for faculty development, student scholarships, and academic programs and facilities. Enrollment growth encouraged the construction of the first new residence halls since 1964 (Gebbie, Keefe and Beard residence halls), the improvement of classroom buildings and the renovation and expansion of the college's arts' facilities. Wheaton's Board of Trustees appointed Ronald A. Crutcher as the seventh president of the college on March 23, 2004. Crutcher came to Wheaton from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he served as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and professor of music. During his tenure, he ran the most successful funding campaigns in Wheaton's history, funding the new $37M Mars Science Center, more than $53M in new scholarship endowments, as well as new athletic facilities, faculty-mentored research, and career services.[1] Wheaton's most recent past president, Dennis M. Hanno, was appointed in 2014. His emphasis was on accentuating Wheaton's emphasis on diversity and a student-centered approach to education. He advocated and implemented programs to apply liberal arts teachings to social entrepreneurship and making the world a better place. One of his initiatives offers a full scholarship to one refugee student each year, with preference for students from countries subject to immigration restrictions proposed by Donald Trump in 2016. Presidents The following is a list of Wheaton College presidents with the years of their presidential tenures. Rev. Dr. Samuel Valentine Cole (1912–1925) George Thomas Smart, Acting President (1925–1926) Rev. Dr. John Edgar Park (1926–1944) A. Howard Meneely (1944–1961) Elizabeth Stoffregen May, Acting President (1961–1962) William Courtney Hamilton Prentice (1962–1975) Alice Frey Emerson (1975–1991) Hannah Goldberg, Acting President (1991–1992) Dale Rogers Marshall (1992–2004) Ronald Crutcher (2004–2014) Dennis M. Hanno (2014–2021) Michaele Whelan (2022–present) Academics Wheaton offers a liberal arts education leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree in more than 100 majors and minors. Students are permitted to work with faculty members to design self-declared majors. Wheaton College is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education. Its most popular majors, based on 2021 graduates, were: Business Administration and Management (53) Psychology (47) Biology/Biological Sciences (29) Neuroscience (26) Film/Cinema/Media Studies (20) Political Science and Government (19) Computer Science (18) English Language & Literature (18) Foundations courses focus on writing, quantitative analysis, foreign language study and non-Western perspectives. In their first semester at Wheaton, all freshmen take a First Year Seminar in which they explore contemporary issues and gain academic skills needed for college-level study. The