Wheaton College is a private Evangelical Protestant, coeducational, liberal arts college in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb 25 miles (40 km) west of Chicago in the United States. Some regard it as the finest of the Evangelical colleges with respect to its reputation of academic rigor.
Wheaton College is listed in Loren Pope's Colleges That Change Lives.
Wheaton College was founded in 1860. Its predecessor, the Illinois Institute, had been founded in ...
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Wheaton College is a private Evangelical Protestant, coeducational, liberal arts college in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb 25 miles (40 km) west of Chicago in the United States. Some regard it as the finest of the Evangelical colleges with respect to its reputation of academic rigor.
Wheaton College is listed in Loren Pope's Colleges That Change Lives.
Wheaton College was founded in 1860. Its predecessor, the Illinois Institute, had been founded in late 1853 by Wesleyan Methodists as 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 the board of trustees the previous year. The Wesleyans, similar in spirit and mission to the...
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