Anderson University (South Carolina)
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| Motto: | Knowledge for the Journey |
| Established: | 1911 |
| Type: | Private, comprehensive, with graduate programs |
| President: | Evans P. Whitaker, Ph.D. |
| Staff: | 130 |
| Undergraduates: | 1,900 |
| Postgraduates: | 50 |
| Location: | Anderson, South Carolina, United States |
| Campus: | 68 acres, 36 buildings |
| Mascot: | Trojan |
| Website: | www.andersonuniversity.edu |
Anderson University is a selective comprehensive university located in Anderson, South Carolina, offering bachelors and masters degrees in approximately 50 areas of study. With recent advancements in enrollment growth, quality of the academic programs, overall reputation of student quality, and campus infrastructure, Anderson is increasingly known as one of South Carolina's leading private universities.
Anderson is affiliated with the South Carolina Baptist Convention, which supports the institution's identity as an academically rigorous evangelical institution. Dr. Evans P. Whitaker is the president of the University. A seasoned educational administrator of over 24 years and winner of two national awards for best dissertation of the year in 2000, President Whitaker is involved both locally and in higher education circles. Locally, he serves on several business and economic development boards. He currently serves as president of the International Association of Baptist Colleges and Universities, and a member of the executive committees of both the SC Independent Colleges and Universities and the Consortium for Global Education.
The University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Several degree programs have additional specialized accreditation: The College of Education programs are accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE); music programs are accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM); the College of Business is accredited by the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP), and the art and interior design programs are candidates for accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). Anderson is also recognized as a South Carolina Teaching Fellows institution. Anderson is ranked in the Top Tier of Southern Comprehensive Universities by U.S. News and World Report, and is consistently recognized by the Princeton Review as one of the top universities in the Southeast.
Anderson is a member of the Conference Carolinas (formerly the Carolinas-Virginia Athletic Conference) and has ten sports played by 19 teams. Anderson has won the Conference's coveted Messick Award for sportsmanship several times. It has also won the Joby Hawn All-Sports Cup.
Anderson was recognized by President Bush for being one of only two universities in South Carolina named to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. In a typical year, Anderson students contribute approximately 15,000 hours of service to numerous community human service organizations.
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[edit] History
A group of citizens from the city of Anderson, who desired to have a school of higher education their area, offered 32 acres (129,000 m²) of land and $100,000 to the South Carolina Baptist Convention at their meeting in 1910. The convention appointed a group of trustees, and Anderson College was granted a charter in 1911 by the South Carolina General Assembly. In 1912, the College opened as a four-year college for women until 1930. In 1929, the South Carolina Baptist Convention approved the institution's transition to a junior college, the first in the state. The College became a coeducational institution in 1930.
In December, 1989, the Board of Trustees voted to return the College to its status as a four-year institution, which officially began in the fall semester of 1991. This decision was subsequently affirmed by a unanimous vote of the General Board of the South Carolina Baptist Convention. The first four-year class since 1930 graduated in May, 1993.
On January 1, 2006, Anderson College officially became Anderson University. The name change was approved by the school's board of trustees and affirmed by the South Carolina Baptist Convention.
[edit] Student Body
The Anderson University student population is around 1,800 students, with a low student to faculty ratio of 13:1. The traditional student body is made up of young men and women from a variety of states including South Carolina, Missouri, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama, Virginia, Colorado, Maine, Pennsylvania, and New York, as well as many different countries including Kazakhstan, Iraq, Mongolia, Russia, Lithuania, Spain, Sweden, France, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Barbados, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Kyrgyzstan, India, and Japan. The University also serves adult students through its ACCEL (Adult College Choice for Exceptional Learning) evening college and through its graduate programs.
[edit] Global Education
Anderson emphasizes global education and promotes and facilitates students wishing to participate in semester and year long study abroad. In addition, Anderson is completing the planning stage of what promises to be one of the more novel study/travel programs in American higher education. At minimal expense to the student, the program is predicted to give every student in their junior year the opportunity to have an intensive experience studying about a particular area of the world, then visiting the area personally. The program requires advanced academic work plus various assignments that allow the professor to assess student learning while on tour.
[edit] Campus
Anderson University is situated on a 56 acre (227,000 m²) main campus with an additional 12 acres (49,000 m²) within the city limits of Anderson, South Carolina. Most of the buildings on campus are red brick, built throughout the 20th century in the Georgian architectural style. The Merritt Administration Building, Denmark Hall, and Pratt Hall were the original buildings on the Anderson University campus, being built at the time of the university's founding in 1911. The front lawn (often referred to as the "Sacred Six" acres) of Anderson University is heavily wooded with large oak trees, as is the interior of the main campus which is landscaped in a series of rising terraces. The front lawn and early buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
[edit] Contact information
- Anderson University
- 316 Boulevard
- Anderson, SC 29621
- 864-231-2000
- 800-542-3594
- 864-231-2033 (fax)
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