WESTMINSTER COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA

'Westminster College' is a liberal arts college located in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1852, it is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA).

Contents

Overview

Programs

Athletics

Publications

Staff-produced

Student-produced

Greek Life

Fraternities

Sororities

Notable alumni

External links

Overview

Westminster is located in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, a relatively small town 50 miles north of Pittsburgh and 80 miles south of Erie and Cleveland on a 300 acre campus. With an undergraduate enrollment of about 1,450 consisting of 42% male and 58% female, Westminster bills itself as "one of the country's finest liberal arts colleges." It has been rated by U.S. News and World Report as one of America's Best Colleges, is on the Princeton Review's 351 Best Colleges list, and has been called a "character building college" by the Templeton Guide.
Westminster formed as a result of a meeting between the Ohio and Shenango Presbyteries who desired to create a college that endorsed the values of Christianity while at the same time focusing on the emotional, educational, and social development of its students.

Programs

Westminster offers the following programs (listed by their department):

★ 'Biology department:' Biology, Molecular biology

★ 'Chemistry department:' Chemistry, Biochemistry

★ 'Communication Studies, Theater, and Art department:' Broadcast communications, Fine art, Media art, Communications, Theater

★ 'Education department:' Elementary Education (Secondary education is offered as a minor combined with a certifiable major)

★ 'Economics and Business department:' Accounting, Business Administration, Economics

★ 'English department:' English, Public Relations

★ 'Modern Languages department:' Spanish, French

★ 'Math and Computer Science department:' Mathematics, Computer Information Systems, Computer Science

★ 'Music department:' Music Education, Performance, Sacred Music, Liberal Arts

★ 'Physics department:' Physics

★ 'Political Science and Sociology department:' Political Science, Sociology

★ 'Psychology department:' Psychology

★ 'Religion, History, Philosophy and Classics department:' Christian Education, History, Latin, Philosophy, Religion
In addition to these majors, the college offers an ''Exploratory'' major, which allows freshmen and sophomores to take a variety of classes from many disciplines in order to find the field which most interests the student, and an ''Individual Interdiscipinary'' major, which allows students to essentially construct their own program.

Athletics

The Westminster Titans compete in NCAA Division III athletics. Before moving to the NCAA, Westminster competed in the NAIA for several years. The Titans are a member of the Presidents' Athletic Conference, and compete in:

★ Baseball (men)

★ Men/Women's Basketball

★ Men/Women's Cross Country

★ Football (men)

★ Men/Women's Golf

★ Men/Women's Soccer

★ Men/Women's Swimming

★ Men/Women's Tennis

★ Men/Women's Track and Field

★ Volleyball (women)

★ Softball (women)

Publications

Staff-produced

★ ''Westminster College Magazine'' - a quarterly magazine detailing on-campus and alumni activities

★ ''Westminster Weekly'' - a weekly e-mail to alumni, parents, students and other subscribers, containing announcements and press releases

Student-produced

★ ''The Holcad'' - weekly student-run newspaper

★ ''Argo'' - student-run yearbook

★ ''Scrawl'' - student-run yearly literary magazine

Greek Life

Fraternities

★ Phi Kappa Tau

★ Alpha Sigma Phi

★ Theta Chi

★ Sigma Nu

★ Sigma Phi Epsilon

★ Alpha Phi Omega

Sororities

★ Phi Mu

★ Kappa Delta

★ Sigma Kappa

★ Alpha Gamma Delta

★ Zeta Tau Alpha

Notable alumni

★ Amber (Brkich) Mariano, winner of '', wife of Rob Mariano.

★ Thomas C. Cochran, congressman, R-PA, 70th - 74th Congresses (1927-1935)

★ Harold Davis, College Football Hall of Famer 2004

★ William N. Johnston, president, Iowa Wesleyan College, June 2002 - present

★ Tim Kaiser, producer, ''Seinfeld'' and ''Will & Grace''

★ James Kennedy, congressman, R-OH, 58th - 61st Congress (1903-1911)

★ Gerald LaValle, Pennsylvania State Senator, (1990 - present)

★ Byron K. Lichtenberg, astronaut, STS-9 and STS-45 ''(honorary alumnus)''

★ Deborah Platt Majoras, chairman, Federal Trade Commission, August 2004 - present

★ Andrew J. McKelvey, chairman and CEO of Monster.com, December 1996 - October 2006

★ J. R. Miller, Christian author, Editorial Superintendent of the Presbyterian Board of Publication

★ Samuel Henry Miller, congressman, R-PA, 47th, 48th and 64th Congress (1881-1885, 1915-1917)

★ Benjamin M. Palmer, South Carolina native, first national moderator of the Presbyterian Church, longtime pastor of First Presbyterian of New Orleans

★ M. Richard Rose, former President of Alfred University and the Rochester Institute of Technology

★ R. C. Sproul, theologian and founder of Ligonier Ministries

External links

★ Official website