Coe College

Short description: Private college in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S.

Coe College

Sinclair Auditorium

Former names

| School for the Prophets (1851–1853)
Cedar Rapids Collegiate Institute (1853–1875)
Coe College Institute (1875–1881)[1]
Motto| "Veritas Virtusque" (Truth and Virtue)
Type| Private
Established| 1851; 175 years ago (1851)

Religious affiliation

| Presbyterian Church (USA)
Endowment| $77.9 million[2]
President| David Hayes

Academic staff

| 128 full-time and 39 part-time (Fall 2021)[3]
Undergraduates| 1,394 (all undergraduate)[3]
Location|

Cedar Rapids

Iowa

United States

Campus| 70 acres (280,000 m2)
|u}}rs|  Crimson and gold
Nickname| Kohawks
Website| www.coe.edu

Coe College is a private liberal arts college in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It was founded in 1851 and is historically affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA). The college is a member of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest and the Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Academics
* 3 Athletics
* 4 Stewart Memorial Library
* 5 Student life
* 6 Writing center
* 7 Notable alumni
* 8 References
* 9 External links

## History

Coe College was founded in 1851 by Rev. Williston Jones as the School for the Prophets.[4][5] While canvassing churches in the East to raise money for students to attend Eastern seminaries, Jones met a farmer named Daniel Coe, who donated $1,500 and encouraged Jones to open a college in Cedar Rapids. Coe's gift came with the stipulation that the college should offer education to both men and women, and when the Cedar Rapids campus opened in 1853 as the Cedar Rapids Collegiate Institute, it was a co-educational institution.[4] In 1875, the college was reestablished as Coe College Institute and in 1881, after a private donation from T. M. Sinclair, founder of the Sinclair Meat Packing Company, was finally founded as Coe College.

Coe was accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools in 1907. In 1910, Presbyterian clergyman John Abner Marquis became president and initiated a period of growth that lasted for several years;[6] Marquis was a sought-after speaker and served as Moderator in the Presbyterian Church, its highest office.[7]

## Academics

Coe College awards the following degrees: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Music (B.M.), and Bachelor of Science in Nursing (B.S.N.). Coe offers more than 60 areas of study and provides the option for students to create their own major under the guidance of faculty members. Its most popular majors, based on 2021 graduates, were:[8]

* Business Administration and Management (36)
* Psychology (35)
* Biology/Biological Sciences (27)
* Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse (23)
* Physics (17)

## Athletics

Coe College has 21 men's and women's athletic teams and is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division III. Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field, and wrestling; women's sports include basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field, and volleyball. Coe also supports five Co-Ed athletic teams. They include Archery, Cheer, Dance, Clay Target and Esports. Their athletic team name is the Kohawks, a stylized bird; the college mascot is known as Charlie Kohawk.

## Stewart Memorial Library

Stewart Memorial Library contains more than 202,000 books and other materials. The library also features gallery spaces showing work by Iowa artists Marvin Cone, Conger Metcalf, and Grant Wood.[9]

## Student life

In 1972, a study found that Coe students had traditional values which were often in harmony with those of their parents.[10]

Coe has an active Greek social community with four fraternities and five sororities. The groups, all of which are chapters of national organizations, include fraternities Phi Kappa Tau, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Tau Kappa Epsilon, and Sigma Lambda Beta; and sororities Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Sigma Alpha, Delta Delta Delta, Alpha Gamma Delta, and Sigma Lambda Gamma.[11]

## Writing center

Coe's Writing Center (CWC) is the largest undergraduate student-run writing center in the nation, with over 60 undergraduates on staff.[12] It opened in 1986. The CWC now conducts over 2,000 student conferences a year. The CWC produces and distributes several small campus publications.

## Notable alumni

* Fran Allison – actress[13]
* Michael Boddicker – musician[14]
* Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier – political scientist[15]
* Wilmer D. Elfrink – football and basketball coach[16]
* Paul Engle – director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop
* Bill Fitch – basketball coach[17]
* Edgar S. Furniss – economist and educator
* Chris Funk – musician
* James William Good – US Congressman and Secretary of War[18]
* Dora Jane Hamblin – journalist, editor
* Fred Hickman – sportscaster[19]
* Timothy S. Hillman – U.S. District Court judge[20]
* Fred Jackson – football player[21]
* Jason Kottke – blogger, designer[22]
* Marv Levy – football coach[23]
* David McCosh – painter and professor
* Byron McKeeby – artist and professor[24]
* Curt Menefee – sportscaster[25]
* Conger Metcalf - painter[26]
* Ronald Moon – Chief Justice of Hawaii Supreme Court (1993–2010)[27]
* Amanda P. Moore – poet
* Dow Mossman – novelist
* Edward A. Ross – sociologist[28]
* Bradley Marc Sherrill – nuclear physicist
* William Shirer – author
* Gary Allan Sojka – university administrator[29][circular reference]
* Lindsay Souvannarath – mass murderer[30]
* Shelby Steele – author, sociologist, political commentator
* S. Donald Stookey – inventor [31][32]
* Gregory Alan Williams – actor and author[33]

## References

1. ↑ "History of the College". Coe College. https://www.coe.edu/why-coe/discover-coe/college-history.
2. ↑ As of June 30, 2009. "U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2009 Endowment Market Value and Percentage Change in Endowment Market Value from FY 2008 to FY 2009". 2009 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments. National Association of College and University Business Officers. http://www.nacubo.org/Documents/research/2009_NCSE_Public_Tables_Endowment_Market_Values.pdf.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "College Navigator - Coe College". https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Coe+College&s=all&id=153144.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 www.metro-studios.com, Metro Studios. "Coe College | History" (in en). http://www.coe.edu/aboutcoe/history-2.
5. ↑ Coe College (1913). Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Coe College: For the Year ... with Courses of Study. Coe College. p. 16. https://books.google.com/books?id=0aFGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA16.
6. ↑ Wick, Barthinius L.; Brewer, Luther (May 28, 2022). History of Linn County, Iowa. https://books.google.com/books?id=3vNyEAAAQBAJ.
7. ↑ "Church is strongly behingd US government, declares the Presbyterian moderator". The Democratic Banner (Mount Vernon, Ohio): pp. 4. May 18, 1917. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88078751/1917-05-18/ed-1/seq-4/#date1=1777&index=7&rows=20&words=Abner+John+Marquis&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1963&proxtext=John+Abner+Marquis&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1.
8. ↑ "Coe College". U.S. Dept of Education. https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=coe&s=all&id=153144#programs.
9. ↑ "The Iowan" Fall Issue 1989, p. 32.
10. ↑ Fredrickson, L. C. (1972). "Value structure of college students" (in en). Journal of Youth and Adolescence 1 (2): 155–163. doi:10.1007/BF01537070. ISSN 0047-2891. PMID 24415267. http://link.springer.com/10.1007/BF01537070.
11. ↑ "Greek Life – Coe College". https://www.coe.edu/student-life/campus-life/clubs-organizations/greek-life.
12. ↑ www.metro-studios.com, Metro Studios -. "Coe College - Writing - Writing Center". http://www.coe.edu/academics/writing/writing_wc. [|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
13. ↑ "Fran Allison". Coe College. http://www.public.coe.edu/historyweb/alumni_allison_fran.htm.
14. ↑ Winter Courier 2004 , p. 22, PDF. Coe Community College. Retrieved on March 9, 2008.
15. ↑ "Janet Box-Steffensmeier". https://polisci.osu.edu/sites/polisci.osu.edu/files/vita Box-Steffensmeier January 2016.pdf.
16. ↑ "Wilmer D. Elfrink". Coe College. http://www.public.coe.edu/~wcenter/historyweb/athletics_traditions_and_rivalries_homecoming.htm.
17. ↑ "Bill Fitch". Basketball Reference.com. https://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/fitchbi99c.html.
18. ↑ "James William Good". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000275.
19. ↑ "Fred Hickman". LinkedIn Corporation. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Fred/Hickman.
20. ↑ "Timothy S. Hillman". U. S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. http://www.mad.uscourts.gov/worcester/hillman.htm.
21. ↑ "Fred Jackson (American football)". Pro-Football Reference.com. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/J/JackFr02.htm.
22. ↑ "Jason Kottke". Coe College. http://www.coe.edu/alumni/physics-reunion/physics-reunion-attendees.
23. ↑ "Marv Levy". Pro Football Hall of Fame. http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.aspx?player_id=128.
24. ↑ "Byron McKeeby (1936-1984)". Georgia Humanities and the University of Georgia Press. January 8, 2016. https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/byron-mckeeby-1936-1984?amp. "McKeeby earned degrees from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois; and Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and he received the Tamarind Teacher-Student Fellowship with the prominent lithographer Garo Antreasian during the summer of 1965."
25. ↑ "Curt Menefee". Sigma Nu Fraternity, Inc.. http://www.sigmanu.org/about/famous_sigmanus.php.
26. ↑ "Oral history interview with Conger Metcalf, 1982 Feb. 24 | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution" (in en). https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-conger-metcalf-12247.
27. ↑ "Ronald Moon". Star Advertiser. September 19, 2010. https://www.staradvertiser.com/2010/09/19/hawaii-news/for-moon-applying-the-law-was-foremost/.
28. ↑ "Edward A. Ross". American Sociological Association. June 16, 2009. http://www.asanet.org/about/presidents/Edward_Ross.cfm.
29. ↑ Gary Allan Sojka
30. ↑ Merritt, Rob; Hermiston, Lee (February 16, 2015). "Coe professor recalls Canada murder plot suspect as talented yet disturbing writer". Chicago Tribune. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/chi-coe-professor-recalls-canada-murder-plot-suspect-as-talented-yet-disturbing-writer-20150216-story.html.
31. ↑ "S. Donald Stookey". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/business/s-donald-stookey-inventor-of-corningware-dies-at-99.html?_r=1.
32. ↑ "S. Donald Stookey". Coe College. http://www.public.coe.edu/historyweb/alumni_stookey_donald.htm.
33. ↑ "Williams, GregAlan". desmoinesregister.com. http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/99999999/FAMOUSIOWANS/607020334/0/famousiowans.

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