Wesleyan College
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Wesleyan College is a private, liberal arts college for women located in Macon, Georgia.
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Students
Wesleyan College has an undergraduate student population of around 700. It has a student-faculty ratio of 1:11, and an average class size of 20 students. Students from more than 20 states and 20 countries around the world attend the school each year. Wesleyan offers 33 majors, minors, and pre-professional programs for its students.
Campus
Wesleyan College has an arboreal 200 acre (800,000 m²) campus dotted with revivalist Georgian style brick buildings. It features a 6.3 acre (25,000 m²) lake, Foster Lake, as well as an equestrian field.
Wesleyan's Campus hosts many diverse events each year. Midsummer Macon, a music and arts program for children and young adults, is held here every summer. The school also hosts several popular events of the Macon Cherry Blossom Festival every springtime, such as the annual hot air balloon launch. Porter Auditorium was once the home of the Macon Symphony Orchestra but it still hosts many musical and theatrical events and competitions. Wesleyan is also important to the community as it holds many award day programs for the public schools around Macon.
History
Founded on December 23, 1836 as the Georgia Female College, it is the first and oldest college in the world to grant degrees to women. It was renamed Wesleyan Female College in 1843 and later shortened to the present name Wesleyan College in 1917.
Wesleyan College was also the birthplace of the first sororities: the Adelphian Society in 1851, now known as Alpha Delta Pi, and the Philomathean Society in 1852, now known as Phi Mu. The school no longer has sororities (1914), and uses a class system. Incoming first years are assigned a class based on the outgoing seniors of the previous school year. The classes are the Green Knights and their sister class the Purple Knights, and the Red Pirates and their sister class the Golden Hearts. The 2005-2006 seniors are the Purple Knights.
The school colors are purple and lavender.
Well-known alumni
Neva Langley Fickling, 1953 Miss America
Sandra Deer, playwright
Kathryn Stripling Byer, poet
Toni Jennings, Florida Lt Governor
Catherine Brewer Benson, first woman to earn a college degree
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