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Drew University
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Motto δωρεαν ελαβετε δωρεαν δοτε

('Freely have you received, freely give—Matthew 10:8')

Established 1867
Type Private University
Location Madison, New Jersey USA
Website www.drew.edu

Drew University is a private university located in Madison, New Jersey. Originally established as the Drew Theological Seminary in 1867, the university later expanded to include an undergraduate liberal arts college in 1928 and commenced a program of graduate studies in 1955. Currently, while affiliated with the United Methodist Church, Drew University makes no religious demands on its students. Many of the Theological School's students and faculty are United Methodist, and the General Commission on Archives and History of the United Methodist Church is housed on campus.

Mission and Reputation

According to the university's web site, Drew's Mission is drawn upon an emphasis of intellectual pursuit, diversity and liberal arts education in an ever shrinking world community. The web site goes on to state that the university sets to achieve these goals, both by focusing on developing and maintaining excellent faculty, who in turn they hope will "emphasizes the interrelatedness of learning in undergraduate, graduate and theological schools and promote[s] intellectual rigor and responsible citizenship, while preparing individuals for significant contributions to society."[1]

Drew University has long been recognized for its small size, focus on student's and individualized education, its excellent faculty, and in particular for its seminary. The U.S. News and World Report ranking of U.S. Colleges determined Drew University to be listed as number 71 in all of America. In 2008, Forbes magazine listed Drew as number 61 of their best U.S. Colleges.[2]

History

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In 1867, Daniel Drew (1797-1879), a financier and railroad tycoon, endowed his antebellum estate in Madison for the purpose of establishing the Drew Theological Seminary.[3] The Seminary prospered for some 61 years, during which Dr. James Strong first published his seminal work, Strong's Concordance, in 1890, during his tenure as Professor of exegetical theology.[4] In 1928, the seminary expanded to create a College of Liberal Arts. The new colleges admitted its first class of 12 students in 1928, after the trustees of the Drew Theological Seminary voted to accept a gift of $1.5 million from brothers Arthur and Leonard Baldwin to build and endow such an institution, and to change the name of the institution to Drew University.[5] The university started as an all-male school at first, but in the 1940s became co-educational. In 1955, a Graduate School became the third of the university's degree-granting entities.

During the 1970s, the College also established, with generous assistance from the Mellon Foundation, a now widely-imitated freshman seminar program. It allows first-year students to participate, with faculty who also serve as their academic advisers, in intensive study of a topic of hopefully mutual interest. In 1984, psychology professors Philip Jensen and Richard Detweiler led an effort to provide a personal computer and application software to all incoming freshman, a program referred to as the "Computer Initiative." Drew was the first liberal arts college to have such a requirement. The Computer Initiative differentiates Drew from other liberal arts colleges, and continues to this day as a required computer purchase program.[6]

In more recent years, Drew University has continued to increase its academic programs and innovativeness, selecting to focus on interdisciplinary degree programs, taking on a more global perspective as well as continuing to search for new and efficient ways to teach.

Facilities

The Florence and Robert Zuck Arborteum is an arboretum located on the southwest part of Drew University. The arboretum is open to the public by appointment. Created in 1980 in honor of faculty members Robert and Florence Zuck, the arborteum contains a mix of native and introduced trees. Its two small ponds serve as student laboratories. They contain turtles, goldfish, catfish, and muskrats, and are also stops for migrating Canadian geese, ducks, and herons.

Colleges and Institutes

Drew University is composed of three different colleges:

  • The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Undergraduate)
  • The Caspersen School of Graduate Studies
  • The Drew Theological School

Drew University also houses five Centers of Research:

Programs

The College of Liberal Arts provides major concentrations in 27 academic areas, including: Anthropology, Art, Behavioral Science, Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Chinese Language, Classics, Computer Science, Economics, English, French, German, History, Mathematics, Mathematics & Computer Science, Music, Neurosciences (includes psychobiology), Pan-African Studies, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology, Spanish, Theater Arts, Women's Studies.

Minor concentrations are available in all areas that offer majors except neuroscience, behavioral science and the joint mathematics and computer science program. In addition, the college offers these interdisciplinary minors: American Studies; Archeology; Arts Administration and Museology; Asian Studies; Business Management; Business, Society, and Culture; Comparative Literature; Chinese; Dance; Environmental Studies; European Studies; Humanities; Holocaust Studies; Italian; Jewish Studies; Latin American Studies; Linguistic Studies; Middle Eastern Studies; Russian; Western Heritage; and Writing.

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The Caspersen School of Graduate Studies offers the traditional Master of Arts (M.A.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees. The Caspersen School is known for its particular faculty strengths in the study of Willa Cather, intellectual history, and medical humanities.

Drew Theological School offers degree programs designed to train candidates for the ministry. While affiliated with the United Methodist Church, its programs are open to individuals of all faiths. Degrees offered include the Master of Divinity (M.Div.), Master of Theological Studies (M.T.S.), Master of Sacred Theology (S.T.M.), and the Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.). The faculty of the Theological School are largely the same as in the Graduate Division of Religion, and are additionally noted in the areas of evangelism and environmental issues in religion. The Theological School is often noted for its strong ties to Korean Methodism.

Drew also offers a few other programs through the office of Continuing University Education. These programs include professional teacher continuing education; some community education programs; certificates in pharmacological laboratory analysis (in a partnership with Johnson & Johnson) and in historic preservation; and a post-baccalaureate, pre-medical preparation program.

Student Life

Drew University offers its students a variety of social activities, including clubs and athletics. Drew offers several NCAA III sports, including men's baseball, men and women's basketball, men and women's cross country, and men and women's soccer.[7] The school also offers intramural and intercollegiate table tennis, volleyball and Racquetball.[8] Beyond housing these various sports, the Simon Forum and Athletic Center also provides students with the facilities to exercise and participate in non-organized athletic and sports activities.

Traditions

Notable alumni

  • David B. Audretsch - Economist
  • Clint Bolick - Founder, Institute for Justice
  • Young-Ho Chun - Theologian
  • Peter Deunov - Bulgarian spiritual master and founder of the esoteric school of the Universal White Brotherhood
  • Robert E. Hayes Jr - Bishop of the United Methodist Church
  • Fred Garrigus Holloway - Bishop of The Methodist Church, formerly Dean of Drew Theological Seminary and President of Drew University
  • Hae Jong Kim - Bishop of the United Methodist Church
  • Tom Limoncelli - activist, author, and IT professional
  • Roger H. Martin - President Emeritus of Randolph-Macon College.
  • Frank Morales - An Episcopal priest and political activist in New York City.
  • Soon Yi Previn - daughter of noted composer Andre Previn and wife of director Woody Allen
  • Aileen Quinn - played Annie in the 1982 motion picture.
  • George Selgin - Economist
  • Jeff Smith - Minister, cookbook author, host of The Frugal Gourmet
  • Craig Stanford - Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences and Co-Director of the USC Jane Goodall Research Center at the University of Southern California.
  • Herbert George Welch - Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Points of interest

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The Great Hall of S.W. Bowne was modeled after The Hall at Christ Church, Oxford.

Gallery

Notes

  1. (2008) Drew University "Mission Statement" Retrieved January 15, 2008
  2. (2009) Forbes.com "#63: Drew University" Retrieved January 15, 2009
  3. (1972) Cunningham, John T. University in the forest: the story of Drew University. (Public Affairs Office, Drew Univ, 1972)
  4. Vine, W.E. and James Strong. Strong's Concise Concordance and Vine's Concise Dictionary of the Bible: Two Bible Reference Classics in One Handy Volume. (T. Nelson Publishers, 1999. ISBN 0785242546
  5. (1972) Cunningham, John T. University in the forest: the story of Drew University. (Public Affairs Office, Drew Univ, 1972)
  6. (2008) Drew University "History" Retrieved January 15, 2009
  7. (2008) Stateuniversity.com "Drew University" Retrieved January 15, 2009
  8. (2008) Stateuniversity.com "Drew University" Retrieved January 15, 2009

References
ISBN links support NWE through referral fees

  • Cunningham, John. University in the Forest: The Story of Drew University. (Third edition, 2002). ISBN 0-89359-017-7.

External links

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