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Tracing its roots back to 1907, Miss Mary Nesbitt's Grammar School was founded when a group of families in East-Central Illinois started a school to provide a Christian education for their children.
Classes at were first held in a house in Georgetown, Illinois. In 1908, the school's founders acquired nineteen acres south of Georgetown, in the village of Olivet, and built on this land, moving the grammar school to the proposed campus and beginning secondary-level classes. A Wesleyan–holiness community sprang up around the school. In 1909, the liberal arts college was started and the school was given the name Illinois Holiness University.
The school was given to the Church of the Nazarene in 1912. The school's name was changed again in 1986 to Olivet Nazarene University.
Olivet Nazarene University has been accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools since 1956.
Olivet's campus is 250 acres, with 30 buildings.
www.olivet.edu/
Classes at were first held in a house in Georgetown, Illinois. In 1908, the school's founders acquired nineteen acres south of Georgetown, in the village of Olivet, and built on this land, moving the grammar school to the proposed campus and beginning secondary-level classes. A Wesleyan–holiness community sprang up around the school. In 1909, the liberal arts college was started and the school was given the name Illinois Holiness University.
The school was given to the Church of the Nazarene in 1912. The school's name was changed again in 1986 to Olivet Nazarene University.
Olivet Nazarene University has been accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools since 1956.
Olivet's campus is 250 acres, with 30 buildings.
www.olivet.edu/
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