Mount Union College

1972 Clark Ave., Alliance, OH 44601-399 -  View Map

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• Mount Union College offers a liberal arts education grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition. The College affirms the importance of reason, open inquiry, living faith, and individual worth. Mount Union's mission is to prepare students for meaningful work, fulfilling lives, and responsible citizenship.
• At the forefront of Mount Union College is a vigorous academic program geared to prepare students with a liberal arts education. Students develop the skills to think critically, communicate effectively, understand the various cultures and interdependence of the global community and form moral and religious values that encourage them to address complex societal problems that affect the individual and the world. Students are challenged to develop skills that will guide them in life both during and after college.
• A full range of social events are scheduled throughout the academic year, including dances, plays and films, art exhibits, lectures and other cultural and entertainment activities. The array of active campus organizations includes a student senate, newspaper, yearbook, literary magazine and FM radio station; four national fraternities, four national sororities and one local sorority; and various intramural sports. Dozens of other groups are devoted to academic, social and service pursuits.
• Mount Union College has several facilities that can be utilized by the public. The 109-acre Huston-Brumbaugh Nature Center features hiking trails, including a wheelchair-accessible All Persons Trail, and a bird observatory for year-round viewing of birds. Mount Union is in Alliance, Ohio (population 25,000). The College is located 70 miles from Cleveland and 80 miles from Pittsburgh.
• Mount Union has been ranked for 14 consecutive years as a top regional liberal arts college in the Midwest and was also ranked as a Best Buy for regional liberal arts colleges in the Midwest.
• Profile last updated: 00/00/0000.

In the News:

• Lt. Gov's aide answers questions on S.B. 5, fracking (The Athens News)
  posted on June 27, 2011 at 11:19:26 am
  Following is an interview with Mike Chadsey, Northeast Ohio regional representative in Ohio Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor's office. The interview was conducted by Athens NEWS summer reporting intern Anne Li during Buckeye Girls State at Mount Union College in Alliance, June 17. Li, who will be a senior at Athens High School in the fall, is chief editor of Matrix, the student newspaper at the high school.
• Man dies when Mount Union college wrestling team bus, ODOT plow collide (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)
  posted on January 12, 2011 at 01:28:30 pm
  A bus carrying members of a college wrestling team has collided with an Ohio snowplow, killing a 52-year-old man on the bus.
• Jim Bittner reached an elite milestone this season, but the longtime Moorpark College football coach cares most about ... (Ventura County Star)
  posted on November 21, 2010 at 07:34:00 am
  There’s a reason why, in a career that has spanned six decades, Jim Bittner has coached every position on the football field. Just graduated from a leather helmet, lined up in the old single wing, Bittner played both ways for Mount Union College in the late 1950s.
• Mount Union buys up property for expansion plan (The Canton Repository)
  posted on July 29, 2010 at 11:28:50 am
  Mount Union College recently paid $1.5 million for a piece of adjacent property. The move will displace one business and threatens the future of another, which must be out by the end of the year.
• RIVER VIEW'S GOWINS PLAYING AT MOUNT UNION (Coshocton Tribune)
  posted on June 26, 2010 at 12:41:50 pm
  ALLIANCE -- River View High School graduate Caitlin Gowins has committed to attend Mount Union College and compete on the softball team this fall.

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