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}} Huntingdon College, founded in 1854, is a coeducational liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. ==History== Huntingdon College was chartered on February 2, 1854, as "Tuskegee Female College" by the Alabama State Legislature and Governor John A. Winston. The first president was Andrew Adgate Lipscomb. Dr. Lipscomb laid the foundation of the college as a teaching college rather than a research institution. In 1872 the name was changed to "Alabama Conference Female College" as the college came under the auspices of the United Methodist Church. As the college and the South struggled to rebuild following the Civil War, it became clear to college leaders that growth and stability were dependent upon relocation to a more populous city—and they chose the state's capital. A 58-acre (235,000 m²) parcel of land on what was then the outskirts of town and is now the beautiful Old Cloverdale neighborhood of Montgomery was selected in 1908. The design for the landscape of the campus was provided by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., who had also planned the Biltmore Estate. The college, renamed once again to "Woman's College of Alabama," moved all of its furniture, lab chemicals, and records into Hamner Hall in Montgomery August 24, 1909, but the building burned to the ground that night, destroying the records of the college's first 50 years and all of its belongings. As the students and President William Martin moved to Sullins College in Virginia for that school year, construction continued on the college's first building, John Jefferson Flowers Memorial Hall. Completed in 1910 and designed by Harvard architect H. Langford Warren, Flowers Hall was designed to emulate the collegiate Gothic architecture of Oxford and Cambridge, England, and of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and set the tone for the pervasive architectural style of campus buildings henceforth. The college admitted its first male students in the aftermath of World War I, graduating the first male student in 1934. Realizing that the name Woman's College of Alabama no longer fit its student body, the college's final name change came in 1935 when Huntingdon College was adopted in honor of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, a notable supporter of John Wesley and of Methodism. Huntingdon today offers more than 20 undergraduate programs of study and 15 NCAA-III intercollegiate athletic teams that participate in the USA South Athletic Conference. Between 2002 and 2012, enrollment jumped by 53% in the traditional day program and 88% overall (594 to 1118), prompting the Chronicle of Higher Education to list Huntingdon among their 2014 list of "Fastest Growing Colleges in America." Realignment of the College with its historic roots as a college of the United Methodist Church; NCAA-III athletic programs; the establishment or re-establishment of selected majors; and expansion of the college's evening program, the Evening Bachelor's Degree, are catalysts that affected enrollment growth. The College's Huntingdon Plan provides for each student "Fixed Tuition," a promise that full-time day student tuition will not increase during four consecutive years of enrollment, as well as a laptop computer for use all four years (theirs to keep at graduation); travel-study opportunities within regular tuition and fees as part of the junior or senior year of study; and small classes and personal attention from Huntingdon faculty, where students can know and be known. The core curriculum focuses on the development of critical thinking and communication skills. The Joyce and Truman Hobbs Honors Program, Departmental Honors, Senior Capstone experiences, the Staton Center for Learning Enrichment, and the Center for Career and Vocation enrich academic life at Huntingdon. Long-standing strengths in the liberal arts, pre-medical sciences and pre-law have led to successful graduate placement into professional, medical and law schools, and seminaries. In 2014, the College continued an 18-year tradition of 100% placement among candidates who wished to enter pharmacy schools. 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「Huntingdon College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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