Ted Strickland

Asbury University, formerly Asbury College, is a Christian liberal arts institution located in Wilmore, Kentucky. Although it is a nondenominational school, the college's foundation stems from a Wesleyan-Holiness tradition. The school offers 50 majors across 17 departments. Primarily a four-year... college, Asbury was ranked in the third tier of liberal arts colleges by U.S. News & World Report in 2008. Asbury University's freshman retention rate is above 85 percent. Approximately 34 percent of incoming freshmen are in the top 10 percent of their high school classes, and more than 80 percent of current faculty are full-time. The campus of Asbury Theological Seminary, which became a separate institution in 1940, is located across the street from Asbury University. Asbury University is a member of the Christian College Consortium and the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. In the fall of 2009, Asbury University had a total enrollment of 1,613: 1,313 traditional undergraduate students, 162 adult degree completion students, and 138 graduate students. Asbury College was established in 1890 by John Wesley Hughes in Wilmore, Kentucky.
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Asbury Theological Seminary is an evangelical, interdenominational, graduate institution that offers a variety of master degree and postgraduate degree programs through the schools of Biblical Interpretation and Proclamation, Theology and Formation, Practical Theology, World Missions and... Evangelism, and Postgraduate Studies. The main campus is located in Wilmore, Kentucky, near Lexington. Asbury Theological Seminary is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada . In addition, the Seminary is approved by The University Senate of The United Methodist Church. Asbury Theological Seminary was founded in Wilmore, Kentucky in 1923 by its first president, Henry Clay Morrison, who was at the time the president of Asbury College. In 1940, Asbury Seminary separated from the college in order to satisfy accreditation requirements. Because of the proximity of the two schools , similar name, and common theological heritage, many people confuse the relationship between the College and the Seminary.
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