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Wheaton College is a private American four-year Evangelical Protestant Christian liberal arts college in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb west of Chicago. The college was founded by abolitionists in 1860.〔()〕 Drawing 2,500 undergraduates from all 50 United States, 50 countries, and over 55 church denominations, Wheaton offers 40 majors in the arts, humanities, literature, foreign languages, social sciences, and natural sciences.〔(). Wheaton College.〕 Wheaton is noted for its "twin traditions of quality academics and deep faith," according to ''Time'' magazine and is ranked 20th among all national liberal arts colleges in the number of alumni who go on to earn PhDs.〔(). Oberlin College.〕 Wheaton is included in Loren Pope's influential book ''Colleges That Change Lives''. Wheaton College was ranked 8th in "Best Undergraduate Teaching" by the U.S. News & World Report for national liberal arts colleges in 2016.〔().〕 The school was ranked 57th overall among national liberal arts colleges by U.S. News & World Report for 2016.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wheaton College )〕 Forbes lists Wheaton among the Top 100 Colleges and Universities in its 2015 rankings.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=America's Top Colleges )〕 Wheaton College is also noteworthy for having been a stop on the Underground Railroad and graduating Illinois' first African-American college graduate.〔http://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/ntf_member/ntf_member_details.htm?SPFID=375703&SPFTerritory=NULL&SPFType=NULL&SPFKeywords=NULL/〕 ==History== Wheaton College was founded in 1860. Its predecessor, the Illinois Institute, had been founded in late 1853 by Wesleyan Methodists as a college and preparatory school. Wheaton's first president, Jonathan Blanchard, was a former president of Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois and a staunch abolitionist with ties to Oberlin College. Mired in financial trouble and unable to sustain the institution, the Wesleyans looked to Blanchard for new leadership. He took on the role as president in 1860, having suggested several Congregationalist appointees to the board of trustees the previous year. The Wesleyans, similar in spirit and mission to the Congregationalists, were happy to relinquish control of the Illinois Institute.〔Clyde S. Kilby, "A Minority of One," (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1959), p. 146.〕 Blanchard officially separated the college from any denominational support and was responsible for its new name, given in honor of trustee and benefactor Warren L. Wheaton, who founded the town of Wheaton after moving to Illinois from New England. A dogged reformer, Blanchard began his public campaign for abolitionism with the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1836, at the age of twenty-five.〔Clyde S. Kilby, "A Minority of One," (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1959), p. 45.〕 Later in his life, after the Civil War, he began a sustained campaign against Freemasonry. This culminated in a national presidential campaign on the American Anti-Masonic Party ticket in 1884. Under Blanchard's leadership, the college was a stop on the Underground Railroad.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Member Details )〕 The confirmation came from the letters of Daniel Studebaker, one of Blanchard's relatives by marriage, who notes that the town and college's anti-slavery beliefs were so widely held "that he, along with hundreds of other Wheaton residents, had seen and spoken with many fugitive slaves". Blanchard consistently lobbied for universal co-education and was a strong proponent of reform through strong public education open to all. At this time, Wheaton was the only school in Illinois with a college-level women's program. Also, Wheaton saw its first graduate of color in 1866, when Edward Breathitte Sellers took his degree. Additionally, he is the first African-American college graduate in the state of Illinois.〔 In 1882, Charles A. Blanchard succeeded his father as president of the college. In 1925, J. Oliver Buswell, an outspoken Presbyterian, delivered a series of lectures at Wheaton College. Shortly thereafter, President Charles Blanchard died and Buswell was called to be the third president of Wheaton. Upon his installation in April 1926, he became the nation's youngest college president at age 31. Buswell's tenure was characterized by expanding enrollment (from approximately 400 in 1925 to 1,100 in 1940), a building program, strong academic development, and a boom in the institution's reputation. It was also known for growing divisiveness over faculty scholarship and personality clashes. In 1940, this tension led to the firing of Buswell for being, as two historians of the college put it, "too argumentative in temperament and too intellectual in his approach to Christianity." By the late 1940s, Wheaton was emerging as a standard-bearer of Evangelicalism. By 1950, enrollment at the college surpassed 1,600, and in the second half of the twentieth century, enrollment growth and more selective admissions accompanied athletic success, additional and improved facilities, and expanded programs. In 1951, Honey Rock, a camp in Three Lakes, Wisconsin, was purchased by the college.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.honeyrockcamp.org/gallerySideList.asp?pageid=19 )〕 In 2010, The public phase of The Promise of Wheaton campaign came to a close with $250.7 million raised, an "unprecedented 5-1/2 year campaign figure for Wheaton College".〔(). Wheaton College.〕 In 2010, Wheaton College become the first American Associate University of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation’s Faith and Globalization Initiative. Tony Blair noted that the partnership will "give emerging leaders in the United States and the United Kingdom the opportunity to explore in depth the critical issues of how faith impacts the modern world today through different faith and cultural lenses" and that Wheaton's participation will "greatly enrich the Initiative".〔().〕 Politician Corey Conklin attended the college for a year.〔().〕 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「Wheaton College (Illinois)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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