Wittenberg University, located in Springfield, Ohio, United States is a private, four-year liberal arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The college serves 2,100 full-time students (45% male, 55% female), representing 40 states and approximately 36 foreign countries. The university represents a racial mix of 78.5% White, non-Hispanic, 5% African-American and 1% Hispanic; the remainder are unclassified. The Unive...
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Wittenberg University, located in Springfield, Ohio, United States is a private, four-year liberal arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The college serves 2,100 full-time students (45% male, 55% female), representing 40 states and approximately 36 foreign countries. The university represents a racial mix of 78.5% White, non-Hispanic, 5% African-American and 1% Hispanic; the remainder are unclassified. The University is best known for its music department and its athletic endeavors. Wittenberg is also distinguished by its strong interdisciplinary programs such as East Asian Studies and Russian Area Studies.
Wittenberg college was founded in 1845 by a group of pastors in the English Synod of the Lutheran Church. Its main focus was to train clergy. Reverend Ezra Keller was the principal founder and first president. One of its mission was to "Americanize" Lutherans by teaching courses in English instead of German, unlike Capital University in Columbus,...
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