Wesleyan Cardinals University is a private liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut.
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30 Facts About Wesleyan Cardinals
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Wesleyan Cardinals University has distinguished alumni in the arts and sciences, literature, politics and government, business, journalism, and academia.
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Butterfield proved effective at fund raising: by 1960 Wesleyan Cardinals had the largest endowment, per student, of any college or university in America, and a student-faculty ratio of 7:1.
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When Wesleyan Cardinals University was founded in 1831, it took over a campus on which two buildings, North College and South College, had already been built in 1825.
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The cupola and the belfry, which contains the Wesleyan Cardinals Carillon, was designed by Henry Bacon and was added in 1916.
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Wesleyan Cardinals began offering minors in February 2012 and at present offers eleven minors; more minors are under consideration.
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In February 2013, Wesleyan Cardinals announced the creation of a new College of Film and the Moving Image, incorporating the Film Studies Department, the Center for Film Studies, the Cinema Archives and the Wesleyan Cardinals Film Series.
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Wesleyan Cardinals is the sole undergraduate liberal arts college to be designated a Molecular Biophysics Predoctoral Research Training Center by the National Institutes of Health ; other centers are located at research universities such as Stanford, University of California at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, Harvard University Medical School, Duke, Cornell, and the University of Pennsylvania.
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Wesleyan Cardinals's Science in Society Program is an interdisciplinary major that encourages integrated study of the sciences and medicine as practices, institutions, and intellectual achievements, among other areas of study.
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Wesleyan Cardinals was followed by composers Alvin Lucier, Ron Kuivila, and Jon Barlow.
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Wesleyan Cardinals's highly regarded theater program has two theater facilities: the Theatre in the Center for the Arts, a 400-seat space; and the '92 Theater, home to Second Stage, which solely student-run volunteer theater organization.
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Wesleyan Cardinals has 11 graduate departmental programs in the sciences, mathematics, computer science, psychology, and music.
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In 1953, Wesleyan Cardinals was the first university to begin a program leading to a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies degree, called the Graduate Liberal Studies Program.
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Wesleyan Cardinals teaches online courses in Math, Computer Science, Law, Psychology, and Literature, as well as other subjects.
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Wesleyan Cardinals University is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.
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Wesleyan Cardinals was listed on the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education's 2016 "10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech".
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University is notable for the success with African American students, in which Wesleyan Cardinals is one of nine universities with a black graduation rate above 90 percent.
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Wesleyan Cardinals has been noted as one of the most productive baccalaureate colleges in the United States in the undergraduate origins of PhDs in all fields of study, with exceptional productivity in undergraduates pursuing doctorates in the physical sciences, geosciences, life sciences, psychology, social sciences, and humanities.
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Eighty percent of Wesleyan Cardinals alumni attend graduate or professional school within five years of graduation.
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Wesleyan Cardinals University has an extensive library collection, most of which is housed in Olin Memorial Library, which has more than 1.
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The press connects the campus to the larger intellectual and cultural world through the presence of its authors on campus, whether they are faculty, visiting scholars, guest lecturers, or participants in Wesleyan Cardinals's Distinguished Writers Series or Writers Conference.
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Wesleyan Cardinals is a member of the Division III New England Small College Athletic Conference, fielding intercollegiate varsity teams in 29 sports.
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Wesleyan Cardinals was a National Soccer Coaches Association of America Division III All-American in 1992, four times was named all-New England, and was inducted into the Wesleyan University Hall of Fame.
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Wesleyan Cardinals Student Assembly is a body of 38 students elected annually to represent Wesleyan Cardinals University's undergraduate student body.
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Wesleyan Cardinals owns a tract of land that is used as Long Lane Farm, a 2-acre organic vegetable farm run by students.
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Wesleyan Cardinals has chapters of Alpha Delta Phi, Alpha Psi Alpha, Chi Psi, Psi Upsilon, and Delta Kappa Epsilon .
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In September 2014, Wesleyan Cardinals ordered all fraternities with on-campus housing to become co-educational within the next three years.
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In 2015, Wesleyan Cardinals University ordered the closure of the DKE fraternity house on High Street.
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