Millikin University

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Millikin University
Millikin University.jpg
Motto In His Plenitudo Vis
Established 1901
Type Private coeducational
President Harold Jeffcoat
Admin. staff 1,393, full and part-time
Undergraduates 2,400
Location Decatur, Illinois, USA
Campus City, 75 acres
Sports mascot Big Blue
Colors Blue & White
Website http://www.millikin.edu/

Millikin University is an American co-educational, comprehensive, private, four-year university with traditional undergraduate programs in arts and sciences, business, fine arts, and professional studies, as well as non-traditional, adult degree-completion programs (PACE) and graduate programs in business administration and nursing. Millikin's campus is in Decatur, Illinois and serves approximately 2,400 students with student/faculty ratio of 11.6 to 1 and an average class size of 21 students. The school was founded in 1901 by prominent Decatur businessman James Millikin.

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[edit] Media

[edit] Decaturian

The Decaturian, also known as the Dec (official nickname), is the bi-weekly student newspaper. The Decaturian was established in 1903 and its issues are archived online from 1903–1951, made possible by the Digital-Decaturian Project.

[edit] WJMU 89.5 The Quad

WJMU is Millikin University's student-operated freeform format radio station. In addition to its musical responsibilities, WJMU also creates its own public service announcements, liners, news, Millikin sports programming and promotional materials.

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[edit] Female

[edit] Notable alumni

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[edit] Athletes and coaches

Millikin University was a member of the Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference from 1910 to 1937.

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[edit] Business figures

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[edit] Scientists

  • Harold V. Lichtenberger - Member of Enrico Fermi's team at Chicago Pile-1 reactor and participant in the first artificial, self-sustaining, nuclear chain reaction there on Dec.2, 1942; project engineer at Experimental Breeder Reactor I and pulled the switch at 1:50pm on December 20, 1951, when it became the world's first electricity-generating nuclear power plant.[8]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Official Website of Sierra Boggess
  2. ^ New York Times December 29, 1953 pp18
  3. ^ Tad Hilgenbrink Bio
  4. ^ New York Times April 12, 1975, pp.31
  5. ^ "Mike Rowland Stats". Baseball Almanac. http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=rowlami01. Retrieved 2008-06-19. 
  6. ^ "Steven R. Hurst appointed Associated Press bureau chief in Iraq". The Associated Press. 2006-09-28. http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_092906b.html. Retrieved 2008-06-19. 
  7. ^ "Caterpillar Officers>". http://www.cat.com/cda/layout?m=37466&x=7&id=2234630. 
  8. ^ James Millikin University Alumni Bulletin Vol. XLIX No.2 February 1952 pp.1

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