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Founded in 1853 by pioneering Scottish Presbyterians, Monmouth College brought the blessings
of civilization to the people of the rough frontier and spoke of traditional values
to those who were shaping a new world. Though today our life knows different frontiers, the
College still thinks of its purpose as its founders did --preserving and celebrating the
traditions that have been entrusted to it while promoting discovery and investigation.
Although the student body today includes many who come from far beyond western Illinois,
Monmouth continues to have a strong sense of identity with its local community and with the
region in which it is proudly rooted.
Unusual for the time, Monmouth College was created a
coeducational institution. Indeed,
it was one of the first colleges to give women equality with men, and, not surprisingly,
women’s interests have been prominent in the College’s history.
Monmouth has chosen to remain the
collegiate institution it was founded to be, preferring not to expand into a university.
Monmouth continues to insist that its purpose is not to pursue knowledge for its own sake, in
the university’s fashion, but to encourage students to seek values by bringing together
knowledge and belief in a coherent whole. The College has neither graduate nor professional
schools and is therefore able to focus its resources entirely on its undergraduates. In true
collegiate fashion, Monmouth stresses the unity and equality of the academic disciplines that
compose it. The College’s chief interest lies in providing its students a generous
understanding of human experience; individual disciplines receive their sense of direction
from that larger commitment rather than permitting the specific interest to become an end in
itself.
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WHAT COLLEGE WAS MEANT TO
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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. |
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