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Former names | School for the Prophets (1851–1853) Cedar Rapids Collegiate Institute (1853–1875) Coe College Institute (1875–1881) [1] |
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Motto | "Veritas Virtusque" (Truth and Virtue) |
Type | Private |
Established | 1851 |
Religious affiliation | Presbyterian Church (USA) |
Endowment | $77.9 million [2] |
President | David Hayes |
Academic staff | 128 full-time and 39 part-time (Fall 2021) [3] |
Undergraduates | 1,394 (all undergraduate) [3] |
Location | , , United States |
Campus | 70 acres (280,000 m2) |
Colors | Crimson and gold |
Nickname | Kohawks |
Website | www |
Coe College is a private liberal arts college in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It was founded in 1851 and is historically affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA). The college is a member of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest and the Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities.
Coe College was founded in 1851 by Rev. Williston Jones as the School for the Prophets. [4] [5] While canvassing churches in the East to raise money for students to attend Eastern seminaries, Jones met a farmer named Daniel Coe, who donated $1,500 and encouraged Jones to open a college in Cedar Rapids. Coe's gift came with the stipulation that the college should offer education to both men and women, and when the Cedar Rapids campus opened in 1853 as the Cedar Rapids Collegiate Institute, it was a co-educational institution. [4] In 1875, the college was reestablished as Coe College Institute and in 1881, after a private donation from T. M. Sinclair, founder of the Sinclair Meat Packing Company, was finally founded as Coe College.
Coe was accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools in 1907. In 1910, Presbyterian clergyman John Abner Marquis became president and initiated a period of growth that lasted for several years; [6] Marquis was a sought-after speaker and served as Moderator in the Presbyterian Church, its highest office. [7]
Coe College awards the following degrees: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Music (B.M.), and Bachelor of Science in Nursing (B.S.N.). Coe offers more than 60 areas of study and provides the option for students to create their own major under the guidance of faculty members. Its three most popular majors, based on 2021 graduates, were Business Administration and Management (36), Psychology (35), and Biology/Biological Sciences (27). [8]
Coe College has 21 men's and women's athletic teams and is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division III. Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field, and wrestling; women's sports include basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field, and volleyball. Coe also supports five Co-Ed athletic teams. They include Archery, Cheer, Dance, Clay Target and Esports. Their athletic team name is the Kohawks, a stylized bird; the college mascot is known as Charlie Kohawk.
Stewart Memorial Library contains more than 202,000 books and other materials. The library also features gallery spaces showing work by Iowa artists Marvin Cone, Conger Metcalf, and Grant Wood. [9]
In 1972, a study found that Coe students had traditional values which were often in harmony with those of their parents. [10]
Coe has an active Greek social community with four fraternities and five sororities. [11]
Coe's Writing Center (CWC) is the largest undergraduate student-run writing center in the nation, with over 60 undergraduates on staff. [12] It opened in 1986. The CWC now conducts over 2,000 student conferences a year. The CWC produces and distributes several small campus publications.
Cedar Rapids is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of Iowa and the county seat of Linn County. The city lies on both banks of the Cedar River, 20 miles (32 km) north of Iowa City and 128 miles (206 km) northeast of Des Moines, the state's capital. It is a part of the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City region of Eastern Iowa, which includes Linn, Benton, Cedar, Iowa, Jones, Johnson, and Washington counties.
Curt Menefee is an American broadcaster who hosts the Fox Network's NFL pregame show Fox NFL Sunday. He is also the co-anchor of Good Day New York on Fox's New York City flagship station, WNYW.
Wilmer Dale Elfrink was an American football and basketball coach.
Conger Metcalf (1914–1998) was an American painter.
Marvin McNutt, Jr. is a former American football wide receiver and current wide receivers coach at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He played college football for the Iowa Hawkeyes, where he became the all-time leader in receiving touchdowns and yardage. He was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the sixth round of the 2012 NFL draft. McNutt was also the head coach of the Cedar Rapids Titans of the Indoor Football League (IFL) for the 2017 season, and the general manager in 2018.
Ira Thomson Carrithers was an American football and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at Alma College (1908–1909), Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois (1910–1912), and Lake Forest College (1914), compiling a career college football record of 22–17. Carrither was also the head basketball coach at Knox (1910–1913), Lake Forest, and Coe College (1915–1924), amassing a career college basketball mark of 91–118.
The 1922 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts—now known as Iowa State University—during the 1922 college football season. The Cyclones were coached by Sam Willaman and played their home games at State Field in Ames, Iowa. The Cyclones first game was a loss to Coe and their last game was a 54–6 loss to the Nebraska Cornhuskers in Lincoln. The Cyclones finished with a record of 2–6.
Moray Leon Eby was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Coe College from 1914 to 1942. Eby played college football at the University of Iowa from 1897 to 1900. He was the captain of the 1899 Iowa Hawkeyes football team.
Glenn Drahn is a former American football player and coach. He was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the 1951 NFL Draft. After serving as a high school coach in Belle Plaine, Iowa, Drahn was the head football coach at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa from 1960 to 1970, compiling a record of 49–39–2. He was also the head baseball coach at Coe from 1967 to 1970, tallying a mark of 18–33.
Harris A. Lamb was an American football, basketball, and track coach. He served as the head football coach (1931–1941) and head basketball coach at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio. He also coached track at Ohio Northern. Lamb to his alma mater, Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to serve as the head football coach (1945–1947) and head basketball coach (1942–1952).
Frank Louis Tinkham was an American college football and college basketball coach.
The 1927 Coe Kohawks football team represented Coe College as a member of the Midwest Conference (MWC) during the 1927 college football season. Led by 14th-year head coach Moray Eby, the Kohawks compiled an overall record 4–3–1 with a mark of 3–2 in conference play, placing third in the MWC. The team played home games at Coe Field in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The 1952 Iowa State Teachers Panthers football team represented Iowa State Teachers College in the North Central Conference during the 1952 college football season. In its 15th season under head coach Clyde Starbeck, the team compiled a 5–2 record and won the conference championship. The team played its home games at O. R. Latham Stadium in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Byron Gordon McKeeby (1936-1984) was an American artist, educator and master printmaker known primarily for lithography. McKeeby's interest dovetailed with a burgeoning contemporary community in advancing lithography as an art form. He was active in all form of print exhibition. He built a full scope printmaking department of rank at the University of Tennessee that exists today.
Kingston Stadium is a football stadium in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Kingston Stadium is located southwest of downtown Cedar Rapids, adjacent to Veterans Memorial Stadium and ImOn Ice Arena. Opened September 12, 1952, it was named for a settlement called Kingston established in 1839 on the west side of the Cedar River which was later annexed into Cedar Rapids.
The 1946 Midwest Conference football season was the season of college football played by the nine member schools of the Midwest Conference (MWC), formally known as the "Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference", as part of the 1946 college football season.
The 1955 Coe Kohawks football team represented Coe College as a member of the Midwest Conference (MWC) during the 1955 college football season. Led by Dick Clausen in his eighth and final season as head coach, the Kohawks compiled a perfect overall record of 8–0 with a mark of 7–0 in conference play, winning the MWC title.
The 1952 Coe Kohawks football team represented Coe College as a member of the Midwest Conference (MWC) during the 1952 college football season. Led by fifth-year head coach Dick Clausen, the Kohawks compiled an overall record of 7–1 with a mark of 6–0 in conference play, winning the MWC title. Coe played home games at the newly opened Kingston Stadium in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The 1922 Coe Kohawks football team represented Coe College as a member of the newly-formed Midwest Conference (MWC) during the 1922 college football season. Led by ninth-year head coach Moray Eby, the Kohawks compiled a perfect overall record of 7–0 with a mark of 2–0 in conference play, sharing the MWC title with Lawrence and Millikin. The team held every opponent to seven or fewer points, including a 24–0 shutout against Iowa State, and outscored all opponents by a total of 136 to 20.
McKeeby earned degrees from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois; and Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and he received the Tamarind Teacher-Student Fellowship with the prominent lithographer Garo Antreasian during the summer of 1965.