Tusculum College in Tennessee announced this week that it will change its name to Tusculum University beginning July 1, 2018. Tusculum is the "...oldest institution of higher education in Tennessee, the twenty-eighth oldest in the nation, and the oldest coeducational institution affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA)."
Tusculum's traces its history to the founding of Martin's Academy in 1784, later renamed as Washington College. It was later was known as Tusculum College after 1844. Tusculum merged with Greeneville College in 1868 to become Greeneville & Tusculum College. The name was shortened to Tusculum College in 1912.
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