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Recognizing that no intellectual process is value free, Monmouth College is committed to the values and ecumenical perspective of the Christian faith and encourages its members to explore the implications of those values for their lives and the world. While the College chooses, quite deliberately, to maintain its affiliation with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), it welcomes students of all faiths.

In 1726 a Presbyterian minister named William Tennent Sr. gathered students into a log house in Neshaminy, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. So began a Presbyterian Church mission in higher education that has continued uninterrupted for over a quarter of a millennium.

Monmouth College began as an academy founded by the Associate Reformed Presbytery of Illinois in 1853. Two years later, the Second Associate Reformed Presbyterian Synod of Illinois decided to raise the academy to the rank of a college.

In 1859, following the merger of the Associate and Associate Reformed churches, control of the college was vested in the United Presbyterian Synod. In 1858 Monmouth College became home to the United Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the Northwest, which was removed to Xenia, Ohio, in 1874. Today, although its governance is no longer under the control of the church, Monmouth College retains a close affiliation with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) continues its commitment to higher education by providing a quality experience to more than 140,000 students at 72 PC (U.S.A.) related schools, colleges and universities across the country.

To increase the range of opportunities for its members while retaining the advantages of smallness, Monmouth and thirteen other colleges similar in kind and purpose compose a consortium, the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM).

These colleges, located in Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin as well as in Illinois, together offer programs which singly they could not. These provide opportunities, described in the section titled Off-Campus Study, for members of the College to engage in a remarkable range of off-campus study projects, both in this country and overseas, for a semester or an academic year.

WHAT COLLEGE WAS MEANT TO BE

Founded in 1853, Monmouth College is a nationally-ranked liberal arts college affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA). Located in western Illinois, midway between Chicago and St. Louis, Monmouth has an enrollment of 1,350 students, most of whom live on campus in eleven attractive residence halls and a modern apartment complex.

Monmouth's faculty devotes its full attention to undergraduate teaching. A new general-education based curriculum, designed to better prepare students for the challenges of living and working in the 21st century, was recently adopted.