Washburn University
From Free net encyclopedia
| Revision as of 17:33, 20 April 2006 Bobak (Talk | contribs) Notable graduates - If Whittier and Duke law claim Nixon... ← Previous diff |
Current revision Bobak (Talk | contribs) Notable graduates - If Whittier and Duke law claim Nixon... |
Current revision
{{Infobox_University
|name=Washburn University
|motto=Purificatus non Consumptus
Purified but not consumed
|established=1865
|type=municipal university
|endowment=$112.5 million[1]
|president=Dr. Jerry Farley
|city=Topeka
|state=KS
|country=USA
|campus=urban: 160 acres (0.647 km²)
|undergrad=6,398
|postgrad=853
|students=7,251
|faculty=427
|mascot= Image:Ichabod.pngIchabod Washburn
|nickname=men: Ichabods
women: Lady Blues
|colors=Yale Blue and White
|free_label=Athletics
|free=10 Division II NCAA teams[2]
|website=www.washburn.edu
|image=Image:WU logo.gif
}}
Washburn University is a four-year college in Topeka, Kansas. Washburn University also operates a law school.
Washburn University was established in February 1865 as Lincoln College by a charter issued by the State of Kansas and the General Association of Congregational Ministers and Churches of Kansas. The school was renamed Washburn College in 1868 after receiving a $25,000 donation by Ichabod Washburn, a church deacon and resident of Worcester, Massachusetts.
The school's mascot, the "Washburn Ichabod," is named after the university's benefactor and was drawn by noted graphic artist Bradbury Thompson when he was an undergraduate. Only the men's athletic teams use the Ichabods nickname; the school's women's teams are known as Lady Blues. Washburn is a member of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association, MIAA and The National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II, NCAA.
On 26 March 2005 the Washburn Lady Blues won the NCAA division II national basketball championship, defeating Seattle Pacific University 70-53. The 2004-2005 team set the school record for wins, going 35-2 on the year.
Through the College of Arts and Sciences and Schools of Applied Studies, Business, Law and Nursing, the University's 7,350 students have access to over 190 programs of study.
Washburn is the last municipally chartered university in the country. Primary funding for the University is from a county-wide sales tax. Washburn operates public television station KTWU-TV, Channel 11. Other campus supported media include the campus newspaper The Review[3] student newsaper and WUCT Cable Television Channel 13.
Institutional Partnerships with Washburn
- University of Orebro, Sweden
- Denmark International Studies Program, Denmark
- University of Klagenfurt, Austria
- University of Cantabria, Spain
- Conahec, Canada and Mexico
- Magellan, Western Europe
- Blaise Pascal University, France
- Fukuoka University, Japan
- Zhejiang Normal University, China
- Cambridge University, England
Washburn sponsors English language programs in England, Denmark, Sweden, China, Japan, Belgium, Austria, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain.
Notable graduates
- Bradbury Thompson - graphic artist
- Bob Dole - politician, senator
- Dennis Moore - US House of Representatives.
- Bill Kurtis - television journalist and producer
- Larry Niven - Science Fiction Author
- Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. - 1971 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology and Medicine, BS in Chemistry from Washburn in 1937.
- Greg Brenneman - Chief Executive Officer of Burger King Corporation. Former president and CEO of Continental Airlines.
- Ken Calwell - Executive Vice President, Build the Brand, Dominos Pizza and former vice president, new product marketing, research and testing for Wendys.
- Richard Davidson - Chairman, Union Pacific Railroad formerly CEO from 1997 to January 1, 2006.
- Joan Finney - Kansas's first female governor elected in 1992 and former treasurer for the state of Kansas.
- Art Fletcher - Chairman of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, former director of the United States Commission on Civil Rights and the former executive director of the United Negro College Fund.
- Georgia Neese Gray - First female U.S. Treasurer appointed by President Harry Truman.
- Delano Lewis - Former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa and former president of National Public Radio.
- Miriam Baker Loo - Founder of mail order catalog, Current, Inc.
- Davey Lopes - Former manager of the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team. He had a 16-year baseball career with Los Angeles, Oakland, Houston and the Chicago Cubs. He spent 11 seasons as a coach with Texas, Baltimore and San Diego.
- Billie Jean Moore - 1999 inductee to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. She is the former head women's basketball coach at UCLA and 1976 Olympic women's basketball coach.
- Roger Noriega - Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State.
- Gene Reardon - Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Defense.
- James Reynolds - Actor who portrays Capt. Abe Carver on NBC's "Days of Our Lives."
- All recent mayors of Topeka, Kansas, including Butch Felker, Duane Pomeroy, James McClinton, and Bill Bunten.
- Fred Phelps '62, head of the Westboro Baptist Church.