Southwestern College (Kansas)

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Southwestern College is a four-year college in Winfield, Kansas affiliated with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1885 and graduated its first class in 1889.

Their athletics team is known as the Moundbuilders and participates in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference. The Men's Track Team has won 23 consecutive conference championships, with the school garnering 134 conference championships in nine different sports since 1960. The school has also had over 160 All-American scholar-athletes since 1980.

[edit] Degree programs

• Bachelor of Arts (25 degree options)
• Bachelor of Science (9 degree options)
• Bachelor of Music
• Bachelor of Music, Music Education major
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing
• Bachelor of Philosophy
• Bachelor of General Studies
• Minors (26 options)
• Master of Business Administration
• Master of Education
• Secondary School
• Teacher Certification (11 subject areas)

[edit] "The Mound"

The college got the name the "Moundbuilders" because of a very large pile of rocks on the college campus, called "The Mound." At the very beginning of the school year, the "Moundbuilding Ceremony" allows students, faculty, clubs, and guests of Southwestern College to "put a rock on the mound." Participants are invited to decorate their rocks with paint and some can become quite creative. From time to time, the mound has to be "moved" or re-built to accommodate for the gradual growth of the size, as rocks are never removed from the mound.

The college website gives the following information: The nickname Moundbuilders originated in 1910 when students wanted to be called something other than "Preachers" or "Methodists." Editorials toyed with various suggestions surrounding the fact that Southwestern students lived and breathed on "the hill." "Cliff dwellers" was suggested but was scrapped for "Moundbuilders" when student Harry Hart wrote "anybody could just dwell there, but 'builders' shows action." The Moundbuilding ceremony was instituted by Dean Leroy Allen in 1927 for "Nobody but Moundbuilders can build mounds. So no other college has now, or ever is likely to have such a custom."

[edit] External link

• Southwestern College

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