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Alabama Girls' Industrial School (1896–1911); Alabama Girls' Technical Institute (1911–1919); Alabama Girls' Technical Institute and College for Women (1919–1923); Alabama College, State College for Women (1923–1956); Alabama College (1956–1969) 1969 Montana State University: Montana College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts 1930
1896: Alabama Girls Industrial School: Became coeducational (Alabama College) in 1956 and changed its name to University of Montevallo in 1969. 1896: Barber Memorial College: Founded in Anniston, Alabama, it merged with Scotia Women's College (formerly Scotia Seminary) in Concord, North Carolina in 1930 to become Barber-Scotia Junior College
Alabama Conference Female College, Tuskegee (originally Tuskegee Female College) [1] From 1854 to 1909, the college was in Tuskegee, Alabama and later moved to Montgomery, Alabama. Co-ed in 1934, the school was then renamed Huntingdon College in 1935. It is also known as Woman's College of Alabama. Alabama Female Institute (1830–1888).
The tradition of College Night began as a celebration of the upcoming renaming of Alabama Girls' Technical Institute to Alabama College. First taking place on March 3, 1919, as a competition between the four classes, the Class of 1919 said that "now that our school is becoming a college, we have begun to take up college stunts." [8]
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In 1872 the name was changed to Alabama Conference Female College, as the college came under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church. As the college and the South struggled to rebuild following the Civil War, college leaders believed they needed to relocate the institution to a more populous city, and they chose the state's capital ...
Mississippi College, founded in 1826, serves nearly 5,000 students and is affiliated with the Mississippi Baptist Convention. Ross Reily can be reached by email at rreily@gannett.com or 601-573-2952.
In 1883, the school was renamed the Alabama Normal College for Girls and Livingston Female Academy, to better reflect the new mission of the institution, providing students with choices of either two- or four-year programs. [12] "Normal training" was the term used at that time to describe teacher education that represented high school plus two ...