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The then President of Howard College, Colonel J. T. Murfee, LL.D., [15] and a handful of faculty and students decided to remain in Marion, Alabama and immediately reorganized and founded Marion Military Institute, a military preparatory high school and college. [2] It was modeled after Murfee's alma mater - Virginia Military Institute. [2]
Students at these academies are organized as cadets, and graduate with appropriate licenses from the U.S. Coast Guard and/or the U.S. Merchant Marine.While not immediately offered a commission as an officer within a service, cadets do have the opportunity to participate in commissioning programs like the Strategic Sealift Officer Program (Navy) and Maritime Academy Graduate (Coast Guard).
Marion Military Institute: Marion: Public Associate's college: 320: 1842 [45] SACS: Miles College [c] Fairfield: Private (Christian Methodist Episcopal Church) Baccalaureate college: 1,258: 1905 [46] SACS: Miles Law School: Fairfield: Private Law school: 1974 Alabama Bar Association: Northeast Alabama Community College: Rainsville: Public ...
New Mexico Military Institute, Roswell, New Mexico, founded in 1891, is a four-year high school and a two-year junior college. Valley Forge Military Academy and College, Wayne, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1928, offers a co-ed two-year junior college program, as well as a military boarding school for young men grades seven through twelve. It is ...
The Chapel and Lovelace Hall, Marion Military Institute were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [1] They are the two surviving buildings from the 1854-58 Howard College campus. Howard College moved in 1887 to Birmingham, Alabama and the Colonel James Thomas Murfee stayed behind to open Marion Military Institute. [2]
Marion Military Institute was founded in 1887. [5] Howard College, initially the location of the current Marion Military Institute, was founded in Marion in 1841, and moved to Birmingham in 1887, later becoming Samford University. [5] A groundbreaking school for African Americans, the Lincoln Normal School, was founded here in 1867. [5]
The students must go on to complete a bachelor's degree before serving as regular officers on active duty. There are currently four military junior colleges: Georgia Military College, Milledgeville, Georgia; Marion Military Institute, Marion, Alabama; New Mexico Military Institute, Roswell, New Mexico
This is an incomplete list of U.S. college nicknames. ... Location Abilene Christian University: ... Marion Military Institute Tigers; Marist Red Foxes;