Milligan College will become Milligan University in 2020

Milligan College in northeast Tennessee announced this past week that it will change its name to Milligan University in 2020. "Milligan’s Board of Trustees approved the decision regarding the name change after two years of study and after considering the input from a number of stakeholders including alumni, faculty, staff, the college’s strategic planning committee and others."

Milligan celebrated the sesquicentennial of its 1866 founding in 2016. The institution was founded as Buffalo Male & Female College at Cave Spring, TN. The name was changed to Milligan College in 1881.