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Colleges in Alaska that have closed, merged, or changed their names
Colleges in Alaska that have closed, merged, or changed their names
| College
Name |
City |
State |
Start Date |
End Date |
Affiliation |
Other Information |
Source |
| Alaska
Methodist University |
Anchorage |
Alaska |
1957 |
|
Methodist |
renamed Alaska Pacific
University after 1978 |
http://www.alaskapacific.edu/university_info/ |
| Far
North Bible College |
Anchorage |
Alaska |
1973 |
2008 |
Assemblies of God |
for transcripts contact The
Alaska District, 1048 West International Airport Road, Suite 101, Anchorage
AK 99518-1005, (907) 562-2247 |
"Seminaries
fall on bad time," USA Today, March 18, 2009, p. 6D. |
| Sheldon
Jackson College |
Sitka |
Alaska |
1878 |
2007 |
Presbyterian |
started by Presbyterian
missionaries John G. Brady (later Governor of Alaska) and Fannie Kellogg on
upper floor of an old military barracks as a training school for Tlingit
Indians; in 1882, the building burned to the ground; another Presbyterian
missionary, Dr. Sheldon Jackson, initiated a nationwide fund-raising
campaign, and later that year a new building was constructed; Dr. Jackson was
later named Alaska's first General Superintendent for Education; by 1884, the
school was known as the Sitka Industrial and Training School; in 1910, the
year of Dr. Jackson's death, the school was renamed Sheldon Jackson School
and in 1917, a new boarding high school was added; the college program was
organized in 1944 as an extension of the high school curriculum; and in 1966,
the year before the high school closed, Sheldon Jackson was accredited; in
1972, the Presbyterian Church relinquished its direct authority for the
operation of the college, ending 93 years of ownership by the Board of
National Missions of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. The college
maintained a covenant relationship with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and
with the Alaska/Northwest Synod |
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