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King's College (Latin: Collegium Christi Regis)
Motto"Oportet Eum Regnare" (It Is Fitting that He Should Reign)
TypePrivate,
Established1946
PresidentThe Rev. Father Thomas O'Hara, C.S.C. '71
Undergraduates2,060 [1]
Postgraduates163
Location
Wilkes-Barre
,
PA
,
USA
CampusUrban
ColorsRed and Gold
AffiliationsRoman Catholic Church, Congregation of Holy Cross
MascotMonarchs
Websitehttp://www.kings.edu/
For other uses, see King's College.

King's College is a highly-ranked Roman Catholic, private liberal arts college, located in downtown Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The total student enrollment is approximately 2,400. The college is administered by priests and brothers from the Congregation of Holy Cross, who are the founders of the University of Notre Dame, Stonehill College, and several other Catholic colleges in the United States. The college's current President is the Rev. Thomas J. O'Hara, C.S.C. '71. Fr. O'Hara is the first King's alumnus to serve as its president.

The college offers baccalaureate degrees in the basic arts and sciences, business, and several specialized fields such as physician assistant and gerontology. Master degree programs are offered in education and health care.

All students are required to complete a number of core courses, the CORE curriculum. The courses are designed so that all students, no matter what their major, obtain the basic skills of critical thinking, effective writing, effective oral communication, library and information literacy, computer competence, creative thinking and problem solving, quantitative reasoning, and moral reasoning.

King's recently achieved accreditation status for the McGowan School of Business and is seeking accreditation in the education departments.

History

The College of Christ the King (Collegium Christi Regis) was founded in 1946; it was initially built with the hope that the sons of the many miners that lived in the Northeastern Pennsylvania region would attend, as well as war veterans who could take advantage of the new GI Bill. The school is located on the Susquehanna River in Wilkes-Barre; Tropical Storm Agnes affected the college as it did most of the rest of the city of Wilkes-Barre. A marker in front of the student center exists to show how high the flood waters from the storm went, almost going up to many student's waists. The college has always been a relatively small liberal arts school, but has expanded tremendously in the last two decades. Recently, a court was added in the middle of campus, which had previously been a street that divided the campus in half. Recently, King's and neighboring school Wilkes University joined in an effort to bring a downtown bookstore to Wilkes-Barre to help revitalize the city. King's has made many efforts recently to purchase abandoned buildings off-campus to try and turn them into commercial or residential properties, with the help of private investors.

Sports

King's College has a somewhat diverse athletic program, with all of its teams playing at NCAA Division III level. The college's athletic nickname is the Monarchs (Monarch Lions is the official title). The two biggest programs are the basketball and football programs. The football program over it's 20 year history has had 5 All-Americans '00 - '01 Rob Johnston and Three Time All-American Jason Sharer '00-02, though the baseball team is coming off of a division championship and a berth =and the men's team went to the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament 2004-2005. All King's sports teams compete in the Middle Atlantic Corporation, better known as the MAC or Middle Atlantic Conference. Radio coverage by WRKC is usually given to the basketball and football games, but also sometimes baseball. Local newspaper coverage for Monarchs sports is usually provided by the Citizen's Voice and The Times Leader. The Lady Monarchs softball team has also won MAC championships 6 consecutive years in a row.

Media

King's College has a student-run radio station, "Radio King's College" WRKC. According to radio-locator.com, the signal fringes out to Scranton, Pennsylvania to the north and Shickshinny to the south. The station is completely student-run except for the general manager. WRKC is well known for playing bands before commercial stations discover them, such as U2. WRKC was the first station to play them in Northeastern Pennsylvania. WRKC primarily plays indie and punk music, but allows students to play their own music during their shows as well, as long as it is not mainstream music.

King's has a student newspaper called The Crown that is published every other Tuesday during the school year. King's literary magazine The Scop, which is Old English for poet, is published twice a year and accepts both written and visual submissions from current students and alumni. Both The Scop and The Crown have been recognized by the American Scholastic Press Association, winning first-place honors among small colleges several times over.

The college, which recently started a Mass Communications Media Club in the fall semester of 2005, has a closed-circuit campus television station, KCTV 10, which sporadically airs shows such as a talk show ("King's Live"), basketball games, news shows and sports shows.

Famous Students

  • James Caviezel, American actor, received an honorary degree from King's on May 18th 2003.[2]
  • Wolf Blitzer, CNN, possesses an honorary degree from King's College. [3] Blitzer once served as the commencement speaker at King's College's graduation.
  • Santo Loquasto, Broadway set and costume designer, is a King's graduate. [4]
  • Timothy J. Barberich, founder of Sepracor, the company that produces the drug Lunesta. [5] [6]
  • Judith Andrejko, New Jersey State Deputy attorney General, is a 1996 graduate of King's College. [7]
  • Travis Sparks, radio and television personality.
  • Ray Musto, Pennsylvania state senator, is a 1971 King's College graduate.
  • Thomas M. Leighton, Wilkes-Barre Mayor
  • Frank G. Harrison, former United Stats Congressman

References

  1. ^ Pennsylvania Mentor - King's College
  2. ^ [1]
  3. ^ CNN Programs - Anchors/Reporters - Wolf Blitzer
  4. ^ IMDB: Biography for Santo Loquasto
  5. ^ Sepracor - About Sepracor
  6. ^ Gemin X - Board of Directors
  7. ^ King's College Honors Atty. Judity Andrejko For Professional Achievement
  8. ^ The McGowan Vision - The McGowan Fund
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