Alderson Broaddus College

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University : Alderson Broaddus College - USA
Name:	Alderson Broaddus College
Country:	USA
Institution:	University
Street:	College Hill, Phillipi
Postcode/City:	Wv 214116
Phone:	[304] 457-1700
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Web:	http://www.ab.edu/
Alderson Broaddus College:Mission Statement Church Relatedness Statement \| Vision Statement \| Institutional Goals Alderson-Broaddus College is an independent institution of higher learning dedicated to providing education of the highest quality with selected programs in the health sciences social sciences humanities natural sciences and education ge dedicated to providing education of the highest quality All programs are based on a strong liberal arts foundation which prepares students for responsible citizenship and lifelong learning Rooted in historic and continuing relationships with American Baptist Churches USA the College encourages the academic goals of the acquisition of knowledge freedom of intellectual inquiry and critical thinking It also encourages Christian values including reasoned religious belief personal moral integrity and humanitarian service to others The College is a caring community which strives to meet the intellectual spiritual social psychological and physical needs of students Alderson-Broaddus College is committed to serving the region as an academic cultural and religious resource Alderson-Broaddus College is accredited by the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools For further information regarding this accreditation please contact the Commission at the address or phone number below Two institutions were united in 1932 to form Alderson-Broaddus College Each of the institutions passed on a rich Christian heritage The older of the two Broaddus College was founded in Winchester Virginia in 1871 by Edward Jefferson Willis a Baptist minister who named the new college after Rev William Francis Ferguson Broaddus a prominent Baptist minister at the time of the Civil War In response to economic hard times Broaddus College was moved across the Alleghenies to Clarksburg West Virginia in 1876 The college was moved again to the small town of Philippi West Virginia in 1901 The other institution Alderson Academy and Junior College was founded in Alderson West Virginia in 1901 by Emma Alderson a committed Baptist laywoman As the years passed Broaddus became a junior college then a senior college and Alderson Academy added junior college status Financial hardship in the late 1920s led to the decision to merge the two colleges both of which shared a common identity as Baptist and liberal arts institutions Alderson-Broaddus College derives its hyphenated name from the joining of these two institutions Since its founding Alderson-Broaddus has been committed to a strong liberal arts education As such the College seeks to imbue students with an appreciation of literature and the arts Christian faith music and the sciences In more recent times the College has focused on developing programs in the natural and applied sciences as well In 1945 Alderson-Broaddus developed the first four-year nursing and the first radiologic technology programs in West Virginia In 1968 the College pioneered the nations first four-year physician assistant program an innovation that has had enormous influence on the development of the physician assistant profession nationwide From this program emerged in 1991 the Colleges first graduate degree offering the Physician Assistant Masters program Academic innovation is an enduring feature of A-B Since 1998 Alderson-Broaddus has added programs in digital art marketing family studies RN-BSN and LPN-BSN degree completion programs for nurses and a surgery track in the Colleges Masters Physician Assistant program A-B has also added two on-line certificates in business fundamentals and computer science and in the spring of 2002 opened the Mollohan Workforce Training Center Alderson-Broaddus College is a health-related and professional educational institution firmly rooted in the liberal arts Alderson-Broaddus is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA and the West Virginia Baptist Convention

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