MacMurray College
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| Type | Private |
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| Established | 1846 |
| President | Dr. Mark Tierno |
| Undergraduates | 570. |
| Location | Jacksonville, Illinois, USA |
| Campus | Rural |
| Colors | Scarlet and navy |
| Mascot | Highlander |
| Affiliations | United Methodist Church |
| Website | www.mac.edu |
MacMurray College is a four-year, professionally focused private college located in Jacksonville, Illinois. Its enrollment in fall 2015 was 570, with a student body that is 26% ethnically diverse. It is 30 miles (48 km) from Springfield, 80 miles (130 km) from St. Louis, and 235 miles (378 km) from Chicago.
Although founded in 1846 by a group of Methodist clergymen as the Illinois Conference Female Academy, the first class was not held until 1848. Since its beginnings, the college has been affiliated with the United Methodist Church. It is one of the oldest institutions of higher education originally for women in the United States.
The school was renamed the Illinois Conference Female College in 1851, with the name changed again to Illinois Female College in 1863 and Illinois Woman's College in 1899. The name was changed to MacMurray College for Women in 1930 to honor James E. MacMurray, who was an Illinois state senator, president of Acme Steel Corporation in Chicago, and college trustee whose commitment led to a substantial increase in the college's facilities and endowment in the late 1920s and 1930s.
The institution remained an exclusively women's college until 1955, when the trustees established MacMurray College for Men as a coordinate institution. In 1969, the colleges were reorganized into a single co-educational institution.
MacMurray College was accredited from 1909 through 2014 by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, initially as the Illinois Women's College to 1930, and then as MacMurray. After the North Central Association dissolved in 2014, MacMurray's institutional accreditation has been through the Higher Learning Commission.
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