Wesleyan University Philippines
| Pamantasang Wesleyan sa Pilipinas | |
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Philippine Wesleyan College |
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| Motto | Scholarship, Character, Service |
| Type | Private, Non-Sectarian, Wesleyan |
| Established | July 1, 1946 |
| Affiliation | United Methodist Church |
| President | Mr. Pacifico B. Aniag |
| Vice-president | Dr. Estrella C. Buenaventura. (VP for Academic Affairs) Rev. Dr. Homer Wesley O. Refuerzo. (VP for Theological Education) |
| Location | Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija, Philippines |
| Campus | Cushman Campus Aurora Extension Campus |
| Hymn | Wesleyan Hymn |
| Colors | Green and Yellow |
| Nickname | Wesley Riders |
| Mascot | Riders |
| Website | www.wesleyan.edu.ph |
Wesleyan University-Philippines (WU-P) is a private, non-stock, non-profit and non-sectarian university located in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija, Philippines and run by the United Methodist Church (UMC). Founded in 1946 as the Philippine Wesleyan College, it is named after John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. The university offers pre-elementary, grade school, high school, undergraduate, and graduate programs. It also initiated the SHARE (Studentship Assistance for the Handicapped and their Rehabilitation through Education) program, the first school in Central Luzon to integrate hearing-impaired students into mainstream classes.
The University was granted a five-year autonomy by the Commission on Higher Education effective March 11, 2009.
Its acronym may be written as WUP or WU-P. It is one of the four 'Knowledge Eagle Universities of Nueva Ecija.'
Wesleyan University - Philippines was opened in 1946 by a group of Methodist laymen led by Carlos Mañacop, Sr. as a response to the Novo Ecijanos' difficulty in sending their children to schools in Metro Manila. Plans for the creation of a Christian institution of higher learning in Cabanatuan City was then set forth, and on July 1 the group officially established a school, called the Philippine Wesleyan College (PWC) in honor of the founder of Methodism, in a building made up of bamboo fronds that housed a first batch of 368 Liberal Arts and Teacher Education enrolees taught by a 19-member faculty. The PWC was incorporated on April 28, 1948.
The demonym "Wesleyanian" is a unique word coinage which originated from WU-P. The term has been around for decades, though its use is regarded as traditional rather than official, and exclusive only to the university's academic and administrative community. Here the term "Wesleyan" is considered a general noun instead of an adjective, therefore requiring the use of the suffix -ian in order to convert it into its gentilic form. Though the subject of an ongoing linguistic and grammatical debate for being a bizarre form of a suffixed noun affixed with a second suffix, the term nonetheless gained wide if not universal currency among students and professors, that even a secondary publication was named "The Wesleyanian" and the term has been used repeatedly to refer to its community in a number of publications, speeches and even in official documents. WU-P is the only Wesleyan institution in the world which refers to its affiliates as "Wesleyanians."
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