Gordon College (Massachusetts)
Seal of Gordon College
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Former names
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Boston Missionary Training Institute (1889-1891) Boston Missionary Training School (1891-1895) Gordon Missionary Training School (1895-1916) Gordon Bible College (1916-21) Gordon College of Theology and Missions (1921-1962) Gordon College and Divinity School (1962-1970) |
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| Motto | Ίησοῦς Χριστός, Θεοῦ Υἱός, Σωτήρ" (Greek) |
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Motto in English
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Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior |
| Type | Private liberal arts college |
| Established | 1889 |
| Affiliation | Non-denominational |
| Endowment | $35,900,000 |
| President | D. Michael Lindsay |
| Provost | Janel Curry |
| Students | 2,109 |
| Undergraduates | 1,707 |
| Postgraduates | 402 |
| Location |
Wenham, Massachusetts, United States 42°35′23″N 70°49′22″W / 42.589780°N 70.822880°WCoordinates: 42°35′23″N 70°49′22″W / 42.589780°N 70.822880°W |
| Campus | Rural |
| Colors | Navy blue and white |
| Athletics | NCAA Division III – CCC, ECAC |
| Sports | 20 varsity teams (9 men's & 11 women's) |
| Nickname | Fighting Scots |
| Mascot | Scottish Lion Rampant |
| Affiliations |
Annapolis Group CCCU CCC |
| Website | www |
Gordon College is a non-denominational Christian college of the liberal arts and sciences located in Wenham, Massachusetts, United States, north of Boston, Massachusetts. Gordon College offers 38 majors, 42 concentrations and 11 interdisciplinary and pre-professional minors as well as graduate programs in education and music education. Gordon has an undergraduate enrollment of 1,700 students representing more than 50 Christian denominations.
In 1889 Adoniram Judson Gordon founded the school, Boston Missionary Training Institute, in the Fenway–Kenmore neighborhood of Boston at the Clarendon Street Baptist Church to train Christian missionaries for work in what was then the Belgian Congo. Progressive at its inception in 1889, the school admitted both men and women of various ethnicities. It was renamed Gordon Bible College in 1916 and expanded to Newton Theological Institution facilities along the Fenway, into a facility donated by Martha Frost in 1919. Frost, a widowed Bostonian with several properties in the city, provided a significant philanthropic gift. In 1921, the school was renamed Gordon College of Theology and Missions.
In the early 1950s, a Gordon student named James Higginbotham approached Frederick H. Prince about selling his 1,000-acre (4.0 km2) estate to the College after learning of recent property viewings by the United Nations and Harvard University. In 1955, Gordon developed into a liberal arts college with a graduate theological seminary and moved to its present several-hundred-acre Wenham campus north of Boston. Gordon sold its Boston campus on Evans Way to Wentworth Institute of Technology. The Prince Memorial Chapel on the Wenham campus (since replaced) was named for Frederick Prince, and the Prince residence was named Frost Hall after Martha Frost.
In 1958, Gordon College instituted a Core Curriculum. In the 1950s it launched its first study abroad program, European Seminar.
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