MacMurray College
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MacMurray College |
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| Established | 1846 |
| Type | Private |
| President | Dr. Lawrence Bryan |
| Undergraduates | 683 |
| Postgraduates | 0 |
| Location | Jacksonville, Illinois, USA |
| Campus | Rural |
| Colors | Scarlet and navy |
| Mascot | Highlander |
| Website | mac.edu |
MacMurray College is a career-oriented liberal arts college located in Jacksonville, Illinois. It is situated 30 miles from Springfield and 235 miles from Chicago.[1] The campus covers 60 acres, with approximately half of all students choosing to live on campus.[2][3]
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[edit] History
Although founded in 1846 by a group of Methodist clergymen as the Illinois Conference Female Academy, the first class was not held until 1848. Since its beginnings, the college has been affiliated with the United Methodist Church. It is one of the oldest institutions of higher education originally for women in the United States.
The school was renamed the Illinois Conference Female College in 1851, with the name changed again to Illinois Female College in 1863. The name was finally changed to MacMurray College in 1930 to honor Sen. James MacMurray, a college trustee whose commitment led to a substantial increase in the college's facilities and endowment in the late 1920s and 1930s.
The institution remained an exclusively women's college until 1955, when the trustees established MacMurray College for Men as a coordinate institution. In 1969, the coordinate colleges were reorganized into a single co-educational institution.
[edit] Academics
An exclusively undergraduate institution, MacMurray offers only the Associate's and Bachelor's for degrees. The college itself lists its special education, education of the deaf and hard-of-hearing, criminal justice, and interpreter training programs to be among its strongest majors. They are also "exceptionally proud of the Bachelors of Social Work [sic] and Bachelor of Science in Nursing" offered at the college.[4] Less than half of all Bachelor's degrees granted at the college are to students who studied the liberal arts.[5]
Like a small number of other colleges, most notably Reed College in Oregon, MacMurray refuses to submit information to the influential U.S. News & World Report America's Best Colleges guide. Regardless, the 2006 edition of the guide named MacMurray a "selective" college in terms of admissions, placing them in the unranked third tier of their "Comprehensive Colleges–Bachelor's (Midwest)" category.[6]
[edit] Athletics
MacMurray's athletics teams are known as the Highlanders. Teams compete in the NCAA's Division III as part of the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.[7] The football team is the only exception to this, competing in the D-III Illini-Badger Football Conference.
[edit] External links
- MacMurray College
- Go Mac Highlanders - official athletics website
- Campus map
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