1964, the graduate course in theology was discontinued and replaced with a master's degree program in religion.
The college archives were created in 1963. The first history of the college, spanning from 1900 to 1950, was published by
James R. Cameron in 1968.
Under President Irwin in 1977, plans were made to relocate the college to a parcel of land in
Newtown Square, Pennsylvania
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, by purchasing the faltering Charles E. Ellis School for Girls. The proposed move was unpopular among students and members of the Quincy community. Governor
Michael Dukakis
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also urged the administration to reconsider. The college was outbid for the land by a corporation that wanted to establish an industrial park, and it stayed in Quincy. In 1981, graduate degree offerings were expanded.
It started an accelerated program for working adults in 1990.
In 1991, a report issued by the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts (AICUM) determined that the college contributed nearly $10 million to the local economy and brought in an estimated $7 million from outside the state.
In 1992, President
Kent Hill
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approved a policy to hire only Christian professors at the college. This decision generated controversy in the media but was intended for the hiring of new faculty. The
American Civil Liberties Union
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(ACLU) determined that it was reasonable according to civil rights laws.
A second history of the college, spanning from 1950 to 2000, was started in 1993.
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In 1995, the college pursued relocation to a larger campus, planning to purchase the former campus of the Boston School for the Deaf in
Randolph, Massachusetts
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, from the
Sisters of St. Joseph
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, but the deal fell through]. Instead, the college began to expand at other locations in Quincy, buying a piece of land along Hancock Street later that year, and the year after that purchasing an adjoining parcel along Old Colony Avenue. This was the former site of a
Howard Johnson's
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candy factory and executive offices. In 1997, the college expanded beyond the metro Boston area for the first time, establishing a learning annex in central Massachusetts to serve as part of its adult studies division.
The Old Colony Campus (OCC) in Wollaston, as the new site on Old Colony Avenue had come to be named, was renovated as the Adams Executive Center. The
Cecil R. Paul Center for Business was founded at the Old Colony location in 1999, and the
James R. Cameron Center for History, Law, & Government was added in 2005.
In 2001, just before the end of his second term, then-president
Kent R. Hill
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was appointed the new Global Health Administrator for USAID.
In 2008, ENC established satellite campuses in Boston,
Brockton,
Fall River
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, and
Swansea
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, Massachusetts.
College rankings
In 2010, Eastern Nazarene College was ranked in the top tier for northern U.S. regional colleges in ''
U.S. News & World Report''s Best Colleges report. It was also ranked 28th overall (specifically 25th in number of graduates going on to earn PhDs and 11th in number of alumni serving in the
Peace Corps
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, relative to college size) by the ''
Washington Monthly
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'' College Guide for baccalaureate colleges nationally in 2010.
Campus
Wollaston Park
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The main campus of the Eastern Nazarene College is situated in the
Wollaston Park
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neighborhood of
Quincy, Massachusetts
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. The Wollaston Park campus is southeast from the Boston city line and south of downtown Boston,
[
] just over north of
Quincy Center, northeast of the
Wollaston T station, and southwest from
Wollaston Beach
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. ENC purchased the Wollaston Park property, as a parcel, from the former Quincy Mansion School for Girls for $50,000 in 1919.
It has added to it over the years. The Mount Wollaston land belonging to the
Quincy family
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The family estate was in Mount Wollaston, first ...
had been broken up into prestigious building lots and named Wollaston Park in the late 19th century, to become one of Boston's first commuter neighborhoods,
[Information provided by the Eastern Nazarene College]
History of the Babcock Arboretum, published in 2003, written by Gerry Wood
founder. Found in the Nease Library, Reference Section. The area remains primarily residential.
The campus has a registered arboretum, named the Babcock Arboretum after Vernor J. Babcock, and dedicated in 1993.
The ''alma mater'', set to the tune of "
Annie Lisle
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" with lyrics written by former president Edward S. Mann, refers to Quincy Bay and the elm trees for which Elm Avenue was named. These died with the onset of
Dutch elm disease
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in the early to mid-20th century.
The Anglican Parish of Saint George, established by the Anglican Mission in America, has been on campus since 2009.
Historic buildings
The chandeliers of the
Quincy Mansion
The Quincy Mansion , also known as the Josiah Quincy Mansion, was a summer home built by Josiah Quincy, Jr. in 1848. The mansion itself was situated where Angell Hall now stands on the campus of the Eastern Nazarene College. The mansion, once a ...
(1848) were sold during the
Great Depression
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in order to buy food for the students. The mansion was demolished in 1969 and Angell Hall was built on this site.
The mansion was part of the Quincy family homestead, along with the
Dorothy Quincy House
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and the
Josiah Quincy House
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, on a parcel of land known as the "Lower Farm". The mansion was the summer home of
Josiah Quincy, Jr.
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, then mayor of Boston. It was three stories and white, in
Georgian architecture
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, with marble fireplaces in most of the rooms and large French windows on the first floor that "opened upon either little balconies or broad piazzas."
Elm Avenue had been the avenue, or driveway, for the two mansions on the property.
The first of the two, the Josiah Quincy House (1770), still stands on Muirhead Street.
![GardnerHallENC](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/GardnerHallENC.JPG)
Both Gardner Hall (1930), originally named the Fowler Memorial Administration Building after
Charles J. Fowler
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, and the original Floyd W. Nease Library (1953), now the Bower-Grimshaw Center for Institutional Advancement, were designed by Wesley Angell. Gardner Hall was designed in the
Classical or
Colonial Revival
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The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archi ...
mode. Gardner is brick, three stories on a high granite basement, and capped by a
parapet
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balustrade
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d in the center. Corners are articulated with brick
quoins
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. The fenestration is symmetric with double sash windows at regular intervals, trimmed in white, topped with flared brick lintels and a white keystone. It also features a two-story balustraded Doric portico of fluted cast stone columns. The portico is the backdrop for commencement ceremonies. The main entrance, at the end of wide stairs, is pilastered and topped with a bracketed entablature, which frames an arched glass opening. The side elevations have projecting stair towers, which indicate the site of a central hall running the length of the building. Originally rectangular in form, the 1953 addition of the then-Nease Library in the rear gave it a T-configuration.
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Memorial Hall (1948) is the only building on campus, other than the pre-existing Canterbury Hall (1901), not to be named for an individual. Rather, it was built as a memorial to those who had served in the Second World War. Over two hundred alumni had served, and six students had lost their lives in the war.
Old Colony and other locations
The Old Colony Campus (OCC), named for its location on Old Colony Avenue in Quincy, has two buildings. The "180 building" is the Adams Executive Center, which houses the business department in the Cecil R. Paul Center for Business, established in 1999.
The building at 162 Old Colony houses the college archives and offices for the history department, as part of the James R. Cameron Center for History, Law, and Government, established in 2005. It also has separate offices for mathematics, and physics and engineering departments. In addition, the Campus Kinder Haus (CKH), an early childhood education center, is located here. CKH was founded in 1979 and moved to the Old Colony Campus in 2000. The college also owns adjacent undeveloped land between Old Colony and Hancock streets in Quincy, at the Southern Artery. This has been rezoned by the city several times. Quincy officials announced in 2009 that they might take the land by eminent domain for construction of a new middle school.
In addition to its campuses in Quincy, the college established a learning annex called the Auburn Learning Center in
Auburn, Massachusetts
Auburn is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 16,889 at the 2020 census.
History
The Auburn area was first settled in 1714 as of today outer parts of Worcester, Sutton, Leicester and Oxford, Massachusett ...
, in 1997 to serve as part of the Leadership Education for Adults Division.
In 2008 it added satellite campuses in Boston,
Brockton,
Fall River
Fall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The City of Fall River's population was 94,000 at the 2020 United States Census, making it the tenth-largest city in the state.
Located along the eastern shore of Mount H ...
, and
Swansea
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The city is the twenty-fifth largest in ...
.
Organization
Religious affiliation
Higher education is, historically, one of the Nazarenes' most important emphases. The Nazarenes provide their colleges with "students, administrative and faculty leadership, and financial and spiritual support.... the college, while not a local congregation, is an integral part of the church; it is an expression of the church." Founded under the auspices of the
Association of Pentecostal Churches of America
The Church of the Nazarene is an evangelical Christian denomination that emerged in North America from the 19th-century Wesleyan-Holiness movement within Methodism. It is headquartered in Lenexa within Johnson County, Kansas. With its members co ...
, ENC was one of the first three schools officially chosen to be
Nazarene institution in 1915,
making it the oldest continuously operating educational institution affiliated with the Nazarenes. As one of eight Nazarene liberal arts colleges in the United States, the college receives financial backing equivalent to a $40 million endowment from its constituent churches. Eastern Nazarene is also bound by a gentlemen's agreement not to actively recruit outside its respective
educational region, which extends southwest from Maine as far as Pennsylvania and Virginia in the United States and provides trustees for the college. The institution is otherwise largely independent, having been multi-denominational since 1902,
and tuition-driven, with an actual endowment of only US$11,015,937.
The president and trustees of the college determined in 1931, one year after gaining its charter to grant degrees in Massachusetts, that it is part of the college's mission to be "distinctly interdenominational and cosmopolitan in service."
Students are not required to profess any religion, although chapel attendance is required and faculty members are required to be Christians.
Academic associations
The now-defunct secondary school, the Pentecostal Collegiate Institute, was accredited by the
New York State Education Department
The New York State Education Department (NYSED) is the department of the New York state government responsible for the supervision for all public schools in New York and all standardized testing, as well as the production and administration o ...
's Board of Regents upon its founding in 1900.
When it was first chartered in 1918, the Eastern Nazarene College was granted the authority to grant baccalaureate degrees in Rhode Island,
and was later chartered with that same authority in Massachusetts in 1930.
Teacher education was recognized by the Department of Education of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1933
and is also approved by the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification and the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, as well as benefitting from the Interstate Certification Compact for all teacher education programs, which allows graduates to teach in 44 states and the District of Columbia. ENC gained institutional accreditation from the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the
New England Association of Schools and Colleges
The New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc. (NEASC) is a United States' regional accreditation association providing educational accreditation. NEASC serves over 1500 public, independent schools, and technical/career institution ...
(NEASC) in 1943, and the social work program has been accredited by the
Council on Social Work Education The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) is a nonprofit national association in the United States representing more than 2,500 individual members, as well as graduate and undergraduate programs of professional social work education. Founded in 19 ...
since 1979. Eastern Nazarene joined the
Association of American Colleges
The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) is a global membership organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States. It works to improve quality and equity in undergraduate education and advance liberal education. ...
in 1944,
has been a member of the
Council for Christian Colleges and Universities
The Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU) is a global organization of evangelical Christian colleges and universities. The headquarters is in Washington, D.C.
History
In 1976, presidents of colleges in the Christian College Cons ...
(CCCU) since 1982, and is also a member of both the
Council of Independent Colleges
The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) is an association in the United States of more than 650 independent, liberal arts colleges and universities and more than 100 higher education affiliates and organizations that work together to strengthen ...
(CIC)
and the
National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities
The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) located in Washington D.C.. It is an organization of private American colleges and universities. Founded in 1976, it has over 1,000 independent hig ...
(NAICU).
Academics
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According to some of the college's earliest and most influential figures, the Eastern Nazarene College has always existed with the idea in mind that one can be a Christian and an intellectual scholar: Bertha Munro, the first dean of the college is often quoted as having said that "there is no conflict between the best in education and the best in Christian faith" and former history professor
Timothy L. Smith, who began his career at ENC, is widely considered the first
evangelical Christian
Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being " born again", in which an individual exper ...
to gain academic prominence,
while ENC alumnus and physicist
Karl Giberson
Karl Willard Giberson (born May 13, 1957) is a physicist, scholar, and author specializing in the creation–evolution debate (see Creation–evolution controversy). He has held a teaching post since 1984, written several books, and been a memb ...
has worked to address the
Creation-Evolution controversy and was Executive Vice President of the
BioLogos Foundation
The BioLogos Foundation is a Christian advocacy group that supports the view that God created the world using evolution of different species as the mechanism. It was established by Francis Collins in 2007 after receiving letters and emails from ...
until May 2011. Though it makes no religious requirements of its students, Eastern Nazarene has required that its faculty members be Christian since 1993.
The school currently has three college divisions: the Traditional Undergraduate Division, the Adult Studies Division (often called the Leadership Education for Adults Division, or LEAD), and the Graduate Division.
[
] There were 1,075 students enrolled at the college in 2007, 927 of whom were undergraduate and 148 of whom were graduate students.
Admission is selective on a rolling deadline and the 2007 acceptance rate for students who applied to the college was 61.7 percent.
Traditional Undergraduate division
Most degree offerings at Eastern Nazarene are
baccalaureate Baccalaureate may refer to:
* ''Baccalauréat'', a French national academic qualification
* Bachelor's degree, or baccalaureate, an undergraduate academic degree
* English Baccalaureate, a performance measure to assess secondary schools in England ...
degrees. In the Traditional Undergraduate Division, the college offers
associate's
An associate degree is an undergraduate degree awarded after a course of post-secondary study lasting two to three years. It is a level of qualification above a high school diploma, GED, or matriculation, and below a bachelor's degree.
The f ...
and bachelor's (
Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ...
and
Bachelor of Science
A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years.
The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of ...
) liberal arts degrees in 50 majors, with 57 minors and six pre-professional programs for a combined total of 80 programs of study, including dual degree programs with
Northeastern University
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and the
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS) is a private university focused on medical and health-related science programs and located in Boston, Massachusetts. The university provides traditional and accelerated programs of s ...
leading to the
doctor of pharmacy
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.
In addition to co-operative programs and internship opportunities around Boston, Eastern Nazarene provides a number of intercollegiate and off-campus programs at 56 Nazarene institutions of higher education around the world. Students may also participate in the "Best Semester" study abroad program, and ENC offers an additional semester-long program in Romania.
The college uses a "4-1-4 system"
for its academic year: there are two full semesters in the Fall and Spring, each roughly four months long, and a one-month term in May known as "May Term".
Eastern Nazarene emphasizes a blend of faith and other pursuits, from biology to business, and has won the
John Templeton
Sir John Marks Templeton (29 November 1912 – 8 July 2008) was an American-born British investor, banker, fund manager, and philanthropist. In 1954, he entered the mutual fund market and created the Templeton Growth Fund, which averaged grow ...
award for science-and-religion education. The undergraduate curriculum at Eastern Nazarene was developed in 1919 by the first dean of the college, Bertha Munro, and originally modeled after the curricula at
Radcliffe College
Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as the female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College. Considered founded in 1879, it was one of the Seven Sisters colleges and he ...
and
Boston University
Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...
.
A revision that introduced the Cultural Perspectives core sequence is very distinctive and comprises a series of interdisciplinary courses on Western culture that encourages students to ponder the "tensions and possibilities" in the relationships between the Christian faith and societal values.
The traditional undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio at Eastern Nazarene is 11:1,
and graduates on average have a 94 percent acceptance rate into medical school as well as a 100 percent acceptance rate into
law school
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Law degrees Argentina
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.
Graduate Division and LEAD
In addition to traditional undergraduate education, the college offers
continuing education
Continuing education (similar to further education in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, Ireland) is an all-encompassing term within a broad list of post-secondary learning activities and programs. The term is used mainly in the United ...
for working adults through the Leadership Education for Adults Division (LEAD). Accelerated programs have been in place since 1990,
and now include bachelor's degree completion (Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees) and associate degrees (the associate of arts degree) as well as certificates in paralegal studies (CPS) and human resource management (CHRM).
The college also maintains 2+2 programs and
articulation agreements with junior colleges in the surrounding geographical area, like the agreements with
Bristol
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,
Massasoit
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Mas ...
, and
Roxbury Community College
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s.
Most LEAD classes are held at the Old Colony Campus or at one of the four satellite campuses for reasons of transportation and accessibility.
Graduate offerings from the Graduate Division are primarily master's degrees (
Master of Science
A Master of Science ( la, Magisterii Scientiae; abbreviated MS, M.S., MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.) is a master's degree in the field of science awarded by universities in many countries or a person holding such a degree. In contrast to ...
and
Master of Education
The Master of Education (MEd or M.Ed. or Ed.M.; Latin ''Magister Educationis'' or ''Educationis Magister'') is a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. This degree in education often includes the following majors: curriculum a ...
).
Eastern Nazarene first offered graduate work in theology in 1938,
then replaced it with a master's degree in religion in 1964, and added master's degrees in business, education, and psychology in 1981.
Student life
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ENC is 24 percent ethnically diverse,
[
] the highest diversity rate among the eight Nazarene liberal arts colleges,
and black student enrollment rose from 4.9 to 15 percent between 1997 and 2007. Eastern Nazarene has always been co-educational, and most of the traditional undergraduate population lives on campus. Undergraduate students at ENC are typically affiliated with approximately 30 different Christian denominations (the largest representations being Nazarene,
Baptist
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,
Catholic
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, and
non-denominational
A non-denominational person or organization is one that does not follow (or is not restricted to) any particular or specific religious denomination.
Overview
The term has been used in the context of various faiths including Jainism, Baháʼí Fait ...
), while 35 percent of the student population had no reported denominational or religious affiliation.
No student is required to be Christian to attend the Eastern Nazarene College,
but each traditional undergraduate student, upon registering, agrees to what is called a Lifestyle Covenant: to, among other things, "abstain from the use of illegal drugs, alcohol and tobacco, and to avoid attendance at bars, clubs, or other activities or places of entertainment that promote themes of inappropriate sexuality, violence, profanity, pornography or activities demeaning to human life." The Student Handbook also specifies that "No person shall engage in sexual acts with anyone other than a spouse." While some guidelines might appear to be "relics from another era," according to the ''
Boston Globe
''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...
'',
the ''Globe'' has also noted that other prominent Christian colleges uphold these ideals, and that Eastern Nazarene is known for being a progressive "trendsetter"
with a "slightly more liberal bent" than its peers.
The
John Templeton Foundation
The John Templeton Foundation (Templeton Foundation) is a philanthropic organization that reflects the ideas of its founder, John Templeton, who became wealthy via a career as a contrarian investor, and wanted to support progress in religious an ...
has also cited Eastern Nazarene College as an institution that builds character, and the Quincy ''
Patriot Ledger
''The Patriot Ledger'' is a daily newspaper in Quincy, Massachusetts, that serves the South Shore. It publishes Monday through Saturday.
Known for its thorough news coverage of the 26 communities south of Boston, ''The Patriot Ledger'' has won ...
'' has said that the school's "deep religious roots make for a quiet campus and good neighbors."
Extracurriculars
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There are no fraternities or sororities on campus, but there are Greek "societies". Until 2002, there were four societies based on intramural sports competition, which included the "Kappa Cougars", the "Sigma Stallions", and the "Zeta Warriors". New societies were formed in 2007 and originally numbered eight but were reduced to four again in 2008. These societies are not currently active.
There has been an Honors Scholar Society since 1936,
and there are various national honors societies (''
Phi Alpha Theta
Phi Alpha Theta () is an American honor society for undergraduate and graduate students and professors of history.
It has more than 400,000 members, with new members numbering about 9,000 a year through its 970 chapters.
Founding
Phi Alpha The ...
'' for history majors, ''Phi Delta Lambda'' for Nazarene scholars, ''
Psi Chi
Psi Chi () is a college student honor society in psychology with international outreach founded in 1929 at the University of Kansas in the United States.
Psi Chi is one of the largest honor societies in the United States, with more than 1,150 cha ...
'' for psychology majors, etc.). Students participate in the Student Government Association (SGA), Class Council, Students for Social Justice,
academic clubs (''
Beta Phi Mu
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'' Shrader Club, Biology Club, History Club, etc.), and club sports. The student-run newspaper is "The Veritas News" (formerly the Campus Camera), since 1933 and regularly published since 1936, and the student-developed yearbook has been the ''Nautilus'' since 1922.
There are vocal and instrumental ensembles, including the A Cappella Choir, which was formed in 1938,
and Chamber Singers, Gospel Choir, Symphonic Winds, and Jazz Band, among several others. The college also has a student theatre organization.
There exist both campus-oriented and community-oriented ministries like as "Open Hand, Open Heart", which ministers to the homeless of Boston by providing food, clothing, and blankets. In addition to its study abroad programs, ENC also provides missions opportunities through a program known as "Fusion". Locally, environmental management students have been involved in community cleanup programs
and archaeological investigations around Quincy.
Athletics
Intramural sports take place year-round and change from season to season based on student interest (past sports have included lacrosse, field hockey, and a very successful men's volleyball club). These and other campus sports, such as J-Term basketball, men's wrestling, men's football, powder puff football, and indoor soccer, are organized by the Student Government Association's (SGA) Rec. Life director.
Intercollegiate athletics at ENC first began in 1959 with wins over
Gordon
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People
* Gordon (given name), a masculine given name, including list of persons and fictional characters
* Gordon (surname), the surname
* Gordon (slave), escaped to a Union Army camp during the U.S. Civil War
* Clan Gordon, ...
,
Curry
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There are many varieties of curry. The choice of spices for each dish in tradit ...
, and
Barrington College
Barrington College was a four-year Christian liberal arts college located in Barrington, Rhode Island. It is no longer in operation.
History
Barrington College was founded by E. W. Kenyon, pastor of the New Covenant Baptist Church, in 1900 as ...
s in baseball.
[
] Varsity sports are
National Collegiate Athletic Association
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges an ...
(NCAA)
Division III
In sport, the Third Division, also called Division 3, Division Three, or Division III, is often the third-highest division of a league, and will often have promotion and relegation with divisions above and below.
Association football
*Belgian Thir ...
,
Commonwealth Coast Conference
The Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA’s Division III. Member institutions are located in New England in the states of Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, with a Connecticu ...
(CCC), and
New England Collegiate Conference
The New England Collegiate Conference (NECC) is an NCAA Division III college athletic conference based in the Northeastern United States.
History
In June 2007, nine colleges from New England announced the creation of a new athletic conference ...
(NECC). Along with
NNU, ENC is one of only two Nazarene colleges to compete in the NCAA. Men's varsity sports include baseball, basketball, cross-country, golf, soccer, tennis, track and field, and volleyball. Women's sports include basketball, cross-country, soccer, softball, tennis, track and field, and volleyball. When
NAIA-affiliated, Eastern Nazarene regularly won the basketball tournament hosted by
The King's College.
[
] The college also won the ECAC Division III Championship in 1996 and went to the NCAA Division III Sweet 16 in 2000.
Eastern Nazarene's athletic nickname is "Lions". From 1959 until 2009, the athletic moniker was "Crusaders".
The college colors are red and white. Bradley Field is named in honor of Carroll Bradley, one-time professional baseball player and the first athletic director at Eastern Nazarene,
and the LaHue Physical Education Center at ENC also serves as a clinical site for Northeastern University.
Residential life
Students live in single-sex residence halls. There are three female dormitories (Spangenberg Hall, Williamson Hall, and Munro Hall) and two male dormitories (Memorial Hall and Shields Hall). Young Hall provides apartments for staff and married students, in addition to suites for upperclassman females and males. Each dormitory houses a co-ed common area, known as a parlor.
The Mann Student Center houses The Commons for sit-down meals cafeteria-style, as well as The Dugout for meals in a café-type atmosphere. The latter is a popular location for social gathering, as is the adjacent "Colonel's Coffee House". Chapel services for undergraduate students, which are 40 minutes long, are offered on Wednesdays and Fridays. Attendance for most chapels is required for most undergraduates.
Notable persons
Notable alumni
Samuel Young,
Edward S. Mann, and
Stephen W. Nease were all ENC alumni and presidents of Eastern Nazarene College.
Russell V. DeLong Russell Victor DeLong (1901–1981) was a Church of the Nazarene, Nazarene Christian ministry, minister, Evangelism, evangelist, and college president.
Early life and education
DeLong was a New Hampshire native, served two non-consecutive terms as president of
Northwest Nazarene College
Northwest Nazarene University (NNU) is a Private university, private Church of the Nazarene, Nazarene university in Nampa, Idaho.
History
Eugene Emerson organized a combination grade school and Bible school in 1913 as Idaho Holiness School. It ...
, and also served as president of
Pasadena College
Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU) is a private Christian liberal arts college with its main campus on the Point Loma oceanfront in San Diego, California, United States. It was founded in 1902 as a Bible college by the Church of the Nazarene. ...
.
John E. Riley,
Kenneth H. Pearsall, and
A. Gordon Wetmore
Arnold Gordon Wetmore was an American theologian who was president emeritus of the Nazarene Theological Seminary and a former president of the Northwest Nazarene College.
Early life and education
Wetmore was born on June 24, 1931, in New Brunswic ...
also served as presidents of NNC. Stephen Nease and Gordon Wetmore later served as presidents of the
Nazarene Theological Seminary
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. Stephen Nease was also the president of
Bethany Nazarene College
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History
The history of the institution is one of various mergers and, therefore, one of differing institutions. While SNU claims its founding date as ...
in Bethany, Oklahoma, and the founding president of
Mount Vernon Nazarene College.
William Henry Houghton
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was the fourth president of the
Moody Bible Institute
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in Chicago], and
Charles W. Akers
Charles Wesley Akers (April 2, 1920 – February 1, 2009) was an American historian, author, and educator.
Early life and education
Charles was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to Ira and Mary Bird Akers. Akers received his bachelor's degree in hist ...
was the first president of
Quincy Junior College (QJC).
Alumnus Donald Young, Samuel Young's son, would also become a president of Quincy College.
Lawrence Yerdon is the president of the
Strawbery Banke
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Museum. He also served 1986-2004 as president of the
Hancock Shaker Village
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, and was director of the
Quincy Historical Society 1976–1986. Alumnus Edward Thomas Dell, Jr. was a published author, the editor of ''The Episcopalian'' from 1968 to 1973, and founder of two magazines, and he kept a running correspondence with
C. S. Lewis
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, which is now archived in the
Bodleian Library
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and at
Wheaton College.
Ralph Earle, Jr.
Ralph Earle Jr. (January 17, 1908 – May 23, 1995) was an American biblical scholar.
Early life and education
He was born in Dighton, Massachusetts. Earle completed his undergraduate work and earned a Bachelor of Arts from Eastern Nazarene Co ...
served on the Committee on Bible Translation for the
New International Version
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of the Bible.
John S. Rigden
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is an alumnus and physicist.
Eldon C. Hall was the lead design engineer of the
Apollo Guidance Computer
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(AGC) at MIT. Carl Crouthamel earned his doctorate at the
University of Chicago
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after graduating from ENC, is known for his work with
Enrico Fermi
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on the U.S. project that produced the first atomic bomb, started the first program to build a
gamma ray lens for use in astronomy, and has worked for the
Argonne National Laboratory
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.
Floyd Nease, Stephen's son and Floyd's grandson, was the Democratic Party Majority Leader for the Vermont House of Representatives. James Sheets, former six-term Quincy mayor, is an Eastern Nazarene College graduate. David Bergers serves as the current director for the Boston Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and attended Yale Law School after completing his undergraduate education at ENC.
Richard F. Schubert, another ENC alumnus and graduate of Yale Law School, was the founding president of the Points of Light Foundation, former president and vice chairman of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, general counsel and deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Labor, and president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the
American Red Cross
The American Red Cross (ARC), also known as the American National Red Cross, is a non-profit humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief, and disaster preparedness education in the United States. It is the desi ...
. Neil Nicoll is the current President & CEO of the YMCA. Jim Tabor is vice president for operations at
AirTran Airways
AirTran Airways was a low-cost U.S. airline that was originally headquartered in Orlando, Florida, and ceased operation following its acquisition by Southwest Airlines.
AirTran Airways was established in 1993 as Conquest Sun Airlines by the ...
. Harry Palmer was president of
Atco Records
ATCO Records is an American record label founded in 1955. It is owned by Warner Music Group and operates as an imprint of Atlantic Records. After several decades of dormancy and infrequent activity under alternating Warner Music labels, the comp ...
, a division of
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson. Over its first 20 years of operation, Atlantic earned a reputation as one of the most i ...
that produced albums by The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin and AC/DC. Samuel Jean, graduated from Eastern Nazarene in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in history before graduating from
Boston University School of Law
Boston University School of Law (Boston Law or BU Law) is the law school of Boston University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top law schools in the United States and considered an eli ...
in 1995 and is the founder of CityView Artist Management.
Esther R. Sanger, noted social worker, preacher, and founder of the Quincy Crisis Center and the Mary-Martha Learning Center, attended the Eastern Nazarene preparatory academy and earned a B.A. in social work and an M.A. in family counseling at ENC.
Notable faculty
Chemistry professor Lowell Hall is the creator of "Molconn", which Pfizer uses to test drug potency,
and is emeritus program chairman of the Boston Area Group for Informatics and Modeling.
[
] History professor
Randall J. Stephens
Randall J. Stephens (born 1973) is an editor and historian of American religion.
Career
Stephens is a Professor of American and British Studies at the University of Oslo. From 2004 to 2012 he was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Histor ...
is editor of both the ''Journal of Southern Religion'' and ''Historically Speaking'', which is produced at Boston University and published by the Johns Hopkins University.
Donald A. Yerxa is director of The Historical Society (THS) at Boston University. He and fellow history professor
James R. Cameron both studied under
Charles W. Akers
Charles Wesley Akers (April 2, 1920 – February 1, 2009) was an American historian, author, and educator.
Early life and education
Charles was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to Ira and Mary Bird Akers. Akers received his bachelor's degree in hist ...
and
Timothy L. Smith.
Former faculty members of note include physicist
John S. Rigden
John S. Rigden was an internationally renowned United States, American physicist. His areas of expertise were molecular physics and the history of science. He was the former co-editor of the scholarly journal ''Physics in Perspective'', published ...
, historian and community college president
Charles W. Akers
Charles Wesley Akers (April 2, 1920 – February 1, 2009) was an American historian, author, and educator.
Early life and education
Charles was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to Ira and Mary Bird Akers. Akers received his bachelor's degree in hist ...
, biblical scholar
Ralph Earle, Jr.
Ralph Earle Jr. (January 17, 1908 – May 23, 1995) was an American biblical scholar.
Early life and education
He was born in Dighton, Massachusetts. Earle completed his undergraduate work and earned a Bachelor of Arts from Eastern Nazarene Co ...
, historian
Timothy L. Smith, theologian
Thomas Jay Oord
Thomas Jay Oord (born 1965) is a theologian, philosopher, and multidisciplinary scholar who directs a doctoral program at Northwind Theological Seminary and the Center for Open and Relational Theology. He formerly taught for sixteen years as a tenu ...
, inspector general and Massachusetts representative
Robert A. Cerasoli, historian and seminary president
Hugh C. Benner Hugh C. Benner (1899–1975) was a minister and general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene. He started the history department at the Eastern Nazarene College in 1921, and Benner Hall and Benner Library on the campus of Olivet Nazarene ...
, and
Olive Winchester
Olive May Winchester (1879–1947) was an American ordained minister and a pioneer biblical scholar and theologian in the Church of the Nazarene, who was in 1912 the first woman ordained by any trinitarian Christian denomination in the United Ki ...
. Presidents of the college who were first faculty members include
Fred J. Shields in psychology,
Floyd W. Nease
Floyd William Nease (1893–1930) was an American minister and the president of the Eastern Nazarene College until his death in 1930. He is the grandfather of Floyd William Nease II, as well as Linda Nease Scott (a recently retired /2020emp ...
in theology,
R. Wayne Gardner Robert Wayne Gardner (1894-?) was a minister, an academic, and the president of the Eastern Nazarene College.
Early life and education
Gardner was born in Tidioute, Pennsylvania, on May 16, 1894. He earned his bachelor's degree from Olivet Colleg ...
in mathematics,
Samuel Young in theology,
Edward S. Mann in mathematics, and
Cecil R. Paul in psychology. When
Ann Kiemel Anderson
Ann Kiemel Anderson (September 22, 1945 – March 1, 2014) was an American religious speaker and author. Her books were bestsellers and all of her books together sold over 28 million copies. A 1980 film titled ''Hi, I'm Ann'' was based on her l ...
was 25 years old, she became the Dean of Women.
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References
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