Bluefield College

Bluefield College

Infobox_University
name =Bluefield College


established =1822
president =David W. Olive
type =Private
faculty =
students =800
city =Bluefield
state =VA
country =U.S.
affiliations =Appalachian College Association, Council for Christian Colleges and Universities
athletics =Appalachian Athletic Conference of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
mascot =Ram
website = [http://www.bluefield.edu/ bluefield.edu]

Bluefield College is a small Christian liberal arts college in Bluefield, Virginia, in Tazewell County, Virginia. It offers 22 majors, and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The 82 acre campus is about convert|150|ft|m|abbr=on 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. [http://www.bluefield.edu/templates/System/details.asp?id=30250&PID=223832 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

I should mention that during my last year in the Bluefield schools that my parents had arranged for me to take supplementary math. courses at Bluefield College, which was then a 2-year institution operated by Southern Baptists. I didn't get official advanced standing at Carnegie because of my extra studies but I had advanced knowledge and ability and didn't need to learn much from the first math. courses at Carnegie. [ [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.html John F. Nash, Jr. - Autobiography ] ]

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 [ [http://www.bluefield.edu/templates/System/details.asp?id=30250&PID=445333 Campus News-Inauguration ] ] . Shortly thereafter, the college raised tuition by about 20% [ [http://www.bluefield.edu/templates/System/details.asp?id=30250&PID=231429 Traditional Undergraduate Tuition Costs ] ] , and announced a new [http://www.bluefield.edu/templates/System/details.asp?id=30250&PID=576271 strategic plan] .

Degree Completion Program

Bluefield College has regional offices for its adult undergraduate degree completion programs in Roanoke, Virginia and Richmond, Virginia. Three majors are offered through this program

Athletics

Participation in sports is popular at Bluefield, and in intercollegiate athletics, the college has six men's and six women's teams. [ [http://www.bluefield.edu/templates/System/details.asp?id=30250&PID=267816 Athletic Overview ] ]

Notable alumni

*John F. Nash — 1994 Nobel Prize winner in Economics

References

External links

* [http://www.bluefield.edu/ Bluefield College official website]


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