DePauw University
| DePauw University | |
|---|---|
| motto | Uncommon Success Begins at DePauw |
| founding | 1837 |
| Sponsorship | Private |
| place | Greencastle |
| president | Brian W. Casey |
| Students | 2350 |
| Annual budget | $ 560 million |
| Website | www.depauw.edu |
DePauw University is a private university in Greencastle (Indiana) , in the Midwest of the United States .
The university was founded in 1837 by the Methodist Church under the name Indiana Asbury University (named after Francis Asbury , the first American bishop of the Church) and renamed in 1884 in honor of the entrepreneur Washington C. DePauw (1822-1887), the great sums donated to the university.
The number of students was 2,398 in the spring semester of 2008. As a so-called "liberal arts college " (restricted to undergraduate studies ), DePauw only offers Bachelor degrees, with an academic focus on journalism and music in addition to the humanities. The university has one of the oldest music faculties in the United States, and a journalists' association was founded on campus in 1909 (Society of Professional Journalists). Numerous successful journalists and the newspaper entrepreneur Eugene C. Pulliam (1889–1975) emerged from the university's journalism program .
DePauw University is home to the first student union for women ( sorority ) in the United States and even today around 70 percent of all students are organized in student associations. The football team (the Depauw Tigers) has held one of the oldest local rivalries in college football (the Monon Bell Classic) against neighboring Wabash College every year since 1890 . The women's basketball team became the 2007 US champions in college sports division III.
The German Chancellor Willy Brandt addressed DePauw in 1990 as part of a traditional series of lectures. Well-known graduates of the university include several journalists as well as the 1998 Nobel Prize for Medicine Ferid Murad , the former Vice President of the United States Dan Quayle , and the former member of the US House of Representatives and Vice Chair of the Commission of Investigations into the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks Lee Hamilton . Also the head of the United Nations Aid for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East Karen Koning AbuZayd, space shuttle astronaut Joseph P. Allen , the president of the US department of the Starbucks coffee house chain Jim Alling, the soprano Pamela Coburn , the suffragette Anna Elizabeth Dickinson , the chemist Percy Lavon Julian, and the writer Gene Brewer . Well-known journalists who studied at DePauw include Pulitzer Prize winner James Bennett Stewart , White House correspondent for the US Fox News Channel Bret Baier and John McWethy , who worked for ABC television .
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- ^ Website of the university on its history ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ University website for student numbers
- ^ Homepage of the Society of Professional Journalists
- ↑ University website on Traditions and Student Profile at US News 2008
- ↑ Information on the Monon Bell Classic ( memento of the original from July 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Press release from the university on the Ubben lecture series
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- University statistics from the university website
- Historical data from the university website
- Pictures of the university history from the university website
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Coordinates: 39 ° 38 ′ 29.3 " N , 86 ° 51 ′ 36.8" W.