Blackburn College (Blackburn University)
Blackburn College (Blackburn University)
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About this organization
Mission
Blackburn College links a rigorous and affordable liberal arts education with a unique student-managed Work Program preparing graduates for careers, community engagement, and lifelong learning. The Blackburn community values critical and independent thinking, leadership development, diversity and inclusion, service, shared governance, and moral responsibility.
About
Blackburn College is more than just another four-year institution. It’s your head start on everything else that follows. From academics to campus life to friends and community—our purpose is to help you prepare for life after college. Since 1837, our ideal student is “intelligent, forward-thinking, and forward-looking.” Find your future here. Located in Carlinville, Illinois, Blackburn College offers the traditional college experience, with so much more. You get the benefits of an easy-going small town. The engaging academic community, social life, and activities of a college campus. And, you get the real-life, ready-for-the-workforce skills unique to Blackburn! Your preparation for life is the heart of the Blackburn experience. Here, you get more than just a classroom education. You develop the kind of leadership skills that immediately apply to nearly any job after graduation, giving you a head start in the working world. As the only student-led college employment program in the nation, the Blackburn College Work Program not only makes a degree more attainable, it adds a new dimension to the collegiate experience. We literally rely on you, our students, to run the day-to-day operations across the campus. You’ll be included in campus planning committees. You’ll manage other students in the program. And, you’ll witness daily just how strong the connection is between your success and our success as a college. Come to Blackburn College for a connection with an institution like no other. A place where not only do you get a high-level college education, but you get the experience of actually helping run the campus; experience for life. That sort of investment, in both the college and the students, is what makes Blackburn College a place where leaders rise.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The purpose of the non-profit is listed in the filing as “Blackburn college links a rigorous and affordable liberal arts education with a unique student-managed work program preparing graduates for careers, communities, and lifelong learning.”.
When discussing its operations, they were characterized as: “Combine liberal arts education & work program to prepare graduates for careers and lifelong learning.”.
- The non-profit's legally reported state of operation is IL.
- The filing states that the non-profit's address in the year 2020 is 700 COLLEGE AVENUE NO 1, CARLINVILLE, IL, 62626.
- The form submitted by the non-profit for 2020 shows a total of 583 employees.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is -$2,370,370.
- The organization has 26 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1837.
- The organization pays $10,185,588 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $583,812 in fundraising expenses.