Mathematics and Sciences, while offering a three-year college preparatory program, instruction in music for preparing "teachers of music, organist and choir leaders, and in general to afford its students a musical education", instruction in commerce and business to "train young men and women for a business career" and in stenography for students seeking "to fill positions as stenographers and private secretaries." While the college was identified by its connection with the Swedish Lutheran community, Upsala was the first college in New Jersey to admit women, and its student body welcomed students from many other nationalities and religions. In 1908, the student body consisted of "79 Swedes, 2 Finns, 1 Jew, 1 'American', 1 Chinese, 1 Korean, and 1 Persian" East Orange campus (1924–1995) The college moved to East Orange in 1924 after purchasing a 45-acre site in the city in the previous year. After the passage of Title IX, Audrey Donnelly became the school's Women's Tennis Coach. In 1989, Upsala hosted the National Forensics Association national collegiate speech championship, which featured over 1,100 competitors over five days of competition. However, the surrounding community's crime rate increased, and student enrollment declined throughout the late 1970s and 1980s. Upsala's men basketball team made it to the 1980 NCAA Men's Division III Basketball Championship, losing to North Park University, 83 to 76. Wirths Campus in Wantage (1978–1992) During the tenure of Upsala's sixth president, Rodney O. Felder, Upsala sought to expand and acquired a tract of land in rural Wantage Township in Sussex County in northwestern New Jersey for the construction of a second campus which was called the "Wirths Campus." In 1978, the land from a large family farm had been donated by Wallace "Wally" Wirths (1921–2002), a former Westinghouse Corporation executive, author, local newspaper columnist and radio commentator. Upsala did not erect any academic buildings on the property, and in these formative years held classes in existing buildings. A few graduates studied at the campus until 1992 when classes ceased and the trustees chose to remain committed to East Orange. But when the school closed down in 1995 and the school's assets were dissolved, the Wirths family bought back their farm in Wantage from the college for $75,000. Decline and closing Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Upsala suffered from severe financial problems and a declining enrollment. The demographics of East Orange had changed in the aftermath of the Newark riots in