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Ohio Wesleyan University

Ohio Wesleyan University (OWU) is a private liberal arts college in Delaware, Ohio. It was founded in 1842 by Methodist leaders and Central Ohio residents, and is a member of the Ohio Five – a consortium of Ohio liberal arts colleges.[8]

"OWU" redirects here. For other uses, see OWU (disambiguation).

Motto

In lumine tuo videbimus lumen (Latin)

In Your Light We Shall See the Light

Private liberal arts college

September 1842 (1842-09)

United Methodist Church[1][2][3][4]

$236.3 million (2020)[6]

Matthew vandenBerg

200

1,600

Delaware, Ohio
,
U.S.

Suburban, 200 acres (81 ha)

  Red
  Black[7]

Battling Bishops

NCAA Division III – NCAC

The Battling Bishop

www.owu.edu

The 200-acre (81 ha) site is 27 miles (44 km) north of Columbus, Ohio. It includes the main academic and residential campus, the Perkins Observatory, and the Kraus Wilderness Preserve.[9]

Academic rankings

116 of 185

158 of 199

204 (tie) of 600

Zoology/Animal Biology (23)

Psychology (21)

Sports, Kinesiology, & Physical Education/Fitness (16)

Business Administration & Management (15)

History (15)

Political Science & Government (12)

Charles Fairbanks

Charles Fairbanks

Frank Sherwood Rowland

Frank Sherwood Rowland

Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli

Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli

Branch Rickey

Branch Rickey

Norman Vincent Peale

Norman Vincent Peale

Adams, I. & S. Ostrander (2002). Ohio: A Bicentennial Portrait. San Francisco, CA: Browntrout Publishers.  0-7631-5590-X

ISBN

Burtchaell, James (1998). The Dying of the Light. Cambridge, UK: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.  0-8028-3828-6

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College Prowler (2006). Ohio Wesleyan University: Off the Record. Pittsburgh, PA: College Prowler.  1-4274-0260-4

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Ehrlich, Thomas (1988). Civic Responsibility and Higher Education. Washington, DC: American Council on Education Oryx Press Series on Higher Education.  1-57356-289-0

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Hubbart, Henry (1944). Ohio Wesleyan's First Hundred Years. Delaware, OH: Ohio Wesleyan University.  785302

OCLC

Murchland, Bernard (1991). The History of Ohio Wesleyan University from 1942 to 1992. Delaware, OH: Ohio Wesleyan University.  0-9630909-1-7

ISBN

Taylor, James M. (1991). Before Vassar Opened: A Contribution to the History of the Higher Education of Women in America. Boston, MA: Ayer Co Pub  0-8369-6786-0

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Tull, Barbara Mitchell (1991). 150 Years of Excellence: A Pictorial View of Ohio Wesleyan University. Delaware, OH: Ohio Wesleyan University  0-9630909-0-9

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U.S. News & World Report (2005). U.S. News Ultimate College Guide. New York: Sourcebooks  1-4022-0292-X

ISBN

Vellela, Tony (1988). New Voices: Student Political Activism in the '80s and '90s. Cambridge, MA: South End Press.  0-89608-341-1

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White, E.E. (1876). A History of Education in the State of Ohio. Columbus, OH: Authority of the General Assembly.  1-4255-5021-5

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Williams, W.G. (1894). Fifty Years of History of the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, 1844–1894. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Print. and Pub. Co  2672685

OCLC

Windmeyer, S.(2006). The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students. Boston, MA: Alyson Publications, Inc.  1-55583-857-X

ISBN

. Colleges That Change Lives , Penguin Group, 2000, ISBN 0-14-029616-6

Pope, Loren

Easterbrook, Gregg. (October 2004). "", The Atlantic Monthly

Who Needs Harvard?

Official website

Official athletics website

. Collier's New Encyclopedia. 1921.

"Ohio Wesleyan University" 

. New International Encyclopedia. 1905.

"Ohio Wesleyan University" 

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