Eastern Nazarene College
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The Eastern Nazarene College (or ENC) is a private, coeducational college of the liberal arts and sciences
in Quincy, Massachusetts
near Boston
, in the New England
region of the United States
. Known for its strong religious
affiliation, distinctive liberal arts
core curriculum
, and excellence in science and religion education. Its academic programs are primarily undergraduate, with some professional
graduate education offered. The residential campus
, in Wollaston Park near Quincy Bay
, is served by the Wollaston MBTA station
, and was once the summer home of Boston
mayor
Josiah Quincy, Jr.
Established as a holiness
college in Saratoga Springs, New York
in 1900, it was relocated to Massachusetts
in 1919.
On September 25, 1900, several come-outer
Methodist
clergy
and laymen
affiliated with the 19th century Holiness movement
opened a co-educational collegiate institute
at the Garden View House in Saratoga Springs, New York
. In a time when pentecostal did not hold the same meaning as it does today
, but rather served as a synonym for holiness, it was named the Pentecostal Collegiate Institute
(PCI) and established for the purpose of providing liberal education
and ministry
training in a preparatory academy
, four-year college, and theological
seminary
. PCI operated under the auspices of the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America (APCA), a loose association
of Wesleyan
-holiness churches from eastern Canada
down to the Middle Atlantic, and its own board of education
, with Lyman C. Pettit
as its first president. PCI was also accredited by the New York State Education Department
's Board of Regents
of the University of the State of New York
and was given state funding because a public school did not exist there at the time. In 1901, the institute changed locations in Saratoga Springs, from the Garden View House to the former Kenmore Hotel.
were delayed, however. There was a falling out between Pettit and the APCA, and the school re-opened on September 16, 1902, in North Scituate, Rhode Island, without a post-secondary curriculum. Having been the originator of the idea for establishing PCI and having already surveyed the Rhode Island location, Fred A. Hillery
had purchased the North Scituate campus on behalf of the association. Its Greek Revival buildings were originally designed for the Smithville Seminary in 1839 by Russell Warren
, the leading Greek Revival architect in New England
in the 19th century, but had been unused since the Lapham Institute closed in 1876. Attendance became multi-denominational after the move, only one-quarter to one-third of the student body being affiliated with the school's supporting denomination during any given academic year. In 1907, the APCA merged with the Church of the Nazarene
, and PCI became one of the first three schools chosen to be officially affiliated with the Nazarenes in 1908.
In 1917, it was decided to re-establish the liberal arts college, and on June 14, 1918, the Eastern Nazarene College was chartered with degree
-granting authority in the state of Rhode Island
, while secondary education
would remain as the Eastern Nazarene Academy. Choosing a new name, however, would be difficult: the school was now a liberal arts college and a Nazarene institution. Candidates included: "Northeastern Nazarene College", "Bresee Memorial College", "Nazarene College of the Northeast
", and "Nazarene College and Bresee Theological Institute". General Superintendent
John W. Goodwin
can be credited with the chosen name, as he wrote to Hiram F. Reynolds, also a general superintendent and a long-time supporter of the school: "I know you will do your best for our New England College. I should be glad if they would change the name to the Eastern Nazarene College, or something like that. It would seem we must have a school there, although it moves along hard and slow."
. The founders wanted the new college to be located near either Harvard or Yale
, for its graduates to attend graduate school
at one or the other; Quincy won out over New Haven, Connecticut
because the educational standards were known to be higher in Massachusetts
and because president-elect Fred J. Shields
would only accept the position if the college were to be located near Boston. At the time of its purchase, the 12 acres (48,562.3 m²) property consisted of the Josiah Quincy Mansion (1848), built by Josiah Quincy, Jr.
where Angell Hall now stands, a classroom building called the Manchester (1896), the stables (1848) on the site where Memorial Hall was built in 1948, and the Canterbury (1901), which is now Canterbury Hall. From the captain's walk of the mansion, Wollaston Bay was clearly visible down to the "ships entering and leaving the port of Boston." The former Rhode Island campus was purchased in 1920 by William S. Holland, who moved his Watchman Institute
there in 1923.
The trustees of the college were incorporated by the state in 1920, by which time its liberal arts
identity had been "quite firmly established," but it took another decade to gain bachelor of arts
degree-granting power from the commonwealth. President Floyd W. Nease
appealed directly to the General Court of Massachusetts, and defended his petition before the Joint Committee on Education and the House and Senate on January 28, 1930, calling on financial records, campus improvement plans, and prominent community leaders; the bill passed in both houses and was signed by Governor Frank G. Allen
on March 12, 1930. The news reached the college the following afternoon. The next year under President R. Wayne Gardner
, the trustee
s made a statement reaffirming that the college would remain "distinctly interdenominational and cosmopolitan in service."
The college seal, designed by alumnus
Harold G. Gardner and symbolically incorporating the college motto
, Via, Veritas, Vita
, was adopted by the trustees on the recommendation of the president and the student body in 1932, along with a college banner to display the emblem
s of Verbum
, Lux
, Spiritus
, Crux
. The college had been chartered in 1918 with a school of music
, President Gardner secured certification for the college as a teacher-training institution with the Massachusetts Department of Education
in 1933, and the college would institute a graduate
program in theology
starting in 1938, thus becoming one of only two Nazarene schools to offer anything beyond a bachelor of arts
before 1945. Evolutionary biology was taught in the classroom at least as early as 1937, and on May 8, 1941, Governor Leverett Saltonstall
approved Eastern Nazarene to grant bachelor of science
degrees. ENC also had a cooperative degree program in engineering with Northeastern University by 1943.
Under President Gideon B. Williamson on December 3, 1943, the Eastern Nazarene College gained accreditation
from the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, and became the second Nazarene college to ever gain institutional accreditation. ENC was also admitted to the Association of American Colleges in 1944, and an affiliation with Quincy City Hospital for nurses' training began in that same year. Eastern Nazarene was soon dubbed "Our Quincy's College" by the Quincy Patriot Ledger and has since maintained good town and gown
relations with the city. The Eastern Nazarene Academy would close after 1955, and starting in 1956, professors Timothy L. Smith
and Charles W. Akers
began to establish a community college
for the city of Quincy. In 1964, the graduate course in theology was discontinued and replaced with a master's degree
program in religion. The college archives were created in 1963 and the first history of the college, spanning from 1900 to 1950, was published by James R. Cameron
in 1968.
Under President Irwin in 1977, there arose plans to relocate the college to a 125 acres (505,857.5 m²) parcel of land in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, by purchasing the faltering Charles E. Ellis School for Girls. The proposed move was very unpopular among students and members of the Quincy community, even Governor Michael Dukakis
urged to administration to reconsider, but the relocation never took place because the college was outbid for the land by a corporation that wanted to establish an industrial park
there. In 1981, graduate degree offerings were expanded, and an accelerated program for working adults was started in 1990. In 1991, a report issued by the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts (AICUM) determined that the college contributed nearly $10 million to the local economy and brought in an estimated $7 million from outside the state. In 1992, President Kent Hill
approved a policy to only hire Christian
professors at the college, a move that initially stirred some controversy in the media but was meant for the hiring of new faculty rather than the dismissal of then-current faculty, and was deemed by the American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU) to be reasonable according to civil rights
laws. A second history of the college, spanning from 1950 to 2000, was started in 1993.
In 1995, the college tried relocating once more, this time by purchasing the former 56 acres (226,624.2 m²) campus of the Boston School for the Deaf in Randolph, Massachusetts
from the Sisters of St. Joseph
, but the deal fell through despite support from the town selectmen. Instead, the college began to expand at other locations in Quincy, buying a piece of land along Hancock Street later that year, and the year after that purchasing an adjoining parcel along Old Colony Avenue, which had once been home to a Howard Johnson's
candy factory and executive offices. In 1997, the college extended beyond the metro Boston area for the first time when it started a learning annex in central Massachusetts to serve as part of its adult studies division. The Old Colony Campus (OCC), as the new site on Old Colony Avenue had come to be named, was renovated and expanded into the Adams Executive Center. The Cecil R. Paul
Center for Business was founded at the Old Colony location in 1999, and the James R. Cameron
Center for History, Law, & Government was added in 2005. In 2001, just before the end of his second term, then-president Kent R. Hill
was appointed the new Global Health Administrator for USAID. In 2008, ENC established satellite campus
es in Boston
, Brockton
, Fall River
, and Swansea
, Massachusetts
. In 2010, Eastern Nazarene College was ranked in the top tier for northern U.S. regional colleges in U.S. News & World Report
's Best Colleges report. It was also ranked 28th overall (specifically 25th in number of graduates going on to earn PhD
s and 11th in number of alumni serving in the Peace Corps
, relative to college size) by the Washington Monthly College Guide for baccalaureate
colleges nationally in 2010.
The 21 acres (84,984.1 m²) main campus of the Eastern Nazarene College is situated in the Wollaston Park neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts
. The Wollaston Park campus is roughly 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southeast from the Boston
city line
and 6 miles (9.7 km) south of downtown Boston, just over 1 miles (1.6 km) north of Quincy Center, 0.5 mile (0.80467 km) northeast of the Wollaston T station
, and 0.25 mile (0.402335 km) southwest from Wollaston Beach
. ENC purchased the Wollaston Park property, then a 12 acres (48,562.3 m²) parcel, from the former Quincy Mansion School for Girls for $50,000 in 1919, and has added to it over the years. The Mount Wollaston
land belonging to the Quincy family had been broken up into prestigious building lots and named Wollaston Park during in the late 19th century, to become one of Boston's first commuter neighborhoods, and the area remains primarily residential
. The campus is also a registered arboretum
, named the Babcock Arboretum after Vernor J. Babcock and dedicated in 1993. The alma mater
, set to the tune of "Annie Lisle
" with lyrics written by former president Edward S. Mann, not only refers to Quincy Bay but also the existence of the elm
trees for which Elm Avenue was named, all of which died with the onset of Dutch elm disease
in the early to mid-20th century. The college has historically maintained good town and gown
relations with the Quincy community, and the campus has been home to the Anglican Parish of Saint George, established by the Anglican Mission in America, since 2009.
The Quincy Mansion
(1848) purchased by the college in 1919 was demolished in 1969. Its chandelier
s were sold for food during the Great Depression
. It was once part of the Quincy family homestead along with the Dorothy Quincy House and the Josiah Quincy House
, on a 200 acre (0.809372 km²) parcel of land known as the "Lower Farm". The mansion itself was situated on the land where Angell Hall now stands, and was the summer home of Josiah Quincy, Jr.
, then mayor of Boston. It was three stories and white, in Georgian architecture
, with marble fireplaces in most of the rooms and large French windows on the first floor that "opened upon either little balconies or broad piazza
s." Elm Avenue had been the avenue, or driveway, for the two mansions on the property. The first of the two, the Josiah Quincy House (1770), still stands on Muirhead Street.
Both Gardner Hall (1930), originally named the Fowler Memorial Administration Building after Charles J. Fowler, and the original Floyd W. Nease Library (1953), now the Bower-Grimshaw Center for Institutional Advancement, were designed by Wesley Angell. Gardner Hall was designed in the Classical
or Colonial Revival
mode. Gardner is brick, three stories on a high granite basement, and capped by a parapet
balustraded in the center. Corners are articulated with brick quoins
. The fenestration is symmetric with double sash windows at regular intervals, trimmed in white, topped with flared brick lintels and a white keystone
. It also features a two-story balustraded Doric
portico
of fluted cast stone column
s. The portico is the backdrop for commencement
ceremonies. The main entrance, at the end of wide stairs, is pilastered and topped with a bracketed entablature, which frames an arched glass opening. The side elevations have projecting stair towers, which indicate the site of a central hall running the length of the building. Originally rectangular in form, the 1953 addition of the then-Nease Library in the rear bestowed upon it a T-configuration.
Memorial Hall (1948) holds the distinction of the only building on campus, other than the pre-existing Canterbury Hall (1901), not to be named for any one individual. Rather, it was built as a memorial to those who had served in the Second World War. Over two hundred alumni had served, and six students had given their lives.
for the construction of a new middle school
.
In addition to its campuses in Quincy, the college established a learning annex called the Auburn Learning Center in Auburn, Massachusetts
in 1997 to function as part of the Leadership Education for Adults Division, and added satellite campuses in Boston
, Brockton
, Fall River
, and Swansea
, Massachusetts
in 2008.
is, historically, one of the Nazarenes' most important emphases, and the Nazarenes provide their colleges with "students, administrative and faculty leadership, and financial and spiritual support.... the college, while not a local congregation, is an integral part of the church; it is an expression of the church." Originally founded under the auspices of the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America, ENC was one of the first three schools officially chosen to be Nazarene institution in 1915, making it the oldest continuously operating educational institution affiliated with the Nazarenes. As one of eight Nazarene liberal arts college
s in the United States, the college receives financial backing equivalent to a $40 million endowment
from its constituent churches. Eastern Nazarene is also bound by a gentlemen's agreement
not to actively recruit outside its respective educational region, which extends southwest from Maine
as far as Pennsylvania
and Virginia
in the United States and provides trustee
s for the college. The institution is otherwise largely independent, having been multi-denominational since 1902, and tuition
-driven, with an actual endowment of only US $
11,015,937. The president and trustees of the college determined in 1931, one year after gaining its charter to grant degrees in Massachusetts, that it is part of the college's mission to be "distinctly interdenominational and cosmopolitan in service." Students are not required to profess any religion
, but faculty members are required to be Christians.
, the Pentecostal Collegiate Institute, was accredited by the New York State Education Department
's Board of Regents
of the University of the State of New York
upon its founding in 1900. When it was first chartered in 1918, the Eastern Nazarene College was granted the authority to grant baccalaureate degrees in Rhode Island
, and was later chartered with that same authority in Massachusetts
in 1930. Teacher education
was recognized by the Department of Education of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
in 1933 and is also approved by the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification and the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, as well as benefitting from the Interstate Certification Compact for all teacher education programs, which allows graduates to teach in 44 states
and the District of Columbia. ENC gained institutional accreditation
from the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges
(NEASC) in 1943, and the social work
program has been accredited by the Council on Social Work Education
since 1979. Eastern Nazarene joined the Association of American Colleges in 1944, has been a member of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities
(CCCU) since 1982, and is also a member of both the Council of Independent Colleges
(CIC) and the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities
(NAICU).
According to some of the college's earliest and most influential figures, the Eastern Nazarene College has always existed with the idea in mind that one can be a Christian and an intellectual
scholar: Bertha Munro, the first dean
of the college and a Boston University
, Radcliffe
, and Harvard
alumna, is often quoted as having said that "there is no conflict between the best in education and the best in Christian faith" and former history professor Timothy L. Smith
, a University of Virginia
and Harvard alumnus
who began his career at ENC, is widely considered the first evangelical Christian to gain academic prominence, while ENC alumnus and physicist Karl Giberson
has worked to address the Creation-Evolution controversy
and was Executive Vice President of the BioLogos Foundation
until May, 2011. Though it makes no religious requirements of its students, Eastern Nazarene has required that its faculty members be Christian since 1993. The school currently has three college divisions: the Traditional Undergraduate Division, the Adult Studies Division (often called the Leadership Education for Adults Division, or LEAD), and the Graduate Division. There were 1,075 students enrolled at the college in 2007, 927 of whom were undergraduate and 148 of whom were graduate students. Admission is selective on a rolling deadline
and the 2007 acceptance rate for students who applied to the college was 61.7 percent.
and bachelor's
(bachelor of arts
and bachelor of science
) liberal arts
degrees in 50 major
s, with 57 minor
s and 6 pre-professional programs for a combined total of 80 programs of study, including dual degree programs with Northeastern University and the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
leading to the doctor of pharmacy
. In addition to co-operative programs and internship opportunities around Boston, Eastern Nazarene provides a number of intercollegiate and off-campus programs at 56 Nazarene
institutions of higher education
around the world. Students may also participate in the "Best Semester" study abroad program, and ENC offers an additional semester-long program in Romania
. The college uses a "4-1-4 system" for its academic year: there are two full semesters
in the Fall
and Spring, each roughly four months long, and a one-month term in January known as "J Term".
Eastern Nazarene emphasizes a blend of faith and other pursuits, from biology to business, and has won the John Templeton
award for science-and-religion education. The undergraduate curriculum at Eastern Nazarene was developed in 1919 by the first dean of the college, Bertha Munro, and originally modeled after the curricula at Radcliffe College
and Boston University
. A revision that introduced the Cultural Perspectives core sequence is very distinctive and comprises a series of interdisciplinary courses on Western culture that encourages students to ponder the "tensions and possibilities" in the relationships between the Christian faith and societal values. The traditional undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio at Eastern Nazarene is 11:1, and graduates on average have a 94 percent acceptance rate into medical school
as well as a 100 percent acceptance rate into law school
.
In addition to traditional undergraduate education, the college offers continuing education
for working adults through the Leadership Education for Adults Division (LEAD). Accelerated programs have been in place since 1990, and now include bachelor's degree completion (bachelor of arts and bachelor of science degrees) and associate's degree
s (the associate of arts degree) as well as certificates in paralegal
studies (CPS) and human resource management
(CHRM). The college also maintains 2+2 programs and articulation
agreements with junior college
s in the surrounding geographical area, like the agreements with Bristol
, Massasoit
, and Roxbury Community College
s. Most LEAD classes are held at the Old Colony Campus or at one of the four satellite campus
es for reasons of transportation and accessibility, such as parking space, which is limited at the main campus, and access to public transportation via the Wollaston T Station
, located on Beale Street where it intersects with Old Colony Avenue.
Current graduate offerings from the Graduate Division are primarily master's degrees (master of science
and master of education
). Eastern Nazarene first offered graduate work in theology in 1938, then replaced it with a master's degree in religion in 1964, and added master's degrees in business, education, and psychology in 1981.
In 2006, students from 21 countries and 31 U.S. state
s were attending Eastern Nazarene. ENC is 24 percent ethnically diverse, the highest diversity rate among the eight Nazarene liberal arts colleges, and black student
enrollment rose from 4.9 to 15 percent between 1997 and 2007. Eastern Nazarene has always been co-educational, and most of the traditional undergraduate population lives on campus. Undergraduate students at ENC are typically affiliated with approximately 30 different Christian denomination
s (the largest representations being Nazarene, Baptist
, Catholic
, and non-denominational
), while 35 percent of the student population had no reported denominational or religious affiliation.
No student is required to be Christian
to attend the Eastern Nazarene College, but each traditional undergraduate student, upon registering, agrees to what is called a Lifestyle Covenant: to, among other things, "abstain from the use of illegal drugs, alcohol and tobacco, and to avoid attendance at bars, clubs, or other activities or places of entertainment that promote themes of inappropriate sexuality, violence, profanity, pornography or activities demeaning to human life." The Student Handbook also specifies that "No person shall engage in sexual acts with anyone other than a spouse." While some guidelines might appear to be "relic
s from another era," according to the Boston Globe, the Globe has also noted that other prominent Christian colleges uphold these ideals, and that Eastern Nazarene is known for being a progressive "trendsetter" with a "slightly more liberal
bent" than its peers. The John Templeton Foundation
has also cited the Eastern Nazarene College as one that builds character
, and the Quincy Patriot Ledger has said that the school's "deep religious roots make for a quiet campus and good neighbors."
There are no fraternities or sororities on campus, but there are Greek "societies". Until 2002, there were four societies based on intramural sports competition, which included the "Kappa
Cougars", the "Sigma
Stallions", and the "Zeta
Warriors". New societies were formed in 2007 and originally numbered eight but were reduced to four again in 2008. Current membership is primarily based on residency, but includes faculty and staff.
There has been an Honors Scholar Society since 1936, and there are various national honors societies (Phi Alpha Theta
for history majors, Phi Delta Lambda for Nazarene scholars, Psi Chi
for psychology majors, etc.). Students participate in the Student Government Association (SGA), Class Council, Students for Social Justice, academic clubs (Beta Phi Mu
Shrader Club, Biology Club, History Club, etc.), and club sports. The student-run newspaper
is "The Veritas News", since 1933 and regularly published since 1936, and the student-developed yearbook
has been the Nautilus since 1922.
There are vocal
and instrumental
ensembles
, including the A Cappella Choir, which was formed in 1938, and Chamber Singers
, Gospel
Choir, Symphonic Winds
, and Jazz
Band, among several others. The college also has a student theatre
organization. There exist both campus-oriented and community-oriented ministries like as "Open Hand, Open Heart", which ministers to the homeless of Boston by providing food, clothing, and blankets. In addition to its study abroad programs, ENC also provides missions opportunities through a program known as "Fusion". Locally, environmental management students have been involved in community cleanup programs and archaeological investigations around Quincy.
, field hockey
, and a very successful men's volleyball club). These and other campus sports, such as J-Term basketball, men's wrestling
, men's football
, powder puff football, and indoor soccer
, are organized by the Student Government Association's (SGA) Rec. Life director.
Intercollegiate athletics at ENC first began in 1959 with wins over Gordon
, Curry
, and Barrington College
s in baseball. Varsity
sports are National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA) Division III, The Commonwealth Coast Conference (TCCC), and Eastern College Athletic Conference
(ECAC). Along with NNU
, ENC is one of only two Nazarene colleges to compete in the NCAA. Men's varsity sports include baseball
, basketball
, cross-country
, soccer, and tennis
. Women's sports include basketball, cross-country, soccer, softball
, tennis, and volleyball
. When NAIA
-affiliated, Eastern Nazarene regularly won the basketball tournament hosted by The King's College at Briarcliff Manor, New York
. The college also won the ECAC Division III Championship in 1996 and went to the NCAA Division III Sweet 16
in 2000.
Eastern Nazarene's athletic nickname
is "Lions". From 1959 until 2009, the athletic moniker was "Crusaders". The college colors are red
and white
. Bradley Field is named in honor of Carroll Bradley, one-time professional baseball
player and the first athletic director
at Eastern Nazarene, and the LaHue Physical Education Center at ENC also serves as a clinical site
for Northeastern University.
s for staff and married students, in addition to suite
s for upperclassman females and males. Each dormitory houses a common area, known as a parlor, where students of both sexes are welcome. Student use these parlors extensively for social events and study groups during the week.
The Mann Student Center houses The Commons for sit-down meals cafeteria
-style, as well as The Dugout for meals in a café-type atmosphere. The latter is a popular location for social gathering, as is the adjacent "Colonel's Coffee House", which, ironically, is not a place where coffee
is served. Chapel
services for undergraduate students, which are 40 minutes long, are offered on Wednesdays and Fridays. Attendance for most chapels is required for most undergraduates. The services take place in the Wollaston Church of the Nazarene, located on the corner of East Elm Avenue and Wendell Avenue, adjacent to the campus of the college.
, Edward S. Mann
, and Stephen W. Nease
were all ENC alumni and presidents of Eastern Nazarene College. Russell V. DeLong
served two non-consecutive terms as president of Northwest Nazarene College in Nampa, Idaho
, and also served as president of Pasadena College. John E. Riley
, Kenneth H. Pearsall
, and A. Gordon Wetmore
also served as presidents of NNC. Stephen Nease and Gordon Wetmore later served as presidents of the Nazarene Theological Seminary
in Kansas City, Missouri
. Stephen Nease was also the president of Bethany Nazarene College in Bethany, Oklahoma
and the founding president of Mount Vernon Nazarene College in Mount Vernon, Ohio
. William Henry Houghton
was the fourth president of the Moody Bible Institute
in Chicago
, Illinois
, and Charles W. Akers
was the first president of Quincy Junior College (QJC) in Quincy, Massachusetts
. Alumnus Donald Young, Samuel Young's son, would also become a president of Quincy College.
Lawrence Yerdon is the president of the Strawbery Banke
Museum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
. He also served 1986-2004 as president of the Hancock Shaker Village
in Pittsfield, Massachusetts
and was director of the Quincy Historical Society
1976-1986. Alumnus Edward Thomas Dell, Jr. was a published author, the editor of The Episcopalian from 1968 to 1973, and founder of two magazines, and he kept a running correspondence with C. S. Lewis
, which is now archived in the Bodleian Library
and at Wheaton College
. Ralph Earle, Jr. served on the Committee on Bible Translation for the New International Version
of the Bible
.
John S. Rigden
is an alumnus and world-renowned physicist. Eldon C. Hall
was the lead design engineer of the Apollo Guidance Computer
(AGC) at MIT. Ross Tubo is Vice President of Stem Cell and Chemokine Biology at Genzyme
. Carl Crouthamel earned his doctorate at the University of Chicago
after graduating from ENC, is famous for his work with Enrico Fermi
on the U.S. project that produced the first atomic bomb, started the first program to build a gamma ray lens for use in astronomy
, and has worked for the Argonne National Laboratory
. Professor Karl W. Giberson serves on faculty as a scholar of science and religion and is the president of the BioLogos Foundation
.
Floyd Nease
, Stephen's son and Floyd's grandson, is the Democratic Party
Majority Leader
for the Vermont House of Representatives
. James Sheets, former six-term Quincy mayor, is an Eastern Nazarene College graduate. David Bergers serves as the current Director for the Boston Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and attended Yale Law School
after completing his undergraduate education at ENC.
Richard R. Schubert, another ENC alumnus and graduate of Yale Law School, was the founding president of the Points of Light Foundation, former president and vice chairman of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, general counsel and deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Labor, and president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the American Red Cross
. Neil Nicoll is the current President & CEO of the YMCA
. Jim Tabor is Vice President for Operations at AirTran Airways
. Harold Palmer was president of Atco Records
, a division of Atlantic Records
that produced albums by The Beatles
and AC/DC
. Wyclef Jean
attended ENC briefly. Wyclef's younger brother, Samuel Jean, graduated from Eastern Nazarene in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in history before graduating from Boston University School of Law
in 1995 and is the founder of CityView Artist Management.
uses to test drug potency, and is emeritus program chairman of the Boston Area Group for Informatics and Modeling. History professor Randall J. Stephens
is editor of both the Journal of Southern Religion and Historically Speaking, which is produced at Boston University and published by the Johns Hopkins University. Donald A. Yerxa
is director of The Historical Society (THS) at Boston University
. He and fellow history professor James R. Cameron
both studied under Charles W. Akers
and Timothy L. Smith
.
Former faculty members of note include physicist John S. Rigden
, historian and community college president Charles W. Akers
, biblical scholar Ralph Earle, Jr., historian Timothy L. Smith
, theologian Thomas Jay Oord
, inspector general and Massachusetts representative Robert A. Cerasoli
, historian and seminary president Hugh C. Benner, and Olive Winchester
. Presidents of the college who were first faculty members include Fred J. Shields
in psychology, Floyd W. Nease
in theology, R. Wayne Gardner
in mathematics, Samuel Young
in theology, Edward S. Mann
in mathematics, and Cecil R. Paul
in psychology.
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core curriculum
Core Curriculum
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, and excellence in science and religion education. Its academic programs are primarily undergraduate, with some professional
Professional
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graduate education offered. The residential campus
Campus
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, in Wollaston Park near Quincy Bay
Quincy Bay
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, is served by the Wollaston MBTA station
Wollaston (MBTA station)
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, and was once the summer home of Boston
Boston
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mayor
Mayor
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Josiah Quincy, Jr.
Josiah Quincy, Jr.
Josiah Quincy, Jr. was mayor of Boston , as was his father Josiah Quincy III and grandson Josiah Quincy . He was the author of Figures in the Past . As a member of the Massachusetts State Legislature in 1837, he was instrumental in the establishment of the Massachusetts Board of Education...
Established as a holiness
Holiness movement
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college in Saratoga Springs, New York
Saratoga Springs, New York
Saratoga Springs, also known as simply Saratoga, is a city in Saratoga County, New York, United States. The population was 26,586 at the 2010 census. The name reflects the presence of mineral springs in the area. While the word "Saratoga" is known to be a corruption of a Native American name, ...
in 1900, it was relocated to Massachusetts
Massachusetts
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in 1919.
New York
Come-outer
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Methodist
Methodist Episcopal Church
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clergy
Clergy
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and laymen
Laity
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affiliated with the 19th century Holiness movement
Holiness movement
The holiness movement refers to a set of beliefs and practices emerging from the Methodist Christian church in the mid 19th century. The movement is distinguished by its emphasis on John Wesley's doctrine of "Christian perfection" - the belief that it is possible to live free of voluntary sin - and...
opened a co-educational collegiate institute
Collegiate institute
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at the Garden View House in Saratoga Springs, New York
Saratoga Springs, New York
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. In a time when pentecostal did not hold the same meaning as it does today
Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism is a diverse and complex movement within Christianity that places special emphasis on a direct personal experience of God through the baptism in the Holy Spirit, has an eschatological focus, and is an experiential religion. The term Pentecostal is derived from Pentecost, the Greek...
, but rather served as a synonym for holiness, it was named the Pentecostal Collegiate Institute
Pentecostal Collegiate Institute
The Pentecostal Collegiate Institute refers to two antecedents of the Eastern Nazarene College in Massachusetts:*Pentecostal Collegiate Institute *Pentecostal Collegiate Institute...
(PCI) and established for the purpose of providing liberal education
Liberal education
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and ministry
Christian ministry
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training in a preparatory academy
Academy
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, four-year college, and theological
Theology
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seminary
Seminary
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. PCI operated under the auspices of the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America (APCA), a loose association
Congregationalist polity
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of Wesleyan
Wesleyanism
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-holiness churches from eastern Canada
Canada
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down to the Middle Atlantic, and its own board of education
Board of education
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, with Lyman C. Pettit
Lyman C. Pettit
Lyman C. Pettit was the founder and first president of the Pentecostal Collegiate Institute ; the founding pastor of both the Congregational Methodist Church of Saratoga Springs, and the First People's Church of Brooklyn, New York; and an ordained clergyman who pastored churches...
as its first president. PCI was also accredited by the New York State Education Department
New York State Education Department
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's Board of Regents
Board of Regents
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of the University of the State of New York
University of the State of New York
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and was given state funding because a public school did not exist there at the time. In 1901, the institute changed locations in Saratoga Springs, from the Garden View House to the former Kenmore Hotel.
Rhode Island
The initial plans for a liberal arts collegeLiberal arts college
A liberal arts college is one with a primary emphasis on undergraduate study in the liberal arts and sciences.Students in the liberal arts generally major in a particular discipline while receiving exposure to a wide range of academic subjects, including sciences as well as the traditional...
were delayed, however. There was a falling out between Pettit and the APCA, and the school re-opened on September 16, 1902, in North Scituate, Rhode Island, without a post-secondary curriculum. Having been the originator of the idea for establishing PCI and having already surveyed the Rhode Island location, Fred A. Hillery
Fred A. Hillery
Fred A. Hillery was an early leader in the American Holiness Movement; the founding president of the South Providence Holiness Association; the founding pastor of the People's Evangelical Church, the "mother church of the Church of the Nazarene in the East"; a co-founder of the Central Evangelical...
had purchased the North Scituate campus on behalf of the association. Its Greek Revival buildings were originally designed for the Smithville Seminary in 1839 by Russell Warren
Russell Warren (architect)
Russell Warren was an American architect, best known for his Greek Revival style, and notably the design of the Weybosset Arcade, now known as the Westminster Arcade in Providence, Rhode Island.Warren was born in Tiverton, Rhode Island...
, the leading Greek Revival architect in New England
New England
New England is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of the six states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut...
in the 19th century, but had been unused since the Lapham Institute closed in 1876. Attendance became multi-denominational after the move, only one-quarter to one-third of the student body being affiliated with the school's supporting denomination during any given academic year. In 1907, the APCA merged with the Church of the Nazarene
Church of the Nazarene
The Church of the Nazarene is an evangelical Christian denomination that emerged from the 19th century Holiness movement in North America with its members colloquially referred to as Nazarenes. It is the largest Wesleyan-holiness denomination in the world. At the end of 2010, the Church of the...
, and PCI became one of the first three schools chosen to be officially affiliated with the Nazarenes in 1908.
In 1917, it was decided to re-establish the liberal arts college, and on June 14, 1918, the Eastern Nazarene College was chartered with degree
Academic degree
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-granting authority in the state of Rhode Island
Rhode Island
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, while secondary education
Secondary education
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would remain as the Eastern Nazarene Academy. Choosing a new name, however, would be difficult: the school was now a liberal arts college and a Nazarene institution. Candidates included: "Northeastern Nazarene College", "Bresee Memorial College", "Nazarene College of the Northeast
Northeastern United States
The Northeastern United States is a region of the United States as defined by the United States Census Bureau.-Composition:The region comprises nine states: the New England states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont; and the Mid-Atlantic states of New...
", and "Nazarene College and Bresee Theological Institute". General Superintendent
General Superintendent (Church of the Nazarene)
General Superintendent is the highest elected office within the Church of the Nazarene. General Superintendents are elected by the General Assembly of the denomination for a four year term to expire at the end of the next General Assembly....
John W. Goodwin
John W. Goodwin
John W. Goodwin was a minister and general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene.Goodwin was born near North Berwick, Maine, and was raised in the Advent Christian Church. After moving to California in 1905, he joined the Church of the Nazarene and assisted Phineas F. Bresee in the founding...
can be credited with the chosen name, as he wrote to Hiram F. Reynolds, also a general superintendent and a long-time supporter of the school: "I know you will do your best for our New England College. I should be glad if they would change the name to the Eastern Nazarene College, or something like that. It would seem we must have a school there, although it moves along hard and slow."
Massachusetts
In 1919, the college moved to its current location in the Wollaston Park area of Quincy, MassachusettsQuincy, Massachusetts
Quincy is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Its nicknames are "City of Presidents", "City of Legends", and "Birthplace of the American Dream". As a major part of Metropolitan Boston, Quincy is a member of Boston's Inner Core Committee for the Metropolitan Area Planning Council...
. The founders wanted the new college to be located near either Harvard or Yale
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, for its graduates to attend graduate school
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at one or the other; Quincy won out over New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven, Connecticut
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because the educational standards were known to be higher in Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
and because president-elect Fred J. Shields
Fred J. Shields
Frederick James Shields was a minister, educator, and president of the Eastern Nazarene College.-Education:Shields earned his bachelor's degree from the Nazarene University in 1915 and master's degrees from the University of Southern California and Harvard University...
would only accept the position if the college were to be located near Boston. At the time of its purchase, the 12 acres (48,562.3 m²) property consisted of the Josiah Quincy Mansion (1848), built by Josiah Quincy, Jr.
Josiah Quincy, Jr.
Josiah Quincy, Jr. was mayor of Boston , as was his father Josiah Quincy III and grandson Josiah Quincy . He was the author of Figures in the Past . As a member of the Massachusetts State Legislature in 1837, he was instrumental in the establishment of the Massachusetts Board of Education...
where Angell Hall now stands, a classroom building called the Manchester (1896), the stables (1848) on the site where Memorial Hall was built in 1948, and the Canterbury (1901), which is now Canterbury Hall. From the captain's walk of the mansion, Wollaston Bay was clearly visible down to the "ships entering and leaving the port of Boston." The former Rhode Island campus was purchased in 1920 by William S. Holland, who moved his Watchman Institute
Watchman Institute
The Watchman Industrial School and Camp, known to some as the Watchman Institute, was founded 1908 by Reverend William S. Holland in Providence, Rhode Island. It moved to North Scituate in 1923 and closed in 1938, although Holland's summer camp operated there until 1974.- Providence :William S...
there in 1923.
| J. E. L. Moore J. E. L. Moore John Edgar Littleton Moore was an ordained minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church and later the Church of the Nazarene, who served as president of the Central Nazarene College , the Eastern Nazarene College , and Olivet University... |
1918–1919 | |
| 1. | Frederick James Shields Fred J. Shields Frederick James Shields was a minister, educator, and president of the Eastern Nazarene College.-Education:Shields earned his bachelor's degree from the Nazarene University in 1915 and master's degrees from the University of Southern California and Harvard University... |
1919–1923 |
| 2. | Floyd William Nease | 1923–1930 |
| 3. | Robert Wayne Gardner | 1930–1936 |
| 4. | Gideon Brooks Williamson | 1936–1944 |
| 5. | Samuel Young Samuel Young (General Superintendent) Samuel Young was president of Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts from 1944 to 1948 and general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene from 1948 to 1972... |
1944–1948 |
| 6. | Edward Stebbins Mann | 1948–1970 |
| 7. | A. Leslie Parrott, Jr. | 1970–1975 |
| 8. | Donald Irwin | 1975–1980 |
| 9. | Stephen Wesley Nease | 1980–1989 |
| 10. | Cecil Roland Paul | 1989–1992 |
| 11. | Kent R. Hill Kent R. Hill Kent R. Hill is the Vice President for Character Development at the John Templeton Foundation.-Career:Hill has been Vice President of Character Development at the John Templeton Foundation since early 2009. Hill briefly served as Acting Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development... |
1992–2001 |
| Albert L. Truesdale, Jr. | 2001–2002 | |
| 12. | J. David McClung | 2002–2005 |
| 13. | Corlis A. McGee | 2005- |
The trustees of the college were incorporated by the state in 1920, by which time its liberal arts
Liberal arts
The term liberal arts refers to those subjects which in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free citizen to study. Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic were the core liberal arts. In medieval times these subjects were extended to include mathematics, geometry, music and astronomy...
identity had been "quite firmly established," but it took another decade to gain bachelor of arts
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
degree-granting power from the commonwealth. President Floyd W. Nease
Floyd W. Nease
Floyd William Nease was an American minister and the president of the Eastern Nazarene College until his death in 1930. He is the grandfather of Floyd William Nease II.-Early life:...
appealed directly to the General Court of Massachusetts, and defended his petition before the Joint Committee on Education and the House and Senate on January 28, 1930, calling on financial records, campus improvement plans, and prominent community leaders; the bill passed in both houses and was signed by Governor Frank G. Allen
Frank G. Allen
Frank G. Allen was a Governor of Massachusetts.Allen was born in Lynn, Massachusetts on October 6, 1874. A businessman and executive with the Winslow Brothers & Smith Company from 1893, he rose to become the company's president from 1912 to 1929, and was married to Clara Winslow in 1897.He entered...
on March 12, 1930. The news reached the college the following afternoon. The next year under President R. Wayne Gardner
R. Wayne Gardner
Robert Wayne Gardner was a minister, an academic, and the president of the Eastern Nazarene College.- Early life and education :Gardner was born in Tidioute, Pennsylvania on May 16, 1894. He earned his bachelor's degree from Olivet College and was ordained in the Church of the Nazarene in 1918...
, the trustee
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s made a statement reaffirming that the college would remain "distinctly interdenominational and cosmopolitan in service."
The college seal, designed by alumnus
Alumnus
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Harold G. Gardner and symbolically incorporating the college motto
Motto
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, Via, Veritas, Vita
Via, Veritas, Vita
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, was adopted by the trustees on the recommendation of the president and the student body in 1932, along with a college banner to display the emblem
Emblem
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s of Verbum
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, Lux
Lux
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, Spiritus
Spiritus
Spiritus , may refer to:*Spiritus lenis, the "soft breathing" in Byzantine Greek orthography*Spiritus asper, the "hard breathing" in Byzantine Greek orthography...
, Crux
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. The college had been chartered in 1918 with a school of music
Music school
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, President Gardner secured certification for the college as a teacher-training institution with the Massachusetts Department of Education
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
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in 1933, and the college would institute a graduate
Postgraduate education
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program in theology
Theology
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starting in 1938, thus becoming one of only two Nazarene schools to offer anything beyond a bachelor of arts
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
before 1945. Evolutionary biology was taught in the classroom at least as early as 1937, and on May 8, 1941, Governor Leverett Saltonstall
Leverett Saltonstall
Leverett A. Saltonstall was an American Republican politician who served as the 55th Governor of Massachusetts and as a United States Senator .-Biography:...
approved Eastern Nazarene to grant bachelor of science
Bachelor of Science
A Bachelor of Science is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years .-Australia:In Australia, the BSc is a 3 year degree, offered from 1st year on...
degrees. ENC also had a cooperative degree program in engineering with Northeastern University by 1943.
Educational accreditation
Educational accreditation is a type of quality assurance process under which services and operations of educational institutions or programs are evaluated by an external body to determine if applicable standards are met...
from the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, and became the second Nazarene college to ever gain institutional accreditation. ENC was also admitted to the Association of American Colleges in 1944, and an affiliation with Quincy City Hospital for nurses' training began in that same year. Eastern Nazarene was soon dubbed "Our Quincy's College" by the Quincy Patriot Ledger and has since maintained good town and gown
Town and gown
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relations with the city. The Eastern Nazarene Academy would close after 1955, and starting in 1956, professors Timothy L. Smith
Timothy L. Smith
Timothy Lawrence Smith was a noted historian and educator, known as the first American evangelical historian to gain notability in research and higher education.-Early life and education:...
and Charles W. Akers
Charles W. Akers
Charles Wesley Akers was an historian, author, and educator.-Early life and education:Charles was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to Ira and Mary Bird Akers. Akers received his Bachelor's degree in History from the Eastern Nazarene College in 1947. He received his Master's degree and Ph.D. from...
began to establish a community college
Community college
A community college is a type of educational institution. The term can have different meanings in different countries.-Australia:Community colleges carry on the tradition of adult education, which was established in Australia around mid 19th century when evening classes were held to help adults...
for the city of Quincy. In 1964, the graduate course in theology was discontinued and replaced with a master's degree
Master's degree
A master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
program in religion. The college archives were created in 1963 and the first history of the college, spanning from 1900 to 1950, was published by James R. Cameron
James R. Cameron
-Early life and education:An Ohio native, Cameron began his undergraduate education at the Ohio State University. He transferred to the Eastern Nazarene College and received his bachelor's degree in history...
in 1968.
Under President Irwin in 1977, there arose plans to relocate the college to a 125 acres (505,857.5 m²) parcel of land in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, by purchasing the faltering Charles E. Ellis School for Girls. The proposed move was very unpopular among students and members of the Quincy community, even Governor Michael Dukakis
Michael Dukakis
Michael Stanley Dukakis served as the 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts from 1975–1979 and from 1983–1991, and was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988. He was born to Greek immigrants in Brookline, Massachusetts, also the birthplace of John F. Kennedy, and was the longest serving...
urged to administration to reconsider, but the relocation never took place because the college was outbid for the land by a corporation that wanted to establish an industrial park
Industrial park
An industrial park is an area zoned and planned for the purpose of industrial development...
there. In 1981, graduate degree offerings were expanded, and an accelerated program for working adults was started in 1990. In 1991, a report issued by the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts (AICUM) determined that the college contributed nearly $10 million to the local economy and brought in an estimated $7 million from outside the state. In 1992, President Kent Hill
Kent R. Hill
Kent R. Hill is the Vice President for Character Development at the John Templeton Foundation.-Career:Hill has been Vice President of Character Development at the John Templeton Foundation since early 2009. Hill briefly served as Acting Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development...
approved a policy to only hire Christian
Christian
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professors at the college, a move that initially stirred some controversy in the media but was meant for the hiring of new faculty rather than the dismissal of then-current faculty, and was deemed by the American Civil Liberties Union
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(ACLU) to be reasonable according to civil rights
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laws. A second history of the college, spanning from 1950 to 2000, was started in 1993.
Randolph, Massachusetts
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from the Sisters of St. Joseph
Sisters of St. Joseph
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, but the deal fell through despite support from the town selectmen. Instead, the college began to expand at other locations in Quincy, buying a piece of land along Hancock Street later that year, and the year after that purchasing an adjoining parcel along Old Colony Avenue, which had once been home to a Howard Johnson's
Howard Johnson's
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candy factory and executive offices. In 1997, the college extended beyond the metro Boston area for the first time when it started a learning annex in central Massachusetts to serve as part of its adult studies division. The Old Colony Campus (OCC), as the new site on Old Colony Avenue had come to be named, was renovated and expanded into the Adams Executive Center. The Cecil R. Paul
Cecil R. Paul
Cecil Roland Paul was a minister, educator, community leader, and academic. He died at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston after suffering a brain hemorrhage. He was the second president of the Eastern Nazarene College to die in office. The Cecil R...
Center for Business was founded at the Old Colony location in 1999, and the James R. Cameron
James R. Cameron
-Early life and education:An Ohio native, Cameron began his undergraduate education at the Ohio State University. He transferred to the Eastern Nazarene College and received his bachelor's degree in history...
Center for History, Law, & Government was added in 2005. In 2001, just before the end of his second term, then-president Kent R. Hill
Kent R. Hill
Kent R. Hill is the Vice President for Character Development at the John Templeton Foundation.-Career:Hill has been Vice President of Character Development at the John Templeton Foundation since early 2009. Hill briefly served as Acting Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development...
was appointed the new Global Health Administrator for USAID. In 2008, ENC established satellite campus
Satellite campus
A satellite campus or branch campus is a campus of a college or university that is physically detached from the main university or college area, and is often smaller than the main campus of an institution....
es in Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
, Brockton
Brockton, Massachusetts
Brockton is a city in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States; the population was 93,810 in the 2010 Census. Brockton, along with Plymouth, are the county seats of Plymouth County...
, Fall River
Fall River, Massachusetts
Fall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, in the United States. It is located about south of Boston, southeast of Providence, Rhode Island, and west of New Bedford and south of Taunton. The city's population was 88,857 during the 2010 census, making it the tenth largest city in...
, and Swansea
Swansea, Massachusetts
Swansea is a town in Bristol County in southeastern Massachusetts.It is located at the mouth of the Taunton River, just west of Fall River, 47 miles south of Boston; and 12 miles southeast of Providence, Rhode Island....
, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
. In 2010, Eastern Nazarene College was ranked in the top tier for northern U.S. regional colleges in U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report is an American news magazine published from Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek it was for many years a leading news weekly, focusing more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories...
's Best Colleges report. It was also ranked 28th overall (specifically 25th in number of graduates going on to earn PhD
PHD
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s and 11th in number of alumni serving in the Peace Corps
Peace Corps
The Peace Corps is an American volunteer program run by the United States Government, as well as a government agency of the same name. The mission of the Peace Corps includes three goals: providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States to understand US culture, and helping...
, relative to college size) by the Washington Monthly College Guide for baccalaureate
Bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for three or four years, but can range anywhere from two to six years depending on the region of the world...
colleges nationally in 2010.
Wollaston Park
Quincy, Massachusetts
Quincy is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Its nicknames are "City of Presidents", "City of Legends", and "Birthplace of the American Dream". As a major part of Metropolitan Boston, Quincy is a member of Boston's Inner Core Committee for the Metropolitan Area Planning Council...
. The Wollaston Park campus is roughly 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southeast from the Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
city line
Neponset River
The Neponset River is a river in eastern Massachusetts in the United States. The headwaters of the Neponset are at the Neponset Reservoir in Foxborough, near the Gillette Stadium...
and 6 miles (9.7 km) south of downtown Boston, just over 1 miles (1.6 km) north of Quincy Center, 0.5 mile (0.80467 km) northeast of the Wollaston T station
Wollaston (MBTA station)
Wollaston is a station on the Red Line of the MBTA subway at the intersection of Beale Street and Newport Avenue in Quincy, Massachusetts. It serves Quincy's Wollaston neighborhood. There is an on-site 550 space parking lot...
, and 0.25 mile (0.402335 km) southwest from Wollaston Beach
Wollaston Beach
Wollaston Beach is a public beach located along Quincy Shore Drive in the Wollaston, section of Quincy, Massachusetts. It is located on Quincy Bay, part of Boston Harbor. It is cared for by the Friends of Wollaston Beach , and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation . At its...
. ENC purchased the Wollaston Park property, then a 12 acres (48,562.3 m²) parcel, from the former Quincy Mansion School for Girls for $50,000 in 1919, and has added to it over the years. The Mount Wollaston
Mount Wollaston
Wollaston, Massachusetts, is a neighborhood in the city of Quincy, Massachusetts. Divided by Hancock Street/Route 3A, the Wollaston Beach side is called Wollaston Park, while the Wollaston Hill side is called Wollaston Heights....
land belonging to the Quincy family had been broken up into prestigious building lots and named Wollaston Park during in the late 19th century, to become one of Boston's first commuter neighborhoods, and the area remains primarily residential
Residential area
A residential area is a land use in which housing predominates, as opposed to industrial and commercial areas.Housing may vary significantly between, and through, residential areas. These include single family housing, multi-family residential, or mobile homes. Zoning for residential use may permit...
. The campus is also a registered arboretum
Arboretum
An arboretum in a narrow sense is a collection of trees only. Related collections include a fruticetum , and a viticetum, a collection of vines. More commonly, today, an arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study...
, named the Babcock Arboretum after Vernor J. Babcock and dedicated in 1993. The alma mater
Alma mater
Alma mater , pronounced ), was used in ancient Rome as a title for various mother goddesses, especially Ceres or Cybele, and in Christianity for the Virgin Mary.-General term:...
, set to the tune of "Annie Lisle
Annie Lisle
"Annie Lisle" is the name of an 1857 ballad by Boston, Massachusetts songwriter H. S. Thompson first published by Moulton & Clark of Newburyport, Massachusetts, and later by Oliver Ditson & Co. It is about the death of a young maiden, by what some have speculated to be tuberculosis, although the...
" with lyrics written by former president Edward S. Mann, not only refers to Quincy Bay but also the existence of the elm
Elm
Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the genus Ulmus in the plant family Ulmaceae. The dozens of species are found in temperate and tropical-montane regions of North America and Eurasia, ranging southward into Indonesia. Elms are components of many kinds of natural forests...
trees for which Elm Avenue was named, all of which died with the onset of Dutch elm disease
Dutch elm disease
Dutch elm disease is a disease caused by a member of the sac fungi category, affecting elm trees which is spread by the elm bark beetle. Although believed to be originally native to Asia, the disease has been accidentally introduced into America and Europe, where it has devastated native...
in the early to mid-20th century. The college has historically maintained good town and gown
Town and gown
Town and gown are two distinct communities of a university town; "town" being the non-academic population and "gown" metonymically being the university community, especially in ancient seats of learning such as Oxford, Cambridge, Durham and St Andrews, although the term is also used to describe...
relations with the Quincy community, and the campus has been home to the Anglican Parish of Saint George, established by the Anglican Mission in America, since 2009.
The Quincy Mansion
Quincy Mansion
The Quincy Mansion was a summer home built by Josiah Quincy, Jr. in 1848. The mansion itself was situated where Angell Hall now stands on the campus of the Eastern Nazarene College...
(1848) purchased by the college in 1919 was demolished in 1969. Its chandelier
Chandelier
A chandelier is a branched decorative ceiling-mounted light fixture with two or more arms bearing lights. Chandeliers are often ornate, containing dozens of lamps and complex arrays of glass or crystal prisms to illuminate a room with refracted light...
s were sold for food during the Great Depression
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s...
. It was once part of the Quincy family homestead along with the Dorothy Quincy House and the Josiah Quincy House
Josiah Quincy House
The Josiah Quincy House , located at 20 Muirhead Street in the Wollaston neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts, was the country home of Revolutionary War soldier Colonel Josiah Quincy I, the first in a line of six illustrious Josiah Quincys that included three Boston mayors and a president of...
, on a 200 acre (0.809372 km²) parcel of land known as the "Lower Farm". The mansion itself was situated on the land where Angell Hall now stands, and was the summer home of Josiah Quincy, Jr.
Josiah Quincy, Jr.
Josiah Quincy, Jr. was mayor of Boston , as was his father Josiah Quincy III and grandson Josiah Quincy . He was the author of Figures in the Past . As a member of the Massachusetts State Legislature in 1837, he was instrumental in the establishment of the Massachusetts Board of Education...
, then mayor of Boston. It was three stories and white, in Georgian architecture
Georgian architecture
Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840. It is eponymous for the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover—George I of Great Britain, George II of Great Britain, George III of the United...
, with marble fireplaces in most of the rooms and large French windows on the first floor that "opened upon either little balconies or broad piazza
Piazza
A piazza is a city square in Italy, Malta, along the Dalmatian coast and in surrounding regions. The term is roughly equivalent to the Spanish plaza...
s." Elm Avenue had been the avenue, or driveway, for the two mansions on the property. The first of the two, the Josiah Quincy House (1770), still stands on Muirhead Street.
Classical architecture
Classical architecture is a mode of architecture employing vocabulary derived in part from the Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, enriched by classicizing architectural practice in Europe since the Renaissance...
or Colonial Revival
Colonial Revival architecture
The Colonial Revival was a nationalistic architectural style, garden design, and interior design movement in the United States which sought to revive elements of Georgian architecture, part of a broader Colonial Revival Movement in the arts. In the early 1890s Americans began to value their own...
mode. Gardner is brick, three stories on a high granite basement, and capped by a parapet
Parapet
A parapet is a wall-like barrier at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony or other structure. Where extending above a roof, it may simply be the portion of an exterior wall that continues above the line of the roof surface, or may be a continuation of a vertical feature beneath the roof such as a...
balustraded in the center. Corners are articulated with brick quoins
Quoin (architecture)
Quoins are the cornerstones of brick or stone walls. Quoins may be either structural or decorative. Architects and builders use quoins to give the impression of strength and firmness to the outline of a building...
. The fenestration is symmetric with double sash windows at regular intervals, trimmed in white, topped with flared brick lintels and a white keystone
Keystone (architecture)
A keystone is the wedge-shaped stone piece at the apex of a masonry vault or arch, which is the final piece placed during construction and locks all the stones into position, allowing the arch to bear weight. This makes a keystone very important structurally...
. It also features a two-story balustraded Doric
Doric order
The Doric order was one of the three orders or organizational systems of ancient Greek or classical architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.-History:...
portico
Portico
A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls...
of fluted cast stone column
Column
A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a vertical structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. For the purpose of wind or earthquake engineering, columns may be designed to resist lateral forces...
s. The portico is the backdrop for commencement
Commencement speech
A commencement speech or commencement address is a speech given to graduating students, generally at a university, although the term is also used for secondary education institutions. The "commencement" is a ceremony in which degrees or diplomas are conferred upon graduating students...
ceremonies. The main entrance, at the end of wide stairs, is pilastered and topped with a bracketed entablature, which frames an arched glass opening. The side elevations have projecting stair towers, which indicate the site of a central hall running the length of the building. Originally rectangular in form, the 1953 addition of the then-Nease Library in the rear bestowed upon it a T-configuration.
Memorial Hall (1948) holds the distinction of the only building on campus, other than the pre-existing Canterbury Hall (1901), not to be named for any one individual. Rather, it was built as a memorial to those who had served in the Second World War. Over two hundred alumni had served, and six students had given their lives.
Old Colony and other locations
The 6 acres (24,281.2 m²) Old Colony Campus (OCC), named for its location on Old Colony Avenue in Quincy, has two buildings. The 180 building is the Adams Executive Center, which houses the business department in the Cecil R. Paul Center for Business, established in 1999. The building at 162 Old Colony houses the college archives and offices for the history department as part of the James R. Cameron Center for History, Law, and Government, established in 2005, as well as separate offices for mathematics, and physics and engineering departments, and the Campus Kinder Haus (CKH), an early childhood education center. CKH was founded in 1979 and moved to the Old Colony Campus in 2000. The college also owns adjacent undeveloped land between Old Colony and Hancock Street in Quincy, at the Southern Artery, that has been rezoned by the city several times, and Quincy officials announced in 2009 they might take it by eminent domainEminent domain
Eminent domain , compulsory purchase , resumption/compulsory acquisition , or expropriation is an action of the state to seize a citizen's private property, expropriate property, or seize a citizen's rights in property with due monetary compensation, but without the owner's consent...
for the construction of a new middle school
Middle school
Middle School and Junior High School are levels of schooling between elementary and high schools. Most school systems use one term or the other, not both. The terms are not interchangeable...
.
In addition to its campuses in Quincy, the college established a learning annex called the Auburn Learning Center in Auburn, Massachusetts
Auburn, Massachusetts
Auburn is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 16,188 at the 2010 census.- History :Auburn was first settled in 1789 and was officially incorporated in 1808 as the town of Ward, in honor of American Revolution General Artemas Ward...
in 1997 to function as part of the Leadership Education for Adults Division, and added satellite campuses in Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
, Brockton
Brockton, Massachusetts
Brockton is a city in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States; the population was 93,810 in the 2010 Census. Brockton, along with Plymouth, are the county seats of Plymouth County...
, Fall River
Fall River, Massachusetts
Fall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, in the United States. It is located about south of Boston, southeast of Providence, Rhode Island, and west of New Bedford and south of Taunton. The city's population was 88,857 during the 2010 census, making it the tenth largest city in...
, and Swansea
Swansea, Massachusetts
Swansea is a town in Bristol County in southeastern Massachusetts.It is located at the mouth of the Taunton River, just west of Fall River, 47 miles south of Boston; and 12 miles southeast of Providence, Rhode Island....
, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
in 2008.
Organization
Religious affiliation
Higher educationHigher education
Higher, post-secondary, tertiary, or third level education refers to the stage of learning that occurs at universities, academies, colleges, seminaries, and institutes of technology...
is, historically, one of the Nazarenes' most important emphases, and the Nazarenes provide their colleges with "students, administrative and faculty leadership, and financial and spiritual support.... the college, while not a local congregation, is an integral part of the church; it is an expression of the church." Originally founded under the auspices of the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America, ENC was one of the first three schools officially chosen to be Nazarene institution in 1915, making it the oldest continuously operating educational institution affiliated with the Nazarenes. As one of eight Nazarene liberal arts college
Liberal arts college
A liberal arts college is one with a primary emphasis on undergraduate study in the liberal arts and sciences.Students in the liberal arts generally major in a particular discipline while receiving exposure to a wide range of academic subjects, including sciences as well as the traditional...
s in the United States, the college receives financial backing equivalent to a $40 million endowment
Financial endowment
A financial endowment is a transfer of money or property donated to an institution. The total value of an institution's investments is often referred to as the institution's endowment and is typically organized as a public charity, private foundation, or trust....
from its constituent churches. Eastern Nazarene is also bound by a gentlemen's agreement
Gentlemen's agreement
A gentlemen's agreement is an informal agreement between two or more parties. It may be written, oral, or simply understood as part of an unspoken agreement by convention or through mutually beneficial etiquette. The essence of a gentlemen's agreement is that it relies upon the honor of the parties...
not to actively recruit outside its respective educational region, which extends southwest from Maine
Maine
Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost...
as far as Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
and Virginia
Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...
in the United States and provides trustee
Trustee
Trustee is a legal term which, in its broadest sense, can refer to any person who holds property, authority, or a position of trust or responsibility for the benefit of another...
s for the college. The institution is otherwise largely independent, having been multi-denominational since 1902, and tuition
Tuition
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-driven, with an actual endowment of only US $
United States dollar
The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies....
11,015,937. The president and trustees of the college determined in 1931, one year after gaining its charter to grant degrees in Massachusetts, that it is part of the college's mission to be "distinctly interdenominational and cosmopolitan in service." Students are not required to profess any religion
Religion
Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values. Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to...
, but faculty members are required to be Christians.
Academic associations
The now-defunct secondary schoolSecondary school
Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...
, the Pentecostal Collegiate Institute, was accredited by the New York State Education Department
New York State Education Department
The New York State Education Department is the state education department in New York. It is part of the University of the State of New York , one of the most complete, interconnected systems of educational services in the United States...
's Board of Regents
Board of Regents
In the United States, a board often governs public institutions of higher education, which include both state universities and community colleges. In each US state, such boards may govern either the state university system, individual colleges and universities, or both. In general they operate as...
of the University of the State of New York
University of the State of New York
The University of the State of New York is the State of New York's governmental umbrella organization responsible for most institutions and people in any way connected with formal educational functions, public and private, in New York State...
upon its founding in 1900. When it was first chartered in 1918, the Eastern Nazarene College was granted the authority to grant baccalaureate degrees in Rhode Island
Rhode Island
The state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a state in the New England region of the United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area...
, and was later chartered with that same authority in Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
in 1930. Teacher education
Teacher education
Teacher education refers to the policies and procedures designed to equip prospective teachers with the knowledge, attitudes, behaviors and skills they require to perform their tasks effectively in the classroom, school and wider community....
was recognized by the Department of Education of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
State education agency
A state education agency , or state department of education, is a formal governmental label for the state-level government agencies within each U.S...
in 1933 and is also approved by the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification and the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, as well as benefitting from the Interstate Certification Compact for all teacher education programs, which allows graduates to teach in 44 states
U.S. state
A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...
and the District of Columbia. ENC gained institutional accreditation
Educational accreditation
Educational accreditation is a type of quality assurance process under which services and operations of educational institutions or programs are evaluated by an external body to determine if applicable standards are met...
from the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges
New England Association of Schools and Colleges
The New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc. is the U.S. regional accreditation association providing educational accreditation for all levels of education, from pre-kindergarten to the doctoral level, in the six-state New England region. It also provides accreditation for some...
(NEASC) in 1943, and the social work
Social work
Social Work is a professional and academic discipline that seeks to improve the quality of life and wellbeing of an individual, group, or community by intervening through research, policy, community organizing, direct practice, and teaching on behalf of those afflicted with poverty or any real or...
program has been accredited by the Council on Social Work Education
Council on Social Work Education
The Council on Social Work Education is the national association for social work education in the United States of America.The CSWE sets and maintains standards of courses and accreditation of bachelor's degree's and Master's degree programs in social work.The CSWE specifies foundation social work...
since 1979. Eastern Nazarene joined the Association of American Colleges in 1944, has been a member of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities
Council for Christian Colleges and Universities
The Council for Christian Colleges and Universities is an organization designed to help primarily Protestant and evangelical Christian institutions of higher education cooperate and communicate with one another...
(CCCU) since 1982, and is also a member of both the Council of Independent Colleges
Council of Independent Colleges
The Council of Independent Colleges is an association of nearly 600 independent, liberal arts colleges and universities and more than 70 higher education affiliates and organizations that work together to strengthen college and university leadership, sustain high-quality education, and enhance...
(CIC) and the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities
National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities
Founded in 1976, the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities is an organization of private US colleges and universities...
(NAICU).
Academics
Intellectual
An intellectual is a person who uses intelligence and critical or analytical reasoning in either a professional or a personal capacity.- Terminology and endeavours :"Intellectual" can denote four types of persons:...
scholar: Bertha Munro, the first dean
Dean (education)
In academic administration, a dean is a person with significant authority over a specific academic unit, or over a specific area of concern, or both...
of the college and a Boston University
Boston University
Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...
, Radcliffe
Radcliffe College
Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was the coordinate college for Harvard University. It was also one of the Seven Sisters colleges. Radcliffe College conferred joint Harvard-Radcliffe diplomas beginning in 1963 and a formal merger agreement with...
, and Harvard
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
alumna, is often quoted as having said that "there is no conflict between the best in education and the best in Christian faith" and former history professor Timothy L. Smith
Timothy L. Smith
Timothy Lawrence Smith was a noted historian and educator, known as the first American evangelical historian to gain notability in research and higher education.-Early life and education:...
, a University of Virginia
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
and Harvard alumnus
Alumnus
An alumnus , according to the American Heritage Dictionary, is "a graduate of a school, college, or university." An alumnus can also be a former member, employee, contributor or inmate as well as a former student. In addition, an alumna is "a female graduate or former student of a school, college,...
who began his career at ENC, is widely considered the first evangelical Christian to gain academic prominence, while ENC alumnus and physicist Karl Giberson
Karl Giberson
Karl Willard Giberson is a physicist and scholar specializing in the creation-evolution debate . He has held a teaching post since 1984, written several books, and been a member of various academic and scientific organizations.-Education:Giberson holds two Bachelor's degrees from the Eastern...
has worked to address the Creation-Evolution controversy
Creation-evolution controversy
The creation–evolution controversy is a recurring cultural, political, and theological dispute about the origins of the Earth, humanity, life, and the universe....
and was Executive Vice President of the BioLogos Foundation
BioLogos Foundation
The BioLogos Foundation is a Christian advocacy group established by Francis Collins in 2007. BioLogos aims to address the core themes of science and religion, and emphasize a compatibility between science and Christian faith....
until May, 2011. Though it makes no religious requirements of its students, Eastern Nazarene has required that its faculty members be Christian since 1993. The school currently has three college divisions: the Traditional Undergraduate Division, the Adult Studies Division (often called the Leadership Education for Adults Division, or LEAD), and the Graduate Division. There were 1,075 students enrolled at the college in 2007, 927 of whom were undergraduate and 148 of whom were graduate students. Admission is selective on a rolling deadline
Rolling admission
Rolling admission is a policy used by many colleges to admit freshmen to undergraduate programs. Many law schools in the United States also have rolling admissions policies. Under rolling admission, candidates are invited to submit their applications to the university anytime within a large window...
and the 2007 acceptance rate for students who applied to the college was 61.7 percent.
Traditional Undergraduate Division
Most degree offerings at Eastern Nazarene are baccalaureate degrees. In the Traditional Undergraduate Division, the college offers associate'sAssociate's degree
An associate degree is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by community colleges, junior colleges, technical colleges, and bachelor's degree-granting colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study usually lasting two years...
and bachelor's
Bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for three or four years, but can range anywhere from two to six years depending on the region of the world...
(bachelor of arts
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
and bachelor of science
Bachelor of Science
A Bachelor of Science is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years .-Australia:In Australia, the BSc is a 3 year degree, offered from 1st year on...
) liberal arts
Liberal arts
The term liberal arts refers to those subjects which in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free citizen to study. Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic were the core liberal arts. In medieval times these subjects were extended to include mathematics, geometry, music and astronomy...
degrees in 50 major
Academic major
In the United States and Canada, an academic major or major concentration is the academic discipline to which an undergraduate student formally commits....
s, with 57 minor
Academic minor
An academic minor is a college or university student's declared secondary field of study or specialization during his or her undergraduate studies. As with an academic major, the college or university in question lays out a framework of required classes or class types a student must complete to...
s and 6 pre-professional programs for a combined total of 80 programs of study, including dual degree programs with Northeastern University and the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
The Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences is an accredited, private institution located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area of Boston, Massachusetts...
leading to the doctor of pharmacy
Doctor of Pharmacy
A Doctor of Pharmacy is a professional doctorate degree in pharmacy. In some countries, it is a first professional degree, and a prerequisite for licensing to exercise the profession of pharmacist.-Kenya :...
. In addition to co-operative programs and internship opportunities around Boston, Eastern Nazarene provides a number of intercollegiate and off-campus programs at 56 Nazarene
Church of the Nazarene
The Church of the Nazarene is an evangelical Christian denomination that emerged from the 19th century Holiness movement in North America with its members colloquially referred to as Nazarenes. It is the largest Wesleyan-holiness denomination in the world. At the end of 2010, the Church of the...
institutions of higher education
Higher education
Higher, post-secondary, tertiary, or third level education refers to the stage of learning that occurs at universities, academies, colleges, seminaries, and institutes of technology...
around the world. Students may also participate in the "Best Semester" study abroad program, and ENC offers an additional semester-long program in Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
. The college uses a "4-1-4 system" for its academic year: there are two full semesters
Academic term
An academic term is a division of an academic year, the time during which a school, college or university holds classes. These divisions may be called terms...
in the Fall
Autumn
Autumn is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter usually in September or March when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier....
and Spring, each roughly four months long, and a one-month term in January known as "J Term".
Eastern Nazarene emphasizes a blend of faith and other pursuits, from biology to business, and has won the John Templeton
John Templeton
Sir John Marks Templeton was an American-born British stock investor, businessman and philanthropist.-Biography:...
award for science-and-religion education. The undergraduate curriculum at Eastern Nazarene was developed in 1919 by the first dean of the college, Bertha Munro, and originally modeled after the curricula at Radcliffe College
Radcliffe College
Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was the coordinate college for Harvard University. It was also one of the Seven Sisters colleges. Radcliffe College conferred joint Harvard-Radcliffe diplomas beginning in 1963 and a formal merger agreement with...
and Boston University
Boston University
Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...
. A revision that introduced the Cultural Perspectives core sequence is very distinctive and comprises a series of interdisciplinary courses on Western culture that encourages students to ponder the "tensions and possibilities" in the relationships between the Christian faith and societal values. The traditional undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio at Eastern Nazarene is 11:1, and graduates on average have a 94 percent acceptance rate into medical school
Medical school
A medical school is a tertiary educational institution—or part of such an institution—that teaches medicine. Degree programs offered at medical schools often include Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, Bachelor/Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Philosophy, master's degree, or other post-secondary...
as well as a 100 percent acceptance rate into law school
Law school
A law school is an institution specializing in legal education.- Law degrees :- Canada :...
.
Graduate Division and LEAD
Continuing education
Continuing education is an all-encompassing term within a broad spectrum of post-secondary learning activities and programs. The term is used mainly in the United States and Canada...
for working adults through the Leadership Education for Adults Division (LEAD). Accelerated programs have been in place since 1990, and now include bachelor's degree completion (bachelor of arts and bachelor of science degrees) and associate's degree
Associate's degree
An associate degree is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by community colleges, junior colleges, technical colleges, and bachelor's degree-granting colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study usually lasting two years...
s (the associate of arts degree) as well as certificates in paralegal
Paralegal
Paralegal is used in most jurisdictions to describe a paraprofessional who assists qualified lawyers in their legal work. This is true in the United States and many other countries. However, in Ontario, Canada, paralegals are licensed by the Law Society of Upper Canada, giving paralegals an...
studies (CPS) and human resource management
Human resource management
Human Resource Management is the management of an organization's employees. While human resource management is sometimes referred to as a "soft" management skill, effective practice within an organization requires a strategic focus to ensure that people resources can facilitate the achievement of...
(CHRM). The college also maintains 2+2 programs and articulation
Articulation (education)
In Australia and United States education, articulation or more specifically course articulation, refers to the process of comparing the content of courses that are transferred between postsecondary institutions such as TAFE institutes, colleges or universities...
agreements with junior college
Junior college
The term junior college refers to different educational institutions in different countries.-India:In India, most states provide schooling through 12th grade...
s in the surrounding geographical area, like the agreements with Bristol
Bristol Community College
Bristol Community College is a two-year community college located in Fall River, Massachusetts.-History:The college was originally established in December 1965 when it was instituted by the Massachusetts Board of Regional Community Colleges. Former President John F...
, Massasoit
Massasoit Community College
Massasoit Community College was founded in 1966, and named for Massasoit, the Great Sachem of the Wampanoag. Massasoit Community College offers associate degree programs in arts, sciences, and applied sciences, and one-year and short-term certificates for a range of occupations and interests...
, and Roxbury Community College
Roxbury Community College
Roxbury Community College is a community college in the Roxbury Crossing neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. RCC offers associate degrees in arts, and sciences, as well as certificates...
s. Most LEAD classes are held at the Old Colony Campus or at one of the four satellite campus
Satellite campus
A satellite campus or branch campus is a campus of a college or university that is physically detached from the main university or college area, and is often smaller than the main campus of an institution....
es for reasons of transportation and accessibility, such as parking space, which is limited at the main campus, and access to public transportation via the Wollaston T Station
Wollaston (MBTA station)
Wollaston is a station on the Red Line of the MBTA subway at the intersection of Beale Street and Newport Avenue in Quincy, Massachusetts. It serves Quincy's Wollaston neighborhood. There is an on-site 550 space parking lot...
, located on Beale Street where it intersects with Old Colony Avenue.
Current graduate offerings from the Graduate Division are primarily master's degrees (master of science
Master of Science
A Master of Science is a postgraduate academic master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is typically studied for in the sciences including the social sciences.-Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay:...
and master of education
Master of Education
The Master of Education is a postgraduate academic master's degree awarded by universities in a large number of countries. This degree in education often includes the following majors: curriculum and instruction, counseling, and administration. It is often conferred for educators advancing in...
). Eastern Nazarene first offered graduate work in theology in 1938, then replaced it with a master's degree in religion in 1964, and added master's degrees in business, education, and psychology in 1981.
Student life
U.S. state
A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...
s were attending Eastern Nazarene. ENC is 24 percent ethnically diverse, the highest diversity rate among the eight Nazarene liberal arts colleges, and black student
Black people
The term black people is used in systems of racial classification for humans of a dark skinned phenotype, relative to other racial groups.Different societies apply different criteria regarding who is classified as "black", and often social variables such as class, socio-economic status also plays a...
enrollment rose from 4.9 to 15 percent between 1997 and 2007. Eastern Nazarene has always been co-educational, and most of the traditional undergraduate population lives on campus. Undergraduate students at ENC are typically affiliated with approximately 30 different Christian denomination
Christian denomination
A Christian denomination is an identifiable religious body under a common name, structure, and doctrine within Christianity. In the Orthodox tradition, Churches are divided often along ethnic and linguistic lines, into separate churches and traditions. Technically, divisions between one group and...
s (the largest representations being Nazarene, Baptist
Baptist
Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...
, Catholic
Roman Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...
, and non-denominational
Non-denominational Christianity
In Christianity, nondenominational institutions or churches are those not formally aligned with an established denomination, or that remain otherwise officially autonomous. This, however, does not preclude an identifiable standard among such congregations...
), while 35 percent of the student population had no reported denominational or religious affiliation.
No student is required to be Christian
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
to attend the Eastern Nazarene College, but each traditional undergraduate student, upon registering, agrees to what is called a Lifestyle Covenant: to, among other things, "abstain from the use of illegal drugs, alcohol and tobacco, and to avoid attendance at bars, clubs, or other activities or places of entertainment that promote themes of inappropriate sexuality, violence, profanity, pornography or activities demeaning to human life." The Student Handbook also specifies that "No person shall engage in sexual acts with anyone other than a spouse." While some guidelines might appear to be "relic
Relic
In religion, a relic is a part of the body of a saint or a venerated person, or else another type of ancient religious object, carefully preserved for purposes of veneration or as a tangible memorial...
s from another era," according to the Boston Globe, the Globe has also noted that other prominent Christian colleges uphold these ideals, and that Eastern Nazarene is known for being a progressive "trendsetter" with a "slightly more liberal
Social liberalism
Social liberalism is the belief that liberalism should include social justice. It differs from classical liberalism in that it believes the legitimate role of the state includes addressing economic and social issues such as unemployment, health care, and education while simultaneously expanding...
bent" than its peers. The John Templeton Foundation
John Templeton Foundation
"The John Templeton Foundation is a philanthropic organizationthat funds inter-disciplinary research about human purpose and ultimate reality. It is usually referred to simply as the Templeton Foundation...
has also cited the Eastern Nazarene College as one that builds character
Moral character
Moral character or character is an evaluation of a particular individual's durable moral qualities. The concept of character can imply a variety of attributes including the existence or lack of virtues such as integrity, courage, fortitude, honesty, and loyalty, or of good behaviors or habits...
, and the Quincy Patriot Ledger has said that the school's "deep religious roots make for a quiet campus and good neighbors."
Extracurriculars
Kappa
Kappa is the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet, used to represent the voiceless velar stop, or "k", sound in Ancient and Modern Greek. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 20. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Kaph...
Cougars", the "Sigma
Sigma
Sigma is the eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, and carries the 'S' sound. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 200. When used at the end of a word, and the word is not all upper case, the final form is used, e.g...
Stallions", and the "Zeta
Zeta
-Science:* Zeta functions, in mathematics** Riemann zeta function* Zeta potential, the electrokinetic potential of a colloidal system* Tropical Storm Zeta , formed in December 2005 and lasting through January 2006* Z-pinch, in fusion power...
Warriors". New societies were formed in 2007 and originally numbered eight but were reduced to four again in 2008. Current membership is primarily based on residency, but includes faculty and staff.
There has been an Honors Scholar Society since 1936, and there are various national honors societies (Phi Alpha Theta
Phi Alpha Theta
Phi Alpha Theta is an American honor society for undergraduate and graduate students and professors of history.The society is a charter member of the Association of College Honor Societies and has over 350,000 members, with about 9,500 new members joining each year through 860 local chapters.-...
for history majors, Phi Delta Lambda for Nazarene scholars, Psi Chi
Psi Chi
Psi Chi is the International Honor Society in Psychology, founded in 1929 for the purposes of encouraging, stimulating, and maintaining excellence in scholarship, and advancing the science of psychology. With over 1,050 chapters, Psi Chi is one of the largest honor societies in the United States...
for psychology majors, etc.). Students participate in the Student Government Association (SGA), Class Council, Students for Social Justice, academic clubs (Beta Phi Mu
Beta Phi Mu
Beta Phi Mu is the international honor society for library & information science and information technology. Founded by a group of librarians and library educators, the society's express purpose is to recognize and encourage "superior academic achievement" among library and information studies...
Shrader Club, Biology Club, History Club, etc.), and club sports. The student-run newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
is "The Veritas News", since 1933 and regularly published since 1936, and the student-developed yearbook
Yearbook
A yearbook, also known as an annual, is a book to record, highlight, and commemorate the past year of a school or a book published annually. Virtually all American, Australian and Canadian high schools, most colleges and many elementary and middle schools publish yearbooks...
has been the Nautilus since 1922.
There are vocal
Vocal music
Vocal music is a genre of music performed by one or more singers, with or without instrumental accompaniment, in which singing provides the main focus of the piece. Music which employs singing but does not feature it prominently is generally considered instrumental music Vocal music is a genre of...
and instrumental
Instrumental
An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or singing, although it might include some non-articulate vocal input; the music is primarily or exclusively produced by musical instruments....
ensembles
Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...
, including the A Cappella Choir, which was formed in 1938, and Chamber Singers
Choir
A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
, Gospel
Gospel music
Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....
Choir, Symphonic Winds
Wind instrument
A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator , in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into a mouthpiece set at the end of the resonator. The pitch of the vibration is determined by the length of the tube and by manual modifications of...
, and Jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
Band, among several others. The college also has a student theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
organization. There exist both campus-oriented and community-oriented ministries like as "Open Hand, Open Heart", which ministers to the homeless of Boston by providing food, clothing, and blankets. In addition to its study abroad programs, ENC also provides missions opportunities through a program known as "Fusion". Locally, environmental management students have been involved in community cleanup programs and archaeological investigations around Quincy.
Athletics
Intramural sports take place year-round and change from season to season based on student interest (past sports have included lacrosseLacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
, field hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
, and a very successful men's volleyball club). These and other campus sports, such as J-Term basketball, men's wrestling
Collegiate wrestling
Collegiate wrestling, sometimes known in the United States as Folkstyle wrestling, is a style of amateur wrestling practised at the collegiate and university level in the United States. Collegiate wrestling emerged from the folk wrestling styles practised in the early history of the United States...
, men's football
Gridiron football
Gridiron football , sometimes known as North American football, is an umbrella term for related codes of football primarily played in the United States and Canada. The predominant forms of gridiron football are American football and Canadian football...
, powder puff football, and indoor soccer
Indoor soccer
Indoor soccer or arena soccer, or six-a-side football in the United Kingdom, is a game derived from association football adapted for play in an indoor arena such as a turf-covered hockey arena or skating rink. The most important difference in play is that the indoor field is surrounded by a wall...
, are organized by the Student Government Association's (SGA) Rec. Life director.
Intercollegiate athletics at ENC first began in 1959 with wins over Gordon
Gordon College (Massachusetts)
Gordon College is a liberal arts college located on the former Princemere estate in Wenham, Massachusetts, northeast of Beverly. Founded by Baptist minister A. J...
, Curry
Curry College
Curry College is a private liberal arts-based institution in Milton, Massachusetts that started as the School of Elocution in 1879.-History:...
, and Barrington College
Barrington College
Barrington College was a four-year Christian liberal arts college located in Barrington, Rhode Island. It is no longer in operation.-History:...
s in baseball. Varsity
Varsity team
In the United States and Canada, varsity sports teams are the principal athletic teams representing a college, university, high school or other secondary school. Such teams compete against the principal athletic teams at other colleges/universities, or in the case of secondary schools, against...
sports are National Collegiate Athletic Association
National Collegiate Athletic Association
The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...
(NCAA) Division III, The Commonwealth Coast Conference (TCCC), and Eastern College Athletic Conference
Eastern College Athletic Conference
The Eastern College Athletic Conference is a college athletic conference comprising schools that compete in 21 sports . It has 317 member institutions in NCAA Divisions I, II, and III, ranging in location from Maine to North Carolina and west to Illinois...
(ECAC). Along with NNU
Northwest Nazarene University
Northwest Nazarene University is a private Christian liberal arts college located in Nampa, Idaho.-History:Eugene Emerson organized a combination grade school and Bible school in 1913 as Idaho Holiness School...
, ENC is one of only two Nazarene colleges to compete in the NCAA. Men's varsity sports include baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
, basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, cross-country
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
, soccer, and tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
. Women's sports include basketball, cross-country, soccer, softball
Softball
Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
, tennis, and volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
. When NAIA
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics is an athletic association that organizes college and university-level athletic programs. Membership in the NAIA consists of smaller colleges and universities across the United States. The NAIA allows colleges and universities outside the USA...
-affiliated, Eastern Nazarene regularly won the basketball tournament hosted by The King's College at Briarcliff Manor, New York
Briarcliff Manor, New York
Briarcliff Manor is a village in Westchester County in the state of New York. It is shared between the towns of Mount Pleasant and Ossining, and lies entirely within the ZIP code of 10510...
. The college also won the ECAC Division III Championship in 1996 and went to the NCAA Division III Sweet 16
NCAA Men's Division III Basketball Championship
The NCAA holds an annual tournament to determine the Division III Men's Basketball Championship.Since 1996, the Division III men's basketball championship has been held at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Virginia. The event has been hosted by the Old Dominion Athletic Conference and the City of...
in 2000.
Eastern Nazarene's athletic nickname
Athletic nickname
The athletic nickname, or equivalently athletic moniker, of a university or college within the United States is the name officially adopted by that institution for at least the members of its athletic teams...
is "Lions". From 1959 until 2009, the athletic moniker was "Crusaders". The college colors are red
Red
Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 630–740 nm. Longer wavelengths than this are called infrared , and cannot be seen by the naked eye...
and white
White
White is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light that stimulates all three types of color sensitive cone cells in the human eye in nearly equal amounts and with high brightness compared to the surroundings. A white visual stimulation will be void of hue and grayness.White light can be...
. Bradley Field is named in honor of Carroll Bradley, one-time professional baseball
Professional baseball
Baseball is a team sport which is played by several professional leagues throughout the world. In these leagues, and associated farm teams, players are selected for their talents and are paid to play for a specific team or club system....
player and the first athletic director
Athletic director
An athletic director is an administrator at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, who oversees the work of coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic programs...
at Eastern Nazarene, and the LaHue Physical Education Center at ENC also serves as a clinical site
Clinical site
A clinical site is a medical facility staffed with a clinical investigator and qualified for performing clinical research. To be qualified as a clinical site, strict regulations are to be adhered to...
for Northeastern University.
Residential life
Students live in single-sex residence halls with visitation hours throughout the week. There are three female dormitories (Spangenberg Hall, Williamson Hall, and Munro Hall) and two male dormitories (Memorial Hall and Shields Hall). Young Hall provides apartmentApartment
An apartment or flat is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building...
s for staff and married students, in addition to suite
Suite
In music, a suite is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral pieces normally performed in a concert setting rather than as accompaniment; they may be extracts from an opera, ballet , or incidental music to a play or film , or they may be entirely original movements .In the...
s for upperclassman females and males. Each dormitory houses a common area, known as a parlor, where students of both sexes are welcome. Student use these parlors extensively for social events and study groups during the week.
The Mann Student Center houses The Commons for sit-down meals cafeteria
Cafeteria
A cafeteria is a type of food service location in which there is little or no waiting staff table service, whether a restaurant or within an institution such as a large office building or school; a school dining location is also referred to as a dining hall or canteen...
-style, as well as The Dugout for meals in a café-type atmosphere. The latter is a popular location for social gathering, as is the adjacent "Colonel's Coffee House", which, ironically, is not a place where coffee
Coffee
Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark,init brooo acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia,...
is served. Chapel
Chapel
A chapel is a building used by Christians as a place of fellowship and worship. It may be part of a larger structure or complex, such as a church, college, hospital, palace, prison or funeral home, located on board a military or commercial ship, or it may be an entirely free-standing building,...
services for undergraduate students, which are 40 minutes long, are offered on Wednesdays and Fridays. Attendance for most chapels is required for most undergraduates. The services take place in the Wollaston Church of the Nazarene, located on the corner of East Elm Avenue and Wendell Avenue, adjacent to the campus of the college.
Notable persons
Notable alumni
Samuel YoungSamuel Young (General Superintendent)
Samuel Young was president of Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts from 1944 to 1948 and general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene from 1948 to 1972...
, Edward S. Mann
Edward S. Mann
-Early life and career:Ed Mann was born September 24, 1908 in Waterville, Vermont, the son of a state senator. In 1925, at the age of 16, he enrolled at Eastern Nazarene College...
, and Stephen W. Nease
Stephen W. Nease
Stephen Wesley Nease was an educator and president of four different institutions of higher education. He was the father of two daughters, Linda Scott and Melissa Wallace; four sons, Floyd Nease , Stephen Nease, Jr., David Hardy Nease , and David Wayne...
were all ENC alumni and presidents of Eastern Nazarene College. Russell V. DeLong
Russell V. DeLong
Russell Victor DeLong was a Nazarene minister, evangelist, and college president.- Early life and education :DeLong was a New Hampshire native, the son of a minister. He received his undergraduate education at the Eastern Nazarene College in Massachusetts, then earned his master's and doctoral...
served two non-consecutive terms as president of Northwest Nazarene College in Nampa, Idaho
Nampa, Idaho
Nampa is the largest and the fastest growing city in Canyon County, Idaho, USA. The population of Nampa was 81,557 at the 2010 census. Nampa is located about west of Boise along Interstate 84, and six miles west of Meridian. Nampa is part of the Boise metropolitan area...
, and also served as president of Pasadena College. John E. Riley
John E. Riley
John Eckel Riley was a Nazarene minister and president of the Northwest Nazarene College from 1952 to 1973.- Early life and education :John Riley was born to George Duncan Riley and Mary Jane Oliver Riley on January 23, 1909 in Haverhill, Massachusetts...
, Kenneth H. Pearsall
Kenneth H. Pearsall
Kenneth H. Pearsall was president of the Northwest Nazarene College from 1973 to 1983.-Early life and education:Ken Pearsall was born 1918 in New York, the son of Hazel and Nelson D. Pearsall. He received his undergraduate education at the Eastern Nazarene College in Massachusetts...
, and A. Gordon Wetmore
A. Gordon Wetmore
Arnold Gordon Wetmore is president emeritus of the Nazarene Theological Seminary and a former president of the Northwest Nazarene College.-Early life and education:...
also served as presidents of NNC. Stephen Nease and Gordon Wetmore later served as presidents of the Nazarene Theological Seminary
Nazarene Theological Seminary
Nazarene Theological Seminary is a Christian seminary affiliated with the Church of the Nazarene. It is located in Kansas City, Missouri, which was formerly also the location of the headquarters of the Church of the Nazarene...
in Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...
. Stephen Nease was also the president of Bethany Nazarene College in Bethany, Oklahoma
Bethany, Oklahoma
Bethany is a city in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States, and a part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. The population was 20,307 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Bethany is located at ....
and the founding president of Mount Vernon Nazarene College in Mount Vernon, Ohio
Mount Vernon, Ohio
Mount Vernon is a city in Knox County, Ohio, United States. The population was 16,990 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Knox County. The city is named after Mount Vernon, the plantation owned by George Washington.-History:...
. William Henry Houghton
William Henry Houghton
William Henry Houghton was an evangelist and the fourth president of Moody Bible Institute. Biographer Wilbur Smith said of him: "Two primary passions possessed the soul of Will H...
was the fourth president of the Moody Bible Institute
Moody Bible Institute
Moody Bible Institute is a Christian institution of higher education and related ministries that was founded by evangelist and businessman Dwight Lyman Moody in 1886. Since its founding, MBI's main campus has been located in the Near North Side of Chicago. MBI's primary ministries are education,...
in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
, and Charles W. Akers
Charles W. Akers
Charles Wesley Akers was an historian, author, and educator.-Early life and education:Charles was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to Ira and Mary Bird Akers. Akers received his Bachelor's degree in History from the Eastern Nazarene College in 1947. He received his Master's degree and Ph.D. from...
was the first president of Quincy Junior College (QJC) in Quincy, Massachusetts
Quincy, Massachusetts
Quincy is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Its nicknames are "City of Presidents", "City of Legends", and "Birthplace of the American Dream". As a major part of Metropolitan Boston, Quincy is a member of Boston's Inner Core Committee for the Metropolitan Area Planning Council...
. Alumnus Donald Young, Samuel Young's son, would also become a president of Quincy College.
Lawrence Yerdon is the president of the Strawbery Banke
Strawbery Banke
Strawbery Banke is an outdoor history museum located in the South End historic district of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It is the oldest neighborhood in New Hampshire to be settled by Europeans, and the earliest neighborhood remaining in the present-day city of Portsmouth...
Museum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Portsmouth is a city in Rockingham County, New Hampshire in the United States. It is the largest city but only the fourth-largest community in the county, with a population of 21,233 at the 2010 census...
. He also served 1986-2004 as president of the Hancock Shaker Village
Hancock Shaker Village
Hancock Shaker Village is a National Historic Landmark District in Hancock, Massachusetts that was established by Shakers in 1791. It was the third of nineteen major Shaker villages established between 1783 and 1836 in New York, New England, Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana under the leadership of Joseph...
in Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Pittsfield is the largest city and the county seat of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the principal city of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Berkshire County. Its area code is 413. Its ZIP code is 01201...
and was director of the Quincy Historical Society
Quincy Historical Society
The Quincy Historical Society is located at 8 Adams Street in Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA. It was founded in 1893 by Charles Francis Adams, Jr..The society occupies the former Adams Academy building...
1976-1986. Alumnus Edward Thomas Dell, Jr. was a published author, the editor of The Episcopalian from 1968 to 1973, and founder of two magazines, and he kept a running correspondence with C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast, Ireland...
, which is now archived in the Bodleian Library
Bodleian Library
The Bodleian Library , the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and in Britain is second in size only to the British Library...
and at Wheaton College
Wheaton College (Illinois)
Wheaton College is a private, evangelical Protestant liberal arts college in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb west of Chicago in the United States...
. Ralph Earle, Jr. served on the Committee on Bible Translation for the New International Version
New International Version
The New International Version is an English translation of the Christian Bible. Published by Zondervan in the United States and by Hodder & Stoughton in the UK, it has become one of the most popular modern translations in history.-History:...
of the Bible
Bible
The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
.
John S. Rigden
John S. Rigden
John S. Rigden is an internationally renowned American physicist. His areas of expertise are molecular physics and the history of science. He is currently the co-editor of the scholarly journal Physics in Perspective, published by Birkhäuser Publishing in Basel, Switzerland.-Education:Rigden...
is an alumnus and world-renowned physicist. Eldon C. Hall
Eldon C. Hall
Eldon Hall was the leader of hardware design efforts for the Apollo Guidance Computer at MIT, and advocated the use of integrated circuits for this task...
was the lead design engineer of the Apollo Guidance Computer
Apollo Guidance Computer
The Apollo Guidance Computer provided onboard computation and control for guidance, navigation, and control of the Command Module and Lunar Module spacecraft of the Apollo program...
(AGC) at MIT. Ross Tubo is Vice President of Stem Cell and Chemokine Biology at Genzyme
Genzyme
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. Carl Crouthamel earned his doctorate at the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
after graduating from ENC, is famous for his work with Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi was an Italian-born, naturalized American physicist particularly known for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and statistical mechanics...
on the U.S. project that produced the first atomic bomb, started the first program to build a gamma ray lens for use in astronomy
Gamma-ray astronomy
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, and has worked for the Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory is the first science and engineering research national laboratory in the United States, receiving this designation on July 1, 1946. It is the largest national laboratory by size and scope in the Midwest...
. Professor Karl W. Giberson serves on faculty as a scholar of science and religion and is the president of the BioLogos Foundation
BioLogos Foundation
The BioLogos Foundation is a Christian advocacy group established by Francis Collins in 2007. BioLogos aims to address the core themes of science and religion, and emphasize a compatibility between science and Christian faith....
.
Floyd Nease
Floyd Nease (politician)
Floyd William Nease II is the former Democratic Party Majority Leader of the Vermont House of Representatives.-Early life and education:Nease was born August 2, 1952 in Boston, the son of Stephen W. Nease and the grandson of Floyd W. Nease...
, Stephen's son and Floyd's grandson, is the Democratic Party
Democratic Party (United States)
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Majority Leader
Majority leader
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for the Vermont House of Representatives
Vermont House of Representatives
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. James Sheets, former six-term Quincy mayor, is an Eastern Nazarene College graduate. David Bergers serves as the current Director for the Boston Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and attended Yale Law School
Yale Law School
Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1824, it offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers...
after completing his undergraduate education at ENC.
Richard R. Schubert, another ENC alumnus and graduate of Yale Law School, was the founding president of the Points of Light Foundation, former president and vice chairman of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, general counsel and deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Labor, and president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the American Red Cross
American Red Cross
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. Neil Nicoll is the current President & CEO of the YMCA
YMCA
The Young Men's Christian Association is a worldwide organization of more than 45 million members from 125 national federations affiliated through the World Alliance of YMCAs...
. Jim Tabor is Vice President for Operations at AirTran Airways
AirTran Airways
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. Harold Palmer was president of Atco Records
Atco Records
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, a division of Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and jazz...
that produced albums by The Beatles
The Beatles
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and AC/DC
AC/DC
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. Wyclef Jean
Wyclef Jean
Wyclef Jean is a Haitian musician, record producer, and politician. At age nine, Jean moved to the United States with his family and has spent much of his life in the country...
attended ENC briefly. Wyclef's younger brother, Samuel Jean, graduated from Eastern Nazarene in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in history before graduating from Boston University School of Law
Boston University School of Law
Boston University School of Law is the law school affiliated with Boston University, and is ranked #22 among American law schools by US News and World Report magazine. It is the second-oldest law school in Massachusetts and one of the first law schools in the country to admit students regardless...
in 1995 and is the founder of CityView Artist Management.
Notable faculty
There are several notable academics on faculty at the college, some of whom are also alumni. Chemistry professor Lowell Hall is the creator of "Molconn", which PfizerPfizer
Pfizer, Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical corporation. The company is based in New York City, New York with its research headquarters in Groton, Connecticut, United States...
uses to test drug potency, and is emeritus program chairman of the Boston Area Group for Informatics and Modeling. History professor Randall J. Stephens
Randall J. Stephens
Randall J. Stephens is a noted author, editor, and historian of American religion.-Career:Stephens is the editor of the Journal of Southern Religion, for Florida State University, and of Historically Speaking from the Johns Hopkins University Press, for Boston University...
is editor of both the Journal of Southern Religion and Historically Speaking, which is produced at Boston University and published by the Johns Hopkins University. Donald A. Yerxa
Donald A. Yerxa
-Career:A noted historian, Yerxa is a Director of The Historical Society at Boston University and a Senior Editor of Historically Speaking, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press for BU.He is the former chair of the James R...
is director of The Historical Society (THS) at Boston University
Boston University
Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...
. He and fellow history professor James R. Cameron
James R. Cameron
-Early life and education:An Ohio native, Cameron began his undergraduate education at the Ohio State University. He transferred to the Eastern Nazarene College and received his bachelor's degree in history...
both studied under Charles W. Akers
Charles W. Akers
Charles Wesley Akers was an historian, author, and educator.-Early life and education:Charles was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to Ira and Mary Bird Akers. Akers received his Bachelor's degree in History from the Eastern Nazarene College in 1947. He received his Master's degree and Ph.D. from...
and Timothy L. Smith
Timothy L. Smith
Timothy Lawrence Smith was a noted historian and educator, known as the first American evangelical historian to gain notability in research and higher education.-Early life and education:...
.
Former faculty members of note include physicist John S. Rigden
John S. Rigden
John S. Rigden is an internationally renowned American physicist. His areas of expertise are molecular physics and the history of science. He is currently the co-editor of the scholarly journal Physics in Perspective, published by Birkhäuser Publishing in Basel, Switzerland.-Education:Rigden...
, historian and community college president Charles W. Akers
Charles W. Akers
Charles Wesley Akers was an historian, author, and educator.-Early life and education:Charles was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to Ira and Mary Bird Akers. Akers received his Bachelor's degree in History from the Eastern Nazarene College in 1947. He received his Master's degree and Ph.D. from...
, biblical scholar Ralph Earle, Jr., historian Timothy L. Smith
Timothy L. Smith
Timothy Lawrence Smith was a noted historian and educator, known as the first American evangelical historian to gain notability in research and higher education.-Early life and education:...
, theologian Thomas Jay Oord
Thomas Jay Oord
Thomas Jay Oord is a theologian, philosopher, and scholar of multi-disciplinary studies. He is the author or editor of about twenty books and professor at Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, Idaho...
, inspector general and Massachusetts representative Robert A. Cerasoli
Robert A. Cerasoli
Robert A. Cerasoli is a former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, the former Inspector General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the former Inspector General of the City of New Orleans...
, historian and seminary president Hugh C. Benner, and Olive Winchester
Olive Winchester
Olive May Winchester was an American ordained minister and a pioneer biblical scholar and theologian in the Church of the Nazarene, who was the first woman ordained by any Christian denomination in Scotland, the first woman admitted into and graduated from the Bachelor of Divinity course at the...
. Presidents of the college who were first faculty members include Fred J. Shields
Fred J. Shields
Frederick James Shields was a minister, educator, and president of the Eastern Nazarene College.-Education:Shields earned his bachelor's degree from the Nazarene University in 1915 and master's degrees from the University of Southern California and Harvard University...
in psychology, Floyd W. Nease
Floyd W. Nease
Floyd William Nease was an American minister and the president of the Eastern Nazarene College until his death in 1930. He is the grandfather of Floyd William Nease II.-Early life:...
in theology, R. Wayne Gardner
R. Wayne Gardner
Robert Wayne Gardner was a minister, an academic, and the president of the Eastern Nazarene College.- Early life and education :Gardner was born in Tidioute, Pennsylvania on May 16, 1894. He earned his bachelor's degree from Olivet College and was ordained in the Church of the Nazarene in 1918...
in mathematics, Samuel Young
Samuel Young (General Superintendent)
Samuel Young was president of Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts from 1944 to 1948 and general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene from 1948 to 1972...
in theology, Edward S. Mann
Edward S. Mann
-Early life and career:Ed Mann was born September 24, 1908 in Waterville, Vermont, the son of a state senator. In 1925, at the age of 16, he enrolled at Eastern Nazarene College...
in mathematics, and Cecil R. Paul
Cecil R. Paul
Cecil Roland Paul was a minister, educator, community leader, and academic. He died at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston after suffering a brain hemorrhage. He was the second president of the Eastern Nazarene College to die in office. The Cecil R...
in psychology.