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Pacific Union College (PUC) is a private liberal arts college located in Napa Valley, California. The campus is located in the upper valley town of Angwin, eight miles north of St. Helena, California and within the Howell Mountain wine appellation. It is the only four-year college in Napa County. A coeducational residential college, it serves an almost exclusively undergraduate student body, the overwhelming majority of which live on campus. PUC is fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and maintains various programmatic accreditations. It is the only liberal arts college affiliated with the Adventist Church. It was the 12th college or university founded in the state of California. Enrollment at Pacific Union College is roughly 1,600. Students study a variety of courses offered by the school's 20 academic departments. The school offers over 70 undergraduate majors and one master's program. The campus occupies of the college's in property. == History == Pacific Union College has had a total of twenty-one presidents. The first eight of these served while the school was still in Healdsburg. In 1983, Malcolm Maxwell became the first alumnus to lead PUC, serving for a record 18 years. Heather Knight, the current President, took office in 2009 after serving as the Provost at Andrews University. Pacific Union College was founded as Healdsburg Academy in 1882 in Healdsburg, California in northern Sonoma County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.puc.edu/about-puc )〕 It was renamed Healdsburg College in 1899.〔 Sidney Brownsberger was its first President. It is the twelfth oldest institution of higher education in the state of California, and the second founded by the Adventist Church, the first west of the Mississippi.〔Utt, W. (1996) ''A Mountain, A Pickax, A College'', p. 3.〕 In 1909 the college moved to its current location in Angwin, on Howell Mountain in neighboring Napa County, where the school had purchased the 1,636-acre Angwin Resort for $60,000.〔(PUC website ) 1909 to 1930 photo gallery page. Accessed 2011-09-08.〕 One reason for relocating to Angwin Resort was its beautiful rural setting,〔 overlooking California's Napa Valley wine country, which continues to be a defining characteristic.〔(Angwin Community Council website ) "Angwin: Then and Now" page. Accessed 2011-09-10.〕 In 1933, Pacific Union College became the first higher educational institution affiliated with the Adventist Church to achieve regional accreditation when it was awarded accreditation by the Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools. The year before, PUC had become the first school to receive denominational accreditation.〔 Pacific Union College also was the first Adventist school to form international affiliations; it affiliated with what is now Avondale College in Australia in 1954.〔 In 1935 the elementary school and high school of the college were administratively separated. The high school, PUC Preparatory School, is located on the campus itself while the elementary school is located down the road off campus. In 2006 the faculty, administration and Board of Trustees underscored PUC's commitment to undergraduate education by making a formal decision to remain a college and not change its name to university, as other small private colleges had done. This decision was based on the institution's commitment to quality liberal arts undergraduate teaching.〔"Our ninety-seven teaching faculty members are dedicated to undergraduate teaching and to quality academic programs, a dedication that was reaffirmed in the 2005-06 school year, when the president initiated a campus-wide debate on the question of whether PUC should give in to pressures to call ourselves a university, like many similar institutions. With near unanimity, the entire community—from the chair of the board of trustees to first-year students—soundly declared its determination to remain (in spite of all temptations…) a college."(''PUC Institutional (Re-accreditation) Proposal'' ) May 2007, p.1. Retrieved 2011-09-08.〕 In the summer of 2006, PUC's Board of Trustees announced its intention to enlarge its endowment through the sale and development of a portion of its land holdings into an ecovillage. The initial plans called for 591 homes and improvements to local businesses and shops.〔http://www.napavalleyregister.com/articles/2007/01/22/news/local_top_story/doc45b4c09781695483683870.txt〕 The original proposal specified master planned development, conservation easements and lot sales affecting approximately 885 acres (3.58 km2) out of PUC's current holdings of over 1,800 acres (7.3 km2). PUC announced on April 3, 2007 that in response to community input it had decided to reduce the planned number of housing units by 200, to 391.〔http://www.napavalleyregister.com/articles/2007/04/05/news/local/doc461494a5703c3252995869.txt〕 On October 4, 2010, Pacific Union College and Triad Corporation announced a decision to abandon the project.〔http://napavalleyregister.com/star/news/local/article_62c0ee48-dcab-11df-9c06-001cc4c002e0.html〕 In early 2014, there was a controversy when a long-time department chair announced his resignation in response to president Heather Knight, preparing to remove a 26-year, tenured professor in his department for "lectures on sex that administrators said clashed with church teachings."〔Wilson, Robin (2 February 2013). (Clash Over Professor’s Lectures on Sex Tests Academic Freedom at Religious College ). ''Chronicle of Higher Education''.〕 Her actions were viewed as a reinterpretation of the school's policy on academic freedom which were previously interpreted to allow variations from church teachings. Knight withdrew her threat to fire the professor but "doubled down" on her reinterpretation of academic freedom despite a major outcry from faculty, students and alumni. Academic Dean Nancy Lecourt stated that the conflict originated from tension between the school's commitment to promote the church and professors' freedom to teach, stating, "How do we get students thinking? We poke at them, we introduce them to new ideas, and we ask difficult questions... But how do we get them thinking without losing their faith?"〔 Following the school's re-evaluation of academic freedom, a professor, Greg Schneider, stated, "This damages the fabric (the school's academic focus ), and it’s going to take some reweaving." Schneider, who had taught at PUC for 37 years, planned to retire soon and asked, rhetorically, "Can I still, with my whole being, communicate to my students that this is where you ought to be?"〔 In June 2014, the College received a $2.4 million unrestricted donation from a local resident. It was described as the single largest cash gift in the college's history. 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「Pacific Union College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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