Company Profile
Iowa Wesleyan University
Company Overview
Iowa Wesleyan is a four year liberal arts college providing quality individualized learning experiences that combine the development of the intellect with adaptive life skills. The college is affiliated with the United Methodist Church with which it shares a commitment to spiritual values, social justice and human welfare. The mission of Iowa Wesleyan College is to prepare students to succeed in a changing global environment. Iowa Wesleyan College holds fast to the ideals of its founding vision, while fostering creativity and the pursuit of truth in its developing curricular framework of Learning in Community.
Company History
Iowa Wesleyan College is located in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. It is the oldest educational institution west of the Mississippi River and has been a pioneering institution for 171 years. The historic founding of Iowa Wesleyan College is rooted in the religious,
educational and cultural aspirations of early settlers in the frontier settlement
of Mount Pleasant. Their aspirations were shaped by an impelling vision
and a bold determination to build an institute of learning in the rapidly
developing southeast corner of the Iowa Territory. On February 17, 1842,
the Territorial Legislature granted a charter for the Mount Pleasant Literary
Institute, later named the Mount Pleasant Collegiate Institute.
Through the years, the College has pioneered in such features as
coeducation, the laboratory approach to teaching in the sciences, and service
learning, adopted in 1967. More recently it has implemented an experiential
learning program that integrates its Life Skills emphases with service
learning and career experience into each student’s education. To prepare
students for responsible citizenship and fulfilling careers, this program
combines a broad-based liberal arts curriculum with community service
learning opportunities and field experience in the chosen field of study.