Berry College
Seal of Berry College
Motto	"Not to be Ministered Unto, but to Minister"
Established	1902
Type	Private, coeducational
Endowment	$590 million
President	Dr. Stephen R. Briggs
Students	1718 Undergraduate, 124 Graduate
Location	Mount Berry, Georgia, USA
Campus	Suburban 28,000 acres (110 km²)
Colors	Silver and Blue
Mascot	Viking
Website	www.berry.edu

Berry College, an American private, liberal arts college, is located in the Georgian community of Mount Berry, on the northernmost boundary of Rome, Georgia. The institution emphasizes the importance of religion while encouraging academic excellence, student work and service to society. This focus is usually referenced as "educating the head, heart, and hands" and follows the school's motto, "Not to be ministered unto, but to minister." With approximately 1800 students and 28,000 acres (110 km²) of north Georgia hill country, Berry College's campus is the largest contiguous college campus in the world.^[1] Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... A motto (from Italian) is a phrase or a short list of words meant formally to describe the general motivation or intention of an entity, social group, or organization. ... The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... The University of Cambridge is an institute of higher learning. ... A financial endowment is a transfer of money or property donated to an institution, with the stipulation that it be invested, and the principal remain intact. ... University President is the title of the highest ranking officer within a university, within university systems that prefer that appellation over other variations such as Chancellor or rector. ... Alternate uses: Student (disambiguation) Etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb stŭdērĕ, which means to study, a student is one who studies. ... Mount Berry Square shopping mall, the main commercial zoning in the community of Mount Berry. ... Illustration of the backyards of a surburban neighbourhood Suburbs are inhabited districts located either on the outer rim of a city or outside the official limits of a city (the term varies from country to country), or the outer elements of a conurbation. ... School colors are the colors chosen by a school to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification. ... General Name, Symbol, Number silver, Ag, 47 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 5, d Appearance lustrous white metal Standard atomic weight 107. ... The term blue may refer to any of a number of similar colours. ... Millie, once mascot of the City of Brampton, is now the Brampton Arts Councils representative. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... In the history of education, the seven liberal arts comprise two groups of studies, the trivium and the quadrivium. ... College (Latin collegium) is a term most often used today to denote an educational institution. ... Mount Berry Square shopping mall, the main commercial zoning in the community of Mount Berry. ... Aerial view of downtown Rome Location of Rome and major highways Nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, Rome is the largest city in and the county seat of Floyd County, Georgia, United States. ...

History

Berry was founded in 1902 by Martha McChesney Berry as a school for rural youth at a time when few public schools existed in Georgia. Seven years later, a girls' school was added, with a junior college being established in 1926 and a four-year college in 1930. Graduate programs outside the liberal arts were added in 1972. Financial contributions from Henry Ford and from the Ford Foundation, and donations from thousands of others have helped the institution establish itself as a leading liberal arts college in the southeastern United States. Martha McChesney Berry (October 7, 1866 – February 27, 1942) was an United States educator and the founder of Berry College, Georgia. ... Henry Ford (1919) Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. ... The Ford Foundation is a charitable foundation based in New York City created to fund programs that promote democracy, reduce poverty, promote international understanding, and advance human achievement. ...

The courtyard in front of the Henry Ford buildings.

The entrance to the college in Mount Berry.

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Academics

Berry College offers a comprehensive academic program utilizing education of the head, heart and hands. The college offers students the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Science, Master of Business Administration, Master of Education and Education Specialist degrees from the four schools making up the academic program. The liberal arts education offered by Berry includes an intensive general education program coupled with the student's selected major. The four schools offer a total of 32 undergraduate academic majors, 34 minors, and three graduate majors. According to U.S. News and World Report Berry is currently ranked second among the South's comprehensive colleges.^[2] A B.A. issused as a certificate Bachelor of Arts (B.A., BA or A.B.), from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus is an undergraduate bachelors degree awarded for either a course or a program in the liberal arts or the sciences, or both. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... EMBA redirects here; for the Mutation Mink Breeders Association, see American Legend Cooperative The Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a masters degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines. ... The Master of Education (M.Ed or M.A.E.) is a degree conferred by American institutions for educators moving on in their field. ... The Education Specialist, also referred to as Educational Specialist, Specialist in Education, or , is a terminal academic degree in the U.S. that is designed for individuals who wish to develop additional skills or increase their knowledge beyond the masters degree level, but do not wish to pursue a... U.S. News & World Report is a weekly newsmagazine. ...

Campbell School of Business

The Campbell School of Business makes its home at Green Hall on the Berry College campus. Green Hall offers students seven fully functional multimedia equipped rooms to enhance the educational experience. The School of Business offers five undergraduate majors and one graduate major. The Campbell School of Business recently received its accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International) in April of 2007. The school will also be featured in the “Best 290 Business Schools 2008 Edition,” by the Princeton Review.^[3] ... In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... AACSB International--The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), founded in 1916, has granted specialized business school accreditation to more than 500 degree-granting institutions in 30 countries. ... The Princeton Review (TPR) is a for-profit U.S. company that offers private instruction and tutoring for standardized achievement tests, in particular those offered by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), such as the SAT, GRE, LSAT, GMAT, and MCAT. The company was founded in 1982 and is based in...

Majors

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Charter School of Education and Human Sciences

The Charter School of Education and Human Sciences is located in the Cook Building. In 2003, the Cook Building underwent a major renovation as part of Berry's "Centennial Campaign". The School of Education was recently honored by the Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education.^[4]

Majors

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Evans School of Humanities and Social Sciences

The Evans School makes its principal home in Evans Hall. Other buildings utilized by the Evans School include the Moon Building, home of the art program, the Laughlin Building, home of the communications department, Blackstone Hall, home of the theatre program and Ford Music Hall, home of the music program. The Evans School is the largest school at Berry College, with the areas of study taught at the Evans School being the foundations for the general education requirement at Berry.

Majors

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School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

The School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences makes its home in the Science Building. The Science Building opened in the spring semester of 2001 at a cost of $25 million. It includes four multimedia classrooms and practical laboratories for the sciences, mathematics and computer science labs, study rooms on every level, and two greenhouses. The science facilities are also utilized to host many conferences in the science and mathematics disciplines. The Berry College science program also boasts a nationally recognized animal science department, which makes its home in the Lamar Wescot Building at the Ford Complex. The animal science department utilizes the Rollins Ruminant Research Center and the Gunby Equestrian Center for hands on learning. With 28,000 acres (110 km²), Berry College also offers one of the largest outdoor laboratories for valuable field experience. The Royal Greenhouses of Laeken. ...

Majors

Mirror Lake, located on the Mountain Campus of Berry College.

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Religion

Berry was never officially affiliated with a particular Christian denomination yet was founded as a Protestant institution with required chapel attendance and adherence to the Christian faith. Though mandatory religious adherence was abandoned decades ago, religious practice is prominent on campus. The campus has a chaplain, a non-denominational campus church, three chapels, and an active religion-in-life program spanning all Christian denominations. The religion-in-life program encompasses the education of the "heart." An interfaith council and an interfaith center was set up in 2004 to address the concerns and needs of non-Christian students, faculty and staff.

Student Work

Each student is guaranteed a job on campus through the student work program with funding from the federal government's work study program. Students participate in all aspects of campus work, from grounds crew and dining services to secretarial assistants to the president. The Bonner Foundation provides select Berry students with community service scholarships, allowing students to work with dozens of community agencies rather than on campus. The college's agricultural programs, originally producing dairy, beef, pork, chicken, and horticultural items for consumption on campus and sale, were refocused in the 2000s on research rather than production.

The waterwheel of the Berry Schools' Old Mill, built by students in 1930, stands 12.8 meters (42 ft) high.

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Campus Life

Traditional Greek social fraternities and sororities are not present on campus, but many clubs exist, including national and international honor, service, and leadership societies. The terms fraternity and sorority (from the Latin words and , meaning brother and sister respectively) may be used to describe many social and charitable organizations, for example the Lions Club, Epsilon Sigma Alpha, Rotary International, Optimist International, or the Shriners. ...

Over the past two decades, a strategic partnership between Berry and the WinShape Foundation has transformed the college's mountain campus into a service community, including a college scholarship program with two dormitories serving over a hundred students, three foster homes, boys & girls summer camps, a challenge/ropes course, and a retreat center and cabins for corporate and community groups and marriage seminars. This arrangement with WinShape has been controversial for some members of the Berry community because of the religious nature of WinShape and because WinShape inhabits the campus left vacant by the closure of the Berry Academy. The WinShape Foundation is a major American charitable endeavor of the fast-food restaurant chain Chick-fil-A and its founder Truett Cathy and his family. ... A typical American college dorm room Another typical not-so-clean college dorm room Watterson Towers, Illinois State University Potomac Hall, second-largest dormitory at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. ... Foster care is a system by which a certified, stand-in parent(s) cares for minor children or young people who have been removed from their biological parents or other custodial adults by state authority. ...

Athletics

The Berry College mascot is the Viking and the athletic teams are Division I members of the NAIA. Varsity sports are men's baseball, women's volleyball, and men's and women's basketball, soccer, golf, tennis, and indoor / outdoor track. Non-varisty sports include rowing and the equestian team. A strong intramural sports program also exists. The Steven J. Cage Athletic and Recreational Center (The Cage Center) is scheduled to open in March of 2007. The term Viking commonly denotes the ship-borne warriors, pirates and traders of Norsemen (literally, men from the north) who originated in Scandinavia and raided the coasts of Britain, Ireland and mainland Europe as far east as the Volga River in Russia (referred to as Varangians by the Russian Primary... The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (better known as the NAIA) traces its roots to the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball. ... The Cage Center is a complete athletic and recreation facility focused totally on students, will be the hub of fitness, fun, learning and life at Berry College. ...

Setting

The Berry campus consists of fields, forests, and the Lavender Mountain open to the public for hiking, cycling, horse back riding, kite flying, and other outdoor activities. Present on the hillside campus are families of deer, which are estimated to outnumber students seven to one. The absence of natural predators have made the deer a pest. Much of Berry's campus is a wildlife preserve, and hunting the deer in their habitat is a crime by Georgia state law outside of certain months of the year as directed by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Fishing on some of the campus' lakes and streams is permitted with proper permits. Berry also has a wealth of wild turkeys, seasonal ducks and geese, skunks, and squirrels. “Fawn” redirects here. ... The Georgia Department of Natural Resources is the Georgia administrative agency charged with the responsibility of regulating hunting, fishing, boating, and nongame plants and animals. ...

References

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External links

• Berry College web site
• Bonner Foundation web site
• WinShape Foundation web site
• Unofficial Website of Berry Academy
• Berry College entry in New Georgia Encyclopedia