Greenville College Annual Report 2001-02

Campus Highlights

Highlights

In August 2002, GC launched Greenville In Africa, the newest off-campus semester program. Nineteen students spent the fall semester traveling throughout Zimbabwe and Mozambique involved in both academic study and introspective spiritual contemplation.
Read more: www.greenville.edu/acadamics/africa

Greenville continued an upward trend in enrollment with a record 1,215 students for Fall 2002. This total includes 970 traditional students and 245 LAMP and GOAL students. The year also brought a record number of returning students with 627 and the second largest group of new students with 342.

Despite a national reduction in charitable giving, Greenville College ended the 2001-2002 fiscal year with the highest giving in the 110-year history of the institution. Total gifts, including all restricted and unrestricted donations, equaled $6.13 million, topping the 1999-2000 record by $2.4 million.

Greenville students can now live and study in St. Louis thanks to a new urban study center. GC purchased an apartment building across from Lighthouse FM Church and Community Center where 20-25 students will live each semester. These students will do internships in their majors and take classes one night each week.

Greenville College will launch a Graduate Teacher Education Program in 2003. The program includes a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) and a Master of Arts in Education (MAE). The MAT is designed for those who already have their bachelor’s degree in a field other than education and wish to teach at the elementary or secondary level. The MAE is geared toward public or private school teachers who wish to advance their professional development through continuing education.

In June 2002, the GC Science Division dedicated the John and Martha Ayers Science Field Station and the Leon Winslow Observatory. These new facilities provide all students with exciting opportunities to study both the land and the sky without traveling a great distance from campus or borrowing surrounding property.

Greenville College spent the summer of 2002 renovating some of the campus’s older buildings. Some of the most significant projects included improvements to LaDue Auditorium and classrooms and Marston Hall classrooms. There were also major renovations to the Information Technology wing of lower Hogue Hall and the new mail room. Other projects included new paint, plumbing and/or roofs for the residence halls and athletic facilities.

Greenville College Pre-Med student Luke Hall achieved a score of 41 on the MCAT. This overall score (a combination of Verbal Reasoning, Physical Science, and Biological Science) puts Hall well above more than 99% of the students taking the test. Hall’s motivation to go into medicine is the ability to help others, particularly those who cannot afford health care.

In Spring 2002, Greenville College received its largest gift ever: $2 million from an anonymous donor for the purchase of the Free Methodist Church building. The gift came “out of the blue” from the estate of a deceased Illinois woman with no previous connections to the college. The gift was an answer to prayer for a small group that has been praying for a $1 million “out of the blue” gift since 1999.

Greenville College received the 9th largest Eisenhower Grant for Professional Development this year. The college will use the $62,000 grant to offer a professional development program, consisting of 5 mini-courses, for approximately 50 math and science teachers in the surrounding communities.

Greenville College sent three students to Martha’s Vineyard for the first semester of the CCCU Contemporary Music Center headed up by former GC professor, Warren Pettit. Two of the students chose the Artist Track and spent the four months writing, recording and performing their music. The third student, who chose the Executive Track, worked for Offshore Entertainment Group, a student-run management, booking and PR firm.

Following several years of work, Greenville College announced the development of the Shapiro Chair for Jewish-Christian Studies. The program will help students more deeply appreciate the foundational elements of Judaism in their faith and culture. Karen Strand Winslow was hired to a joint History/Religion position in Jewish-Christian Studies – a position funded by the Shapiro Foundation.
Read more: www.greenville.edu/academics/jcstudies

A Greenville College trustee, Col. William Francis, along with alumni and LAMP students, were directly involved in the New York City relief efforts as members of the Salvation Army’s Eastern Territory. The New York Fire and Police Departments asked the Salvation Army to direct the primary relief efforts at the disaster site and surrounding areas.

Last updated: January 16, 2003