Hussian College with locations in Ohio, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and California has announced that it will no longer enroll students.
Hussian College was founded by John Hussian as the Hussian School of Art in 1946 in Philadelphia.
In September 2014, Hussian first offered the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Art. Also in the same year, a branch campus was opened a Los Angeles, California as the Studio School with programs in art, acting, contemporary musical theatre, digital content, commercial dance, and entrepreneurship.
In January 2015, the institutional name was changed from Hussian School of Art to Hussian College.
Then in November 2018, Hussian added the five campuses of Daymar College. With the acquisition of Daymar College, Hussian College became the successor institution for Draughons Business Colleges and for Southwestern Business College/Samuel Stephen College.
Daymar College was founded in 1963 as Owensboro Business College, offering courses in general business at its original campus location at 1126 Triplett Street in Owensboro, Kentucky. In 1973, Owensboro Business College was authorized to award associate degrees and in 1980, it earned accreditation as a junior college and changed its name to Owensboro Junior College of Business.
In 1995, Owensboro Junior College of Business was acquired by Daymar Learning, Inc. In July 1999, the college moved to a new campus located at 3361 Buckland Square. Then in 2001 the institutional name was changed to Daymar College.
The Owensboro campus closed in June 2018 leaving Daymar College with 5 campuses located in Columbus, OH; Bowling Green, KY; and Clarksville, Nashville and Murfreesboro, TN.
In November 2018, the Daymar campuses became branch campuses of Hussian College. In March 2022 the Bowling Green, KY campus ceased operations.
Historical Roots of Various Campuses
Draughons Junior College with campuses located in Clarksville, Nashville and Murfreesboro, TN had originally been founded around 1879 by John F. Draughon as Draughon’s Traveling Business College. After opening a permanent location in Nashville, the institution operated widely for many years as Draughons Practical Business College with 38 business schools bearing his name at the time of his death in 1921. After his death, many of the schools bearing his name merged with other schools or closed.
The Draughons Business College in Nashville survived and was located on 8th Avenue North for more than 100 years. In August 1981, the college moved 6 miles southeast of downtown Nashville to Plus Park Blvd. It remained on Plus Park Blvd until September 2015 when it moved to the 560 Royal Parkway. In October 2020, the campus relocated to 750 Envious Lane.
In September 1987, Draughons Junior College established a branch campus in Clarksville, Tennessee located at 1860 Guthrie Highway. In 1994, Guthrie Highway was renamed Wilma Rudolph Boulevard. April 2013, the college moved to 2691 Trenton Rd.
In 1988, Draughons Junior College established a branch campus in Bowling Green, Kentucky located at 2424 Airway Ct. January 2004, the college moved to its current location at 2421 Fitzgerald Industrial Dr.
In September 2003, Draughons Junior College established a branch campus in Murfreesboro, Tennessee located at 1237 Commerce Park Drive. In January 2005, the college moved to 415 Golden Bear Court and in 2022 it relocated to 855 W. College Street.
January 1, 2010, Daymar College purchased Draughons Junior College. The Bowling Green campus changed its name to Daymar College and the Draughons Junior Colleges located in Tennessee changed their name to Daymar Institute. Along with the name change, the campuses expanded their educational offerings to include bachelor degree programs. On January 1, 2015, the Daymar Institute colleges changed their name to Daymar College.
On July 19, 2021, Daymar College in Clarksville, TN changed its name to Hussian College. On October 3, 2022 Daymar College in Murfreesboro, TN and Nashville, TN changed its name to Hussian College.
Southeastern Business College campus in Columbus, OH opened as a branch campus of the Southeastern Business College Chillicothe campus in 1994. The original Columbus campus location was 1522 Sheridan Dr., Lancaster, OH 43130.
In 2006, Southeastern Business College changed its name to Samuel Stephen College.
On May 12, 2008, Daymar College purchased Samuel Stephen College and changed its name to Daymar College. The campus moved to 1579 Victor Road, Lancaster, OH 43130 in 2009. September 1, 2015, the campus moved to 2745 Winchester Pike, Columbus, OH 43232. On October 3, 2022 the college changed its name to Hussian College.
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.
The current fall semester semester will be the last for classes at the college’s Over-the-Rhine campus in downtown Cincinnati and its St. Martin campus in Brown County, OH. Staff will work individually with its approximately 100 current students enrolled for the fall semester. Chatfield has arranged teach-out agreements with Cincinnati State Technical and Community College and Southern State Community College for students expected to graduate in the spring of 2023, so they can complete their degrees on time.
Chatfield recently celebrated a 50th anniversary and traces its roots to a group of women who arrived in central Ohio in 1845 with an educational mission. The women started a convent at St. Martin, OH. An Ursuline Teacher Training Institute was created in 1958 to provide a liberal arts education to women joining the Ursuline Order. Later in 1971, the public was admitted and the school was renamed Chatfield College.
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.
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.
Classes were initially offered after 1957 at the old Newark, OH high school building through Ohio State University.
COTC gained full accreditation from the North Central Association of Colleges and Universities in 1975.
Visit the 50th anniversary web pages for scheduled activities or to learn more about the institution.
Walking Tour of Oxford’s UNIVERSITY HISTORIC DISTRICT
Designated by the City of Oxford in 1979, the University Historic District is one of the city’s three historic districts and the only one that was originally comprised almost entirely of residential architecture. The U-shaped district of nine blocks on East High Street, South Campus Avenue, and East Spring Street, nearly surrounds the original University Square.
The Municipal University of Akron: A History of its Establishment is available through the Internet Archive in a variety of formats. P.R. Kolbe compiled the booklet that includes almost forty pages of documents and newspaper articles. Visit an earlier College History Garden post, Establishment of the University of Akron, for a link to the document.
The institution was founded as Springfield and Clark County Technical Education Program in 1962. It reorganized as Clark County Technical Institute in 1966 and became Ohio’s first technical college to be sanctioned by the Ohio Board of Regents in February 1972 with a name change to Clark Technical College. The name changed to Clark State Community College on June 17, 1988.
