Indiana Wesleyan University history

The French Club was formed by students at Marion College (now Indiana Wesleyan University). The club later changed its name to the French-Spanish Club in 1931.

Even before graduating from Marion College in 1939, Doctor Jackson was teaching in local schools.

Marjorie Elder was elected as the first female student body president of Marion College (now Indiana Wesleyan University) in the year 1944.

In 1945, the Holiness Bible Institute opened under the auspices of the Reformed Baptist Church in Woodstock, New Brunswick, moving two years later to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

In 1968, after the merger of the Wesleyan Methodist and Pilgrim Holiness Churches, Bartlesville Wesleyan College was established.

See: A Vine of God's Own Planting: a history of Houghton College from its beginnings through 1972 bu Richard L. Wing.

Bartlesville Wesleyan College, 1980.

The LEAP (Leadership Education for the Adult Professional) program at Marion College (now Indiana Wesleyan University) was established in 1985.

Barbara Faulkner-Roach, director of the Marion Black Community Chorus that performed on the Marion campus in February of 1991, established the Grant County Minority Scholarship to encourage minority students in Grant County to further their education at IWU.

Carlblom said the Jackson Library, which opened in 2003, was built with two main features in mind.

In 2007, Bishop Sheard was inducted into the Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is the largest private educational institution in the state of Indiana as well as the largest school in the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) and just recently (2009) opened a seminary.

As of 2011’s fall semester, IWU’s Marion campus had 3,274 students.

The Military Chaplain’s Endowed Scholarship Fund was established in 2012 by Richard and Elinore Bareiss.

In January 2014, Indiana Wesleyan University held its first Martin Luther King gospel concert.

Chapel Service held in January of 2016.

A newly created role, Director of Military and Veteran Recruitment, was created by IWU and filled with the hiring of Kenneth (KC) Haight in June of 2017.

Spring of 2018 brought the first annual gathering celebrating Women’s History Month on the IWU campus.

Author, essayist and adventurer, Doctor Rich Benjamin was the guest speaker at the 2019 Martin Luther King Jr.

The Chicago Mass Choir, featured guests of the 2020 MLK Celebration Concert, reminded us He is God “in a weary land”. Once again, the MLK Celebration Concert brought together not just the IWU community but the surrounding communities as well.