Hamline University
Seal of Hamline University
|
| Motto |
Religio, Literae, Libertas |
|
Motto
in English
|
Divinity, Writing, Liberty |
| Type |
Private |
| Established |
1854 |
| Affiliation |
United Methodist Church |
| Endowment |
$82.3 million (2016)[1] |
| Budget |
$122.7 million (2016)[2] |
| President |
Fayneese Miller |
|
Academic
staff
|
178 full time, 215 part time[3] |
| Undergraduates |
2,117 (2017) |
| Postgraduates |
1,668 (2017) |
| Location |
Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Campus |
Urban (residential),
77 acres (31 ha) |
| Colors |
Burgundy and gray
|
| Mascot |
The Piper |
| Website |
www.hamline.edu |
 |
Hamline University is a private liberal arts college in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was founded in 1854 and is known for
its emphasis on experiential learning, service, and social justice.
The university is named after Bishop Leonidas Lent Hamline of the United Methodist
Church.[7]
Hamline was the first institution of higher learning in Minnesota
and is one of five Associated Colleges
of the Twin Cities.[8][9]
The university is composed of the College of Liberal Arts, School
of Education, School of Business, and the Creative Writing
Programs. Hamline is a community of 2,117 undergraduate students
and 1,668 graduate students.[10]
History
Red Wing
location (1854–1869)
Hamline was named in honor of Leonidas Lent Hamline, a bishop of the
Methodist Church whose interest in the
frontier led him to donate $25,000 toward the building of an
institution of higher learning in what was then the territory of
Minnesota. Today, a statue of Bishop Hamline sculpted by the late
professor of art Michael Price stands on campus. Hamline is also
distinct for being founded as a coeducational institution, a rarity in
19th-century America.[13]
Hamline’s first home was in Red Wing, Minnesota. The school’s
charter stipulated that Hamline be located "at some point on the
Mississippi between St. Paul and Lake Pepin." The city of
Red Wing pledged about $10,000 to enable construction of a building
and the beginning of an endowment, and it also donated a tract of
land on a hillside overlooking the Mississippi River.[14]
Hamline University holds the title of the oldest university in
Minnesota. It was charted in 1854 and began offering collegiate
courses in 1857. While the University of Minnesota was chartered
by the territorial authorities in 1851, it did not operate as a
place of higher education until nearly two decades later.[8]
The first classes at Hamline were held in rooms housed on the
second floor of the village general store while the construction of
the classroom building was in progress. Students moved into the Red
Wing building in January 1856. The original building contained a
chapel, recitation rooms, a school room, a library, laboratory,
reading rooms, and dormitory quarters. Seventy-three students
enrolled at Hamline in the opening year. The catalog lists them
separately as “Ladies and Gentlemen,” but most of them
were children or adolescents. All were enrolled in either the
primary or the preparatory department. There was no collegiate
division – the frontier had not yet produced students ready
for college. Tuition ranged from $4.00 to $6.66 per term. The
collegiate program was introduced in 1857, and in 1859, Hamline
graduated its first class.[15]
With the start of the American Civil War, enrollment in the
college division dropped from 60 to 16 in one year. There was no
graduating class in 1862. Records indicate that 119 Hamline men
served in the Union armies during the war. In 1869, the university
shut down. The first building at the Red Wing site was torn down in
1872.[16]
Saint Paul
campus (1880–1914)
In the center of this 1874 map is the new St. Paul Hamline
University campus that was under construction. Here it is labeled
"College Place."
It had been expected that Hamline would reopen on a new site
within two years after the closing at Red Wing; however, indecision
in the selection of a new site caused a delay. In the end, a
77-acre (31 ha) Saint Paul prairie plot halfway between the
downtowns of Minneapolis and Saint Paul was selected.
Construction began in 1873, but by then an economic depression had
overtaken the planners, and there were repeated postponements and
delays. University Hall, begun in 1873, was constructed in
installments as money came in, and was not completed until the
summer of 1880.[17]
The doors opened on September 22, 1880, and Hamline’s
history in Saint Paul began.[18]
The catalog for that year lists 113 students, with all but five of
them being preparatory students. Tuition in the collegiate division
was $30 per year. Two degrees were offered at the time: the B.A.
and the B.S. In 1883, the bachelor of philosophy degree replaced
the B.S., and remained in use until 1914, when the faculty dropped
the PhB. and restored the B.S. degree.
On February 7, 1883, University Hall, barely two years old,
burned to the ground.[19]
To replace the structure, plans for a new University Hall were
prepared. Eleven months later, the new structure, the present Old
Main, was completed. Emergency space for classrooms was provided by
Ladies’ Hall, which had opened in 1882.[20]
Other new construction included Science Hall, which was completed
in 1887, the Carnegie library in 1907, and the new gymnasium, which
was completed in 1909.[21]
World War I
and postwar years (1915–1929)
When World War I came in April 1917, track and
baseball schedules for spring were cancelled as enlistments and
applications of officers’ training depleted the teams.
Hamline was designated one of 38 colleges in the country to supply
men for ambulance work in France. Twenty-six men were selected for
the unit and served in France with the 28th Division of the
French Army.[22]
Ambulance work during World War I involved great personal danger
and took great expertise to stay alive. Three former students of
Hamline University, Wallace Ramstad, Glen Donaldson, and Walter
Gammel died in battle. One of the more notable situations the
Hamline ambulance unit, otherwise known as Section 568, was
involved in was the fighting in the Meuse-Argonne territory, which
lasted forty-seven days. During the war, Section 568 proudly
retained the banner that girl students from Hamline had sewn for
them before their training. Eventually, by the end of the war
Section 568 received the Croix de Gerre from the French government
for their service.[23]
In the fall of 1918, a unit of the Students’ Army Training
Corps was established at Hamline, and almost every male student
became an enlisted member. The Science Hall was used for military
purposes, with the basement becoming the mess hall and the museum
and several classrooms being marked for squad rooms and sleeping
quarters.[24]
The
Great Depression and World War II (1930–1945)
The Great Depression and World War II created significant challenges for
Hamline. The most difficult were the years in the early 1930s, in
which the repercussions of the depression were intensified by
conflicts over internal reorganization.[25]
Increased enrollments reflected the belief that it was better for
students to be in college than to be sitting at home in idleness
and despair. The college tried to help by providing jobs and
financial aid,
and by lowering charges for tuition and room and board.
Hamline University students take a final during the 1930s
[26] Jobs of any kind were at a premium, with the most
prized being board jobs in the Manor House and at the Quality Tea
Room on Snelling Avenue. Also in top demand were board and room
jobs for women in private homes. In the meantime, the portion of
the college endowment invested in farmlands turned unproductive,
and the university's income fell following reductions in tuition.
All of this led to annual deficits and substantial cuts in faculty
salaries. It was not until 1935 that Hamline began to recover from
the depression.[26]
During the war years, Hamline’s enrollment held above 600,
except in 1943 and 1944. Although males registrations dropped as
men entered the armed services, women's enrollment increased as
nursing students arrived.[27]
Hamline and the Asbury Methodist Hospital of Minneapolis
launched a new venture in 1940 when they collaboratively
established the Hamline-Asbury School of Nursing, which offered a
five-year program leading to a bachelor of science in nursing.
Hamline moved with a growing trend to provide academic training for
women preparing for careers in nursing. A three-year program
leading to a diploma in nursing was also offered. In 1949, the
Mounds-Midway School of Nursing joined the school, and the newly
enlarged institution took the name of the Hamline University School
of Nursing.[28]
Post World
War II (1946–1966)
A flood of veterans entered or returned to college after World
War II under the G.I. Bill of Rights.
The first reached the campus in the fall of 1946, when
registrations passed 1,000 for the first time. Enrollment reached a
new high in 1949 when 1,452 students, including 289 in the nursing
school.[29]
The nursing school, which had been an integral part of Hamline
since 1940 and had won wide recognition for the excellence of its
program, was discontinued in 1962 following a decision to
concentrate resources and staff on liberal arts programs. The last
class in the three-year program graduated in 1960 and the last
class in the degree program graduated in 1962. A total of 447 women
completed the degree program, and 758 women finished the three-year
program.
After World War II, two new residence halls were built –
Drew Residence for men and Sorin Hall for women. A new fine arts
center was completed in 1950, and the Drew Hall of Science was
dedicated in 1952. The old science building was taken over by the
social science and other departments and was renamed Social Science
Hall. In 1963, the A.G. Bush Student Center was completed, and at
the time, its modern facilities made it at once the social,
recreational, and cultural center of the campus.[30]
Throughout this period, buildings were enlarged or remodeled to
keep pace with new needs and standards. Wings were added to the
Manor House and Drew Residence. The seating capacity of the library
was increased to 100 with the completion of a new periodical room,
and the old student union was remodeled and turned into a
laboratory with classrooms and office space for the language
departments. In the summer of 1966, extensive alterations and
improvements were made in Hutton Arena and in the theater of the
fine arts center.[31]
Between 1953 and 1966, faculty members received grants totaling
more than $600,000 for special education and research
programs.[32]
New academic
publications (1966–1987)
Hamline broke ground in May 1970 for the $2.6 million Bush
Memorial Library. The library, a three-story, 83,210-square-foot
(7,730 m2) building housing some 240,000 volumes,
opened in the fall of 1971.[33]
The Paul Giddens Alumni Learning Center, linked to the Carnegie
library and named for a former university president, opened in
October 1972. The social science and humanities divisions and the
department of education are now housed within the center, which
also contains classrooms, study areas, and laboratories.
Paul Giddens Alumni Learning Center
The university began construction on a new $4 million law school
building in January 1979, which was dedicated in October 1980. The
Hamline University School
of Law received accreditation from the American Bar Association
in 1975.[34]
The law school began publishing the Hamline Law Review in 1978 and a second,
student-edited, journal in the spring of 1980 – the Journal
of Minnesota Public Law (since 1986, it has been known as the
Hamline
Journal of Public Law and Policy). In 1983, in collaboration
with the Council on Religion and Law at Harvard University Divinity
and Law Schools, the Hamline School of Law launched a
faculty-edited journal, the Journal of Law and
Religion.[35]
After the Charles M. Drew Fine Arts Center opened in 1950,
Hamline began to gradually acquire a permanent art collection,
especially after Paul Smith became chair of the fine arts
department in 1965. By 2003, the permanent collection included more
than 600 original works.[36]
New
construction and discoveries (1988–2003)
The $1.3 million Sundin Music Hall opened in October 1989. The
Orem Robbins Science Center was dedicated on May 9, 1991, and
became the home of the biology, chemistry, and physics
departments.[37]
Old Main, the campus landmark, was placed on the National Register
of Historic Places; it was renovated during the summer of 1978 and
again after a fire on September 2, 1985, caused $10,000 worth of
damage. In October 1990, workers began a $290,000 renovation. They
removed and rebuilt a 24-foot (7.3 m)-high section of the
tower, covered the 106-year-old building with new concrete
shingles, and installed a four-sided clock in the tower. In 1993,
an electric carillon was added to the tower that can ring a bell
and play selected music.[38]
Hamline broke ground on September 27, 1996, for the $5.6
million, 44,000-square-foot (4,100 m2) Law and
Graduate Center/Conference Center, which was dedicated on October
10, 1997. Hamline began construction on a $7.7 million student
apartment building at 1470 Englewood for 142 graduate and law
students on September 2, 1998. The building was completed in 2000,
in time for students to move in for the fall term.[39]
After four years of planning, ground was broken on October 18,
1996, for an $8.5 million sports, recreation, and health
complex—Lloyd W. D. Walker Fieldhouse—though
construction did not begin until the following spring. The
completed fieldhouse, at Snelling and Taylor, opened on September
10, 1998. Klas Center, a modern, $7.1 million multi-use facility
which includes the football field and a track, was built in 2003 to
replace the aging Norton Field.[40]
As the campus was transformed by construction projects,
attention turned to Hamline's roots in the summer of 1996. An
archaeological dig headed by John McCarthy of the Institute of
Minnesota Archaeology and anthropology professor Skip Messenger
began at the site of Hamline's original building in Red Wing. The
three-story brick building, constructed in 1855 and open in time
for classes to begin in January 1856, closed in 1869 and was
demolished in 1871. Since few records exist from that time, the
exact location and dimensions of the original building were unknown
until the archaeological dig. The dig found that the original
building's foundation was insufficient for its size, leading to
speculation that structural problems might have contributed to the
building's closing and eventual demolition.[41]
A new era and
schools (2004–present)
In 2004, Hamline celebrated its 150th anniversary. Throughout
the year, every department held a public event related to the
anniversary. The slogan for the event was "Looking back. Thinking
forward."[42]
In 2011, Hamline eliminated the French major.[43]
In the autumn of 2012, Hamline students and faculty protested
the school's refusal to condemn the proposed Minnesota
constitutional amendment that would have banned equal marriage
rights for all citizens. Hamline's attempt to stay neutral on the
issue was seen as inconsistent with the university's
anti-discrimination policy and its espoused values of diversity and
inclusiveness,[44]
as well as with its United Methodist heritage and identity, since
the Minnesota Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church had
voted to publicly oppose the amendment.[45][46]
In June 2014, Hamline's adjunct professors voted to form a union
as part of the SEIU, making Hamline the first private university in
Minnesota where adjunct faculty formed a union.[47]
In April 2015, Hamline University announced that Dr. Fayneese
Miller would become the 20th President of Hamline on July 1, 2015.
On July 1, 2015, Dr. Miller became the first African American to be
President of Hamline University and the second woman to hold that
office.[48]
Schools and
colleges
College
of Liberal Arts
The College of Liberal Arts houses Hamline’s undergraduate
programs. College of Liberal Arts students can earn a bachelor of
arts or bachelor of science degree in 41 areas of study. Hamline is
one of only 276 Phi Beta Kappa institutions in the country.
The majors offered are typical of a liberal arts college, and
include the physical and social sciences, humanities and fine arts.
Students may also minor in 38 areas of study within the
college.[49]
One-hundred percent of students complete an internship,
collaborative research, a service learning project, or field-based
research.
The undergraduate student to faculty ratio is 12:1 and the
median class size is 18. Almost all (94%) faculty hold the highest
degree in their fields.[50]
Hamline competes in 20 intercollegiate sports in the NCAA
Division III Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. In
addition to sports, Hamline has more than 70 clubs and
organizations. Hamline also has an alliance with Hamline Elementary
School, which is a public elementary located across the street from
the university.
School of
Education
Hamline University’s School of Education houses graduate
and undergraduate programs. For undergraduates, Hamline students
pursue a BA or BS degree in the liberal arts, combined with a
co-major in education and a Minnesota teaching license.[51]
Hamline has six graduate programs in education, including a
doctorate in education, and professional development opportunities
for educators than any other private institution in
Minnesota.[52]
The school offers the following programs:
The
Creative Writing Program
Hamline offers three fine arts degrees in creative writing: the
BFA, an MFA in Creative Writing, and a low-residency MFA in Writing
for Children and Young Adults.[53]
Hamline’s Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing is the
only such degree in the Twin Cities and the only one in the state
of Minnesota offered by a private liberal arts university.
Hamline University School
of Business
Hamline University
School of Business contains both the undergraduate and graduate
business programs. The undergraduate program offers a Bachelor of
Business
Administration (B.B.A.) and Bachelor of Arts in Economics. The
school offers minors in business analytics, business practice,
economics, management, and nonprofit management.
Hamline School of Business graduate program offers the following
degrees:
Rankings
In 2017, Hamline was ranked 20th in the Midwest among 171
universities according U.S. News & World Report
magazine’s “Best Colleges” edition.[54]
Washington Monthly ranked Hamline first in Minnesota and
27th nationwide in its Master’s Universities category in
2016. Hamline also made the publication's Best Bang for the Buck-
Midwest Colleges list.
In 2016, Hamline was again among the nation’s top colleges
according to Forbes.com which considers success of grads and
quality of education that biggest factors in rankings.[55]
In addition, Hamline was named a "Best Midwestern" School by
Princeton Review; rankings reflect academic strength, institutional
data, reputation, and student input.
Partnerships and
associations
Associated Colleges of the
Twin Cities
Hamline is a member of the Associated Colleges
of the Twin Cities (ACTC), which is a consortium of five
private liberal arts colleges, all located in either Minneapolis or
Saint Paul. This program allows students to take classes at any of
the associated campuses, as long as the class is not offered at
their home university. Students are limited to one ACTC course per
semester.[56]
Bilateral exchange
programs
Hamline also has partnerships with four foreign universities
(Universität
Trier in Germany, Universidad Catolica de
Valparaiso in Chile, Universite Gaston Berger in Senegal,
and Akita International
University in Japan) which allow students to study abroad and
pay the same rate that they would at Hamline. These programs also
guarantee that credits earned abroad will transfer back to
Hamline.[57]
Student
life
Hamline students have the opportunity to partake in various
on-campus activities. All clubs, intramural teams, and student
events are run through the Student Affairs Division.[58]
Hamline’s clubs include organizations with focuses on various
academic subjects, the arts, journalism, culture, advocacy/social
justice, recreation, and spirituality. Hamline also has two Greek
organizations: Delta Tau sorority and Theta
Chi fraternity, both of which are located a block west of
campus. The two largest on-campus organizations are the Hamline
Undergraduate Student Congress (HUSC) and Hamline University
Programming Board (HUPB).[59]
HUSC is the governing body of the undergraduate students, with
the stated purpose of providing an organized medium for expressing
student concerns to the administration. It is also responsible for
overseeing and funding the majority of student organizations on
campus.[60]
HUPB plans student events, such as the homecoming dance, End of the
Semester Party, and the annual lip sync contest.[61]
Residence Halls and dining
Residence
Halls
Drew Residence Hall in the autumn
Drew Hall houses 200 undergraduate men and women. The
hall is staffed by resident advisors on each floor, an assistant
hall director and one area coordinator. Drew was built in 1946 as a
men’s residence after a donation by Charles M. Drew.[62]
Hamline University's Manor Hall
Manor Hall is the oldest dormitory on the campus. It was
built in 1922 as a women’s dormitory, although today it is
co-ed. Manor is home to second-, third- and fourth-year
undergraduates.
Sorin Hall was built in 1958 and houses just over 100 men
and women on single-gender floors, including two female floors and
one male floor.[63]
Osborn, Peterson and Schilling Residence Halls
collectively known as the Heights, are identical buildings built in
the late 1960s. Each houses nearly 100 first-year men and
women.[64]
Dining
facilities
The primary dining hall is located in The Carol Young Anderson
and Dennis L. Anderson Center, often referred to as Anderson. The
facility is operated by a private food management firm, ARAMARK. The dining hall is
all-you-can eat, charging a flat rate for entry, regardless of how
much food is consumed. Meal plans are available for students.
Included in the purchase of a meal plan is a certain amount of
money that can be used at other facilities on campus ("declining
balance" dollars). This money can be spent by using the student ID
card like a debit card.[65]
Newspaper and other
publications
Hamline's student newspaper is The Oracle. The Oracle was
founded in 1888 and has been published regularly ever since. The
paper began as a monthly journal of letters and evolved into a
modern weekly college newspaper over the years. The Oracle
receives its funding from and is published by the Student Media
Board, which serves as an umbrella organization for the
Liner, the university's yearbook, the Fulcrum, the
university's literary magazine, and Hamline University
Radio.[66]
Athletics
Men's basketball
Hamline University is the "birthplace of intercollegiate
basketball." In 1893, then-Athletic Director Ray Kaighn, who had
played on James Naismith's very first basketball team,
brought the sport to the university when it was barely a year old.
A women's program was organized two years later. On February 9,
1895, Hamline hosted the first intercollegiate basketball game in
history, when the Minnesota State School of Agriculture (now the
St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota) defeated
Hamline by a score of 9–3. The game was played in the
basement of the university's old science building using Naismith's
original "peach basket" rules, and featured nine players to each
side.[67]
Hamline was once known for the strength of its basketball
program, with the university considered to be a national power in
the sport from the 1930s to the 1950s. Hamline produced a number of
NBA players during this
time, including Hall of Famer Vern Mikkelsen. Then-head coach Joe
Hutton, Sr. (1931–65) was once offered and turned down a
chance to coach the Minneapolis
Lakers.[68]
Hutton Arena, the home court for the Piper basketball and
volleyball teams, was built in 1937. Originally named Norton Field
House, it was renamed after Hutton. A statue of the coach is in the
lobby of the building.
Hamline appeared in the NAIA National
Tournament 12 times from 1940 to 1960[69][70]
Hamline is one of 3 schools to place 4th (1940)
3rd (1948)
2nd (1953) and 1st (1942,1949,1951). They were the first school to
win three National Championships, consecutively or
non-consecutively. Their NAIA tournament record is 36-10.
- NAIA National Champions: 1942,
1949
and 1951
- NAIA runners-up: 1953
- NAIA Third Place: 1948
- NAIA Semifinalist: 1940
- NAIA Tournament Appearances:
1940-42-43-47-48-49-50-51-52-53-57-60
- NCAA Division III Semifinalist: 1977 (Finished in fourth
place)
- NCAA Division III Quarterfinalist: 1975
- NCAA Division III All-Tournament Selection: Phil Smyczek,
1977
- NCAA Division III Academic All-Americans: Paul Westling, 1986;
John Banovetz, 1989
- CoSIDA Academic All-Americans: Liz Stock, 2011 (1st Team);
Courtney Benson, 2014 (1st team); Mary-Clare Couillard (2015 third
team, 2016 second team)
- Hamline University is a member of the Minnesota
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC).
Conference championships
This table displays the number of Minnesota
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) conference
championships that have been won by Hamline sports teams. If a
sport is not listed, then a championship has not been won in that
competition. Hamline fields teams in the following men's sports:
baseball, basketball, cross country, football, hockey, indoor track
and field, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, and outdoor track
& field. Hamline also fields teams in the following women's
sports: basketball, cross country, hockey, indoor track and field,
soccer, softball, gymnastics, swimming and diving, tennis, outdoor
track and field, volleyball, and lacrosse. Women's lacrosse was
added as an official Hamline University sport and the team
officially competing in the spring of 2016. All records were
compiled from the MIAC website and are up to date as of May
2017.[71]
Hamline University Women's Hockey
In gymnastics, Hamline competes in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate
Athletic Conference. In lacrosse, Hamline is a member of the
Midwest Women's Lacrosse Conference.
| Men's sports |
Number of championships |
Last Title |
| Baseball |
2 |
2011 |
| Basketball |
19 |
1959–60 |
| Cross country |
7 |
2011 |
| Football |
5 |
1988 |
| Golf |
2 |
1948 |
| Men's Hockey |
6 |
2015 |
| Swimming and diving |
7 |
1978–79 |
| Tennis |
5 |
1964 |
| Outdoor track and field |
14 |
1982 |
| Women's sports |
Number of championships |
Last title |
| Swimming and diving |
4 |
1985–86 |
| Lacrosse |
1 |
2017 |
| Women's Hockey |
1 |
2017-18 |
Notable
alumni
Politicians/public
servants
Athletes
Actors,
directors, playwrights
Academics
Business
and finance
Veterans
Religious
leaders