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Albright's campus relocated from Myerstown, to Schuylkill College's campus, which is the present location of Albright, at the base of Mount Penn in Reading. The college is named for Pennsylvania-German evangelical preacher Jacob Albright , who founded the Evangelical Association (later known as the Evangelical United Brethren Church ).
Faculty and students from the Association’s Schuylkill Seminary moved to the former campus of Palatinate College in Myerstown in 1894 and established Albright College. Subsequently the college relocated to Reading , in 1928 after the Evangelical Association and the United Evangelical Church merged in 1922 to form the Evangelical Church which ...
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Sep. 26—The creation of a new addition on the Albright College campus is officially underway. A groundbreaking ceremony was held Monday for the Student Success Commons and Library. Construction ...
Northeastern Christian Junior College (1957–1993) – Bible college affiliated with the Churches of Christ, located in Lower Merion Township (Montgomery County) Medical College of Pennsylvania (1850–1994) – merged with Hahnemann Medical College; now a part of Drexel University College of Medicine
Schuylkill College was an institution of the Evangelical Church, newly reunited from the United Evangelical Church and the Evangelical Association. In 1928, it was decided to merge with Albright College at Myerstown with Schuylkill College. The merged institution became Albright College, located on the Schuylkill campus in Reading.
In 1954, United Theological Seminary was formed when the existing Bonebrake Seminary (the former United Brethren seminary) merged with The Evangelical School of Theology (the former Evangelical Church seminary located on the campus of Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania).
Alvernia University was founded in 1958 by the Bernardine Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis first as college for the sisters and then as a four-year liberal arts college. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Many of the college's renovated classrooms and offices had been used for elementary and secondary education before 1958.