Asbury University is a private Christian university in Wilmore,Kentucky. Although it is a non-denominational school,the college is aligned with the Wesleyan-Holiness movement and is a member of the Wesleyan Holiness Connection. The school offers 50-plus majors across 17 departments. In the fall of 2016,Asbury University had a total enrollment of 1,854:1,640 traditional undergraduate students and 214 graduate students. The campus of Asbury Theological Seminary,which became a separate institution in 1922,is located across the street from Asbury University.
The Wesleyan Church,also known as the Wesleyan Methodist Church and Wesleyan Holiness Church depending on the region,is a Methodist Christian denomination in the United States,Canada,the United Kingdom,South Africa,Namibia,Sierra Leone,Liberia,Indonesia,and Australia. The church is aligned with the Wesleyan-Holiness movement and has roots in the teachings of John Wesley. It adheres to Wesleyan-Arminian doctrine and is a member of the World Methodist Council.
Virginia Wesleyan University (VWU) is a private university in Virginia Beach,Virginia. The university is nonsectarian but historically affiliated with The United Methodist Church. It enrolls 1,607 students annually in undergraduate and graduate programs,355 students at LUJ/VWU Global (Japan),and 1,403 in VWU Online. Virginia Wesleyan transitioned from a college to a university in 2017.
Vanderbilt Peabody College of Education and Human Development is the education school of Vanderbilt University,a private research university in Nashville,Tennessee. Founded in 1875,Peabody had a long history as an independent institution before merging with Vanderbilt University in 1979. The school is located on the Peabody Campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville. The academic and administrative buildings surround the Peabody Esplanade and are southeast of Vanderbilt's main campus.
Wesleyan University-Philippines (WU-P) is a private,sectarian,and non-profit higher education institution run by the United Methodist Church (UMC) in Cabanatuan,Nueva Ecija,Philippines. It was founded in 1946 as the Philippine Wesleyan College. It is named after John Wesley,the founder of Methodism. The university offers preschool,grade school,high school undergraduate,and graduate programs. It also initiated the Support for the Handicapped and their Rehabilitation through Education (SHARE) Program,the first school in Central Luzon to integrate hearing-impaired students into mainstream classes.
Gerald Lee Baliles was a Virginia lawyer and Democratic politician whose career spanned great social and technological changes in his native state. The 65th Governor of Virginia,the native of Patrick County previously served as the Commonwealth's attorney general (1982–85),and represented Richmond and Henrico County in the Virginia House of Delegates (1972-1982). After another stint in private legal practice,with Hunton &Williams (1991-2005),Baliles directed the nonpartisan Miller Center of Public Affairs associated with his alma mater,the University of Virginia (2006-2014).
West Virginia Wesleyan College is a private college in Buckhannon,West Virginia. It has an enrollment of about 900 students from 35 U.S. states and 26 countries. The school was founded in 1890 by the West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and is currently affiliated with the United Methodist Church. West Virginia Wesleyan College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.
Kingswood University is an evangelical Christian university associated with the Wesleyan Church,located in Sussex,New Brunswick,Canada. It is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of the Association for Biblical Higher Education. It is chartered by the province of New Brunswick and authorized to confer degrees in church-related education. The university is also registered with the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada,the Association of Christian Schools International,and the Christian Higher Education Canada (CHEC).
Dennis Henry Holtschneider is president of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities.
Ferrum College is a private college in Ferrum,Virginia. The college was established in 1913 as the Ferrum Training School for primary and secondary education to serve the mountain communities of rural Southwest Virginia.
Kenneth Lee Carder is a retired American bishop of the United Methodist Church,elected in 1992. Carder distinguished himself as a pastor,a member of Annual Conference and General U.M. agencies,a bishop,seminary professor,and an author.
William N. Johnston became the 16th president of Wesley College (Delaware) in June 2008 and retired in July 2015. Previous to this post Johnston served as the 27th president of Iowa Wesleyan College for six years,and as a lower level administrator at Bethany College in Bethany,West Virginia,Davis &Elkins College in West Virginia,West Virginia Wesleyan College,and Ashland University in Ohio.
Leontine Turpeau Current Kelly was an American bishop of the United Methodist Church. She was the second woman elevated to the position of bishop within the United Methodist Church,and the first African American woman.
Scott Jameson Jones is an American bishop of the Global Methodist Church and former bishop of the United Methodist Church,elected in 2004,serving until his retirement and subsequent resignation from the episcopal office and transfer to the GMC in 2023. He was born in Nashville,Tennessee and raised in Illinois,Indiana and Colorado.
Kenneth Cooper Alexander is an American politician currently serving as mayor of Norfolk,Virginia.
The Wesley Wolverines football program was the intercollegiate American football team for Wesley College located in Dover,Delaware. The team last competed in the NCAA Division III and were members of the New Jersey Athletic Conference. The Wesley football program was founded in 1888,being one of the first teams to play in Delaware. The program did not play from 1890–1892,1911–1925,and 1932–1952. After more than 130 years in existence,Wesley football was discontinued in 2021.
Jane Leach is a British Methodist minister and academic,who specialises in pastoral theology. Since September 2011,she has served as Principal of Wesley House,a Methodist theological college in Cambridge. She was also President of the Cambridge Theological Federation from 2015 to 2016.
North American Association of Methodist Schools,Colleges and Universities (NAAMSCU) is a private,not-for-profit organization of colleges and universities associated with the United Methodist Church. The UMC has more colleges,universities,theological schools and preparatory schools related to it than any other Protestant denomination,and 107 schools are currently listed as meeting the approved guidelines of the University Senate.
William Thomas Greer Jr. was the third president of Virginia Wesleyan College and was named president emeritus upon his retirement in 2015.
Marylouise Fennell (1939–2022) was an American religious sister,educator,and academic administrator. She was the president of Carlow University from 1982 to 1989.
