College History Garden

Union College in Barbourville, KY is changing its name to Union Commonwealth University . Union was founded in 1879 and is affiliated with ...

Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, KY is preparing to celebrate the sesquicentennial of its founding. You can read more in " Cel...

The Peewee Valley Historical Society in Peewee Valley, KY offers a very nice web page devoted to the Kentucky College for Young Ladies th...

The Louisville Courier Journal posted an interesting article, " This Kentucky college did the unthinkable by pushing integration dur...

Berea College and its work college model were featured yesterday on CBS in a video segment with reporting by Michelle Miller, " Kent...

Centre College received its initial charter on January 21, 1819 from the Commonwealth of Kentucky and will be offering a variety of celebr...

Ashlie Stevens of WFPL, Louisville's NPR affiliate, reports in " With New Licensure, KyCAD Becomes Only 4-Year Art College In Ken...

The Lexington, KY Herald-Leader published an article, " She came to Ky. in a buggy. 100 years later, thousands have low-debt college...

Kate Murphy of the Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Thomas More College in Crestview Hills, Kentucky has started a planning process invo...

Berea College in Berea, KY announced that its founder, Reverand John Gregg Fee,l has been inducted into the National Abolition Hall of Fa...

Erkstein Norton University operated in Cane Springs, KY from 1890-1912 offering education to African Americans.  The Bullitt County Geneo...

Linda Blackford reports for the Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader that St. Catharine College in Saint Catharine, KY will be closing in July ....

A ceremony to mark a new historical marker for Stanford Female College was featured in The Interior Journal of Stanford, KY on May 2, 20...

Midway College announced that it will become Midway University on July 1, 2015 .  The institution located in Midway, KY was founded as Ke...

The Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collection includes a catalogue of Louisville Female College for the 1873 academic year .  Louisv...

This table below includes institutions that have closed, merged, or changed their names.  If you note a need for changing or updating inform...

I would encourage everyone to check out the website of the The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women's Educatio...

Alice W. Brown's recent book, Staying The Course: How Unflinching Dedication and Persistence Have Built a Successful Private College i...

Bill Hughes of the West Kentucky Star reports on a decision by Mid-Continent University in Mayfield, KY to close on June 30, 2014. ...

Historical Sketches of Institutions of Higher Learning of the Kentucky Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South is ava...