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Midway University is an independent, liberal arts university with approximately 1,800 students located in Midway, Kentucky. Related by covenant to the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), it currently offers two and four-year degrees. Midway is the only women's college in Kentucky. The all-female Day College offers majors in four pillar programs: business, equine studies, nursing, and teacher education. In addition to the Day College, Midway University offers programs to adult men and women, through the evening and weekend School for Career Development (SCD), offered on the Midway Campus and in more than 18 sites across Kentucky, and also through Midway University ''ONLINE''. Both SCD and ''ONLINE'' offer accelerated degree-completion programs for working adults in popular programs such as Organizational Administration and Leadership, Homeland Security Corporate Management and Assessment, and Teacher Education, among others.〔 In August 2011, Midway delayed the launch of the new School of Pharmacy in the eastern Kentucky community of Paintsville. The school was supposed to enroll up to 80 students a year and intended to offer a fully accredited Pharm.D. degree. The School of Pharmacy was to occupy space at Big Sandy Community and Technical College while it seeks a site for its own campus. The mission of Midway University: "As Kentucky's only college for Women and as a forerunner in coeducational adult accelerated learning, Midway University empowers undergraduate and graduate students as leaders through a oriented liberal arts education."〔(Mission Statement ) Retrieved on 2010-2-10〕 ==History== Midway University originally opened as the Kentucky Female Orphan School on October 3, 1849, with one teacher and sixteen female students. The nine members of the Board of Trustees oversaw the school's endowment, the building and five acres of land.〔Peterson, Lucy. Miss Lucy's Story, As She Saw It. Midway, Kentucky: Midway College, 1960.〕 The co-founders of the school were Dr. L.L. (Lewis Letig) Pinkerton (1812–1875),〔(【引用サイトリンク】 website = Christianity: Then and Now on-line )〕 minister of the Midway Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) from 1844–1860,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.midwaychristian.org/downloads/mccbriefhistory.pdf )〕 and Mr. James Ware Parrish, a Midway Christian Church elder. They obtained a charter on February 17, 1847, from the Kentucky legislature through the help of Kentucky Senator Major George W. Williams.〔Balmer, Alberta Luanna. "A Study of the Kentucky Female Orphan School", Masters thesis, University of Kentucky, 1942.〕 Before the school was permitted to open, an endowment of twenty-five thousand dollars had to be secured and investments made. This time was used for soliciting funds, purchasing land, construction of a building, and drafting and outline of government and management for the school. The outline was published in the (Millennial Harbinger ) of November, 1848. John Dawson was Superintendent and his wife, Mary, was Matron when the Kentucky Female Orphan School opened in 1849. Associate principal and assistant matron, Eliza Davies, wrote that in those early days the "house was not furnished; the girls slept on straw mattresses; the floors were uncarpeted." There were fourteen Heads of the school in total:〔 *John Dawson *Robert Broadhurst *Belle Bellew *Cornelia Oldham *Belle Fitzpatrick *Samuel Lucy *Liccie Corbin *Ella Mountjoy *Lucy Peterson *Edgar Riley *Louis Piper *Albert Cox *Nelson Hoffman *Robert Botkin The Kentucky Female Orphan School girls' education was directed by four main points: # The development and corroboration of the moral constitution. # The improvement of the intellectual powers. # The development of the physical powers. # Such direction of all the capabilities and attainments of the pupils, as will afford them the best prospect of a livelihood, in the useful and honorable employment of their requirements.〔Millennial Harbinger, Vol. V, No. XI, p. 712.〕 The early years of operation had four grades. They were compared to an intensive high school education which included all courses: Ray's Higher Arithmetic, two years of Algebra, plane geometry, trigonometry, physics, botany, physiology, psychology, astronomy, physical geography, chemistry, geology, mineralogy, zoology, grammar, spelling, diacritical marks, rhetoric, American and English Literature, classics, U.S. History, English History, ancient, medieval, and modern history, Latin, and instrumental and vocal music. Sixteen credits were required to graduate, but according to the school president (Miss Lucy Peterson ), many students graduated with twenty-five credits. The school served, at various times, as an elementary and high school, and eventually became a junior college and, then a fully accredited baccalaureate-granting institution as Midway College. As a career training provider, the Kentucky Female Orphan School identified the needs of the community, the resources in the area and the demand for higher education. The intention was to empower disadvantaged women with an education in the field of teaching. On July 1, 2015, the college changed its name to Midway University. 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「Midway University」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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