Trevecca Nazarene University

Trevecca Nazarene University

Seal of Trevecca Nazarene University
Former names
 Literary and Bible Training School for Christian Workers (1901-1911), Trevecca College (1911-1934), Trevecca Nazarene College (1934-1995)
Motto Esse quam videri
Motto in English
 "To be, rather than to seem"
Type Private
Established 1901
Affiliation Nazarene
Endowment US $22.3 million[1]
President Dan Boone
Students 2,406 fall 2013
Undergraduates 1,492 fall 2013
Postgraduates 914 fall 2013
Location Nashville, Tennessee, United States
36°08′34″N 86°45′11″W / 36.142680°N 86.753110°W / 36.142680; -86.753110Coordinates: 36°08′34″N 86°45′11″W / 36.142680°N 86.753110°W / 36.142680; -86.753110
Campus Urban
Colors Purple and white         
Athletics NCAA Division II (G-MAC)
Sports 15 intercollegiate sports
Nickname Trojans
Mascot Troy Trevecca
Affiliations CCCU, SACS
Website www.trevecca.edu

Trevecca Nazarene University (TNU) is a private Christian liberal arts college in Nashville, in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

History

The Waggoner Library

TNU was founded in 1901 by Cumberland Presbyterian minister J. O. McClurkan as the "Pentecostal Literary and Bible Training School".[2] Part of the Pentecostal Alliance,[3] it started offering bachelor's degrees in 1910, and the school's name was changed to Trevecca College for Christian Workers in 1911,[3] after the Coleg Trefeca in Wales. The school was located in downtown Nashville until 1914, when it was moved to East Nashville on Gallatin Road. In 1917, the campus suffered a disastrous fire, and its students and faculty temporarily transferred to Ruskin Cave College.[4] That same year, the school became an official college of the Church of the Nazarene, in order to save itself financially.[5] Shortly after it had become a Nazarene institution, it absorbed the Southeastern Nazarene College of Georgia but still found itself in bankruptcy and forced to sell its campus by 1932.[2]

After occupying a temporary space on the former campus of the defunct Walden University on White's Creek, it was unable to buy the property and relocated to the Nashville First Church of the Nazarene, taking on the name Trevecca Nazarene College (TNC) in 1934.[2] In 1935, the college moved back to its present location on Murfreesboro Pike in southeast Nashville, where it once again leased and then took over the 7-acre campus of Walden University in 1937.[6] President A. B. Mackey bought an adjoining 40-acre (160,000 m2) plot for himself and later transferred it to the college.[2] It was first accredited in 1969 and began offering master's degrees in 1984. In 1995, the school's name was changed from Trevecca Nazarene College to Trevecca Nazarene University (TNU). In 1999, Trevecca offered its first doctoral degree (an EdD), and in 2011, added its first PhD degree (in clinical counseling).[7]

Affiliation

TNU is one of eight U.S. liberal arts colleges[8] affiliated with the Church of the Nazarene.[9] TNU is the college for the "Southeast Region" of the United States,[10] comprising the Kentucky, MidSouth, East Tennessee, Alabama North, Alabama South, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Southern Florida districts, which include Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and part of Kentucky.[11] Each college receives financial backing from the Nazarene churches on its region; part of each church budget is paid into a fund for its regional school. Each college or university is also bound by a gentlemen's agreement not to physically recruit outside its respective "educational region."[12] TNU has been accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools since 1969.[13]

Campus

Trevecca has a 65+ acre campus in an urban neighborhood environment, located about 3 miles from downtown Nashville.[14] The campus of Trevecca Nazarene University is part of the Trevecca Community, which includes other entities that are adjacent to the campus: Trevecca Community Church of the Nazarene;[15] Trevecca Towers, a Christian retirement community;,[16] and Trevecca Healthcare.

University life

Academics

Trevecca is organized into four schools: Arts and Sciences, the Skinner School of Business and Technology, Education, and the Millard Reed School of Theology and Christian Ministry. Each of these schools is divided into departments. Most of the degrees offered by TNU are for traditional undergraduates; however, Trevecca offers bachelor's degrees in 86 baccalaureate majors, two associate degree majors, 20 master's degrees, two doctorates, and 6 certificate programs. Included as a master's degree discipline is their distinguished physician assistant program which was founded in the 1970s. The management and human relations degree is a non-traditional undergraduate degree for working adults. The associate's degree, the master's degree, a doctor of philosophy degree, and a doctor of education degree are also available.[17]

The 2013 acceptance rate for students who applied to the college was 68 percent. The most popular degrees at Trevecca are business, management, marketing, and related support services; biological and biomedical services; education; visual and performing arts; and philosophy and religious studies. The freshman retention rate (freshman who continue their education at Trevecca after the first year) was 76 percent as of 2013.

Student life

There were 2,606 students at the college in fall 2014, 1115 of whom were traditional undergraduates.[17] The undergraduate population was composed of 486 males and 629 females (as of fall 2014).[14] While Trevecca is affiliated with the Church of the Nazarene, as of fall 2014, less than 40 percent of traditional undergraduate students are Nazarene. The majority of undergraduate students live on campus in residence halls or apartment-style housing and dine on campus in the Hub (fast-food service), the Cube (a sandwich shop), or, most of the time, in the Apple Dining Hall, which was remodeled before the 2010-11 school year. Students participate in spiritual life activities throughout the school year and summers, including chapels three times a week (a number of which each semester are required for all undergraduates), local community service projects, mission trips both in the US and around the world, MERGE small groups (each designed for specific types of spiritual growth and learning), and other spiritually formational activities.[18]

Student activities

Trevecca has organizations such as the Student Government Association that are in charge of planning and hosting many social life events. Events that have gained the most popularity among the student body would be Friday Night Live (a rendition of the popular skit show Saturday Night Live), Trojan Idol, and the Songwriter's Challenge. Since many of these events cost money to produce, there is a need for an admission fee. Student Life Activities Pass (SLAP) cards are sold by the Student Government Association at the beginning of every school year for discounts at on-campus events and around the Nashville area to offset this cost.

In addition to SGA, TNU has a large number of student organizations and groups, including ministry-related clubs, service organizations, political and social interest clubs, and clubs or ensembles for many individual majors.[19]

Trevecca has cooperative agreements with other local universities for programs not available directly through Trevecca, including the Army ROTC at Vanderbilt University, which offers a commission in the Army as well as a degree from Trevecca once the bachelor's program at TNU and the ROTC program at Vanderbilt are both successfully completed. Trevecca and Vanderbilt also have a joint program allowing students interested in marching band to participate in the Vandy band during Vanderbilt's football season.[20]

Athletics

Trevecca is a member of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II and competes in baseball, basketball, golf, soccer, softball, cross country, track, and volleyball. In July 2011, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) announced that Trevecca had been approved for the Division-II membership process. TNU discontinued competing in the NAIA and TSAC conferences following the 2011-12 school year. Beginning the a 3-year transition.[21] In addition to intercollegiate sports, Trevecca also has a cheerleading team and holds competitions in a variety of intramural sports, including flag football, softball, and beach volleyball.

The new conference that Trevecca is competing in as of the 2012-2013 season is the Great Midwest Athletic Conference. The G-MAC is homes to Cedarville University, Central State University, Kentucky Wesleyan College, Urbana University, and Ursuline College. Trevecca currently competes in the National Collegiate Athletics Association in the Mid-East Region.

Faculty

As of fall 2013, Trevecca employed 104 full-time faculty members, bringing the student to faculty ratio to 16:1.[22]

Notable Alumni

Notes and references

  1. ↑ As of June 30, 2013. "U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2009 Endowment Market Value and Percentage Change in Endowment Market Value from FY 2008 to FY 2009" (PDF). 2009 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments. National Association of College and University Business Officers. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Called Unto Holiness Vol. 2 by Westlake Taylor Purkiser. Kansas City: Nazarene Publishing House, 1983.
  3. 1 2 Raser, Harold E. (1996). "Church of the Nazarene Universities, Colleges, and Theological Seminaries". In Hunt, Thomas C.; Carper, James C. Religious Higher Education in the United States. Taylor & Francis. p. 549. ISBN 0-8153-1636-4.
  4. ↑ Looking beyond the highway: Dixie roads and culture edited by Claudette Stager, Martha Carver. Copyright 2006 University of Tennessee Press.
  5. ↑ Called Unto Holiness by Timothy Smith, Kansas City: Nazarene Publishing House, 1962
  6. ↑ Bobby L. Lovett, "Walden University (1868-1925)", A Profile of African Americans in Tennessee History, Nashville: Tennessee State University, 1995.
  7. ↑
  8. ↑ LIBERAL ARTS AND THE PRIORITIES OF NAZARENE HIGHER EDUCATION by J. Matthew Price, Ph.D.. Eastern Nazarene College is the only Nazarene institution to retain the "college" moniker. Different states hold different standards for university status, but none of the Nazarene "universities" are research universities. Rather, Nazarene higher education is based on the liberal arts model.
  9. ↑ Nazarene Educational Regions
  10. ↑ Eastern and Northwest are the only Nazarene schools to use their regional names. Trevecca is the name of an historic Wesleyan school in Wales (see History). Although TNU is the college for the traditional American "South," the school for the "South Central Region" was curiously changed from Bethany Nazarene College to Southern Nazarene University in 1988.
  11. ↑ Southeast Region
  12. ↑ Guidelines and Handbook for Educational Institutions of the Church of the Nazarene (PDF). Church of the Nazarene International Board of Education. 1997. p. 14.
  13. ↑ SACS Member, Candidate and Applicant List
  14. 1 2 "Trevecca Nazarene University". Guide to Best Colleges. U.S. News and World Report. Retrieved 2011-09-08.
  15. ↑
  16. ↑
  17. 1 2 "Quick Facts". Trevecca Nazarene University. Retrieved 2011-09-08.
  18. ↑ "Spiritual Life". Trevecca Nazarene University. Retrieved 2011-09-08.
  19. ↑ "Student Organizations". Trevecca Nazarene University. Retrieved 2011-09-08.
  20. ↑ "Student Organizations". Trevecca Nazarene University. Retrieved 2011-09-08.
  21. ↑
  22. ↑
  23. ↑ "Dr. Jesse Middendorf". Retrieved 2015.
  24. ↑ "Stipe Miocic UFC Bio". Retrieved 2014.

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