Wabash College

 

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Wabash College
301 West Wabash Avenue
Crawfordsville, IN 47933-0352
General information
(765) 361-6100

Type of institution: Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Federal Aid: Institution has a Program Participation Agreement with the US Department of Education for eligible students to receive Pell Grants and other federal aid.
Degrees offered: Bachelor degrees
Carnegie classification: Baccalaureate Colleges--Arts & Sciences
Number of students: 917 (2007)
2009-2008 Undergraduate application fee:$ 40

Mission
Wabash College educates men to think critically, act responsibly, lead effectively, and live humanely. Founded in 1832, Wabash College is an independent, liberal arts college for men with an enrollment of 850 students. Its mission is excellence in teaching and learning within a community built on close and caring relationships among students, faculty, and staff. Wabash offers qualified young men a superior education, fostering, in particular, independent intellectual inquiry, critical thought, and clear written and oral expression. The College educates its students broadly in the traditional curriculum of the liberal arts, while also requiring them to pursue concentrated study in one or more disciplines. Wabash emphasizes our manifold, but shared cultural heritage. Our students come from diverse economic, social, and cultural backgrounds; the College helps these students engage these differences and live humanely with them. Wabash also challenges its students to appreciate the changing nature of the global society and prepares them for the responsibilities of leadership and service in it. The College carries out its mission in a residential setting in which students take personal and group responsibility for their actions. Wabash provides for its students an unusually informal, egalitarian, and participatory environment which encourages young men to adopt a life of intellectual and creative growth, self-awareness, and physical activity. The College seeks to cultivate qualities of character and leadership in students by developing not only their analytical skills, but also sensitivity to values, and judgment and compassion required of citizens living in a difficult and uncertain world. We expect a Wabash education to bring joy in the life of the mind, to reveal the pleasures in the details of common experience, and to affirm the necessity for and rewards in helping others
 
About this School
Wabash College is a small private liberal arts college for men, located in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Wabash, along with Hampden-Sydney College, Deep Springs College, and Morehouse College, are the only four remaining mainstream all-men's liberal arts colleges in the United States. In contrast, there are many more women's colleges.
 
History
Wabash College was founded in 1832 by a number of men including several Dartmouth College graduates. Caleb Mills, the first faculty member, would later come to be known as the father of the Indiana public education system and would work throughout his life to improve education in the Mississippi Valley area. Patterning it after the liberal arts colleges of New England, they resolved "that the institution be at first a classical and English high school, rising into a college as soon as the wants of the country demand." After declaring the site at which they were standing would be the location of the new school, they knelt in the snow and conducted a dedication service. Although Mills, like many of the founders, was a Presbyterian minister, they were committed that Wabash should be independent and non-sectarian. Over its nearly two hundred years of history, Wabash faculty has included such influential intellectuals as poet Ezra Pound. Colonel Henry B. Carrington was professor of military science from 1870 to 1878.
 
Academic year prices for full-time, first-time undergraduate students
Tuition and Fees2009-20082008-20072007-2006
In-State$ 28,150$ 26,350$ 24,792
Out of State$ 28,150$ 26,350$ 24,792
Books and Supplies$ 900$ 800$ 800
On-Campus
Room and board$ 7,400$ 7,200$ 7,064
Other Expenses$ 1,300$ 1,200$ 1,200
Off Campus
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Financial aid 2006-2007

Financial aid to full-time, first-time undergraduate students

Type of AidPercentage of students receiving aidAverage amount of aid they received
Federal Grants (scholarship/fellowship) 17% $ 3,526
State/Local grants (scholarship/fellowship) 32% $ 4,640
Institutional grants (scholarship/fellowship) 97% $ 15,051
Loans to students 75% $ 5,143
 
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