Description: About Philip Graham Ryken, President of Wheaton College (IL)
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During his presidency, Wheaton has advanced the strategic priorities of Deepening Ethnic Diversity, Promoting Liberal Arts Excellence, Enhancing Music and the Performing Arts, and Globalizing a Wheaton Education. Positive results include a new general education curriculum (“ Christ at the Core ”), a more diverse campus community (with students representing nearly 100 countries; nearly one-third are students of color), the state-of-the-art Armerding Center for Music and the Arts , and more than $300 million
A Wheaton native and the son of longtime professor Dr. Leland Ryken and Mary Graham Ryken, President Ryken attended Wheaton as an undergraduate, majoring in English literature and philosophy. He met his wife Lisa during their first few days at the College, and they were married before their senior year. The Rykens have five children—Josh (’15), Kirsten (’18), Jack ('23), Kathryn ('24), Karoline—and one grandchild.