Lake Erie College (OH)

Lake Erie College highlights their history with an interesting web page.  There is a timeline with links with more detail by decade and a fascinating insert covering the period from 1856-2006.

The institution's history is traced to Willoughby Female Seminary founded in 1847 in Willoughby, OH. In 1856 it was destroyed by fire and moved to Painesville, OH.  It reopened as Lake Erie Female Seminary in 1857.  The name was changed to Lake Erie Seminary College in 1898 and to Lake Erie College in 1908.  Lake Erie became coeducational after 1985, though a separate program for men existed for a number of years through what was known as Garfield Senior College.

AZ State Board for Private Postsecondary Education

The Arizona State Board for Private Postsecondary Education maintains academic records for State Board licensed institutions that are no longer in operation.

A Digital Collection: Celebrating the Founding of HBCU's

The HBCU Library Alliance offers thousands of scanned primary resources through a digital collection Celebrating the Founding of the Historically Black College and University.  Links are provided to digital collections of the following institutions:


Alabama State University (Montgomery, AL)
Bennett College (Greensboro, NC)
Fisk University (Nashville, TN)

Grambling State University (Grambling, LA)

Hampton University (Hampton, VA)

Atlanta University Center (Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Spelman College in Atlanta, GA)

Lincoln University of Missouri (Jefferson City, MO)

Meharry Medical College (Nashville, TN)

Miles College (Fairfield, AL)

Morehouse School of Medicine (Atlanta, GA)

North Carolina Central University (Durham, NC)

Paine College (Augusta, GA)

St. Augustine's College (Raleigh, NC)

South Carolina State University (Orangeburg, SC)

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Southern University at Shreveport (Shreveport, LA)

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Texas Southern University (Houston, TX)

Tuskegee University (Tuskegee, AL)

University of the District of Columbia (Washington, DC)

Virginia State University (Petersburg, VA)

Christian College (Columbia, MO)

Paulina Batterson's Columbia College: 150 Years of Courage, Commitment, and Change is an exceptionally well written history of the institution in Columbia, Missouri.  The history was published by the University of Missouri Press in 2001.  

The author provides an interesting picture of the struggles faced by those associated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) who set out in 1851 to establish what emerged for a time as a successful nondenominational liberal arts college for women.  Readers will find many details that help with understanding the later transition to become one of the first junior colleges in the 1920's and the emergence after 1970 as a coeducational institution.  

NC Schools and Academies 1790-1840

Charles Coon's North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840: A Documentary History, published in 1915 is available through Google Books.

History of Higher Education of Women in the South

I. M. E. Blandin's 1909, History of Higher Education of Women in the South prior to 1860, is available through the Internet Archive in a variety of formats.

Atlantic Union College (MA)

Livia Gershon reports in the Worcester Business Journal that supporters of Atlantic Union College are planning to reopen the institution.  Atlantic Union was a Seventh-day Adventist college in South Lancaster, MA. Its final year operating as an independent institution was the 2010-2011.  Gershon covers the unsuccessful merger discussions with Washington Adventist University.


The institution opened in 1882 as a preparatory school and was known as South Lancaster Academy the following year.  It was renamed Lancaster Junior College in 1918 and assumed the name of Atlantic Union College in 1922.  More details are available in a Wikipedia article.