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58-641: Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges Wheaton College is a private Evangelical Christian liberal arts college in Wheaton, Illinois , United States. It was founded by evangelical abolitionists in 1860. Wheaton College was a stop on the Underground Railroad and graduated one of Illinois' first black college graduates. Wheaton College was founded in 1860. Its predecessor, the Illinois Institute, had been founded in late 1853 by Wesleyan Methodists as

116-426: A 45-minute train ride west of downtown Chicago. There are approximately 550 graduate students enrolled, with a 14:1 student/faculty ratio. The graduate school comprises six academic departments; Biblical and Theological Studies, Christian Formation & Ministry, Evangelism and Leadership, Intercultural Studies, Psychology, and Teaching. The Graduate School offers 14 Master of Arts programs and two doctoral programs,

174-620: A Ph.D. in Biblical & Theological Studies and a Psy.D . in Clinical Psychology . The American Psychological Association and Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation accredit graduate school programs. Five of the master's programs provide a flexible degree option. Wheaton offers a Biblical Studies program as a part-time, evening cohort model. The school offers Missional Church Movements and TESOL and Intercultural Studies in

232-580: A college and preparatory school. Wheaton's first president, Jonathan Blanchard , was a former president of Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois , and a staunch abolitionist with ties to Oberlin College . Mired in financial trouble and unable to sustain the institution, the Wesleyans looked to Blanchard for new leadership. He took on the role as president in 1860, having suggested several Congregationalist appointees to

290-519: A flood that destroyed the lower level of the Beamer Center. Wheaton College has since restored the flood-damaged building. The official student newspaper at Wheaton College is the Wheaton Record , a weekly publication with a circulation of 3400, in existence since 1876. The Record is produced by students, published by the college, and distributed each Friday after chapel free of charge. The Record

348-511: A summer-only format. The college also offers an Evangelism & Leadership the Christian Formation and Ministry – Outdoor and Adventure Ministry concentration in a year-round modular format. The library, named after college trustee Robert E. Nicholas, opened in January 1952. In 1975 Buswell Memorial Library, named for the college's third president J. Oliver Buswell, Jr., was built adjacent to

406-459: Is Blanchard Hall , a limestone building built as the main College building in 1853. At the time, the College building was one of only two on campus, the other (called the "boarding hall") being a frame building at the foot of the hill crowned by the two-story building. Jonathan Blanchard had a vision for the expansion of this structure into its present castle-like architecture. Wheaton contends that it patterns its campus architecture after buildings at

464-465: Is an internationally recognized music school and is the only conservatory within an Evangelical school of higher education. The approximately 200 students within the conservatory focus on various fields of music, including education, performance, composition, and history. Student recitals, required for graduation with a music degree, are held in the Armerding recital hall. Wheaton College is accredited by

522-461: Is important to many, underpinning their systems of thought, their behaviour and the behaviour of many of the world's progressive movements, and that 2) the great religions share values of respect, justice and compassion. But the statement also recognised that faith can be divisive, too; this is viewed by the Foundation as being based on distortions of faith rather than being intrinsic to it. The aim of

580-513: Is not formally associated with the college, although it has long been informally closely associated with the college. The college holds regular chapel services in Edman Memorial Chapel, named for V. Raymond Edman, the fourth college president, which seats 2,400. Edman died in 1967 while speaking in chapel. He was preaching about being in the presence of the King, and the recording is available in

638-522: Is one of the first African-American college graduates in Illinois. In 1882, Charles A. Blanchard succeeded his father as president of the college. In 1925, J. Oliver Buswell , an outspoken Presbyterian , delivered a series of lectures at Wheaton College. Shortly after that, President Charles Blanchard died, and Buswell was called to be the third president of Wheaton. Upon his installation in April 1926, he became

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696-658: Is ranked 3rd most LGBTQ-unfriendly campus by The Princeton Review in its 2020 rankings of the 386 American campuses that it surveys. In 2015, U.S. News & World Report ranked Wheaton College at 56 out of 265 Best National Liberal Arts Colleges. Wheaton continued to achieve high rankings in several areas of the report: Wheaton College ranked ninth in the nation in the total number of graduates (all fields) who went on to earn doctorates (from 1986 to 1995) according to Franklin & Marshall College 's latest survey, which included more than 900 private colleges and universities. Throughout 2010-2020, Wheaton College ranked 18th in

754-751: Is the most comprehensive research center for L'Engle's work. Wheaton gives students several off-campus study opportunities. The college sponsors study-abroad programs in Asia, England, France, Germany, Israel, Latin America, and Spain, as well as a summer program in Washington, D.C. Participants in Wheaton-in-England, one of the most popular annual programs, take 2–3 courses in literature while studying in London and St. Anne's College , Oxford. Many students also participate in

812-658: The American Anti-Slavery Society in 1836, at the age of twenty-five. Later in his life, after the Civil War, he began a sustained campaign against Freemasonry . This culminated in a national presidential campaign on the American Anti-Masonic Party ticket in 1884. Under Blanchard's leadership, the college was a stop on the Underground Railroad . The confirmation came from the letters of Ezra Cook, one of Blanchard's relatives by marriage, who notes that

870-859: The Council for Christian Colleges & Universities , Wheaton students may also study at the Wycliffe Hall, Oxford , the Los Angeles Film Studies Center, Excelsia College in Australia, and Xi'an Foreign Language University in China. The CCCU also sponsors programs in American studies, Latin American studies, Middle Eastern studies, Russian studies, and journalism. Wheaton dedicated the Memorial Student Center (MSC) on June 11, 1951. The college built

928-519: The Daily Telegraph , six-figure salaries to its top officials. An implied criticism was that these pay scales were in line with much larger charitable organisations. However, the wages were also reported to be the result of external recommendations and a strategy of hiring a small number of capable senior staff to co-ordinate a variety of efforts. A former editor of a Foundation website, Martin Bright ,

986-505: The Higher Learning Commission . According to The Princeton Review 's "The Best 351 Colleges", "If the integration of faith and learning is what you want out of a college, Wheaton is arguably the best school in the nation with a Christ-based worldview." Students may choose from about 40 majors in many liberal arts disciplines and the sciences. The most popular undergraduate majors, based on 2021 graduates, were: The college

1044-512: The Inklings , including C. S. Lewis's writing desk and a wardrobe from his childhood home constructed by his grandfather, widely thought to have inspired the Chronicles of Narnia series (although Westmont College also owns a wardrobe that once belonged to Lewis), Charles Williams 's bookcases, J. R. R. Tolkien 's writing desk where he wrote the entirety of The Hobbit and worked on The Lord of

1102-603: The Marion E. Wade Center , formerly housed in Buswell Library, moved to its new purpose-built home. Established in 1965 by professor of English Clyde S. Kilby, the Wade Center is an extensive research library and museum of the books and papers of seven British writers: C. S. Lewis , G. K. Chesterton , J. R. R. Tolkien , Owen Barfield , Dorothy L. Sayers , George MacDonald , and Charles Williams . The Wade Center has memorabilia of

1160-829: The Metropolitan Opera . The Artist Series at Wheaton College, operating under the umbrella of the Conservatory of Music, is a subscription concert series that brings world-class performers to the Wheaton College community. Previous Artist Series performers include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Lorin Maazel and the Symphonica Toscanini, Ladysmith Black Mambazo,

1218-578: The Underground Railroad . In 1900, Wheaton built the brick "Industrial Building". From 1917 to 1945 it housed the Wheaton Academy, and from 1945 to 1960 the Graduate School. In 1960 it was renamed Buswell Hall, and in 1980 renamed Schell Hall in honor of Edward R. Schell. Wheaton housed its science departments in Breyer ( Chemistry ) and Armerding ( Biology , Geology , Math , and Physics ) halls until

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1276-699: The 2010–11 school year when Wheaton completed a new Meyer Science Center. Armerding Hall was also the home to the Wheaton College Observatory (a feature of the college since the presidency of Charles Blanchard in the late nineteenth century), which Wheaton relocated to the Meyer Science Center. The Wheaton College Conservatory of Music, housed in the Armerding Center for Music and Arts (previously in McAlister Hall and Pierce Memorial Chapel),

1334-673: The Canadian Brass, and the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards & Band of the Coldstream Guard. The Artist Series frequently partners with Wheaton College Conservatory graduates, including the soprano Sylvia McNair and the conductor John Nelson. The Wheaton College Graduate School was founded in 1937 to provide further theological training and ministry skills. The college and graduate school are on an 80-acre campus in Wheaton, Illinois,

1392-760: The College Bookstore. Jenks Hall is home to the Arena Theater, which was established in the Fall of 1974 and has staged over 100 full-length productions. In the fall of 2004, the Todd M. Beamer Student Center opened. Beamer, a Wheaton alumnus, was part of a small group of passengers who stormed hijackers on United Flight 93 , bringing down the plane in rural Pennsylvania during the September 11, 2001, attacks , and preventing it from reaching its target. The building that bears his name

1450-659: The Foundation "inspires ridicule". He noted that Professor Michel Schooyans of the Catholic University of Leuven and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences "accused Blair and his wife of supporting a messianic US plan for world domination." The criticism's focus was that the Foundation's approach amounted to reducing the religions to the same, predetermined common denominator. This meant "stripping them of their identity". Schooyans arguing that "(t)his project threatens to set us back to an age in which political power

1508-505: The Foundation was "how I want to spend the rest of my life". The foundation listed several goals: "The foundation provides the practical support required to help prevent religious prejudice, conflict and extremism. At school, university and professional level the foundation provides various education programmes. The foundation encouraged interfaith initiatives to tackle global poverty and conflict." The Foundation's basic premises, as listed in its initial mission statement, were that 1) faith

1566-631: The Foundation was to use the tools of modern communication to "educate, inform and develop understanding" about various faiths, and the relationships between them. It aimed to do this in such a way as to address global poverty and conflict. The Foundation had several projects: Faith and Globalisation Initiative, Face to Faith (later Generation Global), Faiths Act (an activist group), and Faith Shorts (for short religious films). Faith and Globalisation Initiative launched in Yale University in September 2008

1624-495: The Foundation, given Blair's foreign-policy record. On 2 April 2009, sceptic and secularist Richard Dawkins mocked the Foundation in a spoof letter, published in the New Statesman . In it, Dawkins ridiculed the idea that faith is not a divisive force, and attacked religion's record on promoting dialogue and equality. Between April 2008 and April 2009, the foundation raised more than 3.5 million pounds, and paid, according to

1682-694: The Human Needs and Global Resources program. The HNGR program matches select students with six-month internships in the Third World , including opportunities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Wheaton also sponsors a semester-long, experiential, residential program called Wheaton in Chicago. In Chicago, students complete internships and take advanced interdisciplinary coursework. Founded in 1998, it has enrolled students from more than 20 majors. In 1935, Wheaton established

1740-492: The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics' survey of baccalaureate-origin institutions of non-Science-and-Engineering doctorate recipients. This ranking uses an institutional yield weighted by an institution's number of graduates. Forbes magazine ranked Wheaton College 75th in their annual list of 650 best undergraduate institutions and gave Wheaton a financial grade of "A". Forbes also lists Wheaton among

1798-609: The Nicholas Library, and an interior corridor linked the two, creating the college's main library. The building also contains the Peter Stam Music Library, located downstairs and named in honor of the Conservatory of Music's first head, Peter Stam. Buswell Memorial Library's physical collections contain over one million items, making Buswell the largest library collection of liberal arts colleges in Illinois. In September 2001,

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1856-731: The Piano. The MSC was remodeled during the Fall semester of 2007 for academic use and is now home to the Business Economics department, the Political Science and International Relations department, and the Wheaton College Center for Faith, Politics, and Economics. Wheaton remodeled the MSC according to the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). The MSC

1914-612: The Rings , and Pauline Baynes 's original map of Narnia . Buswell Library's special collections also include the archived correspondence, manuscripts, articles, photos, and other papers of Madeleine L'Engle , the Newbery Medal -winning author of A Wrinkle in Time . With items dating as early as 1919, the collection is composed largely of material sent to the college by L'Engle, supplemented with books and other supporting materials. The collection

1972-570: The Top 100 ROI Colleges in 2014. Wheaton College is home to a Conservatory of Music accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music. The conservatory offers two professional music degrees: the Bachelor of Music (with emphases in performance, Suzuki pedagogy, composition, history, and literature, conducting, collaborative piano, or elective studies) and the Bachelor of Music Education. All of

2030-649: The United States and the United Kingdom the opportunity to explore in depth the critical issues of how faith impacts the modern world today through different faith and cultural lenses" and that Wheaton's participation will "greatly enrich the Initiative". As of 2015, the college continued to retain its Christian "Statement of Faith and Educational Purpose" and expected public statements of its faculty members to conform to it. Wheaton's most recognizable and oldest building

2088-586: The University of Oxford which Blanchard admired on a trip to England in 1843. After four additions (1871, 1873, 1890, 1927), Wheaton completed the Main Building in 1927. That year, under college president J. Oliver Buswell, Jr., Wheaton renamed the Main Building Blanchard Hall to honor Wheaton's first two presidents, Jonathan Blanchard and his son Charles Blanchard. Blanchard Hall served as a stop on

2146-645: The Wheaton College Science Station in the Black Hills of South Dakota for field instruction in the natural sciences. In 1951, HoneyRock, the outdoor center for leadership development at Wheaton College, was established in Three Lakes, Wisconsin. HoneyRock is not only a year-round camp for young people, but it offers a variety of leadership schools and courses for students. Nearly 3,000 people utilize HoneyRock each year. Due to Wheaton's membership in

2204-548: The Wheaton chapel archives. The college also uses the chapel for many events of Wheaton's performing arts programs. In 2000, an entirely handcrafted organ made by the Casavant Organ Company of Quebec, Canada, was installed. Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges The organization celebrated its 20th Annual Conference in 2018. Northeast Midwest South West Tony Blair Faith Foundation [REDACTED] The Tony Blair Faith Foundation

2262-505: The board of trustees the previous year. The Wesleyans, similar in spirit and mission to the Congregationalists, were happy to relinquish control of the Illinois Institute. Blanchard officially separated the college from any denominational support and was responsible for its new name, given in honor of trustee and benefactor Warren L. Wheaton , who founded the town of Wheaton after moving to Illinois from New England . A dogged reformer, Blanchard began his public campaign for abolitionism with

2320-416: The center in memory of over 1,600 former students and graduates who served in World War II and in honor of those 39 who gave their lives. The center housed the Student Union Café, nicknamed "the Stupe" (which has since moved to the Beamer Center). An early pamphlet described the new building and listed some rules for its use, such as No Rook Playing and No Playing of Boogie-Woogie, Jazz, or Otherwise Abusing

2378-400: The corner of Washington and Franklin streets, was dedicated on November 15, 1925. The college also used the building for commencements and other assemblies. In 1936–37, Wheaton renamed it the Orlinda Childs Pierce Memorial Chapel. Neighboring McAlister Hall was home to the Conservatory of Music and housed conservatory faculty offices. College Church , across Washington Street from the college,

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2436-520: The films rated highest. Angela Salt was the executive director of the foundation, which was registered as charity in the UK with Tony Blair as its Patron. The trustees were Robert Clinton , Robert Coke and Jeremy Sinclair . The Foundation was also registered as a charity in the US with the following directors: Alfred E. Smith IV , Linda LeSourd Lader , Ruth Turner, Timothy C. Collins and Tony Blair . Ruth Turner , formerly Director of Government Relations within Tony Blair's Prime Ministerial office,

2494-416: The former vice president of student development, Sam Shellhammer, who retired following the 2007–08 school year after serving Wheaton's campus community for thirty years), several reading rooms and lounges, a recreation/game room, a prayer chapel, an expanded college post office, the offices for several organizations and departments, and several other event rooms. In the fall of 2006, intense rain storms created

2552-418: The late 1940s, Wheaton was emerging as a standard-bearer of Evangelicalism . By 1950, enrollment at the college had surpassed 1,600. In the second half of the twentieth century, enrollment growth and more selective admissions accompanied athletic success, additional and improved facilities, and expanded programs. In 1951, Honey Rock, a camp in Three Lakes, Wisconsin , was purchased by the college. In 2010,

2610-536: The nation's youngest college president at age 31. Buswell's tenure was characterized by expanding enrollment (from approximately 400 in 1925 to 1,100 in 1940), a building program, strong academic development, and a boom in the institution's reputation. It was also known for growing divisiveness over faculty scholarship and personality clashes . In 1940, this tension led to the firing of Buswell for being, as two college historians put it, "too argumentative in temperament and too intellectual in his approach to Christianity." By

2668-411: The public phase of "The Promise of Wheaton" campaign came to a close with $ 250.7 million (~$ 342 million in 2023) raised, an "unprecedented 5-1/2 year campaign figure for Wheaton College". In 2010, Wheaton College became the first American Associate University of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation's Faith and Globalization Initiative. Tony Blair noted that the partnership will "give emerging leaders in

2726-469: The teaching faculty in the conservatory hold doctorates. There are approximately 200 music majors in the conservatory, with a student-faculty ratio of 7:1. Music majors and liberal arts majors alike perform in the conservatory's six large ensembles: concert choir, jazz ensemble, men's glee club , symphonic band, symphony orchestra, and women's chorale. Graduates include conductor John Nelson, Grammy Award-winning American soprano Sylvia McNair, and Wendy White of

2784-521: The town and college's anti-slavery beliefs were so widely held that he, along with hundreds of other Wheaton residents, had seen and spoken with many fugitive slaves. Blanchard consistently lobbied for universal co-education and was a strong proponent of reform through strong public education open to all. At this time, Wheaton was the only school in Illinois with a college-level women's program. Also, Wheaton saw its first graduate of color in 1866, when Edward Breathitte Sellers took his degree. Additionally, he

2842-438: Was a $ 20+ million project commissioned to meet the needs of the growing college community. Along with its spacious and sleek modern design, the Beamer Center features a convenience store known as the "C-Store", the "Stupe" (the name derives from students shortening the previous nickname for the campus Student Union, "Stupid Onion", which in turn is a jocular mispronunciation of Student Union), a bakery café named "Sam's" (named after

2900-438: Was an interfaith charitable foundation established in May 2008 by former British prime minister Tony Blair . Since December 2016 its work has been continued by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change . The Foundation was launched in May 2008 in New York at the headquarters of the media group Time Warner . In his speech, Blair outlined the Foundation's aim that "idealism becomes the new realism", and that one of its goals

2958-412: Was an attempt to build a "global conversation" between an "elite group" of universities. As part of this attempt, Blair was to be the Howland Distinguished Fellow at Yale and was one of the professors for the course. Face to Faith was a programme for schoolchildren (12–17 years) which allowed via videoconferencing international interaction where cross-faith discussions may take place. The proclaimed aim

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3016-436: Was ascribed the mission of promoting a religious confession, or of changing it. In the case of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, this is also a matter of promoting one and only one religious confession, which a universal, global political power would impose on the entire world." The director of the Muslim charity Forward Thinking , Huda Jawad was reported by the BBC as raising doubts about levels of support from many Muslims for

3074-450: Was critical of the organisation and its style. He mentioned the problems associated with the need to tiptoe around some of Tony Blair's business interests in Kazakhstan, Romania and the Gulf, his advising of the new government of Egypt being "a nightmare", the organisation's use of "ritzy offices in a West End tower block", the employment of five people in a communications department "whose sole aim seemed to be to say as little as possible" and

3132-517: Was the first Chief Executive. The Foundation had an International Religious Advisory Council made up of members of what the Foundation considered to be the six major religions. Its role was to advise Tony Blair on the work of the Foundation. Its members were: Buddhism Christianity Hinduism Judaism Islam Sikhism A major contributor was Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk through his Victor Pinchuk Foundation . Hugh O'Shaughnessy in The Guardian stated that

3190-482: Was the first building renovated according to these standards and exceeded existing EPA standards. Many of the materials used were post-consumer, and over 20% of the materials were manufactured within a 500-mile (800 km) radius of the College. The MSC remodeling is part of the current capital campaign, The Promise of Wheaton. The Dining Hall (now the "Student Services Building") opened on January 4, 1953. Today it houses Student Development, Undergraduate Admissions, and

3248-531: Was the recipient of the 2006 John David Reed General Excellence Award and has received 13 other awards from the Illinois College Press Association, of which it is a member. The Record is also a member of the Associated Collegiate Press. In addition, Wheaton College has many organizations on campus that range from helping the poor and needy in Chicago to the arts and improvisation. Juniors and seniors are also eligible to live in one of thirteen campus houses, apartments (five complexes), or off-campus. The chapel, on

3306-449: Was to "counter extremism in all six leading religions" (i.e., according to the Foundation, Buddhism , Christianity , Islam , Hinduism , Judaism , and Sikhism ). Blair said that while in office, he feared being exposed as a "nutter" if he had talked about his religious views. Former US president Bill Clinton attended the launch, describing Blair as "a good man as well as a great leader". In an interview with Time magazine , Blair said

3364-500: Was to break down religious and cultural differences and thereby reduce conflict. Faiths Act was a project of the Foundation described as an attempt to build a global movement to both "inspire and mobilise" those who believe, in a faith, to address the Millennium Development Goals . The project focused on deaths from malaria . The project known as Faith Shorts was announced in March 2010 for short-length movies which increase "understanding between religions". Awards were presented for

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