Union College (Nebraska)
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Lincoln, Nebraska
The City of Lincoln is the capital and the second-most populous city of the US state of Nebraska. Lincoln is also the county seat of Lancaster County and the home of the University of Nebraska. Lincoln's 2010 Census population was 258,379....
is a four-year coeducational college owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Midwest
Mid-American Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
The Mid-America Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, often abbreviated to Mid-America Union, is a sub-entity of the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists, which is part of the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church...
. It opened in 1891.
T.R.M. Howard and Sandra Pierantozzi
Sandra Pierantozzi
Sandra Sumang Pierantozzi is a Palauan politician. She served as the country's Vice-President from 19 January 2001 to 1 January 2005. Pierantozzi was defeated by Camsek Chin in the 2 November 2004 vice-presidential election, winning only 28.9% of the vote....
are Union alumni.
Enrollment at Union had dropped by 2% in fall 2011 compared to the previous year falling from 829 to 810 undergraduates.
Presidents
Following are college presidents.- W. W. Prescott (1891-1893)
- J. W. Loughhead (1893-1896)
- E. B. Miller (1896-1897)
- N. W. Kauble (1897-1898)
- W. T. Bland (1898-1901)
- L. A. Hoopes (1901-1904)
- C. C. Lewis (1904-1910)
- Frederick Griggs (1910-1914)
- H. A. Morrison (1914-1922)
- O. M. John (1922-1924)
- W. W. Prescott (1924-1925)
- Leo Thiel (1925-1928)
- P. L. Thompson (1928-1931)
- M. L. AndreasenM. L. AndreasenM.[ilian] L.[auritz] Andreasen , was a Seventh-day Adventist theologian, pastor and author.He was one of the church's most prominent and influential theologians during the 1930s and 1940s. Andreasen promoted the teaching known popularly as Last Generation Theology, controversial for its views on...
(1931-1938) - A. H. Rulkoetter (1938-1942)
- E. E. Cossentine (1942-1946)
- R. W. Woods (1946-1950)
- H. C. Hartman (1950-1957)
- D. J. Bieber (1957-1964)
- R. W. Fowler (1964-1970)
- R. H. Brown (1970-1973)
- M. O. Manley (1973-1980)
- Dean L. HubbardDean L. HubbardDean L. Hubbard was the university president of Northwest Missouri State University from 1984 until 2009—the longest of any president in the school history....
(1980-1984) - Benjamin R. Wygal (1985-1985)
- John Wagner (1986-1991)
- John Kerbs (1991-1998)
- David C. Smith (1998-2011)
- John Wagner (interim) (2011-2012)