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Named in honor of both the college founder (Roberts) and the founder of Methodism and the Wesleyan Church (Wesley). Rockefeller University, New York, US John D. Rockefeller: Founded in 1901 by the oil baron and philanthropist as the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research Royal Holloway, University of London, England Thomas Holloway
Former Name(s) Year of Change The College of Idaho: Albertson College of Idaho (1991–2007); The College of Idaho (1891–1991) 2007 Iḷisaġvik College: North Slope Higher Education Center; Arctic Sivunmun Iḷisaġvik College Illinois Benedictine College: St. Procopius College 1971 University of Illinois at Chicago: Ill.-Chicago Circle 1982
Lincoln University College, Malaysia; Lincoln College (Illinois), a private college in Lincoln; Lincoln Land Community College, a public community college in Springfield, Illinois; Abraham Lincoln High School (disambiguation) Lincoln High School (disambiguation), includes some schools that may not be named after the president
Persons for whom colleges or universities were named. Jacob Albright; Richard Allen (reverend) Saint Andrew; James Osgood Andrew; Francis Asbury; Osman Cleander Baker
Pages in category "Founders of American schools and colleges" The following 195 pages are in this category, out of 195 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Catawba Valley Community College; Catholic University of America; Cayuga Community College; Cecil College; Cedar Crest College; Cedarville University; Centenary College of Louisiana; Centenary University; Center for Advanced Studies of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean; Central Alabama Community College; Central Arizona College; Central Baptist College
Naylor, Natalie A. "The ante-bellum college movement: A reappraisal of Tewksbury's founding of American colleges and universities." History of Education Quarterly 13.3 (1973): 261–274. Robson, David W. Educating Republicans: The College in the Era of the American Revolution, 1750–1800. (Greenwood, 1985) online; Ruben, Julie.
The colonial colleges are nine institutions of higher education chartered in the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolution before the founding of the United States. [1] These nine have long been considered together, notably since the survey of their origins in the 1907 The Cambridge History of English and American Literature .