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Bluefield College is a small, Christian liberal arts college in Bluefield, Virginia, United States. It offers 22 majors, and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The campus is about from the state line between Virginia and West Virginia. ==History== Bluefield College was founded in 1922 by the Baptist General Association of Virginia (BGAV), after residents of Bluefield offered to donate land and start-up funds.〔(History )〕 R.A. Landsdell became the first president in 1920, and the current administration building is named Landsdell Hall in his honor. At its founding, Bluefield was a two-year junior college. Future Nobel Prize winner John F. Nash took mathematics courses at the relatively new college while in high school. In his autobiography for the Nobel Foundation, he writes
Under Charles L. Harman, president from 1946–1971, the college built Easley Library, the dormitory Rish Hall, Harman Chapel, and a geodesic dome as the gymnasium.〔 In 1975, Bluefield reinvented itself as a four-year college, and during the 1989–1996 presidency of Roy A. Dobyns, student enrollment doubled to more than 800 students. In 1998, under the leadership of President Daniel G. MacMillan, the college cut tuition by over 20% and refocused its student recruitment on the local area.〔 In 2007, the current president, David W. Olive, was inaugurated.〔(Campus News-Inauguration )〕 Shortly thereafter, the college raised tuition by about 20%,〔(Traditional Undergraduate Tuition Costs )〕 and announced a new strategic plan. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bluefield College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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