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Founded in 1855 by the abolitionist and Augusta College graduate John Gregg Fee (1816–1901), Berea College admitted both black and white students in a fully integrated curriculum, making it the first non-segregated, coeducational college in the South and one of a handful of institutions of higher learning to admit both male and female students in the mid-19th century. [10]
John Gregg Fee (September 9, 1816 – January 11, 1901) was an abolitionist, minister and educator, as well as the founder of the town of Berea, Kentucky.He established The Church of Christ, Union in Berea (1853), Berea College (1855), the first in the U.S. South with interracial and coeducational admissions, and late in his life, he founded another congregation that would become First ...
John Stephenson established ties with a diverse group of notable people whom he brought to speak at Berea College, from Roots author Alex Haley, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, to the Dalai Lama. Stephenson established the Tibetan scholarship program, which supports students at Berea College from the Tibetan exile community in India.
Lincoln Institute was an all-black boarding high school in Shelby County, Kentucky from 1912 to 1966. The school was created by the trustees of Berea College after the Day Law passed the Kentucky Legislature in 1904.
Larry Dwight Shinn (born January 16, 1942) was president of Berea College, Kentucky, from 1994 to 2012.Prior to this appointment he taught for fourteen years in the Department of Religion, Oberlin College, and was Vice-President of Academic Affairs, Dean of Humanities and Head of the Religious Studies Department at Bucknell University.
The project reaches fruition — though, definitely not completion — with a weekend-long celebration titled “Breaking Silence” at Berea College that culminates with an all-star tribute ...
The trustees of Berea College worked to build a new college that would serve the needs of Kentucky's black students seeking higher education. With a challenge grant of $200,000 from Andrew Carnegie, the trustees raised the matching funds and purchased 444.4 ac of farmland in Shelby County . [ 3 ]
Cheryl L. Nixon is the 10th president of Berea College in Berea, Kentucky.She is the first woman to serve in this role. [1] Nixon most recently served as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Fort Lewis College, and Associate Provost at the University of Massachusetts Boston.