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About Greenville College

Greenville College is a liberal arts four-year school in Greenville, a city in the US state of Illinois, serving as the county seat of Bond County, with a population of nearly 7000 inhabitants, estimated during the 2000 census.

Greenville College was established in 1892 and it is affiliated with the Free Methodist Church, a church with an evangelical foundation. It first started as an all-female Baptist school, called Almira College, which was started by Rev. John Brown White, who named the school after his friend Stephen Morse's wife, Almira Blanchard Morse, who donated the initial $6,000 that allowed the school to open.

Its current name was adopted when it became co-ed, after being acquired by the Central Illinois Conference of the Free Methodist Church, in 1892, due to financial difficulties. The college currently offers its students undergraduate degrees in over 50 different programs of study and graduate degrees in education.

Athletics

Greenville's athletic teams are known as the Panthers and they compete in NCAA Division III. Their distinctive colors are orange and black.

Notable Alumni

Among Greenville College's noteworthy alumni, there are: Ernest L. Boyer - former Chancellor of the State University of New York system, Howard Zahniser - environmental activist, `Father of the Wilderness Act`, Alfred Harrison Joy - Bruce Medal-winning astronomer, and Bob Briner - once a leading figure in professional sports management, an Emmy Award-winning television producer, and president of ProServ Television (the Greenville College Robert A. Briner Salt and Light Award is named after him).