Berry College is a four-year private liberal arts college located in Mount Berry, Floyd County, Georgia, United States, north of Rome. It is accredited by the South High School and School Association (SACS). Berry was founded in 1902 by Martha Berry. With an area of ​​27,000 hectares (110 km km), Berry College offers the world's largest adjacent campus.
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Location and campus
Berry College is located near Rome in northwest Georgia, 72 miles (116 km) northwest of Atlanta, Georgia and 75 miles (121 km) south of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The Berry campus consists of over 27,000 hectares of fields, forests, and Lavender Mountain, the largest college campus adjacent in the United States. Designated sections are open to the public for hiking, cycling, horseback riding, and other outdoor activities. The campus is also home to a large population of deer (estimates range between 1,500 and 2,500).
Georgia's Department of Natural Resources oversees about 16,000 hectares of campus, conducts organized hunting, and provides recreational opportunities within the regulatory department. Land that includes academic buildings and other public spaces is a wildlife refuge where hunting is not allowed. In September 2011, Travel Leisure ranked Berry as the most beautiful campus campus in the United States, noting many fountains and swimming pools among British Gothic buildings.
Outdoor recreation
Berry College has over 80 miles of hiking trails, cycling and horseback riding, and two disc golf courses; all open to the Berry community and to the public. Lake Victory Camp located in the heart of the Berry campus is available only to Berry students. Berry offers intramural programs with men, women and co-educational games for many sports.
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Student demographics
Berry College has a total of 2,141 undergraduate students with a new student size in 2013 of 789 students. There are 82 graduate students. There is a female ratio of 66:34 men, and 68% of students are citizens. Students come from 33 countries and at least 17 foreign countries.
Academics
Berry College offers Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Science, Master of Business Administration, Master of Education, and Specialist Education degrees from four schools that make up its academic program. It is accredited by the South High School and School Association (SACS) and is a member of the Annapolis Group, an organization of more than 120 national liberal arts colleges.
Undergraduate program
Berry offers a degree in the following schools:
- Campbell School of Business
- School of Education and Human Sciences Draft
- Evans School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
- School of Mathematical Science and Nature
Small titles can be obtained in 36 different courses across four schools. Berry also offers a bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary studies.
Honors Program
The Berry Honors program is an undergraduate program designed to provide qualified students the opportunity to study in an intellectually challenging environment with their peers and professors. The Honors program allows students to take Honors-only classes, Honors classes, and to study abroad in the Honors-only program. During their final year at Berry, Honors students must complete and defend senior theses. After graduation, they receive an Honors degree.
Graduate Program
Berry offers the Master of Arts in Teaching and certification program of Education Specialists at the School of Charter Education and Science of Humanity accredited by the National Council for Teacher Education (NCATE).
Campbell School of Business offers a Master of Business Administration program accredited by the Association for Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).
Academic Support Center
The Academic Support Center is located in the Memorial Library at Berry and is open to all Berry students who need help. It provides free student tutoring services for every student who requests it, and provides academic accommodation for students who have documented disabilities. It also offers time management and counseling learning skills in a one on one setting for Berry students.
Religion
Berry College's mission statement supports "values ​​based on Christian principles." Schools are also involved with Chick Fil-A, a Christian-run business, through the WinShape foundation program. The campus has a priest, four chapels, and a religious-in-life program that actively supports all Christian denominations and religions outside of Christianity. The School recognizes the Student Association for Interreligious Communities, which is a student organization that encourages interfaith dialogue represented on campus.
Athletics
Mascot Berry College is a Viking. Berry competitive team fields in 23 inter-college sports including men and women basketball, soccer, tennis, track & amp; field, lacrosse, swimming and diving, and golf, as well as men's baseball and soccer and women's volleyball, softball and horse riding teams.
Berry College women's basketball team won the second division national championship in 1976.
National Championship : Berry has won three NAIA national championships in women's soccer (1987, 1990 and 1993), a national title in women's basketball (1976), a NAIA national crown in men's golf (1998) , and three IHSA national championships on horseback (2011, 2015, 2016). In addition, Berry's students Michelle Abernathy (marathon, 1999), Caio Soares (the 3,000-meter run race, 2004), Michelle Tuggle (high jump, 1984) and Nicole Wildes (women's golf, 2004) all won their respective national championships, respectively.
The Berry College Board of Directors voted to add football starting in the fall of 2013, with athletic athletics programs being added shortly thereafter. Due to the financial costs and school traditions, the decision to add controversial football and meet with opposition from most of the student body, faculty, and alumni. According to the school newspaper, The Campus Carrier, adding football will not affect the problems associated with equal sporting opportunities under Title IX rules.
A new stadium, known as "Valhalla", has been built on the Berry campus. This facility is used by college football programs, tracks, and lacrosse colleges.
The stadium was originally intended to be built near the Cage Center (see below), but in 2012 a pair of bald eagles set up their nests near the site. They returned and managed to raise chicks in 2013 and 2014. The school moved the stadium's location to a new location away from the eagle, which has become a school symbol. Groundbreaking was held on October 17, 2014, and the stadium has been completed for the 2015 football season.
South Athletics Association
Berry is a founding member of the Southern Athletic Association (SAA), an NCAA Division III conference set up in 2011 and starts playing in the fall of 2012. Other SAA members are Birmingham-Southern College, College College, Hendrix College, Oglethorpe University, Millsaps College, Rhodes College, and Sewanee: The University of the South. University of Chicago and Washington University at St. Louis is a member of SAA affiliate football starting in 2015.
Beginning 2015-16, Berry equips competitive teams in 23 inter-college sports, including soccer, men's and women's basketball, soccer, tennis, cross country, track & amp; field, lacrosse, swimming and diving and golf, as well as men's baseball and women's volleyball, softball, and horseback riding. Berry's inaugural soccer season begins in autumn 2013.
Home Center
The Cage Center is Berry's 131,000 square-foot athletic facility that houses a performance gymnasium, a natatorium with observation seating, fitness center, racquetball court, indoor track and classroom. The Cage was named after Berry College alumnus and trustee Steven Cage, whose $ 10 million donation kicked off the project.
Primary and secondary schools
Berry College Elementary and Middle School is a private school located on the mountain campus of Berry College opposite Frost Chapel. Berry College Elementary School, intended to follow the practice of English enfant schools, was established in 1977. Using the Lilly Foundation Grant, the school was called the Early Learning Center at the Westcott Building and taught kindergarten and first-class students.
In 1988, the school moved its location from Westcott Building to Hamrick Hall, where it is now located. At this time, the age range has been extended to teach children up to fifth grade. Since 2002, he has enrolled students up to eighth grade. A year later, the older students were moved from Hamrick Hall to the newly constructed Cook Building on Main Campus to form their own separate secondary school.
A series of reunion events was held for former students, parents, teachers and directors in 2007 for thirty year anniversaries.
The names of schools have recently been merged into one, Berry College Elementary and Middle School.
Currently, the school is home to 129 primary and secondary school students with the ratio of teachers and students 1:12. During the 180 days of the school year, students attend classes for seven hours compared to six normal for other elementary schools in the area.
The Middle Schoolers are also known annually producing short films, with eighth grade students receiving the "Martha" award for their achievements. The project is headed by art teacher Claire Howard and technology specialist Mark Hannah.
Work program
The work program of Berry College students ensures that every student gets a job on campus for those interested in participating. The work program is based on the original idea of ​​the school formed around. The founder, Martha Berry, will educate the local children for free if they will work around the campus. It continues to help offset college tuition to this day. The program creates opportunities for real-world work experience to build their resume and apply their particular academic interests. Students are paid based on the level (1-5) they work for. Level 1 workers usually just start their jobs and are paid a minimum wage. As students rise in experience and leadership, they level up and get paid a little more with each level. Students can not work more than 16 hours a week.
Movies and TV
Berry College has been used as a site for the filming of several films, in addition to music videos by bands such as Casting Crowns. The most famous films are Remember the Titans and Sweet Home Alabama . Disney's Perfect Harmony (1991) was filmed almost entirely on campus in buildings such as Oak Hill, Frost Chapel, Old Mill, and the Ford Buildings. A short scene from the Netherlands was filmed on the Berry campus. In addition, the scene for the new series, The Following, starring Kevin Bacon, was filmed here. In the Constantine television series, Ford Buildings and Old Mill were used as a setting for Ravenscar Asylum and Constantine's hideout, respectively.
See also
References
External links
- Official website
- Berry College Athletics website
- History marker:
- Berry College
- Old School Berry Factory
- Original Cab
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