Founded
1832 (About The Founding)

Type
Private, independent, four year liberal arts college for men, granting Bachelor of Arts degree.

Location
Crawfordsville, Indiana, a community of 14,000 located 45 miles northwest of Indianapolis and 150 miles southeast of Chicago.

Endowment
As of May 1, 2011, the value of Wabash's endowment was approximately $330 million, which places Wabash among the highest colleges in the nation in per-student endowment.

Financial Aid
Approximately 90 percent of students receive some form of student aid.

Tuition and Fees
For the 2011-2012 academic year, tuition is $31,800. Room charges are $3,900 per year. Meal charges vary by meal plan, including $4,600 (19 weekly meals), $4,200 (15 meals), $3,880 (10 meals). The required Student Activity Fee is $450 and there is a $200 Student Health Center fee.

Accreditation
Wabash College is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools of the Higher Learning Commission. In addition, Wabash's Teacher Education Program is accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).

Governance
The Wabash College Board of Trustees, chaired by Stephen S. Bowen ’68, meets on campus three times each year. Trustees are elected to four-year terms; members of the National Association of Wabash Men elect six Alumni Trustees, who serve not more than two four-year terms.

President Patrick E. White
Patrick E. White was elected the 15th President of Wabash College by the Board of Trustees in January 2006. He formally took office on July 1, 2006. President White earned his bachelor's degree with honors from the University of Chicago in 1971. He earned his master's degree and Ph.D. in English and American Literature from the University of Iowa. For more information, see his web page.

The Wabash College Campus
The 60-acre wooded campus contains 25 buildings predominantly of Georgian architecture. Caleb Mills taught the first class of Wabash students in 1833 in Forest Hall, located since 1965 at the north end of campus and now home to the Teacher Education Department. Built in 1836, Caleb Mills' House hosts various college functions. Also built in 1836 was Hovey Cottage, home to the College's second faculty member Edmund O. Hovey.

In 2011, Emeritus Professors of Chemistry David A. Phillips and John F. Zimmerman developed a comprehensive Campus Tour guidebook. In this walking tour we will visit the major buildings and most important landmarks on campus. For those of you who are unable to visit campus, this document contains enough pictures to enable you to use it for a virtual tour. The tour is set in a historical context. Buildings that disappeared years ago are pictured, and a small amount of historical background is provided. Included are discussions of rooms and other spaces named after presidents, faculty and coaches who devoted their lives to the College. Download the booklet here or view it online here.

The Fine Arts Center was renovated and greatly expanded in 1993, and included wings for art galleries and studios, as well as the 275-seat Salter Concert Hall and a dozen individual practice rooms for musicians. The Detchon Center for Modern Languages and International Studies, housed in an expanded and renovated campus landmark built in 1893, is a state-of-the-art facility.

During the Campaign for Leadership, Wabash built Hays Hall, the $30 million home of the biology and chemistry departments; renovated Goodrich Hall, which is home to the mathematics and computer science and physics departments; built the $2 million Malcolm X Institute for Black Studies; and built the $20 million Allen Athletics and Recreation Center. In addition, all nine College-owned fraternities were either built new or renovated during the Campaign for Leadership.

Students
Wabash's 875 male students come from approximately 35 states and about 18 foreign countries; about 70 percent of the students are from Indiana. Test scores range from the middle 50 percent of entering freshmen: SAT critical reading 510-615, SAT math 540-660, and SAT writing 490-610, and composite ACT 22-28.Each year, approximately 250 freshmen students enroll.

Faculty
In 2011, 100 percent of the faculty members at Wabash hold a Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree. Wabash's special strength lies with a faculty dedicated to teaching undergraduate students.

Student/Faculty ratio
Wabash maintains a student/faculty ratio of 11/1 or lower and the average class size is 13.

Majors
Wabash offers 22 majors in the following areas: Art, Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Classics, Economics, English, French, German, Greek, History, Latin, Mathematics, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Rhetoric, Spanish, and Theater. Students may choose a double major and a 3-2 dual degree program in engineering with Purdue University, Columbia University, or Washington University (St. Louis). Students interested in secondary education may participate in the Ninth Semester Teach Education Program.

Library Collections And Services
Lilly Library, built in 1959, was renovated and expanded in 1992. Resources from the Goodrich Chemistry Library were integrated into Lilly in the summer of 2000. The holdings include more than 434,460 book and periodical bound volumes; 5,530 current periodical titles; and a media collection of over 11,151 recordings, CD's, videos and other media.

Both in the library and on the campus network students have access to CD-Rom periodical indexes and the online catalog of the 2.7 million volumes of Wabash and the 24 other private colleges and seminaries that are part of the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI). Additional off-campus resources available electronically from the Library web site (library.Wabash.edu) encompass a wide range of specialized subject indexes and abstracts, full-text journal and information databases, and the OCLC international database of 37.5 million volumes in over 30,000 libraries around the world.

The Media Center located on the library lower level has individual and group viewing and listening facilities for Lilly Library's collection of videos, DVD's, laserdiscs, cassette tapes, CDs, recordings and CD-Roms.

In addition, computers are available for exploring multi-media presentations, digital and analog video editing, creating computer graphics, slide scanning and CD-ROM and DVD production. Software programs available include Adobe Creative Suite and Final Cut Pro. Equipment available includes a laminator, transparency makers, slide projectors, digital video and still cameras, digital editing computers, and tape recorders. Color printing is also available in up to 11"x17" paper size

The visually impaired can use a networked computer with a 21" monitor and the following programs: OSCAR scanning, VISTA for text enlargement and VERT for converting text to voice.

Robert T. Ramsay, Jr. Archival Center, located in the library lower level, contains the records of the College, including catalogs and yearbooks, student publications, fraternity files and other related materials that document Wabash's history, along with several special collections.

Computers
More than 350 systems are available to students in various public and classroom labs. The College has campus-wide wireless service. The Chemistry Department has a 64 node Beowulf parallel processor system. A next generation Compaq UNIX server supports IMAP e-mail that can be accessed anywhere, anytime through the web. Through these connections, students have access to the resources of the Internet and to on-campus servers.

Housing
Students may live in one of five residence halls: Martindale Hall, Wolcott Hall, Morris Hall, Cole Hall, and College Hall; one of nine national fraternities: Beta Theta Pi, Kappa Sigma, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma Chi, Tau Kappa Epsilon, and Theta Delta Chi. Many students also choose to rent near-campus apartments from the College.

Sports
Wabash competes at the NCAA Division III level in 11 varsity sports--baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, indoor track and field, soccer, tennis, outdoor track and field, swimming, and wrestling-as a member of the North Coast Athletic Conference. In addition, students may participate in 22 intramural sports and four club sports. More than three-quarters of Wabash students participate in at least one intramural sport and over 40 percent of students are varsity athletes.

Extracurricular activities
Wabash students take part in more than 60 extracurricular activities. Among them: student government; radio station; departmental clubs; political clubs; speech, music, and theater groups; various literary publications; special interest groups; and religious groups.

Automobiles
There are no restrictions regarding student automobiles.

Graduates
Approximately 75 percent of Wabash students enter graduate or professional school within five years of graduating from Wabash. Each year, approximately 35 percent of Wabash graduates enroll in graduate and professional schools, including about 8-10 percent in medical and law schools and about 20 percent enroll in other graduate arts and sciences programs. Among those entering the work force, 31 percent begin careers in business, while nine percent work in government, social service, or teaching.

Address
For additional information, write to:

Wabash College
Admissions Office
P.O. Box 352
Crawfordsville, IN 47933-0352

Phone: 1-800-345-5385 or 765-361-6225
Fax: 765-361-6437
email: admissions@Wabash.edu
website: http://www.wabash.edu