Gordon College

Gordon College provides an environment where both mind and spirit can soar. Almost all Christian colleges put strong emphasis on behavioral expectations, chapel attendance, and prayer before classes. Gordon goes beyond this. Every professor integrates Christian thought and assumptions into classroom study.

We embrace a process of education that links the intellectual and spiritual dimensions of life. Gordon is serious about its commitments. We expect our teachers to live in a vital relationship with Jesus Christ and model His life principles before their students.

Many in secular institutions disagree with this basic faith and life requirement. They say it infringes on academic freedom. Not so. We completely embrace academic freedom. We do so within a common framework of faith. But that’s not a straightjacket. It’s an understanding that Christianity and its values provide a springboard to explore truth in all its dimensions.

Gordon College was founded in 1889 under the name Boston Missionary Training School, in the basement of Clarendon Street Church. The school is named for its founder, the Rev. Dr. Adoniram Judson (A. J.) Gordon, pastor of the church and prominent clergyman of the late 1800s. Within 30 years, Gordon grew well beyond the facilities of its founding church as well as the facilities it used at the Newton Theological Institute, Newton, Mass. The College then moved to the Fenway portion of Boston, into a facility that was financed through a very generous gift given by Martha Frost.

In 1985, Gordon merged with Barrington College (formerly in Barrington, Rhode Island), with the combined school retaining the name of Gordon College. At the merger, Barrington’s distinguished history of Christian service and faithfulness became a part of Gordon’s history. Both schools shared a common vision for Christian higher education, ministry, and service that made a merger of the institutions sensible for both schools. Gordon has worked to integrate Barrington’s tradition and history into its own.

Mission
Gordon College strives to graduate men and women distinguished by intellectual maturity and Christian character, committed to lives of service and prepared for leadership worldwide.

Courses Offered
Undergraduate Programs

• American Studies
• Classical Studies
• East Asian Studies
• Environmental Studies
• Gender Studies
• Health Professions (includes pre-med)
• International Studies
• Latin American Minor
• Global Christianity (missions)
• Neuroscience Minor
• Nonprofit Organization Management and Social Entrepreneurship
• Pre-Law Minor
• Peace and Conflict Studies

Graduate Programs

• M.A.T
• M.Ed
• C.A.G.S.
• M.M.Ed

Centers & Institutes

• Center for Christian Studies
• Center for Balance, Mobility & Wellness
• Critical Loyalty Project
• Christians In The Visual Arts
• Association of Christian Economists (ACE)
• Studio for Art, Faith, and History
• Gordon College News Service
• Center for Nonprofit Studies and Philanthropy
• Salzburg Institute

Divisions

• Division of Fine Arts
• Division of Education
• Division of Humanities
• Division of the natural Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Sciences
• Division of the social and Behavioral Sciences

Contact Details
Gordon College
255 Grapevine Road,
Wenham, MA 01984
Telephone 978.927.2300
Official Website: http://www.gordon.edu/