Qualla: Salem University https://qualla.com/salem-university en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/x/salem-university-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Salem University https://qualla.com/salem-university Salem University: Introduction https://qualla.com/salem-university/ Photo credit JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY-SA 3.0. For most of the 1990s, the dominant language on the campus of Salem College in West Virginia was Japanese. The school had been struggling financially, and in 1989 an alliance with Teikyo University in Tokyo brought nearly two hundred Japanese freshmen to the small town of Salem in northern Harrison County. The Los Angeles Times sent a reporter to write about the experiment, which produced a profile titled 'East Meets West Virginia: When a Japanese University Takes Over a Small Appalachian College, Football Is Out, the Dairy Queen Is In and Love Blooms on Main Street.' The Teikyo arrangement ended in 2000. Investors from Singapore bought the school. The name changed to Salem International University. Five years later it changed hands again. In 2017 it became simply Salem University. Through every transformation, the institution founded by the Seventh Day Baptists in 1888 has kept its doors open.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/x/salem-university-wp/dnyx-salem-university-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Salem University: The Seventh Day Baptists https://qualla.com/salem-university/ Photo credit JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Seventh Day Baptists are a small, historically distinctive American Protestant denomination, distinguished from other Baptists by their practice of observing the Sabbath on Saturday rather than Sunday. They are not numerous - probably fewer than five thousand members in the U...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/x/salem-university-wp/dnyx-salem-university-the-seventh-day-baptists.mp3 0:06 2 full Salem University: The Teikyo Years https://qualla.com/salem-university/ Photo credit JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY-SA 3.0. By the late 1980s, Salem College - like many small denominational liberal arts schools - was struggling with declining enrollment and uncertain finances. The solution that materialized was unusual. Teikyo University, a large Japanese institution looking to give its students immer...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/x/salem-university-wp/dnyx-salem-university-the-teikyo-years.mp3 0:06 3 full Salem University: From For-Profit to Online https://qualla.com/salem-university/ Photo credit JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY-SA 3.0. Under the Singaporean ownership and a 2005 sale to Salem Education LLC, the school transitioned to a for-profit university structure with a heavy emphasis on online education. Today about 250 students attend on the historic Salem campus and about 600 study online. Programs are de...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/x/salem-university-wp/dnyx-salem-university-from-for-profit-to-online.mp3 0:06 4 full Salem University: The Tigers in the Independent Wilderness https://qualla.com/salem-university/ Photo credit JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY-SA 3.0. Salem athletics compete in NCAA Division II as the Tigers. The conference history is dizzying: charter member of the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference from 1924, member through the WVIAC's dissolution in 2013; member of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference from 2...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/x/salem-university-wp/dnyx-salem-university-the-tigers-in-the-independent-wilderness.mp3 0:06 5 full Salem University: Alumni From a Small College https://qualla.com/salem-university/ Photo credit JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY-SA 3.0. The alumni list runs broader than the student-body numbers would predict. Two U.S. senators - Jennings Randolph (who later had the campus's Randolph House named for him) and Rush Holt Sr. - came through Salem. So did Matthew M. Neely, who served in both houses of Congress and as ...

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