officially chosen to be Nazarene institution in 1915. As one of eight Nazarene liberal arts colleges, Nazarene higher education is based on the liberal arts college model. ENC was the only Nazarene institution to retain the "college" moniker. Eastern Nazarene was also bound by a gentlemen's agreement not to actively recruit outside its respective educational region, which extended southwest from Maine as far as Pennsylvania and Virginia in the United Statesand provided trustees for the college. The institution was otherwise largely independent, having been multi-denominational since 1902, and tuition-driven, with an actual endowment of only US$11,015,937. Students were not required to profess any religion, although chapel attendance was required and faculty members were required to be Christians.
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The now-defunct secondary school, the Pentecostal Collegiate Institute, was accredited by the New York State Education Department's board of regents upon its founding in 1900. When it …
