Trevecca Nazarene University

Trevecca Nazarene University

Seal of Trevecca Nazarene University
Motto Esse quam videri
Motto in English "To be, rather than to seem"
Established 1901
Type Private
Religious affiliation Nazarene
Endowment US $14.8 million[1]
President Dan Boone
Students 2,345
Undergraduates 1,312
Postgraduates 1,033
Location Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Campus Urban
Former names Literary and Bible Training School for Christian Workers (1901-1911), Trevecca College (1911-1934), Trevecca Nazarene College (1934-1995)
Colors Purple and white         
Athletics NAIA (TSAC)
Sports Baseball, basketball, cheerleading, golf, soccer, softball, and volleyball
Nickname Trojans
Mascot Troy Trevecca
Affiliations CCCU, SACS
Website www.trevecca.edu

Trevecca Nazarene University (TNU) is a private Christian liberal arts college located in Nashville, Tennessee.

Contents

History

TNU was founded in 1901 by Cumberland Presbyterian minister J. O. McClurkan as the "Pentecostal Literary and Bible Training School".[2] Part of the Pentecostal Alliance,[3] it started offering bachelor's degrees in 1910, and the school's name was changed to Trevecca College for Christian Workers in 1911,[3] after the Coleg Trefeca. The school was located in downtown Nashville until 1914, when it was moved to East Nashville on Gallatin Road. In 1917, the campus suffered a disastrous fire, and its students and faculty temporarily transferred to Ruskin Cave College.[4] That same year, the school begrudgingly became an official college of the Church of the Nazarene, in order to save itself financially.[5] Shortly after it had become a Nazarene institution, it absorbed the Southeastern Nazarene College of Georgia, but still found itself in bankruptcy and forced to sell its campus by 1932.[2]

After occupying a temporary space on the former campus of the defunct Walden University on White's Creek, it was unable to buy the property and relocated to the Nashville First Church of the Nazarene, taking on the name Trevecca Nazarene College (TNC) in 1934.[2] In 1935, the college moved back to its present location on Murfreesboro Road in southeast Nashville, where it once again leased and then took over the 7-acre campus of Walden University in 1937.[6] President A. B. Mackey bought an adjoining 40-acre (160,000 m2) plot for himself and later transferred it to the college.[2] It was first accredited in 1969 and began offering master's degrees in 1984. In 1995, the school's name was changed from Trevecca Nazarene College to Trevecca Nazarene University (TNU). In 1999, Trevecca offered its first doctoral degree (an EdD), and in 2011, added its first PhD degree (in clinical counseling).[7]

Affiliation

TNU is one of eight U.S. liberal arts colleges[8] affiliated with the Church of the Nazarene.[9] TNU is the college for the "Southeast Region" of the United States,[10] comprising the Kentucky, Tennessee, East Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama North, Alabama South, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, North Florida, Central Florida, and Southern Florida districts, which include Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and part of Kentucky.[11] Each college receives financial backing from the Nazarene churches on its region; part of each church budget is paid into a fund for its regional school. Each college or university is also bound by a gentlemen's agreement not to actively recruit outside its respective "educational region."[12] TNU has been accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools since 1969.[13]

Campus

Trevecca has a 65 acre campus in an urban neighborhood environment, located about 3 miles from downtown Nashville.[14] The campus of Trevecca includes not only the Nazarene University, but also Trevecca Community Church of the Nazarene, pastored by Dr. Dwight M. Gunter, II,[15] and Trevecca Towers, a Christian retirement community.[16]

University Life

Academics

TNU is organized into four schools: Arts and Sciences, Business and Management, Education, and Religion. Each of these schools is separated into divisions or departments. Most of the degrees offered by TNU are traditional bachelor's degrees in 53 different majors. The management and human relations degree is a non-traditional undergraduate degree geared toward working adults. The associate's degree, the master's degree, a doctor of philosophy degree, and a doctor of education degree are also available.[17]

The 2009 acceptance rate for students who applied to the college was 69.3 percent. The most popular degrees at Trevecca are business, management, marketing, and related support services; biological and biomedical services; education; visual and performing arts; and philosophy and religious studies. The freshman retention rate (freshman who continue their education at Trevecca after the first year) was 70.5% as of 2010. Over 72% of classes at Trevecca have fewer than 20 students.[14]

Student life

There were 2,345 students at the college in Fall 2010, 975 of whom were traditional undergraduates.[17] Of the entire student body, 44% were male, and 56% were female (as of 2010).[14] The majority of undergraduate students live on campus in residence halls or apartment-style housing and dine on campus in the Hub (fast-food service), the Cube (a sandwich shop), or, most of the time, in the Apple Dining Hall, which was remodeled before the 2010-11 school year. Students participate in spiritual life activities throughout the school year and summers, including chapels three times a week (a number of which each semester are required for all undergraduates), local community service projects, mission trips both in the US and around the world, MERGE small groups (each designed for specific types of spiritual growth and learning), and other spiritually formational activities.[18]

Student activities

Trevecca has organizations such as the Residence Hall Association and the Student Government Association that are in charge of planning and hosting many social life events. Events that have gained the most popularity among the student body would be Friday Night Live (a rendition of the popular skit show Saturday Night Live), Trojan Idol, and the Songwriter's Challenge. Since many of these events cost money to produce, there is a need for an admission fee. Student Life Activities Pass (SLAP) cards are sold by the Student Government Association at the beginning of every school year for discounts at on-campus events and around the Nashville area to offset this cost.

In addition to SGA and RHA, TNU has a large number of student organizations and groups, including ministry-related clubs, service organizations, political and social interest clubs, and clubs or ensembles for many individual majors.[19]

Trevecca has cooperative agreements with other local universities for programs not available directly through Trevecca, including the Army ROTC at Vanderbilt University, which offers a commission in the Army as well as a degree from Trevecca once the bachelor's program at TNU and the ROTC program at Vanderbilt are both successfully completed. Trevecca and Vanderbilt also have a joint program allowing students interested in marching band to participate in the Vandy band during Vanderbilt's football season.[20]

Athletics

TNU is a member of the TranSouth Athletic Conference of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Division I and competes in baseball, basketball, golf, soccer, softball, cross country, and volleyball. In July 2011, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) announced that Trevecca had been approved for the Division-II membership process. TNU continues to compete in both the NAIA and TSAC conferences throughout the 2011-12 school year while beginning the possible 3-year transition.[21] In addition to intercollegiate sports, TNU also has a cheerleading team and holds competitions in a variety of intramural sports, including flag football, softball, and beach volleyball.

Faculty

As of fall 2010, Trevecca employed 106 full-time faculty members, bringing the student to faculty ratio to 14:1.[22]

Notes and references

  1. ^ As of June 30, 2009. "U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2009 Endowment Market Value and Percentage Change in Endowment Market Value from FY 2008 to FY 2009" (PDF). 2009 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments. National Association of College and University Business Officers. http://www.nacubo.org/Documents/research/2009_NCSE_Public_Tables_Endowment_Market_Values.pdf. Retrieved February 5, 2010. 
  2. ^ a b c d Called Unto Holiness Vol. 2 by Westlake Taylor Purkiser. Kansas City: Nazarene Publishing House, 1983.
  3. ^ a b Raser, Harold E.; Thomas C. Hunt, James C. Carper, eds. (1996). Religious Higher Education in the United States. Taylor & Francis. p. 549. ISBN 0815316364. http://books.google.com/books?id=lxr_PID7o2IC&printsec=frontcover&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
  4. ^ Looking beyond the highway: Dixie roads and culture edited by Claudette Stager, Martha Carver. Copyright 2006 University of Tennessee Press.
  5. ^ Called Unto Holiness by Timothy Smith, Kansas City: Nazarene Publishing House, 1962
  6. ^ Bobby L. Lovett, "Walden University (1868-1925)", A Profile of African Americans in Tennessee History, Nashville: Tennessee State University, 1995.
  7. ^ [1]
  8. ^ LIBERAL ARTS AND THE PRIORITIES OF NAZARENE HIGHER EDUCATION by J. Matthew Price, Ph.D.. Eastern Nazarene College is the only Nazarene institution to retain the "college" moniker. Different states hold different standards for university status, but none of the Nazarene "universities" are research universities. Rather, Nazarene higher education is based on the liberal arts model.
  9. ^ Nazarene Educational Regions
  10. ^ Eastern and Northwest are the only Nazarene schools to use their regional names. Trevecca is the name of an historic Wesleyan school in Wales (see History). Although TNU is the college for the traditional American "South," the school for the "South Central Region" was curiously changed from Bethany Nazarene College to Southern Nazarene University in 1988.
  11. ^ Southeast Region
  12. ^ Guidelines and Handbook for Educational Institutions of the Church of the Nazarene. Church of the Nazarene International Board of Education. 1997. p. 14. http://www.nazarene.org/files/docs/guide.pdf. 
  13. ^ SACS Member, Candidate and Applicant List
  14. ^ a b c "Trevecca Nazarene University". Guide to Best Colleges. U.S. News and World Report. http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/trevecca-nazarene-university-3526. Retrieved 2011-09-08. 
  15. ^ [2]
  16. ^ [3]
  17. ^ a b "Quick Facts". Trevecca Nazarene University. http://www.trevecca.edu/about/quick-facts. Retrieved 2011-09-08. 
  18. ^ "Spiritual Life". Trevecca Nazarene University. http://www.trevecca.edu/campus-life/residence-life/campus-dining. Retrieved 2011-09-08. 
  19. ^ "Student Organizations". Trevecca Nazarene University. http://www.trevecca.edu/campus-life/community-life/student-organizations. Retrieved 2011-09-08. 
  20. ^ "Student Organizations". Trevecca Nazarene University. http://www.trevecca.edu/admissions/life-at-trevecca/campus-life-faq. Retrieved 2011-09-08. 
  21. ^ [4]
  22. ^ [5]

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