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Brevard College

Name	Brevard College
Location	Brevard, North Carolina, USA
Established	1934
President	Drew L. Van Horn
Community	Suburban
Type	Private
Students	Coeducational
Accreditation	Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Mascot	Tornados
Colors	Blue and White
Motto	Cognosce ut prosis ("Learn in Order to Serve")
Enrollment	700
Faculty	56
Website	www.brevard.edu

Brevard College is a small, private, United Methodist, liberal arts college in Brevard, North Carolina. Founded in 1934 from the merger of Rutherford College and Weaver College, Brevard flourished as a junior college for many years. Increasing competition led the college to become a four-year institution in 1996. Brevard awarded its last Associate's degrees in 2006. The college currently grants the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, or Bachelor of Music degree. Current enrollment is about 700 students.

Brevard is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, whose beauty attract many to the school. The college is located in close vicinity to the Pisgah National Forest and the Blue Ridge Parkway, which both serve as important resources for many of the school's programs relating to art, ecology, environmental issues, and wilderness leadership.

Contents 1 Campus 2 Academics 3 Athletics 4 External links

The Brevard College campus is located within the city of Brevard, in close proximity to the city center. The campus is composed of mainly brick buildings with large greens and abundant trees. Some of the more famous residents of campus are white squirrels. Although commonly mistaken for albinos, the white squirrels found on campus are simply color varaints of the typical Eastern Gray Squirrel. The city of Brevard is famous for its white squirrels, and the college campus contains them in large numbers.

The "crown jewel" of campus is the Paul Porter Center for the Performing Arts, which is host not only to the college's theatre program, but a concert season that often includes world-renowned artists. The centerpiece of the concert hall is one of the region's largest pipe organs.

The last ten years have seen much construction and renovation on campus as the college went through a period of rapid growth. Construction of an annex to the Moore Science building concluded in May 2006, and a project to ecologically restore Kings Creek, a small creek which runs through campus, is ongoing.

Brevard College offers 17 major fields of study as well as 24 minors. The college continues to increase the number of academic oppurtunties availabile with the recent addition of a teacher education program. A criminal justice program is also in its formative stages. Brevard offers several majors not commonly found at most colleges. Examples include ecology, as well as wilderness leadership/experiential education, often referred to on-campus as "WLEE" (pronounced "willy"). List of academic programs

Athletics play a large role in the Brevard College campus life scene and are an important part of the institution's history. The college currently fields athletic teams in the following sports:

• Baseball (Men only)
• Basketball
• Cheerleading (Women only)
• Cross country
• Cycling
• Football(Men Only)
• Golf (Men Only)
• Soccer
• Softball (Women only)
• Tennis
• Track and Field
• Volleyball (Women Only)

The Brevard College Tornados formerly competed in the Appalachian Athletic Conference of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. In 2006, Brevard became a member of Division II of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The college hopes to eventually join the South Atlantic Conference. The fall of 2006 is the first time the college has fielded a football team since the 1950's. Disc golf is also a popular leisure activity on campus, and Brevard competes in several annual tournaments with other local colleges.

• Brevard College Home Page
• Porter Center for Performing Arts
• BC Athletics