Wiley was founded in 1873 and is affiliated with the United Methodist Church.
Cazenovia was founded as the Seminary of the Genesee Conference, the second Methodist seminary to be established in the United States. The name changed several times, first to the Seminary of the Genesee and Oneida conferences, later to the Oneida Conference Seminary, then to the Central New York Conference Seminary. In 1894 it became Cazenovia Seminary.
In 1942 formed a new non-church-related board was created for Cazenovia Junior College. When the College received accreditation in 1961 from the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, it dropped the "Junior" and became Cazenovia College for Women. In 1982 the trustees voted to return to coeducation and name change to Cazenovia College. In November 1988, the New York State Board of Regents awarded Cazenovia College the right to offer baccalaureate degrees and in May 2019, the State approved a change to the College’s charter to include graduate programs.
If you are interested in recent trends for closures, mergers, and acquisitions access College Closures since 2009 in the index at the right of any College History Garden page. There are separate tabs for non-profit closures, for-profit closures, and one for mergers and acquisitions. Each tab includes basic information for the institutions, i.e., Carnegie Classification, sector, accrediting agency, and the IPEDS unitid.
Dr. Logan Hampton and Sherill B. Scott provide a summary of efforts on the Lane College campus to preserve key aspects of institutional heritage.
It is noted that the "...history of Lane College first dates to 1878 when the Colored Methodist Episcopal (C.M.E) Church conceived of establishing a school in Tennessee. In 1882, Isaac Lane— who was formerly enslaved and now a bishop of the C.M.E. Church—purchased 4-acres of land in Jackson, Tennessee and established Lane College. Lane opened with the mission to educate formerly enslaved people and prepare new teachers and preachers."
This new book is the third work to be written about the university's history and is preceded by Wake the Echoes by John Saffell and A Select School: The History of Mount Union College by Newell Yost Osborne.
You can read more about the change in a post by RadioIowa on November 13, 2020, "Morningside College to undergo name change June 1."
Morningside recently celebrated the 125th anniversary of its founding in 1894. It was affiliated with the Northwest Iowa Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Classes start in the fall of 1895 after the college purchased what is known today as Charles City College Hall.
Martin Methodist was founded in 1870. It initially provided education for young women and was known as Martin Female College. The name changed to Martin College in 1908 and to Martin Methodist College in 1986.
