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22-August-1996 
 
 
96299                      College News 
 
                         by Julian Shipp 
 
RALEIGH, N.C.--Peace College's new baccalaureate program has been granted 
unqualified accreditation by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern 
Association of Colleges and Schools.  Accreditation of degree programs is 
granted (or denied) solely on a long and extremely comprehensive self-study 
and close scrutiny by a team of visitors selected from peer institutions by 
the Commission on Colleges. "Only those who have experienced the 
accreditation process can fully appreciate what a long and arduous task it 
is,"said Dr. Garrett Briggs, Peace College president. "Receipt of 
unqualified approval on this first effort is a tribute to the years of hard 
work and planning by the college's faculty and staff." 
      
MARYVILLE, Tenn.--The National Science Foundation has awarded Maryville 
College a $13,875 matching grant. With the funds from the grant, the 
college's division of natural sciences will be able to enhance the 
educational opportunities for students in its chemistry and life sciences 
programs. The upgrade will also allow students to conduct laboratory 
spectroscopic experiments that are currently not available to them. 
 
MONTREAT, N.C.--Darin Chaplain, Montreat College baseball coach, was voted 
Mid-South Region 8 "Coach of the Year" by his peers in the North Carolina, 
Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia region. Chaplain was 
recognized for his outstanding success with the baseball team over the past 
four years, when the Cavaliers moved up from the junior college status and 
joined the Tennessee Virginia Athletic Conference and the National 
Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. The Cavaliers won the TVAC 
baseball title this year with a 15-3 conference record, finishing 35-22 
overall. Monreat missed the conference crown by a half-game in 1995. 
 
MONMOUTH, Ill.--Monmouth College has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the 
Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust of Muscatine, Iowa, to enhance information 
technology and use all across campus. The grant will be used to expand the 
fiberoptic computer network the college installed earlier this year, build 
a new computerized classroom, and train faculty members to develop 
innovative teaching methods that use computers in their own classrooms. 
 
LAURINBURG, N.C.--Susan Wentz has been named director of alumni affairs at 
St. Andrews Presbyterian College. A 15-year veteran of St. Andrews, Wentz 
originally came to the college as an administrative assistant. Through the 
years, she gained experience in church and alumni relations and most 
recently served as director of special events. She also has been director 
of the SAILL Program (St.  Andrews Institute for Lifelong Learning) since 
its inception in 1992. 
 
BLOOMFIELD, N.J.--The Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation has awarded 
Bloomfield College two grants totaling $42,000 for the 1996-97 academic 
year: $22,000 in support of Newcombe Scholarships for Mature Women Students 
and $20,000 for Newcombe Scholarships at Presbyterian colleges. These 
grants bring the cumulative total awarded by the foundation to the college 
in 16 years of funding to $647,000. 

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