WARREN WILSON COLLEGE
WARREN WILSON COLLEGE
701 Warren Wilson Road,
Swannanoa, NC 28778
701 Warren Wilson Road,
Swannanoa, NC 28778
Toll Free Number: (800) 934-3536
Phone Number: (828) 298-3325
Fax Number: (828) 299-4841
Web Address: www.warren-wilson.edu
Phone Number: (828) 298-3325
Fax Number: (828) 299-4841
Web Address: www.warren-wilson.edu
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The property was purchased in 1893 by the Women's Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church. The women of the church were concerned that many Americans in isolated areas were not receiving a proper education. The women decided to establish church supported schools in areas where there were no public services. There was a need for a nonconventional grading system as the young people who came to these mission schools usually had no prior formal education. In 1894, the Asheville Farm School officially opened with 25 boys attending and a professional staff of three people. It was not until 1923 that the school had its first graduating class. In 1936, the first post high school programs in vocational training were begun. It was hoped that this type of training would give the students more prospects in the job market. In 1942, the junior college division was established. The Asheville Farm School continued as a boys unit in high school studies. The Dorland-Bell School of Hot Springs was joined with the Farm School, which brought high school age girls to campus. The Warren Wilson Vocational Junior College was joined with them under our one administration. After WWII, the public education system in NC improved dramatically and the need for the mission's high school diminished. The last high school class at WWC was graduated in 1957. WWC was a junior college until March 1966 when it was established as a four year college, offering six majors. In 1972, the National Board of Missions deeded the WWC property over to the college's Board of Trustees. In the late 1990s, we added an Outdoor Leadership major and The North Carolina Outward Bound School moved its headquarters to campus. As the new millennium approached, the college raised its target enrollment to 800 and began growing. Many new, state-of-the-art facilities were built including a new science center, two new computer labs, a library renovation, and several new residence halls. In 2003, the college opened the EcoDorm--a residence hall built with sustainable and ecologically friendly building practices and intended to be a live-in educational facility for students. Following its commitment to green construction, the college constructed a new office building designed to meet the LEED's standard. We continue to grow, change, and improve, but as the time honored cliche states, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
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With over 900 students and an average class size of 17, professors know students by name and can give each student individual attention. Our curriculum provides the foundation for bringing the Warren Wilson Triad Education Program to life. Your course of study, in conjunction with your work crew and service hours, takes you from the classroom to the field to the wider community. This means you might find yourself in a chemistry lab, analyzing Swannanoa River water quality for a local non-profit's watershed management plan, starting a nationally recognized literary magazine with one of your professors, or teaching science enrichment to over 1,000 third-graders in the Asheville area and providing a national model for the Jane Goodall Institute's Roots and Shoots Program. You may earn your Bachelor's Degree in any of 40 majors and concentrations and 27 minors taught by professors from some of the nation's top graduate programs: Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, Northwestern, Stanford, UC-Berkley, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Yale. We also offer a dual degree program in Forestry with Duke University and a special concentration in Pre-Peace Corps, International, and Non-Governmental service. All Warren Wilson students take at least one class within each of the school's eight liberal arts areas. This rich academic base is your starting point; numerous concentrations let you decide which path is right for you. If you choose Integrative Studies, you can design a major of your own, such as Environmental Spirituality and Art or Women's Performance Art. As a new student, your thinking will be challenged by the First Year Seminar with topics such as "Great Trials: Truth and Censorship" and "Caribbean Literature in Translation." Our Discovery Through Wilderness, International Field Study, and Peace Studies programs aren't found at many colleges. There are opportunities through our Master of Fine Arts Program in Writing, which is one of the top 20 programs in the country, and our Environmental Studies department, one of the longest-standing programs in the country, recently featured in the National Wildlife Federation's Campus Yearbook, having more case studies than any other college or university. A new double major that couples Spanish with Psychology, Outdoor Leadership or Art offers bilingual learning and training in partnership with one of Mexico's largest private universities. Our Outdoor Leadership Program, focusing on education, facilitation, and experiential learning, works closely with the North Carolina Outward Bound School and with the Nantahala Outdoor Center, the leading white-water boating center in the United States.
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Warren Wilson College: Decade by Decade 1893 Presbyterian Church home missions boards purchase 420 acres in Swannanoa Valley for new mission school. 1894 Asheville Farm School opens, offering the first three grades of elementary instruction to 25 mountain boys in their teens and 20s. 1900 School offers equivalent of eighth-grade education. 1901 Dodge House, first Farm School home, is built. 1902 Enrollment grows to 140 students. 1910 School-built dam and generating plant on nearby Bull Creek bring electricity to campus. 1916 Devastating flood sweeps away livestock, crops, topsoil and generating station. 1917 Many older boys withdraw from school to enlist in the service as the United States joins the Allies in World War I. 1924 First high school class graduated. 1929 Sunderland Dorm built on eve of stock-market crash and Great Depression. 1935 First international student, a boy from Cuba, enrolls in the school. 1939 Boy whose parents fled Nazi Germany admitted. 1942 Asheville Farm School merges with Dorland-Bell School for girls in Hot Springs, N.C., to become a coed secondary school, named Warren H. Wilson Vocational Junior College and Associated Schools. 1942 College admits two Japanese-American girls whose families had been relocated from California to Arizona internment camp. 1952 Two years before landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, Alma Shippy admitted as first African-American student after Sunderland residents vote 54-1 to welcome the young Swannanoa man into their dorm. 1957 Warren Wilson graduates last high school class. 1959 College adopts service statement and implements service requirement for graduation. 1967 Warren Wilson becomes four-year college. 1969 First senior class graduated. 1972 Covenant relationship with the Presbyterian Synod of the South established. 1981 First graduate program, master of fine arts in creative writing, added. 1991 Douglas M. Orr Jr., becomes fifth president of Warren Wilson College. 1995 Ongoing period of dormitory construction begins with building of the ANTC hall and continuing with Archie Sutton and others. 1999 Final renovation and expansion of Pew Learning Center and Ellison Library completed. 2000 Hamill Science Center and Witherspoon Science Building completed. 2002 Two MFA Program for Writers faculty members, Richard Russo and Carl Dennis, win Pulitzer Prizes in fiction and poetry. 2003 New Schafer Court completed in September. 2003 EcoDorm opens as a live-in educational facility showcasing energy- efficient designs and renewable-energy sources. 2006 Dr. William Sanborn "Sandy" Pfeiffer, becomes sixth president of Warren Wilson College. 2012 Dr. Steven Solnick, formerly Representative for the Ford Foundation in India, becomes seventh president.
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Warren Wilson College will lead the nation toward a new model for liberal arts education through the innovation of its Triad educational program, the quality of its academic engagement, the fulfi llment of its sustainability principles, the depth of its commitment to diversity, the vitality of its community, and its nurturing of individual well-being.
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Warren Wilson is committed to providing a unique and valuable educational experience to talented students from any financial situation. We have been widely recognized by college guides for the value of our education, and with our alumni successful even in this difficult economy, Warren Wilson remains a sound investment. Don’t be frightened by the tuition “sticker price” — through the Work Program, all Warren Wilson students receive compensation towards their tuition in the Work Program. With our personal method of reviewing scholarship and aid applications, over 70% of students receive additional aid tailored to their merit and personal needs. A Sound Investment The Triad of academics, work and service provides Warren Wilson graduates with tools to gain employment or to continue their education at the graduate level. Unlike their peers from other schools, Warren Wilson alumni leave the College with several years of marketable work experience. Add to this their service, and it’s obvious why 75% of Warren Wilson students reported being employed full-time within 6 months of graduation (and 67% attend graduate school within five years) — even during a time of national recession and high unemployment. They are confident, their résumés are impressive, and they have learned social skills in our tight-knit community. Most importantly, our graduates leave with a deep sense of civic responsibility and the desire to make a difference. Their record of finding work is not only a sign that they are financially stable — it is a sign that they are helping everyone around them. Recognized for Our Value Fiske Best Buy The Fiske Guide to Colleges 2013 has named Warren Wilson College as one of the nation’s 25 “Best Buys” among private colleges and universities for the seventh time since 2005. According to the 2013 guide, schools “qualify as Best Buys based on the quality of the academic offerings in relation to the cost of attendance” — or as the book also puts it, “outstanding academics with relatively modest prices.” Warren Wilson is also recognized for value in “Barron’s Best Buys in College Education,” and The Parent Soup Financial Aid and College Guide “Discounts and Deals at the Nation’s 360 Best Colleges.” Cost & What it Means Despite being more affordable than our peer private colleges, Warren Wilson’s cost can look daunting to a family struggling to make ends meet. Don’t worry — none of the students at Warren Wilson are paying our published tuition price, and most of our students receive generous aid in addition to the work compensation that all students earn. Every Warren Wilson student receives an estimated $3,480 in wages each year toward the cost of tuition (this is taxable according to IRS rules). A guaranteed job is a real advantage at a time when young people often cannot find work. Beyond that, an average of 70% of students are awarded further financial assistance. In addition to federal aid, the College has generous institutional awards, including scholarships that recognize technical work experience, service involvement and sustainability leadership. Costs for 2013-2014 Tuition and Fees: $29,540 Room and Board: $8,796 Total Cost: $38,336 Minus Estimated Work Compensation (*Taxable per the IRS): $3,480 credit* Tuition, Room, and Board Cost after work compensation: $34,904 Fall Orientation Fee: $260 Security Deposit: $300 Lab fees, field trips, private lessons Varies (Off-Campus Day Student Fee per semester) $500 Net Price Calculator The U.S. Department of Education requires all colleges to provide a Net Price Calculator for first-year students, but we consider more than just a set of numbers when deciding to accept a student or award a scholarship. Although the calculator computes an estimate of aid based on some basic indicators of merit and need, it cannot predict how most of our institutional scholarships will be awarded. Those scholarships are awarded only after consideration of your individual application, and they can often make a real difference in whether Warren Wilson College is affordable for you. If you choose to use the calculator, please remember that most of our significant scholarships are not represented there. If you are concerned about your ability to afford Warren Wilson College or would rather talk to a person, please let us help!
The property was purchased in 1893 by the Women's Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church. The women of the church were concerned that many Americans in isolated areas were not receiving a proper education. The women decided to establish church supported schools in areas where there were no public services. There was a need for a nonconventional grading system as the young people who came to these mission schools usually had no prior formal education. In 1894, the Asheville Farm School officially opened with 25 boys attending and a professional staff of three people. It was not until 1923 that the school had its first graduating class. In 1936, the first post high school programs in vocational training were begun. It was hoped that this type of training would give the students more prospects in the job market. In 1942, the junior college division was established. The Asheville Farm School continued as a boys unit in high school studies. The Dorland-Bell School of Hot Springs was joined with the Farm School, which brought high school age girls to campus. The Warren Wilson Vocational Junior College was joined with them under our one administration. After WWII, the public education system in NC improved dramatically and the need for the mission's high school diminished. The last high school class at WWC was graduated in 1957. WWC was a junior college until March 1966 when it was established as a four year college, offering six majors. In 1972, the National Board of Missions deeded the WWC property over to the college's Board of Trustees. In the late 1990s, we added an Outdoor Leadership major and The North Carolina Outward Bound School moved its headquarters to campus. As the new millennium approached, the college raised its target enrollment to 800 and began growing. Many new, state-of-the-art facilities were built including a new science center, two new computer labs, a library renovation, and several new residence halls. In 2003, the college opened the EcoDorm--a residence hall built with sustainable and ecologically friendly building practices and intended to be a live-in educational facility for students. Following its commitment to green construction, the college constructed a new office building designed to meet the LEED's standard. We continue to grow, change, and improve, but as the time honored cliche states, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
What is your primary product or service?
With over 900 students and an average class size of 17, professors know students by name and can give each student individual attention. Our curriculum provides the foundation for bringing the Warren Wilson Triad Education Program to life. Your course of study, in conjunction with your work crew and service hours, takes you from the classroom to the field to the wider community. This means you might find yourself in a chemistry lab, analyzing Swannanoa River water quality for a local non-profit's watershed management plan, starting a nationally recognized literary magazine with one of your professors, or teaching science enrichment to over 1,000 third-graders in the Asheville area and providing a national model for the Jane Goodall Institute's Roots and Shoots Program. You may earn your Bachelor's Degree in any of 40 majors and concentrations and 27 minors taught by professors from some of the nation's top graduate programs: Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, Northwestern, Stanford, UC-Berkley, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Yale. We also offer a dual degree program in Forestry with Duke University and a special concentration in Pre-Peace Corps, International, and Non-Governmental service. All Warren Wilson students take at least one class within each of the school's eight liberal arts areas. This rich academic base is your starting point; numerous concentrations let you decide which path is right for you. If you choose Integrative Studies, you can design a major of your own, such as Environmental Spirituality and Art or Women's Performance Art. As a new student, your thinking will be challenged by the First Year Seminar with topics such as "Great Trials: Truth and Censorship" and "Caribbean Literature in Translation." Our Discovery Through Wilderness, International Field Study, and Peace Studies programs aren't found at many colleges. There are opportunities through our Master of Fine Arts Program in Writing, which is one of the top 20 programs in the country, and our Environmental Studies department, one of the longest-standing programs in the country, recently featured in the National Wildlife Federation's Campus Yearbook, having more case studies than any other college or university. A new double major that couples Spanish with Psychology, Outdoor Leadership or Art offers bilingual learning and training in partnership with one of Mexico's largest private universities. Our Outdoor Leadership Program, focusing on education, facilitation, and experiential learning, works closely with the North Carolina Outward Bound School and with the Nantahala Outdoor Center, the leading white-water boating center in the United States.
How did you first become interested in your line of business? (if owner) - What is your background? (If owner or store manager)
Warren Wilson College: Decade by Decade 1893 Presbyterian Church home missions boards purchase 420 acres in Swannanoa Valley for new mission school. 1894 Asheville Farm School opens, offering the first three grades of elementary instruction to 25 mountain boys in their teens and 20s. 1900 School offers equivalent of eighth-grade education. 1901 Dodge House, first Farm School home, is built. 1902 Enrollment grows to 140 students. 1910 School-built dam and generating plant on nearby Bull Creek bring electricity to campus. 1916 Devastating flood sweeps away livestock, crops, topsoil and generating station. 1917 Many older boys withdraw from school to enlist in the service as the United States joins the Allies in World War I. 1924 First high school class graduated. 1929 Sunderland Dorm built on eve of stock-market crash and Great Depression. 1935 First international student, a boy from Cuba, enrolls in the school. 1939 Boy whose parents fled Nazi Germany admitted. 1942 Asheville Farm School merges with Dorland-Bell School for girls in Hot Springs, N.C., to become a coed secondary school, named Warren H. Wilson Vocational Junior College and Associated Schools. 1942 College admits two Japanese-American girls whose families had been relocated from California to Arizona internment camp. 1952 Two years before landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, Alma Shippy admitted as first African-American student after Sunderland residents vote 54-1 to welcome the young Swannanoa man into their dorm. 1957 Warren Wilson graduates last high school class. 1959 College adopts service statement and implements service requirement for graduation. 1967 Warren Wilson becomes four-year college. 1969 First senior class graduated. 1972 Covenant relationship with the Presbyterian Synod of the South established. 1981 First graduate program, master of fine arts in creative writing, added. 1991 Douglas M. Orr Jr., becomes fifth president of Warren Wilson College. 1995 Ongoing period of dormitory construction begins with building of the ANTC hall and continuing with Archie Sutton and others. 1999 Final renovation and expansion of Pew Learning Center and Ellison Library completed. 2000 Hamill Science Center and Witherspoon Science Building completed. 2002 Two MFA Program for Writers faculty members, Richard Russo and Carl Dennis, win Pulitzer Prizes in fiction and poetry. 2003 New Schafer Court completed in September. 2003 EcoDorm opens as a live-in educational facility showcasing energy- efficient designs and renewable-energy sources. 2006 Dr. William Sanborn "Sandy" Pfeiffer, becomes sixth president of Warren Wilson College. 2012 Dr. Steven Solnick, formerly Representative for the Ford Foundation in India, becomes seventh president.
How do you differentiate yourself from other businesses in your category and area?
Warren Wilson College will lead the nation toward a new model for liberal arts education through the innovation of its Triad educational program, the quality of its academic engagement, the fulfi llment of its sustainability principles, the depth of its commitment to diversity, the vitality of its community, and its nurturing of individual well-being.
Provide detailed directions to your location
http://goo.gl/maps/i9nCB
What type of payments do you accept?
Warren Wilson is committed to providing a unique and valuable educational experience to talented students from any financial situation. We have been widely recognized by college guides for the value of our education, and with our alumni successful even in this difficult economy, Warren Wilson remains a sound investment. Don’t be frightened by the tuition “sticker price” — through the Work Program, all Warren Wilson students receive compensation towards their tuition in the Work Program. With our personal method of reviewing scholarship and aid applications, over 70% of students receive additional aid tailored to their merit and personal needs. A Sound Investment The Triad of academics, work and service provides Warren Wilson graduates with tools to gain employment or to continue their education at the graduate level. Unlike their peers from other schools, Warren Wilson alumni leave the College with several years of marketable work experience. Add to this their service, and it’s obvious why 75% of Warren Wilson students reported being employed full-time within 6 months of graduation (and 67% attend graduate school within five years) — even during a time of national recession and high unemployment. They are confident, their résumés are impressive, and they have learned social skills in our tight-knit community. Most importantly, our graduates leave with a deep sense of civic responsibility and the desire to make a difference. Their record of finding work is not only a sign that they are financially stable — it is a sign that they are helping everyone around them. Recognized for Our Value Fiske Best Buy The Fiske Guide to Colleges 2013 has named Warren Wilson College as one of the nation’s 25 “Best Buys” among private colleges and universities for the seventh time since 2005. According to the 2013 guide, schools “qualify as Best Buys based on the quality of the academic offerings in relation to the cost of attendance” — or as the book also puts it, “outstanding academics with relatively modest prices.” Warren Wilson is also recognized for value in “Barron’s Best Buys in College Education,” and The Parent Soup Financial Aid and College Guide “Discounts and Deals at the Nation’s 360 Best Colleges.” Cost & What it Means Despite being more affordable than our peer private colleges, Warren Wilson’s cost can look daunting to a family struggling to make ends meet. Don’t worry — none of the students at Warren Wilson are paying our published tuition price, and most of our students receive generous aid in addition to the work compensation that all students earn. Every Warren Wilson student receives an estimated $3,480 in wages each year toward the cost of tuition (this is taxable according to IRS rules). A guaranteed job is a real advantage at a time when young people often cannot find work. Beyond that, an average of 70% of students are awarded further financial assistance. In addition to federal aid, the College has generous institutional awards, including scholarships that recognize technical work experience, service involvement and sustainability leadership. Costs for 2013-2014 Tuition and Fees: $29,540 Room and Board: $8,796 Total Cost: $38,336 Minus Estimated Work Compensation (*Taxable per the IRS): $3,480 credit* Tuition, Room, and Board Cost after work compensation: $34,904 Fall Orientation Fee: $260 Security Deposit: $300 Lab fees, field trips, private lessons Varies (Off-Campus Day Student Fee per semester) $500 Net Price Calculator The U.S. Department of Education requires all colleges to provide a Net Price Calculator for first-year students, but we consider more than just a set of numbers when deciding to accept a student or award a scholarship. Although the calculator computes an estimate of aid based on some basic indicators of merit and need, it cannot predict how most of our institutional scholarships will be awarded. Those scholarships are awarded only after consideration of your individual application, and they can often make a real difference in whether Warren Wilson College is affordable for you. If you choose to use the calculator, please remember that most of our significant scholarships are not represented there. If you are concerned about your ability to afford Warren Wilson College or would rather talk to a person, please let us help!
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