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The Westminster Department of Athletics is one of the most successful small college athletic programs in the nation. Success stories include the six-time national champion football team and the men's basketball program, one of the winningest programs in college basketball history. The Titan Athletic Department sponsors 16 varsity sports for men and women: baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, football, men's golf, men's and women's soccer, softball, men's and women's swimming, men's and women's tennis, track & field and volleyball. Teams compete in some of the top athletic facilities anywhere, including the newly-renovated Memorial Field House (featuring a state-of-the-art physical fitness center) and Harold Burry Stadium, which was ... recently renovated and will also be the site of a new track complex in the next two years. Club sports and intramurals are also available for the entire student body.
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More than 95 percent of freshmen at Westminster receive some form of financial aid, averaging $17,773 each year per student. Aid programs include need-based institutional grants and need-based federal aid programs such as grants, loans, and employment (Federal Work-Study Program). The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is the only form required for new students seeking financial aid. Students wishing to apply for federal aid programs should plan to submit applications by early April. Merit-based scholarships are available to incoming freshmen and transfer students as well as to continuing students through a generous endowment and institutional aid programs. Every full-time student is automatically considered for merit-based scholarships awarded by the College.
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Students in Westminster College’s Broadcast Communications 251-Video Production presented a showcase of mini-movies Dec. 4 in the Sebastian Mueller Theater in McKelvey Campus Center. Students in the class were assigned several group projects, including a 30-second movie filmed on a cell phone and a two-minute-or-less mini-movie shot with video equipment. Requirements for each project were the same: Students were free to choose the genre, and had to follow the protocol of pre-production, production, and post-production. In addition, students secured personal releases for all people appearing in the movies.”Not all of the students in this class are broadcast communications majors or minors,” said Bradley Weaver, Westminster instructor of broadcast communications. “Even if they never go into this field professionally, they will have the basic skills to produce a professional video. They have learned the importance of shooting close-ups, how to avoid shaking and zooming video, and most important, they know how to tell a story.” Ryan Hitchcock, a sophomore broadcast communications major from Erie, said, “Our group brainstormed ideas and agreed on what we all thought would work for the topic.
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Not all applicants to Westminster College are accepted. The top quarter of students at the school scored at least 630 on the verbal SAT test. Students' math SAT scores were most often in the range 470 to 600 in 2005.
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Westminster offers 35 undergraduate majors and 10 graduate degrees. It offers graduate degrees: Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration in Technology Management (MBATM), Professional Bachelor of Business Administration (PBBA), Master of Science in Technology Commercialization (MSTC), Master of Education (MEd), Master of Science in Nursing (MSN), and Master of Professional Communication (MPC). Westminster College recently launched a new program within the Gore School of business focusing on training students to be entrepreneurs. The Center for New Enterprise will offer graduate and undergraduate degrees as well as community education programs in entrepreneurship. Recently, Westminster College became one of the first colleges in the west to create an academic program specifically in paleontology.
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Westminster College’s Office of Diversity Services will sponsor the third annual International Festival Wednesday, Dec. 5, in the McKelvey Campus Center. The campus event is a celebration of diversity and cultures of the world, as well as the diversity of the Westminster community. Westminster community members will bring dishes representing their ethnic heritage and have opportunities to experience other cultures. The planning committee includes Jeannette Hubbard, director of the Office of Diversity Services; Dr. Sherri Pataki, Westminster assistant professor of psychology and coordinator of the Peace Studies program; Angela Duckett, a senior political science major from Youngstown, Ohio, representing the Black Student Union; and Jelena Gerga, a senior international politics major from Lakewood, Ohio, and president of the International Cultures Club.
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