Muhlenberg College
| Muhlenberg College | |
|---|---|
| founding | 1848 |
| Sponsorship | Private |
| place | Allentown, Pennsylvania , United States |
| interim president | Kathleen Harring |
| Students | 2150 (2007) |
| Employee | 161 full-time / 109 part-time |
| including professors | 85% Ph.D. |
| Annual budget | 115 million US $ (2009) |
| Website | www.muhlenberg.edu |
Muhlenberg College is a US private college founded in 1848. The college is located in Allentown , Pennsylvania and employs nearly 200 full-time staff. Muhlenberg College is close to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America , but places great value on religious tolerance.
The college has approximately 2,100 students and is known for its English, psychology, theater, and dance courses.
The name of the college goes back to Henry Melchior Mühlenberg , a patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America .
Well-known graduates
- Richard Ben-Veniste, attorney, chief prosecutor in the Watergate affair .
- Frank Buchman , theologian
- Frederick Busch , author, Fairchild Professor of Literature at Colgate University
- Kam-Kam Cheng, singer and actress, female lead in the Broadway musical Miss Saigon .
- David Fricke, editor at Rolling Stone magazine.
- Fred Ewing Lewis , politician in the US House of Representatives
- David Massenheimer, actor, male lead in the Broadway musical Les Misérables .
- Robert David Steele, author.
Web links
Footnotes
- ^ Muhlenberg College> Office of the President. Retrieved November 23, 2019 .
Coordinates: 40 ° 35 ′ 51.8 " N , 75 ° 30 ′ 34.9" W.