As tradition dictates, 249 men sat in the Pioneer Chapel balcony as President Gregory D. Hess welcomed the Class of 2021 and their families to campus, rang the Caleb Mills Bell, and set them on a path to strive for greatness as leaders and citizens.
Of the 72 regularly scheduled productions slated for the Indy Fringe festival, five efforts – I, Nephi: A Gay Mormon’s Survival Guide; Spectrum; Fear of Flowers by Neil Martin; Jubilee in the Rear-View Mirror; and The Beast, The Lady, and The Sanguine Man – include current Wabash students or recent graduates in the cast or production staff. Further, both I, Nephi and Spectrum originated on campus.
Marlon Lewis '20 knew exactly where he wanted to spend his summer internship – at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. School administrators and staff made Lewis' opportunity possible, but his passions and his skills made his dream a reality.
The Princeton Review's annual college guide lists Wabash College as one of the best institutions in the nation in several categories, highlighting the College's outstanding professors, strong career services, and athletics.
The Wabash Pastoral Leadership Program recently hosted Scroll: The Wabash Institute of Theology for Youth. A total of 19 rising junior and senior high school boys stayed on the Wabash campus for eight days learning about poverty from a theological perspective, participating in community service, and building relationships.
An $8.1-million grant will support programming for the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion through 2021.
James Suess '17 and Colin Thompson '17 begin a year of public service as Indiana Governor Eric J. Holcomb named the pair to serve as Governor’s Fellows in 2017-18. The highly selective year-long fellowship will rotate them through various state agencies over the next 12 months.
George Go III majors in German, but he learned a brand new language in four weeks this summer and earned a Gold Badge Certification from Smart Launch Tech – a coding program designed specifically for liberal arts students.
A school bus parks in front of Detchon Center and campus gets quite a bit louder as 40 fourth and fifth graders race off the bus to see their Wabash College student mentors for the weekly College Mentors for Kids meeting.
Austin Dukes ’17 will serve in Spain, Stephan Jones ’17 in Honduras, and Alex Waters ’16 will be in Norway, marking the third time in four years that three Wabash students have earned Fulbright Scholarships.
Wabash senior Riley Lefever became the second wrestler in NCAA Division III history to win four national titles, claiming his final title Saturday at the 2017 NCAA DIII Championships. He scored a pin 4:52 into his final career bout to claim the 197-pound title and help Wabash capture third place in the team standings.
For the fourth time in the last nine years, Wabash College’s student newspaper, The Bachelor was named Newspaper of the Year by the Indiana Collegiate Press Association (ICPA).
Wabash junior and double major named a 2017 American Political Science Association Ralph Bunche Summer Institute Scholar.
The best way for you to learn about Wabash is to visit campus and meet our students — your future classmates and friends.
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Wabash educates men to think critically, act responsibly, lead effectively, and live humanely.
Think for yourself — that's the Wabash way. You will learn how to think anywhere, anytime, about anything. We're committed to the virtues of a broad academic experience, so you will take language, literature, art, science, history, philosophy, mathematics, the works. It starts with one of our 24 majors or pre-professional programs.
Learn About a Wabash EducationWabash's faculty is nationally recognized for excellence and accessibility. And in class, professors will expect you to know your stuff. They won't let you slack off or fail. Your professors will become your mentors and biggest supporters. You will emerge from Wabash with the intellectual groundwork to succeed in any career.
Meet Our FacultyWabash boasts state-of-the-art facilities and equipment in Hays Science Hall — instruments usually reserved for grad students. Our Allen Athletics and Recreation Center is ranked among the nation's finest at any level, and the Schroeder Center for Career Development is ranked in the top 10. Add to that a $24 million investment in student housing.
See Our CampusWhat kind of man leads his own research expedition, plays the president, lives to learn, and knows every minute counts? A Wabash Man!
A Wabash liberal arts education prepares students for any careers they choose. The Liberal Arts Plus initiatives provide additional skills and allow Wabash men to use their knowledge to solve real world problems.
Learn More About Liberal Arts PlusWabash College asks you the most important question you will ever be asked: What kind of man do you want to be? We then make an institutional commitment to help every Wabash student develop his own answer to this life-changing question by blending an intimate liberal arts education with our culture that emphasizes personal responsibility, resilience, and reflection.
What kind of man starts his own company at 23... and retires at 42? The kind who takes himself seriously — a Wabash man. Here, there are 900 men willing to stay up late, get up early, and do whatever it takes to turn ideas into realities. After Wabash, our men join a global network of more than 13,000 seriously successful alumni who can open all sorts of doors. Among them are a Nobel-nominated AIDS researcher, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a Mayo Clinic oncologist, an NFL record-holder, a Sundance award-winning film maker, a federal judge, and a Vice President of the United States. What kind of man do you want to be?
Wabash men love to compete — in their living units, classrooms, and especially on the playing field. Wabash won the first intercollegiate baseball, football, and basketball games ever played in Indiana, and we've been living up to our motto — Wabash Always Fights! — ever since. In the last seven years, Wabash men have won eight individual national championships, claimed 16 conference titles, and produced over 500 all-conference performances. And our student-athletes really are students — nine Little Giants have been named Academic All-Americans since 2011.
Wabash College ranked 50th nationally among 1,223 schools nationally in Return on Investment by PayScale.com.
Part of the Wabash ethos is the education of the model man, a philosophy distilled into a single code: 'The student is expected to conduct himself at all times, both on and off the campus, as a gentleman and responsible citizen.' Nuff said... The code is a very real part of student life, from academics to the athletic fields.
Wabash students are probably ten times smarter and better prepared for post-graduate life than students at other schools.
This is a clan with elan. Not a single student I talked to would be anywhere else. Wabash was their first choice, and one reason was they'd been told, 'It won't be easy, but it will be worth it.'
