Type Private: Liberal Arts Endowment US $58.1 million Acceptance rate 70.8% (2014) Undergraduate tuition and fees 31,754 USD (2015) Phone +1 800-597-2687 | Established 1819 Undergraduates 1,213 (2014) Mascot Scot President Tom Bogart Colors Garnet, Orange | |
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Academic staff 79, with student faculty ratio of 1/12 Location Maryville, Tennessee, United States Address 502 E Lamar Alexander Pkwy, Maryville, TN 37804, USA Notable alumni Roy Kramer, Frank Moore Cross, Kirtanananda Swami, Sen Katayama, Wiley Blount Rutledge Similar Carson–Newman University, Tennessee Wesleyan University, Averett University, Hiwassee College, Tusculum College Profiles | ||
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Maryville College is a private, four-year, liberal arts college in Maryville, Tennessee, United States, near Knoxville. It was founded in 1819 by Presbyterian minister Isaac L. Anderson for the purpose of furthering education and enlightenment into the West. The college is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the United States and the 12th-oldest institution in the South. It is associated with the Presbyterian Church (USA), and enrolls about 1,093 students. Maryville College's nickname is the Scots. The sports teams compete in NCAA Division III athletics in the USA South Athletic Conference.
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Academics
As a liberal arts school, the college promotes a well-rounded education. The school requires numerous general education courses to achieve this. The courses are taken through the conclusion of the student's education, contributing to the graduating student's becoming knowledgeable in a number of fields.
Maryville College offers the following degrees:
In addition to these majors, a number of degree programs are available for teacher licensure.
Maryville College is one of the few colleges in the nation that requires graduating students to complete a comprehensive exam in their major and conduct an extensive senior thesis.
Maryville College was ranked No. 3 in U.S. News & World Report for "Best Comprehensive-Bachelor's" category for southern colleges and universities in both 2006 and 2007.
Maryville College operates on the nontraditional 4-1-4 schedule. During January, students take a J-Term course which lasts for the month and typically incorporates experiential learning. Study abroad trips are also offered during J-term.
Founding
Maryville College was founded as the Southern and Western Theological Seminary in 1819 by Isaac L. Anderson, a Presbyterian minister. Anderson had founded a school, Union Academy, in nearby Knox County, before becoming minister at New Providence Presbyterian Church in Maryville. He expressed to his fellow clergy the need for more ministers in the community, including a request to the Home Missionary Society and an appeal to divinity students at Princeton University in 1819. The new seminary was intended to help fill this need for ministers. It opened with a class of five men, and the new school was adopted by the Synod of Tennessee and formally named the Southern and Western Theological Seminary in October 1819.
Integration
In 2004, Maryville College was recognized by the Race Relations Center of East Tennessee for its history of "contributing to improving the quality of life for all in East Tennessee". Maryville College was racially integrated from its earliest days. An ex-slave named George Erskine studied there in 1819, sponsored by the Manumission Society of Tennessee. Erskine went on to preach during the 1820s and was formally ordained by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in 1829.
Maryville College was closed during the Civil War, but, upon reopening, it again admitted students regardless of race, assisted by the Freedmen's Bureau.
When the State of Tennessee forced Maryville College to segregate in 1901, the College gave $25,000—a little more than a tenth of its endowment at the time—to Swift Memorial Institute, the college's sister school. Swift was founded by William Henderson Franklin, the first African American to graduate from Maryville College (1880). His institute educated black students during the era of imposed segregation.
After the Brown v. Board of Education decision, Maryville College immediately re-enrolled African Americans.
In 1875, Maryville College conferred the first college degree to a woman in the state of Tennessee. The recipient was Mary T. Wilson, the older sister of Samuel T. Wilson, who later served as president of the college from 1901 until 1930.
Campus
Maryville College is located in the City of Maryville, Blount County, Tennessee. Its current campus was established in 1869 on a 60-acre (24 ha) that was then on the city's outskirts. Several campus buildings were completed over the next five decades, with financial help from major institutions and philanthropists. The college's historic buildings comprise the Maryville College Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982; Anderson Hall is also separately listed on the National Register.
Buildings on campus
Campus housing
The vast majority of Maryville College students reside in one of the many on-campus residence halls, which are:
All residence halls besides Copeland, Davis, Gamble, and Gibson allow alcohol to those of age.
Campus improvement plan
In 2010 Maryville College finished the construction of the Clayton Center for the Arts. This new CCA building is home to a large theatre, a flex theatre, and also classrooms and offices for professors of Maryville College. There are also plans to renovate Anderson Hall beginning June 2013. The renovations will focus on the interior and are estimated to be completed by August 2014.
Features of the college
The college's heating system started as an experiment by the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Department of Energy and the College in 1982. Coinciding with the World's Fair in Knoxville, the experiment tested the efficiency of burning wood waste as an energy source. Tours of the plant and demonstrations were held at the College.
The college's oldest building, Anderson Hall, built in 1870, is currently used as a classroom building. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Crawford House is LEED Gold certified, and it is the oldest of 5 existing buildings to be made so in Tennessee.
Student organizations
Athletics
Maryville College sponsors 13 varsity sports under the guidelines of the NCAA Division III. Varsity sports include men's and women's soccer, men's and women's cross country, volleyball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's tennis, baseball, and softball. Maryville competed in the Great South Athletic Conference, with football competing in the USA South Athletic Conference. As of fall 2012, all teams are competing in the USA South Athletic Conference. Maryville College played in the first Tangerine Bowl in 1947, losing 31–0 to Catawba College.
Weekend programs
The East Tennessee Japanese School (イーストテネシー補習授業校 Īsuto Teneshī Hoshū Jugyō Kō), a weekend Japanese education program, holds its classes at the college.
Prominent alumni
Alma mater
Where Chilhowee's lofty mountains
Pierce the southern blue
Proudly stands our Alma Mater,
Noble, grand, and true.
CHORUS:
Orange, garnet, float forever,
Ensign of our hill!
Hail to thee, our Alma Mater,
Hail to Maryville!
As the hilltop crowned with cedars
Ever green appears,
So the memory fresh shall linger
Through life's smiles and tears.
— CHORUS —
Lift the chorus, wake the echoes,
Make the welkin ring!
Hail the queen of all the highlands,
Loud her praises sing!
— CHORUS —