College History Garden

Union College will become Union Adventist University as of May 2024 after a vote by the institution's Board of Trustees on October 2, ...

York College in York, Nebraska announced on September 23, 2021 that it will become York University . Dr. Sam Smith (’95) shared the news dur...

Faith Baptist Bible College & Theological Seminary is celebrating the centennial of its founding this year.  The centennial web page i...

Nebraska Christian College in Papillion, Nebraska will be closing at the end of the current spring semester . Nebraska Christian was fou...

The Omaha World-Herald published " Morrill Act opened door for Nebraska's university ," on January 6, 2019.   The articl...

Lisa Brichacek of Wahoo Newspaper reported in " College history revisited " on a presentatio n by Carl Wirth, a John F. Kennedy...

Grace University of Omaha, Nebraska announced that it will be closing after the current academic year.  Grace was founded in 1943 as Gra...

Jim McKee wrote a brief historical sketch of Orleans, Nebraska for the Lincoln Journal Star on March 23, 2017, " Orleans had a coll...

Peru State College in Peru, Nebraska is celebrating the sesquicentennial of its founding in 1867.  The institution  opened as Nebraska Sta...

The Omaha World-Herald reprinted an interesting article this week that originally appeared in the paper in 2003, " Nebraska's K...

" Tarkio and Dana: 2 closed colleges ," reflects excellent reporting by Katie Rohman, Managing Editor of the Washington County P...

The Nebraska State Historical Society offers a .pdf of Ann Wilhite's " Cities and Colleges in the Promised Land: Territorial Nebr...

Katie Rohman, managing editor of the  Washington County Enterprise and Pilot Tribune has several interesting articles where she interview...

Midland University announced this week that it no longer plans to develop the former campus of Dana College located in Blair, NE.  Dana C...

Josh Heck reported on March 10, 2016 for the Wichita Business Journal that Wright Career College will be closing .  The institution with ...

Central Community College in Hastings, NE is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its founding in 1966.  At the time, it was Central Nebr...

Doane College in Crete, Nebraska will become Doane University in May of 2016 .  Doane was founded in 1872 and is affiliated with the Unit...

North Platte Community College celebrates a 50 year anniversary of the founding on August 31, 1965 .  The institution was initially known...

The article by Oliver B. Pollak from Nebraska History , " Looking for 'Wide-Awake' Young People: Commercial Business College...

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