Mission

Whitworth, founded in 1890, is a private, residential, liberal-arts institution affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA). Whitworth's mission is to provide its diverse student body an education of the mind and heart, equipping its graduates to honor God, follow Christ, and serve humanity. Whitworth's community of teacher-scholars is committed to rigorous and open intellectual inquiry and to the integration of Christian faith and learning.

Students

Enrollment (2007-08)

• Undergraduate: 2,331
• Graduate: 276

Under-Represented Ethnic Enrollment (2007-08)

• Undergraduate: 14.2 percent

Six-Year Graduation Rate (2007-08)

• 74.2 percent of first-time, full-time students enrolled in fall 2001 graduated within six years.

Freshman-to-Sophomore Retention Rate (2007-08)

• 86.8 percent

Selected Recent Graduate School Placements

Azusa Pacific University
Baylor University School of Law,
Brown University
California Institute of Technology
Case Western Reserve University
Chaminade University
Charles University Seminary, Prague
Columbia University
Dominican University
Duke University Divinity School
Eastern Washington University
Fuller Theological Seminary
Harvard University Law School,
Harvard University Medical School
Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Northwestern University
Old Dominion University
Oregon Health & Science University
Oregon State University
The Pennsylvania State University
Princeton Theological Seminary
The Ohio State University
Seattle Pacific University
State University of New York at Stonybrook
University of Arizona
University of California/Berkeley
University of Colorado
University of Hawaii
University of Massachusetts
University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill
University of Notre Dame
University of Oregon
University of Pennsylvania
University of Rochester
University of San Diego
University of Texas Southwest Medical Center
University of Washington School of Medicine
Vanderbilt University
Washington State University
Western Washington University
Whitworth University

Class of 2011 profile

• Total freshman applications: 5,058
• Enrollment: 533 students
• Average SAT score for math, critical reading and writing sections: 1811
• Average GPA: 3.7
• Gender ratio: 56 percent female, 44 percent male
• Non-Caucasian enrollment: 14.2 percent

Student Life

• Residence halls and/or on-campus houses/apartments: 29, accommodating 1,204 students. Whitworth has a two-year residency requirement.
• Student clubs and organizations: Whitworth has more than 30 student clubs, ranging from Amnesty International to the Hawaiian Club.

Recent Student Highlights

• Ben Spaun, '08, was selected from 1,110 top math, science and engineering students nationwide to receive a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for 2007-08. Spaun was among 317 Goldwater Scholars selected on the basis of academic merit to receive one- and two-year scholarships of up to $7,500 per year. Spaun's one-year award will help pay his tuition during his senior year at Whitworth. He joins Ashley Gibbs, '07, and Caleb Hug, '04, who received the Goldwater Scholarship in 2005 and 2003, respectively.
  
  
• Whitworth's 2008 President's Cup winners (for maintaining a 4.0 GPA throughout their college careers) are Nathanael Ankeny, Kyle Bedell, Evan Cate, Scott Donnell, Derek Taylor, Mary Trotter and Kristin Watts.
  
  
• Tim Coughlin, '08, won the top monetary prize in Gonzaga University's 2007-08 Hogan Entrepreneurial Leadership Program Business Plan Competition. Coughlin, a business-management and marketing major, won $10,000 for his company, Buysellfix.com, a repair and refurbishing service for handheld electronics.
  
  
• Leah Hartanov and Travis Hartanov, both '08, won the Best Idea Prize at the University of Washington's Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Business Plan Competition. Their business, Krochet Kids International, employs African women to make crocheted hats and accessories for import to the U.S.
  
  
• Five Whitworth teams won more than half of the $42,500 total cash awards in Gonzaga University's 2007 Hogan Entrepreneurial Leadership Program Business Plan Competition. The competition is the largest of its kind in the Inland Northwest. Whitworth's Daniel Belko, '07, and Lewis Turner, '08, took home the $7,500 Avista Social Impact Award for their business plan for a nonprofit bike shop run by and for at-risk teenagers. In the social-enterprise category, Tim Coughlin and Sean Thompson, both '08, won $3,500 for second place. In the community-based category, second place ($3,500) went to Darien Brown, '06, Brennen McQuerry, '07, and Margi Begalka (Gonzaga). And in the student-generated category, Emilie Olson, '08, and Dustin Smith, '08, won the $5,000 second prize.
  
  
• Leah Silvieus and Lindsey Kiehn, both '07, were selected to the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Program, which places young Americans as English teachers in middle and high schools throughout Korea. Silvieus, an English major whose 4.0 GPA earned her a 2007 President's Cup, and Kiehn, who earned a 3.91 GPA in her triple major (international studies, French and cross-cultural studies), will join 53 other ETAs in Korea for intensive training and language-immersion orientation. They will be in Korea through the 2007-08 academic year.
  
  
• Trombonist Greg Hoff, '07, earned a gold medal in the Young Artist Brass Division at the 2006 Musicfest Northwest competition at Gonzaga University. The festival, now in its 61st year, draws participants from throughout the country. Hoff, who played lead trombone with the Whitworth Jazz Ensemble, earned a Musicfest Northwest Scholarship and was invited to perform as a soloist with the Spokane Symphony Orchestra.
  
  
• In 2007, The Whitworthian, Whitworth's student newspaper, won the top award in the Excellence in Journalism competition held by the Inland Northwest Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. The paper placed first in the general excellence category, competing with periodicals from Washington State University, Gonzaga University, Eastern Washington University, and North Idaho College. Whitworth also won awards in arts criticism (Dani King, '10), investigative reporting, (Jessica Davis, '08 ), government and politics (Davis and Jamie Evans, '06 ), features (Joy Bacon, '09 ), editorial cartooning (Diana Painter and Peter Smelser, both '07 ), and photo-page photography (Thomas Robinson, '09 ).
  
  
• Bethany Monroe, '06, was honored with a scholarship from the Washington National Press Association Foundation.  The Jim and Kay Flaherty Intern Scholarship includes a stipend and a summer internship at a WNPA-affiliated newspaper.  A journalism/mass-communication major at Whitworth, Monroe is currently a part-time features reporter at Spokane's The Spokesman-Review.  Her future plans include newspaper work as a feature or news reporter.
  
  
• Lisa Trefts and Sara Tanzi-Dunham, both '07 MIM, were selected for academic internships in the 2006 Graduate Study Programme at the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland. The students' appointments to the highly competitive program follow those of the Master of International Management Program's Randall Johanson, who participated in 2005, Jolene Piccolo, '04, and Mike Jazskowiak, '03.
  
  
• Samantha Kephart, '08, brought two NCAA Division III national championships to Whitworth in spring 2006.  Kephart, from Santa Maria, Calif., won the 100- and 200-meter butterfly races at the DIII national meet at the University of Minnesota, shattering her own NCAA record in the 200 and beating the defending national champion by more than five seconds.
  
  
• Leah Silvieus and Benjamin Tkach are Whitworth's 2007 President's Cup winners.  The President's Cup is Whitworth's highest academic award, given to graduating seniors who have maintained a perfect 4.0 average throughout their four years at Whitworth.

Faculty

Full-Time Faculty: 133
Student-Faculty Ratio: 12-to-1

Recent Faculty Highlights

• Associate Professor of English Laurie Lamon, '78, was chosen by U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall as one of two new voices in poetry to receive 2007 Witter Bynner Fellowships. Newspaperman David Tucker was the other honoree. Hall awarded the prizes to Lamon and Tucker in March 2007 at the Library of Congress, and the two poets read from their works during the awards ceremony. Each received a $10,000 fellowship provided by the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry in conjunction with the Library of Congress. Lamon, whom Hall characterizes as "an exquisite writer of lyrics, writing a musical poetry that is delicate and pure," recently published her debut poetry collection, The Fork Without Hunger (CavanKerryPress, 2005).
  
  
• Associate Professor of Kinesiology & Athletics Russ Richardson, who also directs Whitworth’s Athletic Training Education Program, received the Washington State Athletic Trainers Association 2007 Excellence in Service Award, as well as the Northwest Athletic Trainers Association Outstanding Service Award. Richardson received the first award in recognition of his co-authoring a bill that would regulate the practice of athletic training and moving that bill through the Washington State Legislature. He was also recognized for his efforts to develop the Alaska Athletic Trainers Association and for his service to NATA District 10 through various leadership roles.
  
  
• Math and Computer Science Professor Susan Mabry has been awarded two National Science Foundation grants to research and develop intelligent software agents for complex medical environments and recently published a book titled Intelligent Agents for Patient Monitoring and Diagnostics.
  
  
• Is Jesus the Only Savior? (Eerdmans, 2005), by Whitworth Theology Professor James Edwards, '67, was selected Best Book of 2006 in the "Apologetics/Evangelism" category by Christianity Today magazine. Edwards, who serves as chair of the Whitworth Theology Department, is also an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the author of The Divine Intruder (NavPress, 2000) and commentaries on the biblical books of Hebrews, Romans, and the Gospel of Mark.
  
  
• The second edition of Whitworth Assistant Professor of Communication Studies Alan Mikkelson's book about the relationship between biology and communication was published by Thomson Learning in April 2007. Mikkelson co-authored the second edition of The Biology of Human Communication: Issues and Applications with Kory Floyd, of Arizona State University, and 2003 Whitworth alumnus and communication-studies major Colin Hesse, who is now a first-year Ph.D. student at Arizona State University.
  
  
• Associate Professor of Theology Keith Beebe received a 2006 Graves Award in the Humanities from the American Council of Learned Societies. The award, presented for exemplary skill and enthusiasm in the classroom and for faculty research that enhances students' educational experience, allowed Beebe to travel to Scotland to work on the McCullough Manuscripts (1742), comprising 108 first-person conversion narratives from the Scottish Great Awakening.
  
  
• A recent $115,000 National Science Foundation grant is the ninth external grant that Associate Professor of Physics Richard Stevens has received to fund his research using laser spectroscopy to examine physical phenomenon related to spacecraft propulsion. Stevens is among a select group contracted under NASA's electric propulsion research program to study the new thruster technology.
  
  
• Whitworth Professor of Political Science Julia Stronks directs Whitworth's initiative to serve homeless youth in Spokane and the Lives of Commitment Program, funded by a $1 million grant from the M. J. Murdock Foundation. She is the author of the books Law, Religion and Public Policy: A Commentary on First Amendment Jurisprudence (Lexington Books, 2002) and Christian Teachers in Public Schools (Baker Books, 2000).
  
  
• Professor of Theology Gerald Sittser was named 2005 Gold Medallion Book Award winner for his book When God Doesn't Answer Your Prayer. The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association awards the prize in recognition of Christian books that meet the association's highest criteria for excellence in content, literary, quality, design and significance. Sittser is the author of a number of popular Christian books, including The Will of God as a Way of Life, Loving Across Our Differences, and A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss.

Academics

In U.S. News' 2008 rankings, Whitworth is No. 3 on the "best values" list and No. 9 on the "best colleges and universities" list among master's-level universities in the West.

Undergraduate Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
• Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
• Bachelor of Liberal Studies (B.L.S.)

Graduate Degrees

• Master of Arts in Teaching
• Master of Business Administration
• Master of Education
• Master of International Management
• Master in Teaching

Academic departments and programs

• Art
  • Art: Drawing/Painting and Printmaking, Graphic Design or Three Dimensional (Ceramics, Sculpture, Mixed Media) track
  • Art History
  • Arts Administration
  • Community Arts
    
    
• Biology
  • Biology (B.A. and B.S.)
    
    
• Chemistry (B.A. and B.S.)
  • Chemistry: Biochemistry or Physical Chemistry track
    
    
• Communication Studies
  • Communication
  • Journalism and Mass Communication
  • Speech Communication
  • Visual Communication
    
    
• Education
  • Elementary Education
  • English as a Second Language
  • Secondary Education
  • Special Education
    
    
• English
  • English: Literature or Writing track
  • English/Language Arts
  • Medieval and Early Modern Studies
    
    
• Global Commerce & Management
  • Accounting
  • Business Management
  • Economics
  • General Business
  • International Business
  • Marketing
    
    
• History
  • American Studies
  • History: Liberal Arts and Professional Degrees or Teaching (History and Social Studies) track
  • Cross-Cultural Studies
  • International Studies
  • Public History
    
    
• Kinesiology & Athletics
  • Athletic Coaching
  • Athletic Training
  • Health, Fitness, and Physical Education
  • Physical Education
    
    
• Leadership Studies
  
  
• Mathematics & Computer Science
  • Computer Science (B.A. and B.S.)
  • Mathematics (B.A. and B.S.)
  • Mathematical Economics
  • Information Technology
    
    
• Modern Languages
  • French: French and Francophone Studies or French Education track
  • German
  • Spanish: Language and Literature or Spanish Education Track
    
    
• Music
  • Arts Administration
  • Music: Composition, Instrumental Performance, Jazz Performance, Music Business, Music Ministry, Piano Pedagogy, Piano Performance or Voice Performance track
  • Music Education: Choral and/or Instrumental track
    
    
• Nursing (B.S.)
  
  
• Physics (B.A. and B.S.)
  • Applied Physics
  • Biophysics (B.S.): Mathematical Methods or Biochemistry option
  • Dual Degree Pre-Engineering Transfer Program
  • Engineering Physics (B.S.)
    
    
• Political Science
  • Community Engagement in Transformation
  • Cross-Cultural Studies
  • International Studies
  • Peace Studies
    
    
• Pre-Professional Programs
  • Pre-Dentistry
  • Pre-Law
  • Pre-Medicine
  • Pre-Med Tech
  • Pre-Pharmacy
  • Pre-Physical Therapy
  • Pre-Veterinary
    
    
• Psychology
  
  
• Sociology
  • Sociology: Social and Cultural Analysis, Social Service and Community Action or Criminal Justice track
    
    
• Theatre
  • Theatre: General, Community-Based Theatre, Performance, or Technical Theatre track
  • Theatre Dance
    
    
• Theology & Philosophy
  • Biblical Languages
  • Philosophy
  • Theology
    
• Women's Studies
  

Alumni

Total Whitworth Alumni: 24,158

Most Recent Alumni Award Winners

• Distinguished Alumnus Award: Richard Cizik, '73
  Cizik, named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2008, was a political studies major at Whitworth who made his first venture into Washington, D.C., in 1980, as a foot soldier for the Moral Majority. He then attended George Washington University School of Public and International Affairs, studied in Asia, and graduated from Denver Seminary. Cizik serves today as vice president of governmental affairs with the National Association of Evangelicals, which represents 30 million American Christians and more than 50 denominations. Among his duties, he helps set NAE policy on national issues before Congress, the Supreme Court and the White House.
  
  Recognized in national magazines for his faith-based politics and his role in the biblically inspired creation-care movement, Cizik considers it his Christian duty to help the evangelical world broaden its political scope to include a more comprehensive and biblical picture of activism.
  
  Click here to read more about Richard Cizik in the Fall '07 issue of Whitworth Today. The article includes links to other pertinent information about Cizik, as well.
  
  
• Alumni Service to Whitworth Award: Ruth Gothenquist, '44
  Gothenquist has used her talent and experience in architectural and technical illustration to serve her alma mater for more than 20 years. She has provided the university with beautiful drawings of prominent campus buildings for use as notecards, donor thank-yous and even T-shirt and sweatshirt designs. Several pieces of her art are also featured in Whitworth's permanent collection.
  
  
• Alumni Mind & Heart Award: John Owen, '83
  Owen, who served in the Coast Guard for 10 years and then attended Kentucky's Louisville Seminary, is 3rd Battalion chaplain at the U.S. Naval Academy, in Annapolis, Md. As chaplain, his primary job is to care for the spiritual needs of the academy's midshipmen and faculty. Before moving into this position, Owen served on the U.S. Navy hospital ship Mercy, which assisted witH recovery efforts in Indonesia following the 2004 earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands. Owen says that Whitworth -- and especially former chaplain Ron Frase (who is now Owen's father-in-law) laid the groundwork for his faith development and for the path he has taken since graduation.
  
  
• Recent Alumna Award: Jena Lee, '04
  While a student at Whitworth, Lee focused on issues of poverty, social stratification, global health and the psychology of prejudice. Since 2004, she has used her political studies degree and interest in social justice in her work as executive director of Blood:Water Mission, a nonprofit organization founded by members of the band Jars of Clay that provides wells and untainted blood to villages in HIV/AIDS-stricken sub-Saharan Africa. The organization also seeks to address underlying issues of poverty, injustice and oppression. Lee helps shape and maintain the overall mission of Blood:Water Mission, travelling several times each year to visit project sites and build relationships with community members.

Other Notable Whitworth Alumni

• Evan Cate, '08, received a full scholarship to pursue his doctoral studies at the Duke University Divinity School.
  
  
• Ashley Gibbs, '07, who won a Goldwater Scholarship in 2005, is pursuing a Ph.D. in biochemistry at Harvard University.
  
  
• Caleb Hug, '04, also a Goldwater Scholarship winner (in 2003), is studying for a Ph.D. in computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  
  
• Kristina Ruggles, '93, is volunteer coordinator for Spokane's Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery, whose mission is to provide emergency respite care for children at risk for neglect and abuse, and to provide support for families.
  
  
• Matt Lockard, '00, was the sole 2000 recipient of highly competitive fellowships from both the Mellon Foundation and the Pew Foundation. The fellowships have supported Lockard through his master's-degree and  Ph.D. studies in philosophy at UCLA.  He is currently writing his doctoral dissertation on the epistemology of perceptual belief.
  
  
• Sheila Maak, '97, is founder of the Junior Achievement Honduras Foundation. Maak spent eight years after her graduation from Whitworth in Honduras, the first three as an economic-development volunteer with the Peace Corps. With the assistance of more than 200 local volunteers and 18 prominent board members from the business community, Junior Achievement Honduras now reaches more than 3,000 Honduran students each year.
  
  
• Frank Hernandez, '93, is an internationally known opera singer. He has won the Aria Award, the George London competition, and the Puccini Competition.
  
  
• Anna Schowengerdt, '93, has led humanitarian relief programs for Catholic Relief Services since 1998. She was first assigned to Liberia, where she managed the monitoring and evaluation unit for two years. She then went on to serve in Uganda and Iraq. In 2004, Schowengerdt joined members of other relief organizations in a humanitarian mission to Aceh, Indonesia, following the earthquake and tsunami that ravaged that country and its neighbors. She returned to Whitworth to deliver the commencement address in 2005.
  
  
• Kyle Orwig, '90, is a professor and research scientist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He leads a six-person research team studying adult male germline stem cells, which show promise in the restoration of fertility and in other biomedical applications.
  
  
• Steve Miller, '83, was named 2002 Inventor of the Year for Battelle, an international research and development firm. Miller developed a new optically stimulated luminescence technique that resulted in the first million-dollar royalty license for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a Battelle subsidiary. He holds 13 U.S. patents and numerous foreign patents.
  
  
• Russell Working, '82, was the youngest writer ever to receive the Iowa Short Fiction Award, for his first book, Resurrectionists. Hailed as "a promising young writer" by The New York Times, Working went on to become a successful journalist who is currently writing a series of pieces for The Chicago Tribune. He continues to write fiction, as well.
  
  
• Noel Castellanos, '82, is the associate executive director of the Christian Community Development Association and the president of Latino Leadership Foundation. A pastor in Chicago's La Villita neighborhood, Castellanos has worked in full-time ministry in the Latino community for the past 25 years.
  
  
• Peter Hunner, '76, is an internationally acclaimed glass artist in Ostermarie, Denmark, and is the director of Baltic Sea Glass.
  
  
• Ron Leighton, '73, was appointed U.S. District Court Judge for the Western district of Washington in 2002 after a successful career as an attorney and partner with Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell, Malanca, Peterson and Dayheim in Tacoma and Seattle.
  
  
• Ross H. Anderson, '69, shared the 1990 Pulitzer Prize in journalism for his article in The Seattle Times on the Exxon Valdez accident. He is an editorial journalist with The Seattle Times.
  
  
• Charles (Chuck) Boppell, '65, longtime chair of the Whitworth University Board of Trustees, recently retired as president and CEO of Worldwide Restaurant Concepts.
  
  
• Phil Eaton, Ph.D., '65, is the president of Seattle Pacific University in Seattle, Wash.
  
  
• Walt Oliver, '67, is vice president for human resources with General Dynamics Corporation. He also serves the university as a member of Whitworth's board of trustees.
  
  
• Marvin Sather, '67, was named Washington State's Teacher of the Year for 1999 for his 31 years of exceptional service teaching high-school English.
  
  
• Ray Washburn, '61, spent nine successful seasons as a pitcher with Major League Baseball's St. Louis Cardinals.   He pitched one no-hitter and won a number of World Series games during his career.
  
  
• Saisuree Chutikul, Ph.D., '56, is the former advisor to the Office of the Permanent Secretary, one of three departments within Thailand's Office of Prime Minister. She was one of the first Thai women to earn a doctorate and is currently Secretary-General of the National Youth Bureau of Thailand.
  
  
• Maj. General Richard Carr, '49 (deceased), served as Chief of Chaplains in the United States Air Force. He established marriage and military family support programs at air bases worldwide. Ordained in the Church of Christ, Carr was an interim pastor at National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., where he helped establish the D.C. office of World Vision.
  

Recent Whitworth Honors/Awards

• Whitworth moved up two spots, to No. 30, in Kiplinger’s 2008 rankings of the 50 best private university values – a list that includes some of the most prestigious schools in the country. Whitworth repeats as the highest-ranked Northwest school in the rankings, which are posted to the Kiplinger website and appear in the April issue of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. The California Institute of Technology tops the list, followed by Yale, Princeton, MIT and Rice. West Coast schools joining Whitworth in the top 50 are Stanford (No. 13), Gonzaga (No. 34), U.S.C. (No. 36), and Santa Clara
  (No. 37). Complete rankings: www.kiplinger.com/tools/privatecolleges.

• In April 2008, Whitworth University President Bill Robinson received the Charles Foreman Award for Innovation in Private Higher Education in recognition of his leadership in helping private colleges forge successful partnerships with public universities, the business community and under-represented minority populations. The award is presented each year by the Foundation for Independent Higher Education to an individual, institution or organization for extraordinary and innovative leadership reflecting collaborative effort and endeavor. Robinson received the award at FIHE's annual meeting in New Jersey.

• Whitworth was selected, along with Crichton College, of Memphis, to receive the 2008 Robert and Susan Andringa Award for Advancing Racial Harmony. The Council for Christian Colleges & Universities presented the award to Whitworth President Bill Robinson and Crichton President Larry Lloyd during the Presidents Conference in Washington, D.C. The award celebrates the achievements of CCCU campuses in making progress in the areas of diversity, racial harmony and reconciliation.
  
  
• The Whitworth Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Dan Keberle, D.M.A., won first place at the 2008 Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, at the University of Idaho. Whitworth, which has won first-place honors six times since 1996, competed with such schools as University of Washington, Washington State University, University of Utah, and Boston College. Nathanael Ankeny, '08, was named Outstanding Alto Sax Soloist, and Jared Hall, '08, earned
  Outstanding Trumpet Soloist honors.
  

• The American Association of Physics Teachers presented a 2006 AAPT Special Presidential Citation Award to the Whitworth Physics Department for the exemplary increase in its number of majors. The number of department majors has increased 600 percent in the past 10 years.
  
  
• In recognition of its achievement in changing the community through art, Whitworth Theatre was recently named the recipient of the 2006 City of Spokane Bold Strokes Award. The Spokane Arts Commission presented the award as part of the city's celebration of National Arts and Humanities Month.

• In summer 2007, Whitworth wrapped up a two-year, $109,000 M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust program that funded science fellowships for 16 students to engage in student-faculty scholarship with Whitworth professors.
  
  
• In U.S. News & World Report's 2008 America's Best Colleges guide, Whitworth is No. 3 on the "best values" list and No. 9 on the "best values" list among 116 master's-level universities in the 15-state Western region.
  
  
• For the third year in a row, the 2007 the Whitworth Athletics Program finished in the Top 3 in competition for the Northwest Conference McIlroy-Lewis All-Sports Trophy. Whitworth won the trophy, which measures athletic excellence among Northwest Conference institutions across all fields of competition, in 2005.
  
  
• The Whitworth Communication Studies Department was the winner of the 2005 Rex Mix Program of Excellence Award. This prestigious award, given by the National Communication Association, honors a department's overall excellence in comparison with other small-college programs across the country. Whitworth's  emphasis on ethics instruction and its strong internship program drew admiration from peers.
  
  
• Whitworth has twice been named the Best Christian Workplace among large higher-education institutions, based on national surveys of employees at Christian businesses and nonprofit organizations. The surveys were sponsored by Christianity Today magazine.
  

Athletics

Northwest Conference, NCAA Division III

20 varsity sports: 10 women's, 10 men's

Recent Honors

In 2008, Whitworth earned the Northwest Conference's McIlroy-Lewis All-Sports Trophy, which recognizes the best all-around athletics program in the conference.

• Baseball
  
  • 2008 First Team All-Northwest Conference: Chad Flett
  • 2008 Academic All-District VIII: Dan Belet
  • 2007 Second Team All-NWC: Chad Flett, Dan Ramsey
  • 2006 Academic All-District VIII: Todd Phillips
  • 2006 All-NWC: Steve Hare, Todd Phillips, Caleb Reaber, Jason Weatherman
    
    
• Men's Basketball
  
  • 2008 NCAA Division III Sweet Sixteen
  • 2008, 2007 Northwest Conference champions
    
  • 2008, 2007, 2006 NWC Player of the Year: Ryan Simes (2008), Bryan Williams (2007), Lance Pecht (2006)
  • 2008, 2007, 2003 NWC Coach of the Year: Jim Hayford
    
    
• Women's Basketball
  • 2008 First Team All Northwest Conference: Alida Bower
  • 2007 CoSIDA Academic All-District: Alida Bower
  • 2005 Academic All-American: Sarah Shogren
  • 2005 Second Team All-American: Sarah Shogren
  • 2004, 2003 NWC Player of the Year: Tiffany Speer
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• Women's & Men's Cross-Country
  • 2007 NCAA Division III individual qualifiers: Nick Gallagher, Dusty Caseria
  • 2007 All-NCAA West Region: Nick Gallagher, Dusty Caseria, Jacob Dietz
  • 2007 Men finished third at Northwest Conference championship; Nick Gallagher named All-NWC
  • 2006 NCAA All-Region: Julie Lauterbach
  • 2006 NCAA DIII championship qualifier: Julie Lauterbach
  • 2005 USTFCCCA team award for highest DIII men's GPA
  • 2005 team award for second-highest DIII women's GPA
  • 2005 NCAA DIII individual qualifiers: Kristi Dickey,
    Julie Lauterbach
  • 2004-05 Academic All-American: Aaron Coe
    
    
• Football
  • 2007 and 2006 Northwest Conference champions; advanced to the second round of the NCAA Division III national tournament in 2006
  • 2007, 2006, 2001 NWC Coach of the Year: John Tully
  • 2007 D3.football.com All-America Second Team; NWC
    Co-Defensive Player of the Year: Jay Tully
  • 2007 NWC Offensive Player of the Year: Adam Anderson
  • 2007 National Football League's Kansas City Chiefs select tight end Michael Allan in 7th round of NFL draft
  • 2006 D3football.com, AFCA, AP First-Team All-American:
    Michael Allan
    
  • 2006 NWC Offensive Player of the Year: Joel Clark
  • 2006 NWC Defensive Player of the Year: Casey Clifton
  • 2006 CoSIDA Academic All-American: Steve Honeyman
  • 2006 Preseason All-American: Michael Allan
  • 2005 AFCA Division III All-American: Michael Allan
  • 2004 D3football.com All-American: Cameron Collings
    
    
• Men's Golf
  • 2008 Second place, Northwest Conference
  • 2008 All NWC: Jordan Carter, Andrew Parrott,
    Conor McCracken
  • 2007 NWC champions, NCAA Division III tournament participants
  • 2007, 2006, 2005 Northwest Conference Coach of the Year: Warren Friedrichs
  • 2007 Third Team All-America: Andrew Parrott
  • 2007 NWC medalist: Steven Johnson
  • 2007 CoSIDA Academic All-District: Steven Johnson,
    Sean Thompson
  • 2006 NWC medalist: Andrew Parrott
  • 2006 NWC champions
  • 2005 NWC champions
    
    
• Women's Golf
  • 2008 Second place, Northwest Conference
  • 2008 All-NWC: Kristal Pitkonen
  • 2007 All-NWC: Alicia Bratlien
    
    
• Men's Soccer
  • 2007 Northwest Conference champions; advanced to the second round, NCAA Division III tournament
  • 2007 First Team All-NWC: Scott Barnum, Brett Kagawa, Matt Friesen, Skye Henderson, Keith Kirsch
  • 2007, 2004, 2001 NWC Coach of the Year: Sean Bushey
  • 2006 All-NWC: Ali Seyedali
  • 2006 NSCAA All-American: Ali Seyedali
  • 2006: Niko Varlamos becomes all-time Whitworth men's- soccer goal scorer
  • 2006 CoSIDA Academic All-District: Kevin Bostock
  • 2005 NWC champions and NCAA Div. III Final
    Four participants
  • 2005 NWC Defensive Player of the Year: Todd Sabrowski
  • 2005 NSCAA All-American: Todd Sabrowski, Ali Seyedali
  • 2004, 2001 NWC champions
  • 2004 NWC Defensive Player of the Year: Todd Sabrowski
  • 2004 NWC Offensive Player of the Year: Niko Varlamos
    
    
• Women's Soccer
• 2007 17-2 record; played in first round of NCAA
  Div. III playoffs
• 2007 Katelyn Plumb, Kelly Baker, Jael Hagerott, Greta Thibodeau named First Team All-Northwest Conference
• 2007 CoSIDA Academic All-American: Jael Hagerott
• 2007 Academic All-District: Jael Hagerott, Greta Thibodeau
• 2007 NSCAA West Region Coach of the Year; NWC Coach of the Year: Sean Bushey
• 2006 All-NWC: Jael Hagerott, Greta Thibodeau
• 2006 CoSIDA Academic All-American: Jael Hagerott
• 2004 CoSIDA Academic All-District VIII First Team; NWC Offensive Player of the Year: Jael Hagerott
  
  
• Softball
• 2008 First-Team All Northwest Conference: Halley Cey,
  Lacey Parry
• 2008 Academic All-District: Amber Fowler
• 2007: Set Whitworth record for victories in a season (30)
• 2007 NCAA Division III All-Americans: Heather Case, Lindsay Davis, Halley Cey, Lacey Parry
• 2007 CoSIDA Academic All-District: Lindsay Davis
• 2006 NCAA DIII Tournament Participants
• 2006 NWC Pitcher of the Year: Jo Sonnett
  
  
• Men's Swimming
  • 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003 NWC champions
  • 2007 NWC Swimmer of the Year, NCAA DIII national qualifier and CoSIDA Academic All-District: David Dolphay
  • 2006 NWC Coach of the Year: Steve Schadt
  • 2006 NWC Swimmers of the Year: Loren Killgore, David Dolphay
  • 2005 NWC Swimmers of the Year: Cory Bergman, Loren Killgore
  • 2005 All-American: Cory Bergman
  • 2005, 2004 Academic All-American: Cory Bergman
    
    
• Women's Swimming
  • 2008 Whitworth women finish 10th at NCAA DIII championships; Natalie Turner, Samantha Kephart are named DIII All-America.
  • 2008 Whitworth wins conference title, breaking UPS' 11-year stranglehold on NWC championship
  • 2008 NWC Swimmer of the Year: Natalie Turner
  • 2008 Third Team ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-American: Samantha Kephart
  • 2008 NWC Coach of the Year: Steve Schadt
  • 2007 NWC Swimmer of the Year: Natalie Turner
  • 2007 NCAA Division III All-Americans: Natalie Turner, Samantha Kephart
  • 2007 NWC Coach of the Year: Steve Schadt
  • 2007 CoSIDA Academic All-District: Katelyn Erickson
  • 2006 NCAA DIII 100 and 200 Butterfly national champion: Samantha Kephart
  • New NCAA DIII 200 Butterfly record: Samantha Kephart
  • 2006, 2005 NWC Swimmer of the Year: Samantha Kephart
  • 2005, 2004 Academic All-American: Serena Fadel
  • 2005 All-Americans: Samantha Kephart, Serena Fadel
    
    
• Men's Tennis
  • 2008 Second Team Academic All-America; Academic All-District: Scott Donnell
  • 2008 Second Team All-NWC: Josh Steele
  • 2005 NWC Coach of the Year: Mike Shanks
    
    
• Women's Tennis
  • 2008 Second place in Northwest Conference
  • 2008 All-NWC: Rachel Burns, Lexy Harrington and
    Katie Staudinger
  • 2007 Second-Team All-NWC: Linh Aven, Rachael McCoola
  • 2006 All-NWC: Jamie Kneese
    
    
• Men's Indoor Track & Field
  • 2008 Second place, Division III indoor nationals:
    Cody Stelzer (high jump)
  • 2007 DIII All-America: Cody Stelzer (high jump)
    
  
  
• Women's Indoor Track & Field
  • 2007 DIII Regional Coach of the Year: Toby Schwarz
    
    
• Men's Outdoor Track & Field
  • 2008 Third place, NCAA Division III nationals
  • 2008 Northwest Conference champions
  • 2008 DIII national champion: Emmanuel Bofa
    (800-meter dash)
  • 2008 DIII national champion: Cody Stelzer (high jump)
  • 2008 DIII Regional Coach of the Year, NWC Coach of the Year: Toby Schwarz
  • 2008 NCAA All-Americans: Kory Kemp, Jeff Kintner,
    Alex Hymel
  • 2008 ESPN The Magazine CoSIDA Academic All-Americans: Ben Spaun (110/400 hurdles), Cody Stelzer (high jump)
  • 2008 NWC Men's Athlete of the Year: Ben Spaun
  • 2007 NCAA Division III All-Americans: Cody Stelzer (HJ), Emmanuel Bofa (800), Kory Kemp (javelin)
  • 2007 CoSIDA Academic All-District: Ben Spaun
  • 2005 Third-Team Academic All-American Track and Field/Cross Country: Aaron Coe
  • 2005 Academic All District VIII Track and Field/Cross- Country Team: Aaron Coe
    
    
• Women's Outdoor Track & Field
• 2008 Third place, Northwest Conference
• 2006 NCAA All-American: Kristi Dickey
• 2005 Academic All-District VIII Track and Field/Cross Country Team: Elaine Heinemann
• 2004 Academic All-American of the Year: Kristin Shields(100 dash)
• 2004 NCAA Div. III champion: Kristin Shields (100 dash)
• 2004 NCAA All-American: Kristin Shields (200 dash)
  
• 2004 All-American and Academic All-American:
  Leslie Nelson (10K)
  
  
• Volleyball
  • 2007 Second-Team All-NWC: Sarah Rusch
  • 2006 2nd Team All-NWC: Cassie Moore
  • 2006 CoSIDA Academic All-District: Angie Florence, Nicole Vander Meulen
  • 2005 AVCA West Region Coach of the Year: Steve Rupe
  • 2005 NWC champions and West Region finalists
  • 2005 NWC Player of the Year: Natalie Danielson
  • 2005 AVCA First Team All-American: Natalie Danielson
  • 2005 CoSIDA Academic All-District VIII Team: Bekah Hornor, Brittney Bower
  • 2004 AVCA NCAA DIII Third Team All-America: Julie Marsh
  • 2004 First-Team CoSIDA Academic All-District VIII:
    Bekah Hornor
    

Finances

• Tuition and fees: $25,382 (2007-08)
• Room and board: $7,294 (2007-08)
• Annual budget: $48.1 million (2007)
• Total gifts received: $10, 622, 254 (2007)
• Endowment: $ 85,801,034 (2007)
• Percent of students who receive aid: 95-plus percent (2007)
• 2007 Audited Financial Statements (PDF)

Campus

Whitworth has invested more than $62 million in campus improvements in recent years, including:

• Hixson Union Building: $8 million
• Weyerhaeuser Hall Academic Building: $7.1 million
• Boppell Residence Hall: $4 million
• Residence Hall renovations: $4.5 million
• Technology/infrastructure upgrades: $3.7 million
• Dixon Hall Classroom Building renovation: $3 million
• Johnston Science Center renovation: $2.8 million
• Cowles Memorial Auditorium renovation: $2.2 million
• Softball/soccer/field-event complex: $1.5 million
• Pine Bowl/Boppell Track upgrades: $1.3 million
• Property acquisition: $3 million
• Scotford Tennis Center/pedestrian corridor: $1 million
• Duvall Residence Hall: $7.8 million
• Hawthorne Hall renovation: $1 million
• Lied Art Center: $7.1 million
• Omache Field: $700,000

Campus Size: 200 acres

Harriet Cheney Cowles Memorial Library

• Print Volumes: 184,315
• Electronic Books: 3,343
• Print Periodical Subscriptions: 630
• Online Periodicals: 34,186 (plus 109 licensed electronic databases)
• Microfilm Units: 67,431 (volume-equivalents: 20,444)
• Audio-Visual Units: 6,970

Computer Facilities

• Network connections are available to every student in every residence-hall room
• Computers (including those in departmental labs) available to all Whitworth students: 292
• Individual classroom computers: 51
• Computers are accessible to students in the general labs in the library and in 23 satellite labs located in departments throughout the campus.
• Whitworth provides Internet access and e-mail accounts to all students.