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Marietta College ( MC) is a liberal arts college in Marietta, Ohio, United States. Its campus encompasses approximately six city blocks next to downtown Marietta and enrolls 1,200 students.


History
Marietta College began as the Muskingum Academy in 1797, which was the birth of higher education in Ohio. In April 1797, which was only nine years after Ohio had been settled, a committee of Marietta citizens, led by General (the "Father of Ohio"), met to establish a college. The Muskingum Academy, completed late that year, became the first institution of its kind in the Northwest Territory, providing "classical instruction ... in the higher branches of an English education." Its first instructor was David Putnam, a 1793 Yale graduate.Hubbard, Robert Ernest. General Rufus Putnam: George Washington's Chief Military Engineer and the "Father of Ohio," pp. 156, 187, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina. .Hildreth, Samuel Prescott. Memoirs of the Early Pioneer Settlers of Ohio, p. 82, Badgley Publishing Company, 2011. .

The academy eventually evolved into a college, initially chartered as the Marietta Collegiate Institute and Western Teachers' Seminary on January 16, 1833. However, this institution lacked the critical authority to grant degrees, so a wholly new charter was approved two years later, bringing the renamed Marietta College into existence on January 16, 1835. The former Muskingum Academy was continued as the Marietta College College Preparatory Department until its elimination in 1913.


College presidents
+Presidents of Marietta College !Tenure !Name
1835-1846Joel H. Linsley
1846-1855Henry Smith
1855-1885Israel Ward Andrews
1885-1891John Eaton
1892-1896John Wilson Simpson
1900-1912Alfred Tyler Perry
1913-1918George Wheeler Hinman
1919-1936Edward Smith Parsons
1937-1942Harry Kelso Eversull
1942-1945Draper Talman Schoonover
1945-1947William Allison Shimer
1948-1963William Bay Irvine
1963-1973Frank Edward Duddy
1973-1989Sherrill Cleland
1989-1995Patrick McDonough
1995-2000Larry Wilson
2000-2012Jean Scott
2012-2016Joseph W. Bruno
2016-2023
2023-2024Margaret Drugovich (interim)
2025-Kathleen Poorman Dougherty


Academics
Marietta College is a Phi Beta Kappa liberal arts institution, requiring students to complete courses in Quantitative Reasoning, Artistic Expression, Civilization & Culture, Social Analysis, and Scientific Inquiry regardless of their major track. Additionally, students are required to have a secondary academic concentration, complete an out-of-classroom education experience, and achieve proficiency in a second language.

There are three honors tracks: curriculum honors, research honors, and college honors. The curriculum honors track provides a course of study for accomplished students. The research honors designation varies across disciplines but typically involves the writing and defense of a thesis. When a student completes the honors curriculum and successfully defends an honors thesis, they achieve college honors status.

The McDonough Center for Leadership and Business at Marietta College started in 1986 with a $5.5 million gift from the Bernard P. McDonough family. With an inaugural cohort of 28 students, the center originally only offered a Certificate in Leadership Studies. The center today offers a bachelor's degree in International Leadership Studies, a minor, and a Certificate in Leadership Studies. There is also the Teacher Leadership Certificate (TLC), an academic program designed for students pursuing careers in education.

Marietta College maintains a partnership with the University of International Relations, a university with ties to the Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China.

(2017). 9781627796361, Henry Holt and Company.
- Https://books.google.com/books?id=4AFsDgAAQBAJ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> Google Books profile - Pages 86- 87 explicitly say there is a "partnership".


Reputation and rankings
In 2021, Marietta was included in national rankings by U.S. News & World Report as #3 for Best Value Schools and #8 for Regional Colleges in the Midwest. College Factual ranked Marietta #20 out of 80 Ohio schools. In 2024, Washington Monthly ranked Marietta 32nd among 223 colleges that award almost exclusively bachelor's degrees in the U.S. based on its contribution to the public good, as measured by social mobility, research, and promoting public service.


Student life
There are several national and international fraternities and sororities on campus. Students attending Marietta College have the opportunity to qualify for any of 23 honor societies.


Athletics
Marietta College is a member of the NCAA Division III and the Ohio Athletic Conference, a 10-team collegiate conference founded in 1902 and the third-oldest in the nation. The Pioneers compete in 22 varsity sports, including teams in , baseball, basketball, football, women's volleyball, track & field, cross country, tennis, soccer, and softball. They added men's and women's golf to the athletic department for the 2017 season and lacrosse in 2018.

Marietta's baseball team has won six national championships, and an NCAA Division III record: in 1981, 1983, 1986, 2006, 2011, and 2012. The first three were under coach , who died on March 9, 2005; the three most recent have been under coach Brian Brewer. By repeating as the national champions in 2011 and 2012 the Pioneers became the first team to do that in NCAA Division III play since the won back-to-back championships in 1978 and 1979. Five former Pioneer baseball players—, , Jim Tracy, and —have reached the Major League level.

The crew program competes at the annual Dad Vail Regatta each spring in both men's and women's events, and earned a gold medal in the Men's Varsity Eight in 2006, and gold medals in the Women's Varsity Eight in 2011, 2012, and 2014. Alumni include two-time Olympian and CEO of Boathouse Sports, John Strotbeck Jr., and 2003 World Championship silver medalist in the USA Lightweight Eight, Andrew Bolton.


Broadcasts
Marietta sporting events are often broadcast on , , and WCMO-TV, the college's radio and television stations. All of the football games are broadcast on WMRT. Home football, volleyball, soccer, basketball, softball, and baseball games are all carried on the Marietta College radio network. The baseball games are also carried on , a commercial AM station in Marietta. WMRT and WCMO broadcasts are all produced and called entirely by students, many of whom are Mass Media students.


Notable alumni
Alumni of Marietta College are collectively known as the "Long Blue Line".


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