Eureka College

300 College Ave, Eureka, IL 61530 -  View Map

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• Chartered in 1855, Eureka was the first college in the state and third in the nation to admit men and women on an equal basis. Throughout its long history, Eureka College has been affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Eureka is located in central Illinois and is situated within thirty miles of the two metropolitan centers of Peoria and Bloomington-Normal. The campus is a wooded 112 acres with twenty-four academic and residential buildings, an open-air theatre, an arboretum, and facilities for football, baseball, softball, tennis, volleyball, basketball and swimming.
• Eureka College is a small, quality liberal arts college that provides its students with a personalized learning and growing experience. The College offers 30 undergraduate majors and has an average class size of fifteen students and a student-faculty ratio of 14:1. Many faculty have earned national and international recognition in their areas of scholarship, such as social responses to alcoholism, slavery, lepidoptery, philosophy, and Native American literature.
• The academic program at Eureka College seeks to maintain a balance between requirements which all students must meet and freedom for each student to select those courses which will best match and further one's own interests, skills, and life plan. College requires that each student acquire and display skills in composition, and mathematics. The College also requires that each student devote a portion of time to the study of humanities, fine and performing arts, natural sciences, and social sciences. These distributional requirements insure that each student will have the opportunity to explore that body of knowledge which is our common cultural heritage. The program at Eureka is rigorous both in its goals and in the effect it demands, but the College believes it is also exciting and satisfying.
• Profile last updated: 01/10/2012.

In the News:

• Eureka defense stout in 23-6 victory over Crown (Peoria Journal Star)
  posted on September 18, 2011 at 04:52:49 am
  Eureka College’s football team relies on Mike Minehan to be a stopper. For the second straight week, the Washington product was just that in the Red Devils’ 23-6 victory over Crown on Saturday at McKinzie Field.
• Improved Red Devils dethrone Crown (The Pantagraph)
  posted on September 18, 2011 at 01:45:33 am
  EUREKA — The Eureka College football team is growing up and that maturity was evident Saturday in a 23-6 home-opening win over Crown.
• Eureka cemetery walk features 19th-century residents (Peoria Journal Star)
  posted on September 15, 2011 at 12:58:45 am
  The Eureka College theater department and the Woodford County Historical Society will conduct a cemetery walk Sunday.
• Eureka College's Halstead nets soccer honor (The Pantagraph)
  posted on September 14, 2011 at 04:11:54 am
  Eureka College senior Cody Halstead has been named the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week for men’s soccer.
• Shrine All-Star football players invade Eureka College (Peoria Journal Star)
  posted on July 13, 2011 at 01:47:48 am
  The Shrine All-Star football week kicked off Tuesday with media day and the first practices held at Eureka College. Among 70 participating players, 15 are from Jounal Star-area schools.

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