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**John Brown University**

Motto	Christ Over All
Established	1919
Type	Private
President	Charles Pollard
Faculty	187
Undergraduates	1,700
Postgraduates	245
Location	Siloam Springs, Arkansas, USA
Campus	Small Town
Athletics	9 varsity teams
Website	http://www.jbu.edu

Established in 1919, John Brown University is a private, Christian university with more than 1,900 students from forty nations and forty-three states. JBU offers more than fifty undergraduate degree programs, three degree completion programs and six graduate degree programs. All of JBU's academic programs are accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. It is ranked sixth among comprehensive colleges in the South by U.S. News & World Report. ^[1] JBU is a Christian university committed to providing quality academics within a distinctly Christian community. The university has no denominational affiliation and admits students of any faith.

1 Campus
2 History
3 Organization
- 3.1 Associated Centers
4 Sports, clubs, and traditions
5 List of notable alumni
6 List of notable faculty
7 Notes
8 External links

[edit] Campus

John Brown University's main campus is located on two-hundred acres in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. The campus contains four residence halls, a student center, six academic buildings, and a cathedral building that is used for chapel services.

[edit] History

John Brown University's history begins with John E. Brown, an evangelist with the goal of establishing a college that would provide an interdenominational, Christian education for needy students. Brown laid the foundation in 1919 for the institution that would later be called John Brown University. Since the school's founding, John Brown's vision of Christian education under the motto of "head, heart, and hand" has been endorsed by a variety of national and religious leaders, ranging from Jesse H. Jones to Billy Graham, Agnes Moorhead, Sam Walton, and Don Soderquist.

[edit] Organization

[edit] Associated Centers

John Brown University has two endowed, associated centers: The Center for Relationship Enrichment and The Soderquist Center for Leadership and Ethics.

[edit] Sports, clubs, and traditions

John Brown University competes competitively in the NAIA Division I and offers the following intercollegiate sports:

Basketball: The JBU Men's Basketball team won the NAIA Division I National Championship in 2004-2005.
Diving
Soccer
Swimming
Tennis
Volleyball

The university also has three additional sports clubs which compete in baseball, rugby union, and ultimate. In addition, the university offers the following intermural sports:

Undeniably, the most common tradition observed at JBU is that of the TP Game. Each year, the crowd honors the JBU men's basketball team at its first home game. When it scores its first basket, the crowd throws rolls of toilet paper onto the basketball court en mass.

A newer tradition that is gaining in popularity is Swugby. Each year, the women's swim team and the rugby club compete against each other at various swimming events in order to raise money for the swim team.

JBU also has a competitive speech and debate team that has garnered state, regional, and national honors. The university boasts one of the premier speech and debate teams of the southern region.