Maryville College

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Maryville College
Anderson Hall at Maryville College.jpg
Anderson Hall at Maryville College
Former names
Southern and Western Theological Seminary (1819–1842)
Type Private liberal arts college
Established1819;205 years ago (1819)
Endowment $113.1 million (2022) [1]
President Bryan Coker
Academic staff
79, with student faculty ratio of 12:1
Undergraduates 1,147 (all undergraduate) (2024) [2]
Location,
U.S.
Campus Suburban, 320 acres (130 ha)
Colors Orange and garnet
Nickname Scots
Sporting affiliations
NCAA Division III Collegiate Conference of the South
MascotScots
Website www.maryvillecollege.edu

Maryville College is a private liberal arts college in Maryville, Tennessee. 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 1,100 students. Its mascot is the Scots, and sports teams compete in NCAA Division III athletics in the Collegiate Conference of the South.

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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 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.

U.S. News & World Report in its Best Colleges ranks Maryville #3 in Regional Colleges South, #1 in Best Colleges for Veterans, and #2 in Best Undergraduate Teaching. [1]

History

Anderson Hall Maryville College Anderson Hall 1870.JPG
Anderson Hall

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. [3]

After receiving its charter from the Tennessee General Assembly in 1842, the school adopted its current name: Maryville College. [4]

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". [5] 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. [6]

Maryville College was closed during the Civil War, but, upon reopening, it again admitted students regardless of race, assisted by the Freedmen's Bureau. [7]

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 in 1954, 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.[ citation needed ]

Campus

Maryville College Historic District
Area18 acres (7.3 ha)
ArchitectMultiple
Architectural styleColonial Revival, Queen Anne, Romanesque
NRHP reference No. 82003953 [8]
Added to NRHPSeptember 9, 1982
Thaw Hall, home of the library and the Social Science majors Thaw Hall at Maryville College (Maryville, TN, USA).JPG
Thaw Hall, home of the library and the Social Science majors

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. [9] 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. [8]

Buildings on campus

Campus housing

The vast majority of Maryville College students reside in one of the many on-campus residence halls, which are:

Carnegie Hall, built in 1910 Maryville College Carnegie Hall 1910.JPG
Carnegie Hall, built in 1910

All residence halls besides Copeland, Davis, Gamble, Gibson, and Pearsons allow alcohol to those of age.

Campus improvement plan

In 2010 Maryville College finished the construction of the Clayton Center for the Arts. [11] This new CCA building is home to a large theatre, a flex theatre, and also classrooms and offices for professors of Maryville College. [12] 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. [13]

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.[ citation needed ]

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 an LEED Gold certified building, and it is the oldest of 5 existing buildings to be made so in Tennessee.

Athletics

Maryville College sponsors 17 varsity sports under the guidelines of NCAA Division III. They are a founding member of the Collegiate Conference of the South (CCS) after they split with Maryville's former conference USA South. They still are affiliate members in USA South for Football and Women's Golf.

Maryville plans to move to Southern Athletic Association in the 2026-27 academic year.

Men's sportsWomen's sports
BaseballBasketball
BasketballCross country
Cross countryGolf
Football Soccer
GolfSoftball
SoccerStunt
TennisTennis
Track and fieldTrack and field
Volleyball
† – Track and field includes both indoor and outdoor.

Maryville also sponsors a varsity women's equestrian team; while that sport is recognized by the NCAA as part of its Emerging Sports for Women program, Division III has yet to incorporate equestrian into the Emerging Sports program. Finally, Maryville lists its female cheerleaders (but not its male cheerleaders) and all-female dance team as varsity teams on its athletic website.

Football

The Maryville Scots football team was the second sponsored sport at Maryville, started in 1889 by Maryville Scots Athletics Hall of Fame member, Kin Takahashi, who served as team captain, quarterback, and head coach from 1892 to 1897. [14]

In football, Maryville played in the 1947 Tangerine Bowl – the inaugural playing of what is now the Citrus Bowl – losing 31–6 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. [15] It opened in August 1989, [16] as the Blount County (ブラントカウンティ [17] ) Japanese School. In 1990 the school used Maryville students as volunteer instructors; according to Kumiko Franklin, the principal, there were 40 such volunteers applying for four positions. [16]

Notable alumni

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