| College
Name |
City |
State |
Start Date |
End Date |
Affiliation |
Other Information |
Source |
| Abilene
Baptist College |
Abilene |
Texas |
1891 |
|
Baptist |
renamed Simmons College in 1891;
Simmons University in 1925; and Hardin-Simmons University in 1934 |
Hunt and Carper, eds. Religious Higher
Education in the United States. 1996.
Brenner, Morgan G. The Encyclopedia of College & University Name Histories. 2003. |
| Abilene
Christian University of Dallas |
Dallas |
Texas |
1971 |
|
|
founded as extension campus of
Abilene Christian; moved to Garland, TX in 1974; name change to Amber
University following separation from Abilene Christian; name changed again to
Amberton University in 2001 |
www.amberton.edu |
| Add-Ran
Jarvis College |
Thorp Spring |
Texas |
1896 |
1909 |
Church of Christ |
property sold to trustees of
Thorp Spring Christian College |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/TT/kbt26.html
Cummins, D. Duane. The Disciples Colleges: A History. 1987. |
| Add-Ran
Male and Female College |
Thorp Spring |
Texas |
1873 |
1896 |
Disciples of Christ |
founded by Addison and Randolph
Clark; came under control of Disciples of Christ in 1889; moved to Waco in
1895 and name changed to Texas Christian University in 1902; fire led to move
to Fort Worth in 1910 |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/TT/kbt26.html
Cummins, D. Duane. The Disciples Colleges: A History. 1987. |
| Alexander
College |
Jacksonville |
Texas |
1854 |
|
Methodist Episcopal Church, South |
founded in 1854 as New Danville
Masonic Female Academy near Kilgore; in 1873 moved into Kilgore as Alexander
Institute; in 1875 became part of East Texas Conference of Methodist
Episcopal Church, South; moved to Jacksonville in 1894 to property of the Sunset
Academy and operated under name of Alexander Collegiate Institute; began
offer junior college curriculum in 1909; name changed to Lon Morris College
in 1924 |
http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=5&l2=22&l3=39&top=10
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/LL/kbl15.html |
| Alta
Vista College |
Burleson |
Texas |
1885 |
1899 |
|
founded in 1879 as Red Oak
Academy; re-established as Alta Vista College in 1885; transferred to
Presbyterian Church in 1893 and renamed Red Oak Academy |
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us |
| Alta
Vista College |
Prairie View |
Texas |
1876 |
|
|
name change to Prairie View
State Normal & Industrial College in 1889; to Prairie View University in
1945; to Prairie View Agricultural & Mechanical College in 1947; to
Prairie View A&M University in 1973 |
Brenner, Morgan G. The Encyclopedia of
College & University Name Histories. 2003. |
| Ambassador
University |
Big Sandy |
Texas |
1947 |
1997 |
|
|
|
| Andrew
Female College |
Huntsville |
Texas |
1852 |
1879 |
Methodist |
erected on site of present
Huntsville High School; Named for Bishop James Osgood Andrew; after closure
building moved to house school for black children |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/AA/kball.html
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us |
| Annunciation
College |
|
Texas |
|
|
Congregation of the Incarnate Word
and Blessed Sacrament |
founded for the education of
Sisters, probably never enrolled lay students |
Schier and Russett. Catholic Women's
Colleges in America. 2002. |
| Arlington
College |
Arlington |
Texas |
1895 |
|
private |
founded by William M. Trimble
and Lee M. Hammond, co-principals of Arlington Public Schools; the two men
served as co-principals of the college until 1897; became Carlisle Military
Institute in 1901, Arlington Training School in 1913, Grubbs Vocational College
in 1917, North Texas Junior Agricultural, Mechanical and Industrial College
in 1923, Arlington State College in 1949, and University of Texas at
Arlington in 1967 |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/TT/ftr31.html
Songe, Alice H. American
Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. 1978. |
| Bacon
College |
|
Texas |
1862 |
|
|
|
www.cumberland.org/hfcpc/schools/Evans.htm |
| Bastrop
Military Institute |
Bastrop |
Texas |
1858 |
1879 |
private |
institution closed during the
Civil War and reopened in 1867; moved to Austin in 1870 and renamed Texas
Military Institute; college operated until 1879 when the president and
faculty joined Texas A&M |
www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/TT/kbt17.html |
| Bay
View College |
Portland |
Texas |
1893 |
1916 |
Christian Church |
founded by Alice and Thomas M.
Clark, members of the family that established Texas Christian University
(then called Add-Ran College) in Thorp Springs. The Clarks took over a vacant
twenty-room hotel in Portland, built during a land boom that fizzled. During
the first two years of operation students from the public school system in
Portland attended the college, a move approved by the local school board to
help the college get started. The state granted a charter in 1897 authorizing
the school to grant degrees. As the institution grew, additional buildings
were built–dormitories for boys and girls, a chapel, a gymnasium, and a
number of utility buildings. In 1903 tuition and board were listed at fifteen
dollars a month. At its peak the college had 164 boarding students enrolled
from twenty-two Texas counties. Over 2,000 students went through the school
in its twenty-three years of operation. The chapel was used by the community
for church services and as a meeting place for community events. Enrollment
declined as public schools in Texas began to fill educational needs. The
school was closed after the storm of 1916 seriously damaged the college
buildings |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/idc5.html |
| Bee
County Junior College |
Beeville |
Texas |
1966 |
|
public |
name changed to Coastal Bend
College after September 1998 |
http://vct.coastalbend.edu |
| Belle
Plain College |
Baird |
Texas |
1881 |
1892 |
Methodist |
Established by the Northwest
Conference of the Methodist Church. John Day gave the new school ten acres of
land in Belle Plain. During its first year (1881-82) the college operated in
conjunction with the public school. F. W. Chatfield served as its first
president. After a state charter was granted to the institution in the spring
of 1882, Rev. J. T. L. Annis took over as president for two years. During his
administration enrollment reached 122. Other presidents at Belle Plain
College were John W. McIllhenny (1884-85), C. M. Virdel (1885-87), and I. M.
Onins (1887-92).
Enrollment reached peak of 300 and students attended from throughout the
region. College developed a superior course of study, with special strength
in music. It had an orchestra and a brass band.
A girl's dormitory was built soon after founding, and in 1885 a 3-story
stone building was erected. School also had a military branch in town. Pupils
wore blue and gray uniforms. After town lost both county seat and many
citizens to Baird. By 1887 the
trustees were unable to make mortgage payments. Judge I. M. Onins took over
the school with its debts in 1887, after a successful school year, but the
mortgage company foreclosed on the property in 1889. The company allowed the
school to continue to operate until the president's death in 1892. |
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/BB/kbb26.html |
| Bishop
College |
Marshall |
Texas |
1881 |
1988 |
American Baptist Home Mission
Society |
S.W. Culver served as president
from 1881 to 1891; in 1925 began a two-year program for ministers; in 1929,
elected Joespeh J. Rhoads as first black president; also in 1929 discontinued
high school department and attained status as senior college from state;
accredited by Souther Association of Colleges in 1948; moved Dallas in 1961;
blacklisted by AAUP in 1970; initiated M.Ed. program in 1947; accreditation
revoked by Southern Association of Colelges and Schools in 1986; facilities
occupied by Paul Quinn College, originally from Waco |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/BB/kbb11.html
Egar, Emmanuel Edame. Development and Termination of Bishop College Between 1960 and
1988.
Ph.D. dissertation. 1990.
Lane, J.J. History of Education in Texas. 1903. |
| Bishop
Ward Normal and Collegiate Institute |
Huntsville |
Texas |
1883 |
1890 |
Methodist |
the fifth college established for blacks in
Texas |
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/HH/heh3.html |
| Blanco
Masonic University |
Blanco |
Texas |
|
|
|
not clear a program was offered,
two teachers were employed for a time; in 1875 plans were drawn up for a
building and the Texas legislature was petitioned; in 1883, resources were
transferred to Blanco Masonic High School that continued to function until
1893; |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/BB/kbb12.html |
| Blum
Male and Female College |
Newton |
Texas |
1880 |
1905 |
|
Chartered February 26, 1880, by
36 incorporators; named for Leon Blum, Galveston merchant, largest holder in
$20,000 capital stock -- $5 per share. First directors were: R. J.
Brailsford, H. J. Casey, W. W. Downs, W. A. Droddy, T. W. Ford, M. D. Hines;
First president was Joseph Syler. Pupils ranged in age from 5 to 50 years;
those under 12 met in downstairs of 2-story building; older pupils and adults
met upstairs. Average enrollment per term was 100 resident and boarding
pupils. Soon was called Burkeville School, and after expiration of College
Charter on February 20, 1905, the building served that purpose until torn
down in 1912. |
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us |
| Bosque
College and Seminary |
Bosque |
Texas |
1858 |
1865 |
|
It succeeded Bosque Academy and
also Waco Female Seminary which held its last term in 1856-57. The same
faculty and virtually the same board of trustees that had managed the Waco
seminary were involved in establishing the school which received its charter
on February 16, 1858. John C. Collier, a Cumberland Presbyterian minister who
had headed Bosque Academy in 1854 and taught at the Waco Female Seminary
during its last year, became president of the college. Among the trustees who
served both institutions were Herman Aiken, Noah T. Byars, George Bernard
Erath, and Amos Morrill. The prospectus for the female division announced an
annual session extending from September 1 to July 1, with the only break
being a one-week holiday at Christmas. The school would encompass primary and
preparatory departments, in addition to the "regular course"
(freshman through senior levels). Classes would include Latin, Greek, French,
Spanish, German, and Italian; music (melodeon and piano); drawing and
painting; and lessons in wax, fruit, flowers, and embroidery. Other studies
included algebra, trigonometry, chemistry, astronomy, rhetoric, logic,
political economy, and mental and moral philosophy. By 1858 Hebrew and the
guitar, violin, and flute had been added to the curriculum. Although the
school was nonsectarian, tuition was to be free for daughters of full-time
clergymen, or clergy of limited means.
The school was the first coeducational college in McLennan County, though
the male and female departments were originally located a mile apart. In 1860
Collier sold the Bosque Male College to the trustees but continued to teach
and serve as president. The school prospered and had as many as 400 students
in 1861, but the Civil War thinned its ranks: that year a company of 100 male
students left to enlist, and in 1863 Collier resigned to become a scout in
Ross's Brigade. In late 1863 or in 1864 Solomon G. O'Bryan took over as
president of Bosque Male and Female College, a position he held for two years.
(O'Bryan had taught in either the Bosque academy or the college while he was
pastor of the First Baptist Church, Waco, in the 1850s.) The school, also was
known as Bosqueville Male and Female College.
|
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/BB/kbbjk.html |
| Buffalo
Gap College |
Buffalo Gap |
Texas |
1885 |
1906 |
Presbyterian |
Founded 1885 by Presbyterian
Church, institution previously operated as a high school. In peak year, over
300 pupils, many from distant places, attended. First president was W. H.
White. College had greatest success under J. M. Wagstaff. Presidents later
were J. W. Melton, R. W. Benge, E. W. Doran, J. N. Ellis, John Collier, J. B.
Clay and (again) W. H. White. The two-story, red sandstone building had four
classrooms on the first floor, an auditorium on the second, and a belfry. The
curriculum included courses in Latin, Greek, Christian evidence, physics,
calculus, and music. |
www.cumberland.org/hfcpc/schools/Evans.htm
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/BB/kbb19.html
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us |
| Burleson
College |
Greenville |
Texas |
1895 |
1930 |
Baptist |
successor to Greenville College;
college initiated by Hunt County Baptist Association on October 1, 1894; The
following February Burleson College, named after Rufus C. Burleson, was
incorporated by the state of Texas as an educational institution with $50,000
in capital stock. The trustees met and elected S. J. Anderson, pastor of
First Baptist church in Greenville, president of the college on May 27, 1895.
Some of the land that was given to the college was sold to build and furnish
it. The institution took the faculty and pupils of Greenville College, which
had closed in April, and the eight seniors of that school became the first
graduating class of Burleson College in May. Ownership of Burleson College
property passed to the Hunt County Baptist Association in September. Since
the administration building was not completed by school time, Burleson
College was officially opened in September in the Central Public School
building.
The five-acre college campus was located one mile from Greenville, and the
three-story, brick administration building was completed in October 1895. A
group of interested men organized the Dormitory Stock Company in 1895 and
built a three-story, wooden dormitory building by early 1896. Anderson
resigned the presidency on September 28, 1898, and sold the dormitory, which
he had owned, in November 1899. This transaction left Burleson College
without a dormitory until late 1900, when the college purchased the dorm from
J. S. Hill. The Hunt Association decided to place the college under the
Education Commission of the Baptist General Convention in December 1899.
In June 1907 the trustees and the Baptist Educational Commission decided to
make Burleson College a junior college. The three-story, brick girls'
dormitory was completed in June 1916, and a similar boys' dormitory was
completed by the fall semester of 1917. On April 8, 1925, the girls'
dormitory was destroyed by fire, and a similar three-story building was
completed by the fall semester of 1926. In 1929 Burleson College had 325
students and nineteen teachers. The college closed on December 5, 1930, due
to debt and competition with tax-supported schools.
|
www.rootsweb.com/~txhunt/h_e_burleson.txt
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/BB/kbb20.html |
| Burnetta
College |
Venus |
Texas |
1896 |
1909 |
Disciples of Christ |
named for Burnetta Barnes;
four-story frame building was built with contributions of $500 by the
citizens of Venus and a $5,000 gift from A. D. Leach, who became the school's
first president; opened with 250 students on September 7, 1896; at its
largest there were 350 day students, some boarders, and from eight to ten
teachers; main building burned and was rebuilt, but the college was later
abandoned, and the building became the property of the Venus public schools |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook
Cummins, D. Duane. The Disciples Colleges: A History. 1987. |
| Butler
College |
Tyler |
Texas |
1905 |
1972 |
Baptist |
coeducational school for blacks |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/BB/kbb23.html |
| Calhoun
College |
Kingston |
Texas |
1887 |
1893 |
|
private, nondenominational,
coeducational; began in what had been Kingston High School, a two-story
wooden building owned and operated by J. L. Clemmons and J. C. Todd; in 1885
apparently began offering college-level instruction in addition to primary and
secondary courses; two years later the school was renamed and chartered as
Calhoun College; first president, T. S. Sligh, was succeeded in 1889 by T. S.
Wallis until the school closed; no entrance requirements, offered work
leading to the bachelor of arts degree with courses in six departments:
primary, preparatory, teachers', music, elocution, and scientific; though the
building could accommodate up to 400 students, the enrollment never seems to
have reached that level; tuition ranged from one dollar to four dollars a
month, depending on the level of instruction; changed ownership a number of
times during its existence...at one time a Professor Booth, who "loved
whiskey and drugs," operated Calhoun College and severely lowered its
reputation; discontinued college-level instruction after 1893 and continued
as a private primary and secondary school until sometime around 1900. |
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/kbc1.html |
| Carlton
College |
Bonham |
Texas |
1865 |
1916 |
Church of Christ (Disciples) |
Formally chartered in 1881,
Carlton College began under the direction of Charles Carlton (1821-1902) as
the Bonham Female Institute. Carlton, a native of England and a Disciples of
Christ minister, had come to Bonham in 1867 to take charge of the institute,
which soon became a coeducational school known as Bonham Seminary. Carlton,
several of his children, and his second wife, Sallie, taught many of the
classes at his Bonham schools. In 1882, the first of several Carlton College
buildings was constructed in this block of East Tenth St. Carlton College
admitted all young men and women who demonstrated a sincere desire for
education. As the Carltons grew older, they decided to limit enrollment, and
the college became an all-female school in 1887. By the time of Carlton's
death in 1902, approximately 3600 pupils had attended his schools in Bonham.
Carlton College declined with the death of its founder and in 1914 was merged
with a school in Sherman to form Carr-Burdette College. When that institution
closed in 1916, the graduates of Carlton were adopted into the alumni
fellowship of Texas Christian University in
Fort Worth. |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/idc5.html
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us
Cummins, D. Duane. The Disciples Colleges: A History.
1987. |
| Carr-Burdette
College |
Sherman |
Texas |
1893 |
1914 |
Christian Church (Disciples of
Christ) |
private junior college; Cummins
gives closing date of 1929 |
http://www.nctc.cc.tx.us/General_Information/Intropage.html
Cummins, D. Duane. The Disciples Colleges: A History. 1987.
Lane, J.J. History of Education in Texas. 1903. |
| Centenary
College |
Lampasas |
Texas |
1883 |
1895 |
Methodist Episcopal Church, South |
Centenary College Preparatory
School, Lampasas' first coeducational college, was founded 1883 by the local
Methodist Episcopal Church, on the centennial of the organization of
Methodism in the United States. First president was The Rev. Marshall
McIlhaney, at a salary of $125 per month. Two 3-story buildings comprised the
plant. First-year enrollment was 174 and tuition was $25 per 5-month
semester; Christmas break lasted 1-1/2 days. In 1894 the property was sold
and classes moved to the vacant Park Hotel; when the hotel burned a year
later, the college closed. St. Dominic's Villa, a Catholic boarding academy
for girls of all faiths, opened in 1900 in the former Centenary College
buildings. Under the able, spirited direction of the Dominican Sisters, it
made progress for two decades. Its former students recalled their villa days
as ones of "girlhood happiness". Sister Mary Catherine, director,
and her dedicated staff developed an atmosphere of home-like contentment and
high scholastic standards. The college had two 5-month semesters; to gain
school days, Easter vacation was not observed. Peak enrollment of
70 was reached in the second year. Anti-Catholic activity of the "Ku
Klux
Klan" helped influence the villa to close, 1925. |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/kbc53.html
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us |
| Central
College |
Sulphur Springs |
Texas |
1877 |
1894 |
Methodist Episcopal Church, South |
began as Sulphur Springs
District Conference High School. In 1882, President Rev. J. W. Adkisson
drafted a charter to reorganize the school as Central College. Control of the
college was transferred to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The college
departments included arts and sciences, primary, preparatory, commercial, and
music. The school had two literary societies, Kappa Tau and Belles Lettres.
Enrollment ranged from 150 to 200. In 1894 a Central College professor, H. P.
Eastman, purchased the college and continued operation under a new charter.
At that time the name was changed to Eastman College and Conservatory of
Music and Art. The institution operated under Eastman's leadership until it
was destroyed by fire in 1900. |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/kbc9.html
Lane, J.J. History of Education in Texas. 1903. |
| Central
Nazarene University |
Hamlin |
Texas |
1910 |
1929 |
Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene |
initially offered bachelors
degrees; after 1918 only offered junior college curricula; merged with Bethany-Peniel College |
http://snu.edu/?p={42F09E01-0937-423D-B1A9-18183A4B3A4A} |
| Central
Plains College & Conservatory of Music |
Plainview |
Texas |
1907 |
1910 |
|
|
www.snu.edu |
| Central
Texas College |
Blooming Grove |
Texas |
1899 |
1912 |
Methodist |
In 1899, the Corsicana District
of the Northwest Texas Methodist Conference established a college preparatory
school. The following year, the University Training School opened at this
site under the direction of the Rev. J. W. Adkisson, a respected Christian
educator. In 1909, a junior college curriculum was added and the institution
was renamed Central Texas College. The 15-acre campus included an ornate
three-story Victorian main building. |
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us |
| Chapel
Hill College |
Daingerfield |
Texas |
1852 |
1869 |
Cumberland Presbyterian |
Chartered 1850. Opened 1852 in
brick building on land donated by Allen Urquhart, Republic of Texas surveyor.
Founded by Marshall Presbytery of Cumberland Presbyterian Church, to educate
ministers. Also offered courses in medicine, law and liberal arts. Closed in
1869 for lack of students and funds. |
http://www.cumberland.org/hfcpc/schools/ChapHill.htm;
http://www.cumberland.org/hfcpc/mcdonold/42-49.htm
Blandin. History
of Higher Education of Women in the South. 1909.
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us |
| Chapel
Hill Male and Female College |
Brenham |
Texas |
1849? |
1856 |
non-denominational |
in 1854, state changed charter
to allow trustees to transfer control; name changed to Soule University under
influence of Texas Conference of Methodist Church |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/;
www.southwestern.edu/about/history.html |
| Chappell
Hill Female College |
Chappell Hill |
Texas |
1850 |
1912 |
Methodist |
Chappell Hill Male and Female
Institute pioneered in higher learning in Texas. Under Methodist Church after
1854. Women's branch was chartered separately, 1856. Rebuilt after a fire in
1871; closed in 1912. |
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us
Lane, J.J. History of Education in Texas. 1903. |
| Cherokee
Junior College |
Cherokee |
Texas |
1911 |
1918 |
Methodist Episcopal South |
housed in building that was
previously used by West Texas Normal and Business College; after 1918, the
building was purchased and used as a public school until it burned in 1945 |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/kbcts.html |
| Christian
College & Business Institute |
Lingleville |
Texas |
1903 |
1909 |
Church of Christ |
|
Cummins, D. Duane. The Disciples
Colleges: A History. 1987. |
| Christian
College of the Southwest |
Mesquite |
Texas |
1962 |
1971 |
Church of Christ |
founded as Garland Christian
College; closed due to financial difficulties and campus was acquired by
Abilene Christian College |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/kbc19.html
Songe, Alice H. American
Universities and Colleges: A
Dictionary of Name Changes. 1978. |
| Christopher
College of Corpus Christi |
Corpus Christi |
Texas |
1958 |
1968 |
Sisters of Incarnate Word |
junior college; successor to
Mary Immaculate College; name changed in 1965 |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/iwc1.html
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/kbc20.html |
| Clebarro
College |
Cleburne |
Texas |
1909 |
1917 |
Church of Christ |
|
Young, M. Norvel. A History of Colleges
Established and Controlled by Members of the Churches of Christ. 1949.
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/idc2.html
Cummins, D. Duane. The Disciples Colleges: A History. 1987. |
| Cleveland
College |
Parker County |
Texas |
1885 |
|
|
later called The Training
School. Granbury College later moved
into the building and became Weatherford College |
www.rootsweb.com/~txparker/edu/ |
| Clifton
College |
Clifton |
Texas |
1896 |
1954 |
Norwegian Lutheran |
located on land donated by N.J.
Nelson and T.T. Hogvold. Opened as a
high school. Under the direction of
Dr. Carl Tyssen, president, college courses first offered in 1922; accredited
as junior college in 1924; high school discontinued in 1938; Solberg states
it was absorbed by Texas Lutheran College |
Solberg. Lutheran Higher
Education in North America. 1985.
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us |
| Cofer
Bible College |
Krum |
Texas |
1909 |
|
|
|
Cummins, D. Duane. The Disciples
Colleges: A History. 1987. |
| Cold
Springs Collegiate Institute |
Cold Springs |
Texas |
1852 |
|
|
|
Blandin. The History of Higher
Education of Women in the South. 1909. |
| Colegio
Jacinto Trevino |
Mercedes |
Texas |
1970 |
|
|
The Mexican American Youth
Organizationqv voted unanimously at a statewide meeting during the Christmas
holidays of 1969-70 to found Colegio Jacinto Treviño. The mission of the
college was to "to develop a Chicano with conscience and skills, [to give]
the barrios a global view, [and] to provide positive answers to racism,
exploitation, and oppression." A core planning group of fifteen set the
initial goal-a bilingual, bicultural program to train teachers of Hispanic
children. Antioch College, in Yellow Springs, Ohio, agreed to lend its name
to the development of a degree in education through its University Without
Walls graduate program. In partial fulfillment of master's degrees in
education from Antioch, fifteen students agreed to develop an undergraduate
training program for teachers. The group was instructed by an adjunct
volunteer faculty of university professors and others and supervised by a
full-time Ed.D. Colegio Jacinto Treviño received small grants from the
federal government, churches, and foundations. Income and expenses were
shared among the graduate students. Enrollment ranged from fifteen to fifty
students of high school and undergraduate age.
Difficulties arose in the structure and governance of the college, criteria
for selection of students and requirements for degrees. It was unclear how
the school was to provide the broadest possible educational opportunities,
compensate for past neglect, and also secure recognition of the school's
degree. In addition to developing a teaching curriculum, the group proposed
to provide a center of cultural dialogue encompassing a college press, a
clearinghouse of information, and a distribution service for books in Spanish
unavailable elsewhere in the country. To this end, members visited student
groups and publishing houses in Mexico City. The first venture was to be a
deluxe volume of art and poetry, "Semillas de liberación"
("Seeds of Liberation"). The college was managed by consensus,
policy being set by a board of directors that met quarterly. The board's
internal dynamics were political, intense, and eventually polarized in two
identifiable camps. By the summer of 1971 irreducible tension resulted in the
pulling away of one camp (some of whose members established another Hispanic
center, Juarez-Lincoln University). Internal pressures were compounded by
organized external efforts to close the college. Colegio Jacinto Treviño was
closed in the mid-1970s. |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/CC/kbc51.html |
| College
of Marshall |
Marshall |
Texas |
1912 |
|
Baptist |
name changed to East Texas
Baptist College in 1944 and to East Texas Baptist University in 1984 |
www.cets.sfasu.edu/Harrison/history.htm
Hunt and Carper, eds. Religious Higher Education in the United States. 1996.
Brenner, Morgan G. The Encyclopedia of College & University Name Histories. 2003. |
| College
of Our Savior |
|
Texas |
|
|
Franciscans of Mary Immaculate |
founded for the education of
Sisters, probably never enrolled lay students |
Schier and Russett. Catholic Women's
Colleges in America. 2002. |
| Colorado
College |
Columbus |
Texas |
1857 |
|
Lutheran Synod of West Virginia |
established by John J. Scherer,
who later became president of Marion College in Virginia; Hermann Emil
Mathias Jordt and Daniel Draub, both of whom had been associated with Hermann
University for some years, were among the original 25 trustees of Colorado
College. John J. Scherer replaced his half-brother, Gideon, as pastor of the
local Lutheran church in early 1858. |
Solberg. Lutheran Higher
Education in North America. 1985.
http://www.columbustexas.net/library/history/footnote/part5-38.htm |
| Columbia
College |
Van Alstyne |
Texas |
1889 |
1906 |
|
An association composed of
merchants and landowners from the Van Alstyne area saw the need for quality
education and established Columbia College. The school served all grades
through college level, emphasizing vocational training as well as the arts
and sciences. The institution was housed in a three-story frame structure on
this four-acre fenced site. There were 40 students in the first class and the
enrollment increased to 578 by the 1893-1894 school year. Students from a
large section of North Texas studied at this coeducational facility. Howell
Lake Piner (1858-1935) served from 1890-1895 as the school's first president.
He was born in Kentucky, reared in Honey Grove, Texas, and received his
education at Vanderbilt University. After selling his interest in Grayson
College, Whitewright, Texas, Piner came to Columbia and skillfully directed
the development of the institution. As the area grew, Van Alstyne residents
recognized the need for a community high school. Columbia College became part
of the Van Alstyne Public School System in 1906. The college building
continued to serve the schools until 1915 when it was destroyed by fire. |
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us |
| Concrete
College |
Cuero |
Texas |
1865 |
1881 |
|
One of most respected schools in
Texas in its day. Founded by the Rev. John Van Epps Covey (1821-1898), noted
educator and minister. Embraced primary through collegiate levels, accepting
only students over 12 years old for college work. Broad course offerings
included classical and modern languages, penmanship, music (piano, guitar,
violin, flute), plus homemaking and etiquette for girls. A well-attended
business school taught bookkeeping, banking, commercial law, and
letter-writing. Enrollment, including boarding and day students, averaged
100; peaked at 250 in 1873. On weekdays pupils rose at 5 a.m., took a brisk
walk before breakfast, heard devotional services, and went to classes. Nights
were reserved for study and discussion, with "lights out" at 9 p.m.
Gambling, liquor, smoking, and profanity were strictly forbidden. Students
wrote their lessons on slates, as paper was expensive, then recited them to
the instructor. June graduation was the ceremonious occasion of public
speeches and oral examinations. In 1881 the college closed after epidemics
broke out and the railroad bypassed town of Concrete. Years later rock walls
of main building were crushed and used to surface roads. Only rubble marks
site today. |
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us |
| Crowell
College |
Crowell |
Texas |
|
|
|
|
http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=5&l2=22&l3=39&top=10 |
| Cumberland
College |
Leonard |
Texas |
1911 |
1918 |
Cumberland Presbyterian |
coeducational institution. J. W.
Pearson was first temporary president; campus included a three-story,
twelve-room brick classroom building and a two-story, thirteen-room dormitory
for women; opened with thirty-four students; DeCosta Howard Dodson, president
and professor of mathematics in first year; enrollment for the 1912-13 school
year was twenty-two; in 1914-15 W. J. Jackey became the president, and the
following year W. A. Boone, took over. In 1914 the Cumberland Presbyterian
General Assembly provided ministerial aid funds for Cumberland College with
financial problems plagueing the institution from the beginning; in 1911 the
Texas Synod formulated plans to obtain funding through donations, and the
trustees of the synod were granted a loan of $6,000. The loan and outside
donations enabled the synod to purchase the college; on December 28, 1917, at
a meeting of the Texas Synod, the board of trustees of Cumberland College
recommended that the school be closed on January 8, 1918, and the property be
sold. The campus was sold to the city of Leonard, and the classroom building
became Leonard High School. This building and the women's dormitory were
subsequently demolished. The site is now the location of the Leonard public
schools. |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/kbc48.html |
| Cy-Fair
College |
Cyprus |
Texas |
2003 |
|
public |
name change to Lone Star
College-CyFair in 2008; one of five colleges that comprised the North Harris
Montgomery Community College District and now operate as the Lone Star
College System |
http://cyfair.lonestar.edu/29618/ |
| Dallas
College |
Dallas |
Texas |
1878 |
1881 |
Baptist |
possibly a successor to Dallas
Male and Female College |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/DD/kbd3.html |
| Dallas
Female College |
Dallas |
Texas |
|
|
Methodist Episcopal South |
|
Don W. Holter. Fire on the
Prairie: Methodism in the History of
Kansas.
1969. |
| Daniel
Baker College |
Brownwood |
Texas |
1888 |
1953 |
Presbyterian |
founded by B.T. McClelland;
became Episcopal College of the Southwest in 1950; merged with Howard Payne
University in Brownwood in 1953 |
www.hputx.edu/hpuhome/index.html
Hunt and Carper, eds. Religious Higher Education in the United States. 1996.
Lane, J.J. History of Education in Texas. 1903. |
| Decatur
Baptist College |
Decatur |
Texas |
1891 |
|
Baptist |
Closely linked to Northwest
Baptist College, which operated from 1891 to 1897, Decatur Baptist College
opened its doors in 1898. The college was the result of an effort by Texas
Baptist leaders to consolidate all Texas Baptist Schools under the direction
of Baylor University and the Baptist General Convention of Texas. The
college, which initially served primary and secondary school students in
addition to the junior college program, had an enrollment of 105 in the fall
of 1898. J. L. Ward, president of the college from 1900 to 1907 and 1914 to
1950, was most influential in the development and expansion of the college.
By 1959 the school offered courses in religion, fine arts, business,
languages, and vocational training. Increasing financial challenges and
decreasing enrollment led the college to accept an invitation to move to
Dallas. The school's name was changed to Dallas Baptist College in February
1965; its first classes were held that fall, with an enrollment of 941. The
college became a four-year institution in 1968. Renamed Dallas Baptist
University in 1985. |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/DD/kdb1.html
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us |
| Dominican
College |
Houston |
Texas |
1945 |
1975 |
Dominican Sisters |
|
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/iwc1.html
Schier and Russett. Catholic Women's Colleges in America. 2002. |
| East
Texas Normal College |
Cooper |
Texas |
1889 |
|
|
moved to Commerce, TX in 1894;
name change to East Texas State Normal College in 1917; to East Texas State
Teachers College in 1923; to East Texas State College in 1957; to East Texas
State University in 1965; to Texas A&M-Commerce in 1996 |
Brenner, Morgan G. The Encyclopedia of
College & University Name Histories. 2003. |
| Eastern
Texas Female College |
Tyler |
Texas |
1857 |
1865 |
Baptist |
Fannin and Charnwood streets;
originally the female department of Tyler University, which was founded in
1853 by the Cherokee Baptist Association, and was under the direction of G.
C. Baggerly and his wife in 1855; two years later fire destroyed the main
building, and only the women's classes were conducted that year. The female
department was renamed Eastern Texas Female College and also known as Tyler
Female Seminary; it was one of two Baptist female seminaries in Smith County.
The college consisted of a sizable two-room frame building for regular
classes and a separate large building in the schoolyard for music lessons and
practice. J. T. Hand became president in 1860, when the enrollment reached
eighty-seven. unsuccessful attempt was made in 1861 to transfer the school to
the Eastern Baptist Convention. Heavy debts and poor enrollment caused the
college to operate at a loss. A fire destroyed much of the facility in 1862,
and Hand conducted classes in his home for over two years. In 1865 the regents
leased the building and equipment to Hand, who continued to operate the
school as Charnwood Institute. |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/EE/kbe4.html |
| Eastman
College |
Sulphur Springs |
Texas |
1894 |
1900 |
|
see entry for Central College |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/kbc9.html |
| Edinburg
College |
Edinburgh |
Texas |
1927 |
|
|
established as Edinburg Junior
College, Edinburg Regional College in 1948, Pan American College in 1951,
state control I 1965 and then in 1989 became Univ of Texas-Pan American |
www.panam.edu/about/brief-history.html
Songe, Alice H. American
Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. 1978. |
| El Paso
Christian College |
El Paso |
Texas |
|
|
|
records located at Dallas
Christian College |
http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/uhri/certauthhist.cfm |
| El Paso
Junior College |
El Paso |
Texas |
1920 |
|
|
first municipal junior college
in Texas; absorbed by College of Mines and Metallurgy, a branch of University
of Texas in 1927; later became University of Texas-El Paso |
http://www.nctc.cc.tx.us/General_Information/Intropage.html |
| Emerson
College |
Campbell |
Texas |
1903 |
1906 |
|
named for Ralph Waldo Emerson;
opened in facilities of Henry College |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/HH/kbh4.html
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/hlc4.html
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us |
| Evangelical
Lutheran College |
Brenham |
Texas |
1891 |
1912 |
Texas Synod, Lutheran |
affiliated with Iowa Synod in
1896; in 1912 moved to Seguin, TX as Lutheran College of Seguin, predecessor
to Texas Lutheran University |
Solberg. Lutheran Higher
Education in North America. 1985.
http://www.texas-settlement.org/markers/guadalupe/61.html |
| Evangelical
Lutheran College |
Rutersville |
Texas |
1870 |
1878 |
Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
The Online
Handbook states buildings were bought for $600 in
1870 and Rev. H. Mertz became supervisor and instructor. The institution met
with small success and in 1878 was forced to close. Another Evangelical
Lutheran College was a predecessor of Texas Lutheran College. The Atlas states Synod bought an existing campus at Rutersville in 1872
and operated her German-American College there until 1881 with Pastor H. Merz
as president. In 1891 the Synod acquired a school plant on this site and
established her Evangelical Lutheran College here. The courses were
preparatory, commercial, teacher training, and classical. A dormitory for
boys stood at Pecan and Clinton. Successive administrators were Pastors G.
Langner, O. Hartmann, J. H. Romberg, E. Gerfen, F. Zimmermann. Synod closed the
college in 1906, then founded an Evangelical Lutheran Pro-seminar on this
campus to specialize in training students for entrance to a theological
seminary. Launched Sept. 18, 1906, it prospered for six years under
leadership of Pastor C. Weeber. |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/EE/kbe9.html
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us |
| Evangelical
Theological Seminary |
Dallas |
Texas |
1924 |
|
|
name changed to Dallas
Theological Seminary in 1936 |
www.tsha.utex.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/DD/kbd5.html |
| Ewing
Collge |
La Grange |
Texas |
1848 |
1850's |
Cumberland Presbyterian |
|
The Handbook of Texas
Online;
http://www.cumberland.org/hfcpc/mcdonold/42-49.htm |
| Fairemont
Female Seminary |
Weatherford |
Texas |
|
|
|
|
The Handbook of Texas Online |
| Fairfield
Female College |
Fairfield |
Texas |
|
|
|
Opened in 1859 with Dr. Henry
Lee Graves as president. Chartered February 8, 1860. |
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us |
| Fort
Worth Christian College |
Fort Worth |
Texas |
1956 |
1971 |
Church of Christ |
campus acquired by Abilene
Christian College |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/FF/kbf5.html
Songe, Alice H. American
Colleges and Universities: A Dictionary of Name Changes. 1978. |
| Fort
Worth University |
Fort Worth |
Texas |
1881 |
1911 |
Methodist Episcopal Church |
founded as Texas Wesleyan
College; renamed FWU in 1889; school of law started in 1893 and school of
medicine in 1894; presidents included A.A. Johnson, P.M. White, Oscar L.
Fisher after 1891; merged with Methodist Episcopal University at Oklahoma
City |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/FF/kbf6.html
Lane, J.J. History of Education in Texas. 1903. |
| Fredericksburg
College |
Fredericksburg |
Texas |
1876 |
1884 |
German Methodist Church |
|
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/FF/kbf9.html |
| Gail
Business College |
Abilene |
Texas |
|
|
|
|
www.ladytexian.com/txtaylor/memory/postcards2.htm |
| Gainesville
Junior College |
Gainesville |
Texas |
1924 |
|
|
founded as municipal junior
college; became North Central Texas College |
http://www.nctc.cc.tx.us/General_Information/Intropage.html |
| Galveston
Medical College |
Galveston |
Texas |
1865 |
1873 |
|
first medical school in Texas;
associated with Soule University; when closed, G.S. Dowell and others founded
Texas Medical College |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/daybyday/07-17-004.html |
| Galveston
University |
Galveston |
Texas |
1840 |
1844 |
|
|
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/GG/kbg5.html |
| Garland
Christian College |
Mesquite |
Texas |
1962 |
|
Churches of Christ |
name changed to Christian
College of the Southwest in 1963 |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/kbc19.html |
| Girls'
Industrial College |
Denton |
Texas |
1901 |
|
state supported |
became College of Industrial
Arts in 1905, Texas State College for Women in 1935 |
Songe, Alice H. American Universities
and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. 1978. |
| Gladstone
College |
Celeste |
Texas |
|
|
|
successor to Perrin School
founded in 1890; operated briefly as Gladstone College and later as Hawthorne
College; by 1899 was a college prep called Elmwood Institute |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/EE/kbe7.html |
| Goodnight
College |
Goodnight |
Texas |
1898 |
1917 |
Baptist |
Founded by first permanent Texas
Panhandle ranchers, Col. and Mrs. Charles Goodnight. With 20 students,
classes began in the Methodist church while donors' funds were being used to
erect 3-story administration building, two dormitories, and dining hall. Enrolment
grew to 200; school had good athletic program. College in 1905 became a
Baptist-supported academy; a junior college, 1913. Presidents were: Dr.
Marshall McIlhaney, C. H. Webb, the Rev. J. P. Reynolds, Dr. D. T.
Sutherland, the Rev. A. H. Thornton, E. B. Moore, and R. B. Morgan. In World
War I era the useful pioneer school closed. |
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us |
| Granbury
College |
Parker County |
Texas |
1873 |
|
Methodist Episcopal Church, South |
W.P. Wilson first principal,
followed by E.P. Williams |
www.rootsweb.com/~txparker/edu/
Lane, J.J. History of Education in Texas. 1903. |
| Grayson
College |
Whitewright |
Texas |
1887 |
1912 |
|
|
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/GG/kbg16.html |
| Greenville
College |
Greenville |
Texas |
|
1895 |
|
|
www.rootsweb.com/~txhunt/h_e_burleson.txt |
| Grubbs
Vocational College |
Arlington |
Texas |
1917 |
|
state supported |
founded on property of what had
been Arlington College and a series of other private institutions; a junior
college with a high school department that operated as a branch of Texas
A&M; renamed North Texas Junior Agricultural College in 1923 and later
North Texas Agricultural College; in 1949 name changed to Arlington State
College and then after transfer to the University of Texas System in 1965, it
was renamed the University of Texas at Arlington in 1967 |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/UU/kcu8.html
Songe, Alice H. American
Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. 1978.
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us |
| Guadalupe
College |
Gonzales |
Texas |
1841 |
|
|
|
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/GG/kbg17.html |
| Guadalupe
College |
Guadalupe City |
Texas |
1848 |
1849 |
|
|
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/GG/kbg18.html |
| Guadalupe
College |
Seguin |
Texas |
1887 |
1936 |
Guadalupe Baptist Association |
co-educational boarding school
with preparatory, collegiate, normal, theological and industrial departments;
J.H. Garnett was first president |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/GG/kbg19.html
Lane, J.J. History of Education in Texas. 1903. |
| Gulf
Coast Bible College |
Houston |
Texas |
|
|
|
moved to Oklahoma City in 1985
and changed name to Mid-America Bible College |
http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/uhri/certauthhist.cfm |
| Gulf
Coast University of Industrial Arts |
College Port |
Texas |
1908 |
|
|
Jonathan Edward Pierce and Abel
Brown Pierce hired land developer Burton D. Hurd to sell off 9,000 acres of
their ranch lands in 1908. The agreement with Hurd called for the development
of a town that would include a college and a port on Trespalacios Bay.
Advertising the venture in newspapers of northern states, Hurd promoted the
area's mild climate and promising farming opportunities. A number of families
relocated to Collegeport to purchase land, establish farms, and build new
homes. |
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us |
| Gunter
Bible College |
Gunter |
Texas |
1903 |
1928 |
Church of Christ (Disciples) |
Junior college that opened with
thre teachers and nine students and later reached twelve teachers and 190
students. Nimrod L. Clark was the
first president, serving nine years.
Alfred Ellmore served from 1912 t0 1922 and was succeeded by John R.
Freeman. The college moved to
Littlefield in 1928 before closing in 1930. |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/GG/kbg22.html
Cummins, D. Duane. The Disciples Colleges: A History. 1987. |
| Hawthorne
College |
Celeste |
Texas |
|
|
|
successor to Perrin School
founded in 1890; operated briefly as Gladstone College and later as Hawthorne
College; by 1899 was a college prep called Elmwood Institute |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/EE/kbe7.html |
| Henderson
Female College |
Henderson |
Texas |
1856 |
|
|
|
Blandin. The History of Higher
Education of Women in the South. 1909. |
| Henry
College |
Campbell |
Texas |
1892 |
1901 |
|
founded by Henry Bridges and
Henry Eastman; in 1903 under new ownership opened as Emerson College |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/HH/kbh4.html
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us |
| Hereford
Christian College |
Hereford |
Texas |
1902 |
1903 |
Christian Church (Disciples of
Christ) |
Opened as co-educational public
school in newly-built, 3-story main building. By 1903, college was
transferred to Christian Church for needed financial support. Renamed Add-Ran
College. The next year, name changed to Panhandle Christian College. Name reverted
to Hereford Christian College during the last three years. College was forced to close in 1912. Housed
Hereford High School, 1915-26. |
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/HH/kch6.html
Cummins, D. Duane. The Disciples Colleges: A History. 1987. |
| Hill
College |
Hillsboro |
Texas |
1923 |
1950 |
public |
originally Hillsboro Junior
College, operated as extension of Hillsboro High School |
http://www.nctc.cc.tx.us/General_Information/Intropage.html |
| Hockaday
Junior College |
Dallas |
Texas |
|
|
|
|
|
| Holy
Trinity College |
Dallas |
Texas |
1905 |
1929 |
Vincentian Fathers |
chartered as University of
Dallas after 1910; charter dormant after 1929 |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/UU/kbu2.html
Brenner, Morgan G. The Encyclopedia of College & University Name Histories. 2003. |
| Houston
College for Negroes |
Houston |
Texas |
1927 |
1947 |
|
later Texas State University for
Negroes, now Texas Southern University since 1947 |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/TT/ket27.html
Brenner, Morgan G. The Encyclopedia of College & University Name Histories. 2003. |
| Houston
International University |
Houston |
Texas |
1970 |
1990 |
|
"a university without
walls," was established Hispanic International University, to provide
alternative postsecondary education for Mexican Americans. Leonel Castillo,
Ben Reyes, and Hector GarcÃa, were among the founders. Robert Navarro was the
first president. Later, Castillo and May N. Paulissen also served as
president. In its first several years HIU offered only a small number of
seminars. In 1974 it gained admission to the Union for Experimental Colleges
and Universities which gave it the authority to grant B.A. and B.S. degrees
in social work and public administration. The union expressed concern that
only 13 percent of HIU students were Mexican American and that the school had
moved away from the Mexican-American section of the city. Enrollment in HIU
progressed at a slow rate, and official reports noted that between 1970 and
1977 it awarded only a small number of degrees. Between 1978 and 1982 the
graduation rate was reported at between ten and twenty-six per year. In 1983
the school changed its name to Houston International University and began to
focus on older-than-average working adults. In 1985 HIU ended its affiliation
with UECU, leaving it without legal authority to grant degrees in the state.
In 1986 it enrolled 400 students, mostly in English-improvement classes. In
April 1987 HIU was certified by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
for a two-year period on the condition that it build its faculty, improve
library services, and seek accreditation from the Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools. |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/HH/kch18.html |
| Houston
Junior College |
Houston |
Texas |
1927 |
|
|
University of Houston after 1934 |
Songe, Alice H. American Universities
and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. 1978. |
| Jefferson
College |
Jefferson |
Texas |
|
|
|
|
http://txgenes.com/TxMarion/HistoricalMarkersG-L.html |
| Juarez-Lincoln
University |
Austin |
Texas |
1971 |
1979 |
|
emerged from a 1969 state
conference of the Mexican American Youth Organization. Shortly after the
conference, Jacinto Treviño College was established in Mercedes. Leonard
Mestas of Denver and André Guerrero served as codirectors. Political
differences led to a division in 1971, and Guerrero and Mestas left to form
their own school, Juárez-Lincoln.
During the first year the school operated in Fort Worth, but in 1972 it was
moved to Austin. The offices were initially located at St. Edward's
University. In 1975, when enrollment increased to nearly 200, the school
moved to its own campus at 715 East First Street. Juárez-Lincoln became an
affiliate of the Antioch Graduate School of Education in Ohio. Until 1975 the
school was known as Juárez-Lincoln Center, but with the addition of a
bachelor of arts program to its master of education program, it changed its
name to Juárez-Lincoln University. The institution had three programs: the
master of education program, as part of the Antioch Graduate School of
Education; the bachelor of arts program, in conjunction with Antioch College;
and the National Farmworker Information Clearinghouse, a national resource
center collecting data on migrant farm workers and migrant programs.
Juárez-Lincoln's curricula emphasized the bilingual and bicultural
environment and the school followed the "university-without-walls"
model, in which students designed their own projects with the assistance of
faculty advisors. Closed in 1979, when Antioch University withdrew its
support. The building was demolished in 1983.
|
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/JJ/kcj3.html |
| Kidd-Key
College |
Sherman |
Texas |
1866 |
1935 |
Methodist Episcopal Church |
J.C. Parks was first president
and served 12 years. He was succeeded
by J.R. Cole in 1878, W.C. Parham in 1880, E.D. Pitts in 1881, and J.M. Onins
in 1883. Initally was non-denominational
and became North Texas Female College in 1874. The institution closed for one year in
1886. Reopened with Mrs. Lucy Ann
Kidd-Key as president and she served from from 1888-1916. Renamed Kidd-Key College in 1919 in her
memory. |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us
Lane, J.J. History of Education in Texas. 1903. |
| Kingwood
College |
Kingwood |
Texas |
1984 |
|
public |
founded as East Campus of what
had been known as the Union Junior College District; name change to Lone Star
College-Kingwood in 2008; one of five colleges that comprised the North
Harris Montgomery Community College District and now operate as the Lone Star
College System |
http://kingwood.lonestar.edu/19044/ |
| Lagarto
College |
Lagarto |
Texas |
1884 |
1895 |
|
|
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us |
| Lampasas
College |
Lampasas |
Texas |
1879 |
1885 |
Church of Christ (Disciples) |
|
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook
Cummins, D. Duane. The Disciples Colleges: A History. 1987. |
| Larissa
College |
Larissa |
Texas |
1855 |
1866 |
Cumberland Presbyterian |
A prominent school before the
Civil War. Established in a log hut in 1848. Placed under the control of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church in 1855. Chartered February 2, 1856. With
splendid equipment, Larissa offered the strongest science work of the day in
Texas. Dr. F. L. Yoakum, President, 1855-1866. |
The Handbook of Texas
Online;
http://www.cumberland.org/hfcpc/schools/Texas.htm;
http://www.cumberland.org/hfcpc/mcdonold/42-49.htm
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us |
| Liberty
Bible College |
Waco |
Texas |
|
|
http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/uhri/certauthhist.cfm |
| Liberty
Normal & Business College |
Liberty Hill |
Texas |
1885 |
1910 |
|
a nonsectarian institution; the
legislature chartered the school and granted it the credentials formerly
issued to the defunct Oak Grove College; E. M. Coleman was the first
president and there were four teachers and 166 students by 1892. The
curriculum around 1900 included humanities and science courses, as well as
telegraphy, music, and commercial training. The buildings were turned over to
the public school system after closure. |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/LL/kbl11.html |
| Lingleville
Christian College |
Lingleville |
Texas |
1901 |
1909 |
Church of Christ |
|
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook |
| Littlefield
College |
Littlefield |
Texas |
1916 |
1918 |
Church of Christ |
|
Cummins, D. Duane. The Disciples
Colleges: A History. 1987. |
| Lockney
Christian College |
Lockney |
Texas |
1894 |
1918 |
Church of Christ |
established by Chrles Walker
Smith and St. Clair W. Smith, two evangelists. A frame building was built and the school
opened with 16 students. George Henry
Pryor Showalter became president in 1897.
In 1899 enrollment reached 425.
In 1902 Showalter resigned and helped St. Clair W. Smith establish
another school in Bethel, NM. In 1902
the Lockney was purchased by W.O. Hines, Arthur S. Kennamer and N.L. Clark
and the name was changed to Lockney College and Bible School. In 1904 Nimrod Lafayette Clark who had
succeeded Showalter resigned to become president of Gunter Bible
College. Showalter returned and
restored the name of Lockney Christian College. He left in 1906 to become president of
Sabinal Christian College. The college
expanded to a four year curriculum during the presidency of James A.
Sisco. James L. German, Jr. served as
president from 1909-1911. John
Cheatham was president 1911-1912, T.W. Croom 1913 and William F. Ledlow was
the last president from 1914-1918. |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook
www.rra.dst.tx.us/c_t/history/flyd/LOCKNEY%20CHRISTIAN%20COLLEGE.cfm
Cummins, D. Duane. The Disciples Colleges: A History. 1987. |
| Loretto
College |
El Paso |
Texas |
1923 |
|
Sisters of Loretto |
founded as academy in 1879 in
San Elizario, TX; moved to El Paso in 1892; incorporated as college in 1923;
continues to operate as an academy |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/LL/kbl23.html |
| Mansfield
Male and Female College |
Mansfield |
Texas |
1870 |
1887 |
|
founded by John C. Collier, a
college president and Presbyterian minister. The site was donated by
cofounder Julian Feild. The state legislature incorporated the college on May
2, 1871, and empowered it to confer degrees in arts and sciences. Classes met
in two small buildings when the first session opened in 1870. A two-story
frame building from Fort Belknap, dismantled and rebuilt on the college site,
was used for classes, church services, and lodging. The cornerstone for a
second two-story building was laid on June 24, 1875. In 1877 Collier built a
two-story brick and frame house on the west side of the school grounds for
his family. Five small rooms on the second floor served as dormitory rooms
for the female teachers and students. The house still stands and was
designated a state historic landmark in 1984.
Offered instruction from the primary grades through the postsecondary
level. Teachers included Smith Ragsdaleqv as professor of mathematics and
Collier as professor of languages and literature. Promminent alums included
John H. Stephens and Oscar W. Gillespie, who both served in the United States
Congress. After closure, the main
building burned in 1889 and the property was ultimately deeded to the
Mansfield Public Free School, now the Mansfield Independent School
District.
|
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/MM/kbm39.html |
| Margaret
Houston Female College |
Daingerfield |
Texas |
1856 |
|
Baptist |
|
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/MM/kbm4.html
Blandin. History
of Higher Education of Women in the South. 1909. |
| Marshall
University |
Marshall |
Texas |
1842 |
1910 |
|
the school was a university in
name only and was absorbed into the public school system |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/MM/kbm6.html |
| Marvin
College |
Waxahachie |
Texas |
1855 |
1884 |
Methodist Episcopal Church, South |
The Northwest Texas Conference
built a college named for Bishop E.M. Marvin at the site in 1870-71.
Waxahachie Methodists and others gave land, services, and money to develop
the college. Distinctions were attained in music and chemistry teaching. The
astronomical observatory was an outstanding feature. The enrollment reached
about 250. Financially troubled, the college stressed practical studies in
the 1880s. The City of Waxahachie then bought the property and used it to
house its original public school. |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us |
| Mary
Allen College |
Crockett |
Texas |
1887 |
1943 |
Presbyterian |
In 1886 the Board of Missions
for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, under the
leadership of the group's secretary the Rev. Richard Allen, began planning
for the establishment of a black girls' school in Texas. After a statewide survey,
they chose Crockett as the school site because of the area's large black
population and because of a local black parochial school operated by the Rev.
Samuel Fisher Tenny, pastor of the city's First Presbyterian Church. The Rev.
Allen's wife Mary, for whom the school was named, was instrumental in raising
the organizational funds for the new seminary. Dr. Byrd R. Smith became the
school's first black president in 1924 and initiated a period of growth which
included the adoption of new programs and the admission of male students.
Transferred to the Missionary General Baptist Convention of Texas in 1944,
Mary Allen College became a 4-year liberal arts institution. In 1972, plagued
by a series of legal and financial setbacks, the school closed. Once the site
of a 12-building campus; student records were eventually transferred to
Barber-Scotia College; the school reopened in 1944 under control of
Missionary Baptist Convention of Texas and closed in 1972 |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/MM/kbm8.html
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/
Lane, J.J. History of Education in Texas. 1903. |
| Mary
Conner College |
Paris |
Texas |
|
|
http://gen.1starnet.com/news/200002nl.txt |
| Mary
Immaculate College |
Corpus Christi |
Texas |
1957 |
1965 |
Sisters of the Incarnate Word and
Blessed Sacrement |
organized as Mary Immaculate
Teacher Training Institute with primary purpose to educate Sisters; soon
after lay students were admitted with name changed to Mary Immaculate College
in 1961; renamed Christopher College of Corpus Christi in 1965 |
Schier and Russett. Catholic Women's
Colleges in America. 2002.
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/kbc20.html |
| Mary
Nash Colllege |
Sherman |
Texas |
1877 |
1901 |
Baptist |
founded as Sherman Female
Institute; after closure campus sold to Kidd-Key College |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/MM/kbm10.html |
| Maryhill
College for Women |
Austin |
Texas |
1966 |
1971 |
Sisters of the Immaculate Heart |
became a part of St. Edwards
University |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/iwc1.html
Brenner, Morgan G. The Encyclopedia of College & University Name Histories. 2003. |
| McKenzie
College |
Clarksville |
Texas |
1839 |
1861 |
Methodist |
founded as McKenzie Institute;
predecessor to Southwestern University; three miles southwest of Clarksville;
organized by John W. P. McKenzie in a log cabin; the original enrollment was
sixteen, and growth was slow and until 1846 the school offered high school
work only; in 1848 the institution was chartered as McKenzie Institute, and
progress was accelerated. By 1854 it had 300 students and nine faculty
members. The college had an administration building and three dormitories,
two for boys and one for girls. Its equipment was considered first-class, and
the library probably had between 2,000 and 3,000 volumes; about half of the
students came from the Red River area, 40 percent came from other sections of
Texas, and 10 percent from Louisiana and Arkansas; tuition, board, room, and
laundry cost $180 for ten months. Private piano lessons were $60 a term.
Sometimes the tuition was paid with produce or with the horse and saddle the
student had used to reach the school. The school had compulsory prayers at 4
A.M. and compulsory chapel attendance; it afforded varied social contacts and
stimulation from the personality of McKenzie, and students were said to
return home reluctantly at the end of the ten-month session. Both B.A. and
M.A. degrees were granted in 1860. McKenzie College, for several years the
largest college in Texas, was always a Methodist institution, although it was
actually controlled by the Methodist conference for one year only. It trained
almost all of the Texas Methodist ministers of the period. McKenzie deeded
the school to the church in 1855 but on conditions that the conference could
not fulfill. Again in 1860 he made a conditional deed of the property to the
conference. By the summer of 1861 most of the student body had gone into the
Confederate Army, and the church returned the property to McKenzie. The
school adapted itself to the times by offering military drill to students. In
1863 enrollment dropped to thirty-three, and the average enrollment from 1864
to 1867 was seventy-four. McKenzie and his son-in-law, Smith Ragsdale, no
longer able to keep the school independent financially, closed it on June 25,
1868 |
www.southwestern.edu/about/history.html
Blandin. History
of Higher Education of Women in the South. 1909.
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/MM/kbm15.html |
| McMullen
College |
Tilden |
Texas |
1881 |
1897 |
|
opened under the direction of
John Van Epps Covey. Although not officially sponsored by the Baptists, it
was endorsed by that denomination, and a majority of the board of trustees
were Baptists. The property was deeded to the town to be used as a public school. |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/MM/kbm16.html |
| Meridian
College |
Meridian |
Texas |
1909 |
1927 |
Methodist Episcopal Church |
originated as Meridian Training
School under the leadership of George F. Campbell; he served as the school's
president until July 1909. In September of that year the school opened its
session as an affiliate of the Gatesville District Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South; it offered classes beginning with kindergarten, but
gradually it dropped the first six grades and added two years of college
courses; several different districts controlled the institution; on November
15, 1920, the property was transferred to the Central Texas Conference of the
church. At that time Meridian achieved Class A Junior College status, and its
name was changed to Meridian Junior College. In addition to the main
administration building, which was completed in 1909, the college had a
dining hall, two dormitories, and a former public school building; three
successive fires put the college in financial straits, and it closed its
doors on May 30, 1927. The Meridian public schools subsequently acquired the
property and used the old main building until it burned in 1967 |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/MM/kbm20.html |
| Metropolitan
Business College |
Dallas |
Texas |
1887 |
|
proprietary |
founded by R.H. Hill and J.H.
Gillespie; sold in 1899 to Alphonso and Susie Ragland and Willis W. Darby;
Ragland retired as president in 1947 and the institution was sold to Mr. and
Mrs. Tracy H. Rutherford who owned Rutherford School of Business; after acquisition
of Tyler Commercial College and it's move to Dallas, Metropolitan became part
of the Metropolitan Technical Institute; the school went out of business
sometime after 1965 |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/MM/kbm21.html |
| Midland
College |
Midland |
Texas |
1909 |
1921 |
Disciples of Christ |
In the spring of 1908 the
trustees of Texas Christian University met to discuss the need for a junior
college in West or Southwest Texas. They selected Midland as one possible
site. Midland citizens met to select trustees and plan the proposed college,
filing a charter on January 19, 1909. TCU was reluctant to accept direct
financial responsibility and offered only their cooperation and affiliation
with the Disciples of Christ. A 225-acre site was donated and the sale of 300
parcels of this land established a financial base for the college. In May
1910 a three-story brick building, with stone trimmings and ornate Corinthian
columns at the front and side entrances, was completed on a site 1½ miles
west of the County Courthouse. All facilities for the college were in the one
building. Men's housing was later moved to a building constructed for that
purpose on the north side of the campus. The institution was coeducational
and offered junior college courses as well as religious training. There were
107 students enrolled when the first semester began in September 1910. The
initial president was Robert L. Marquis. Later presidents were Henry R.
Garrett, Franklin G. Jones, and John T. McKissick. After closing permission
was given by its trustees to move the college to Cisco, where it became Cisco
Christian College in 1922 and, later, Randolph Junior College. The building
in Midland served as office space but is no longer standing. The former site is in Ulmer Park.
|
Cummins, D. Duane. The Disciples
Colleges: A History. 1987.
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/MM/kbm23.html |
| Midlothian
College |
Midlothian |
Texas |
1884 |
1903 |
|
William Wesley Works was the
founder and the initial name was Polytechnic Institute. The institute was in the northern portion of
town at the site of present Kimmel Park. The institute offered elementary and
high school work and the study of fine arts, particularly music. Works
remained president until his death in 1895. Around 1898 the Polytechnic
Institute was renamed Whitten's Institute, after a new president. In 1900,
after Whitten left, the name became Midlothian College. The physical plant
burned in 1893 and was replaced by a larger structure on the same site.
Because of financial problems the college struggled until it was consolidated
with the Midlothian public schools in 1903, at which time the building became
known as Midlothian Primary School. In 1908 the building was dismantled. |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/MM/kcm7.html |
| Mineral
Wells College |
Mineral Wells |
Texas |
1891 |
1900 |
|
Established by John W.
McCracken, who had been president of Bennett College at Springtown. There
were two frame buildings and a smaller rock building near the site of later
Mineral Wells High School. The institution was apparently a standard
four-year school. It was coeducational and had both boarding and day
students. After closing the buildings were given to the public school system. |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/MM/kbm28.html |
| Mitchell
College |
Huntsville |
Texas |
1877 |
|
Methodist |
In 1877, when Austin College was
moved to Sherman, the Methodist Church bought its building for the use of
Mitchell College. The property was
subsequently offered to the state and became the site of Sam Houston Normal. |
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/HH/heh3.html |
| Montgomery
College |
Conroe |
Texas |
1995 |
|
public |
name change to Lone Star
College-Montgomery in 2008; one of five colleges that comprised the North
Harris Montgomery Community College District and now operate as the Lone Star
College System |
http://montgomery.lonestar.edu/ |
| Mound
Prairie Institute |
Palestine |
Texas |
1856 |
|
|
power to confer degrees |
Blandin. The History of Higher
Education of Women in the South. 1909. |
| Mount
Enterprise Male and Female College |
Rusk County |
Texas |
1851 |
1855 |
Church of Christ |
|
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/idc5.html
Cummins, D. Duane. The Disciples Colleges: A History. 1987. |
| Nacogdoches
University |
Nacogdoches |
Texas |
1840's |
1904 |
|
property later acquired by
school district |
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/ |
| National
Colored Christian College |
Dallas |
Texas |
1888 |
|
Disciples of Christ |
plan for development was aborted |
Cummins, D. Duane. The Disciples
Colleges: A History. 1987. |
| Nazareth
University |
Dallas |
Texas |
1886 |
1890 |
Church of Christ |
|
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook |
| North
Harris County College |
Houston |
Texas |
1973 |
|
public |
name change to Lone Star
College-North Harris in 2008; one of five colleges that comprised the North
Harris Montgomery Community College District and now operate as the Lone Star
College System |
http://northharris.lonestar.edu/18854/ |
| North
Texas Baptist College |
Denison |
Texas |
1921 |
1926 |
Baptist |
a college for African Americans;
sponsored by the Northwestern Baptist Association and was housed in a
three-story brick structure at Armstrong and Johnson streets; offered grammar
and high school classes, as well as college level; ministerial students received
the bachelor of theology degree; B. J. Brown, the first president
(1921-1924); college building has long since been razed |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/NN/ibnla.html |
| North
Texas Baptist College |
Jacksboro |
Texas |
1891 |
1897 |
Baptist |
|
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/NN/kbn3.html |
| North
Texas Baptist College |
Fort Worth |
Texas |
|
|
|
|
http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/uhri/certauthhist.cfm |
| Northeast
Texas Christian Theological and Industrial College |
Palestine |
Texas |
1912 |
1920 |
Disciples of Christ |
Led by the Rev. A. J. Hurdle,
the Northeast Texas Christian Missionary Convention of the Christian Church
(Disciples of Christ) was formed in Daingerfield in 1900. Established to
serve black members of the denomination, its primary purpose was the creation
of a college. The Christian College Building Association was formed by a
group of women within the organization, and by 1904 enough funds had been
raised to purchase 49 acres of land near Palestine, Texas. Contractor J. L.
Randolph was hired in 1910, and on May 26, 1911, the cornerstone was laid for
the main college structure. Opening with seven students in January 1912, the
Northeast Texas Christian Theological and Industrial College consisted of
several large frame buildings and had a faculty of four. D. T. Cleaver served
as the first president and was succeeded by I. Q. Hurdle. In addition to
their classroom studies, the students farmed the college lands and raised
livestock. After the main college building was destroyed by fire about 1920,
the school closed. The remaining buildings were later razed, leaving no
visible reminders of the institution that once provided an education to
students from several states. |
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/ |
| North
Texas Female College |
Sherman |
Texas |
|
|
|
see entry for Kidd-Key College |
Lane, J.J. History
of Education in Texas. 1903. |
| Oak
Grove College |
|
Texas |
|
|
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/LL/kbl11.html |
| Our
Lady of Perpetual Help Junior College |
Houston |
Texas |
|
|
Sisters of the Incarnate Word and
Blessed Sacrement |
founded for the education of
Sisters, probably never enrolled lay students |
Schier and Russett. Catholic Women's
Colleges in America. 2002. |
| Our
Lady of Victory College |
Fort Worth |
Texas |
1910 |
1958 |
Sisters of St. Mary of Namur |
predecesor to University of
Dallas |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/OO/kbo3.html |
| Paine
Institute |
Coliad |
Texas |
1854 |
1880 |
Methodist |
authorized to grant degrees;
absorbed into public school system |
Blandin. The History of Higher
Education of Women in the South. 1909. |
| Palestine
Female College |
Palestine |
Texas |
1858 |
1881 |
|
Built on land donated by Reuben
A. Reeves and Paul J. and Mary Simons. The trustees included F. S. Jackson
and John Murchison. Early teachers were W. M. Bishop and his three daughters,
Agnes, Cynthia, and Sally. In 1873 the Palestine Education Association was
formed and A. H. Bailey from Alabama served as principal of the school, which
offered literary, music, art, and telegraphic courses to both male and female
students. On July 29, 1876, a new charter was obtained, and the name was
changed to Palestine Female College. In 1881 the property was transferred to
the public schools. |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/PP/kbp16.html |
| Paluxy
College |
Glenrose |
Texas |
1877 |
1881 |
|
Opened by R. H. Whitehead and
within a year the plant, included two acres of land and a two-story frame
building that accommodated 150 students.
It was purchased by the Paluxy Baptist Association and in 1879, W. M. Dow
opened the school. L. W. Coleman became president in 1880. |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/PP/kbp2.html |
| Panhandle
Christian College |
Hereford |
Texas |
1904 |
1909 |
Disciples of Christ |
see entry for Hereford Christian
College |
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us
Cummins, D. Duane. The Disciples Colleges: A History. 1987. |
| Paris
Female College |
Paris |
Texas |
1894 |
|
|
The building was purchased by
the city in 1900 and became First Ward School. |
http://www.parisisd.net/crockett/history/pre%20cms/first_ward_school.htm |
| Parker
College of Chiropractic |
Irving |
Texas |
1982 |
|
|
moved to Dallas, TX in 1989;
name change to Parker University in 2011 |
www.parkercc.edu |
| Parsons
College |
Veal 's Station |
Texas |
1892 |
|
Presbyterian |
founded as Texas Masonic
Institute; later run by Methodists; became a Presbyterian school as Parsons
College |
www.cumberland.org/hfcpc/schools/Evans.htm
www.rootsweb.com/~txparker/edu/ |
| Patroon
College |
Cisco |
Texas |
1893 |
1897 |
Christian Church (Disciples of
Christ) |
|
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/idc5.html
Cummins, D. Duane. The Disciples Colleges: A History. 1987. |
| Polytechnic
College |
Fort Worth |
Texas |
1890 |
|
Methodist Episcopal Church, South |
name changed to Texas Women's
College in 1914; became co-educational in 1935 with name change to Texas
Wesleyan University |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/TT/kbt24.html
Lane, J.J. History of Education in Texas. 1903. |
| Port
Arthur College |
Port Arthur |
Texas |
1909 |
|
public |
joined Lamar University in 1975 |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/LL/kcl4.html |
| Port
Sullivan College |
Port Sullivan |
Texas |
1860 |
1870's |
Methodist |
I.B. Allen president in 1863;
may have operated as an academy in mid-to-late 1870's with fire destroying
the building in 1878 |
www.rootsweb.com/~txrober2/PortSullivanIV.htm |
| Randolph
College |
Lancaster |
Texas |
1899 |
1902 |
Christian Church (Disciples of
Christ) |
Cummins also gives dates of
1922-1937 |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/idc5.html
Cummins, D. Duane. The Disciples Colleges: A History. 1987. |
| Reynolds
Presbyterian College |
Albany |
Texas |
1898 |
1914 |
Presbyterian |
chartered originally as an
academy, the school was named in honor of Barber Watkins Reynolds. Classes were initially held in the church
and a vacant store building. Soon after, a two-story, turreted structure of
pressed brick with white stone trim built on a hill just west of town, was
built. O. E. Arbuckle served as the first principal and was succeeded by C.
R. Melcher, John Andrew Carnagay, H. H. Britan, and Paul Baker. In 1909 it
was taken over by the Abilene Presbytery and raised to college rank. Rev.
Levan Gray was installed as president. By September 1910 a two-story
dormitory had been added. Beginning in 1913, the dormitory became Reynolds
Presbyterian Home, an orphanage and the main building later became part of
the orphanage. The buildings were razed in 1927. |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/RR/kbr3.html |
| Round
Rock College |
Round Rock |
Texas |
1882 |
|
|
www.cumberland.org/hfcpc/schools/Evans.htm |
| Rusk
Junior College |
Rusk |
Texas |
1895 |
1928 |
Baptist |
founded as East Texas Baptist
Institute; became Rusk Academy in 1899 and Rusk Junior College in 1918 |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/EE/kbe2.html |
| Rutersville
College |
Rutersville |
Texas |
1840 |
1856 |
Methodist |
named in honor of Dr. Martin
Ruter, pioneer Methodist missionary to Texas; chartered by the fourth
Congress of the Republic of Texas as the Republic's first Protestant college;
Rev. Chauncey Richardson was first president;considered by Southwestern University
as predecessor; |
www.southwestern.edu/about/history.html
Blandin. History
of Higher Education of Women in the South. 1909. |
| Sabinal
Christian College |
Sabinal |
Texas |
1907 |
1917 |
Church of Christ |
|
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook
www.gbchurch.churchquest.com/christiancollege/index.htm
Cummins, D. Duane. The Disciples Colleges: A History. 1987. |
| Sabine
Baptist College |
Milam |
Texas |
1858 |
1870 |
|
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/SS/kbs2.html |
| Sabine
Valley University |
Hempfill |
Texas |
1876 |
1881 |
Baptist |
founded by the Mount Zion
Baptist Association; in 1880 the Bethlehem Baptist Association added its
support and appointed some of the trustees; and the school was closed in the
following year. |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/SS/kbs3.html |
| Sacred
Heart Dominican College |
Houston |
Texas |
1945 |
1975 |
|
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/DD/kbd10.html |
| Saint
Louis College |
San Antonio |
Texas |
1852 |
|
Society of Mary |
founded as St. Mary's Institute,
became Saint Louis College in 1894, Saint Mary's University in 1927 |
Songe, Alice H. American Universities
and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. 1978. |
| Saint
Mary's College |
Dallas |
Texas |
1886 |
1930 |
Protestant Episcopal |
founded by Rev. Alexander C.
Garrett with Maria K. Torbert appointed to lead the institution; Claudia
Taylor, who later married Lyndon B. Johnson was a student; |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/SS/kb546.html
Hunt and Carper, eds. Religious Higher Education in the United States. 1996.
Lane, J.J. History of Education in Texas. 1903. |
| Saint
Mary's University |
Galveston |
Texas |
1852 |
1922 |
Catholic |
first Catholic seminary and
college in Texas; initially directed by Oblates of Mary Immaculate; in 1857
took over for one year; over the next twenty-five years administered
successively by Christian Brothers, Congregation of the Holy Cross, and
Sisters of Divine Providence; shelled by Union forces in 1863; seminary ended
by 1870; under Jesuit leadership from 1874 until closed; completely destroyed
by Galveston hurricane of 1900; |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/SS/kb546.html |
| Saint
Paul's College |
Anderson |
Texas |
1852 |
1856 |
Protestant Episcopal Church |
a diocesan school designed primarily to provide general
education and ministerial training for young men, opened on a
twenty-five-acre tract previously occupied by the Masonic Collegiate
Institute and donated to the school, along with the two buildings on it, by
the local Masonic lodge. Rev. Charles Gillette, principal, financial agent,
and driving force behind the establishment of the institution, not only
enlarged the campus and expanded its dormitory and educational facilities
within two years but also undertook on his own initiative and without church
sponsorship the operation of a girls' school at the request of the Anderson
Masonic lodge. Assisted by Joseph Wood Dunn and Hannibal Pratt, he offered to
the initial student body of forty-three boys instruction in English,
geography, history, classical languages, and the sciences. The girls' school
was conducted at the outset by Gillette's sister, Jeanette, and its
curriculum included many of the same subjects taught in the boys' division,
as well as French, piano, drawing, painting, and needlework. The duties of
principal in the girls' division were assumed by Rev. Jonah B. T. Smith in
1854. The school was authorized by state legislative charter on February 4,
1853, to confer degrees, but only three pupils attained collegiate rank, and
no degrees were ever awarded. As part of the settlement of the school's
affairs, its grounds and buildings were reconveyed to the Masonic lodge. From
1861 to 1902 these same facilities housed a girls' school known as Patrick
Academy. |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/SS/kbs49.html |
| Saint
Phillip's College |
San Antonio |
Texas |
1898 |
1942 |
Episcopal |
became a municipal junior
college |
Hunt and Carper, eds. Religious Higher
Education in the United States. 1996. |
| Salado
College |
Salado |
Texas |
1860 |
1918 |
|
Dr. Samuel J. Jones (1857-1918)
and his wife, Charlotte Hallaran Jones (d. 1904), established Thomas Arnold
High School on this site in 1890. The school, which was actually a private
academy, occupied the stone buildings vacated by Salado College, where Dr.
Jones taught. Named for Thomas Arnold (1795-1842), noted headmaster of Rugby
School in England, the academy provided quality education during a time when
there were few public high schools. After it closed in 1913, the facilities
were again operated as Salado College until 1918, and as a public school
until 1924, when the buildings burned. |
http://www.lnstar.com/mall/txtrails/salado.htm
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us
Lane, J.J. History of Education in Texas. 1903.
Turnbo, Charles. Salado Texas: Frontier College Town |
| Samuel
Huston College |
Austin |
Texas |
1910 |
|
Methodist Episcopal Church |
approved by the state as a
senior college in 1926; accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges
and Universities in 1934; Mar Elizabeth Branch, president from 1930-44 was
the second African-American woman to serve as a college president in the country;
the institution offered Jackie Robinson his first job as a basketball coach
in 1945; agreed to merge with Tillotson College in 1952 to form
Huston-Tillotson College; now, Huston-Tillotson University |
http://www.htc.edu/abouthtc/history.asp |
| San
Antonio Female College |
San Antonio |
Texas |
1860 |
|
Methodist Episcopal Church, South |
Dr. J. E. Harrison, with the aid
of his wife and her sister, Miss Sara Walton, opened the college. Twelve
students were in attendance. In 1890 the West End Town Company granted a
tract of land to be used for a woman's college, and the West Texas Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, which was sponsoring the school,
accepted the offer. The charter for the school was granted in 1898. The
curriculum emphasized literature, and the school also offered devotional
exercises and Bible study. In 1912-13 the catalog announced that the
"college has the authority to confer Bachelor of Arts degrees," but
in 1914 the school conferred only bachelor of literature, "mistress of
literature," and bachelor of music degrees and diplomas in art,
expression, physical training, Sunday school and Bible, violin, voice, and
business training. In 1916 the college was recognized by the University of
Texas as a junior college. The name was changed to Westmoorland College in
1918 and to the University of San Antonio in 1937. In 1942 the institution
passed out of Methodist control and merged with Trinity University. |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/SS/kbs8.html
Lane, J.J. History of Education in Texas. 1903. |
| San
Antonio Friends College |
San Antonio |
Texas |
|
|
|
|
http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/uhri/certauthhist.cfm |
| San
Augustine University |
San Augustine |
Texas |
|
1847 |
Presbyterian |
|
www.southwestern.edu/about/history.html |
| San
Saba Masonic College |
San Saba |
Texas |
|
|
|
|
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/print/SS/kbs13.html |
| Savoy
Male and Female College |
Savoy |
Texas |
1876 |
1890 |
|
established through the efforts
of R. R. Halsell, president, Lewis Holland, vice president, and trustees
James L. German, Thomas J. Chenoweth, and James Paxton. The school provided
educational opportunities regardless of ability to pay tuition for young men
and women in the area and Indian students from reservations in Oklahoma. It
also offered primary and preparatory classes for county school children. By
the mid-1880s the college granted A.B. and B.S. degrees. In 1887-88 the college enrollment was forty
men and twenty-five women, the primary department had 102 children, the
preparatory department registered 133, and the institution enrolled
forty-four Indian students, one at the college level. Iit failed to recover
from a fire that destroyed the college plant. A Savoy College Ex-Students
Association was organized in 1937 with 128 members and met until 1962. |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/SS/kbs15.html |
| Seth
Ward College |
Plainview |
Texas |
1910 |
1929 |
Methodist |
established after the Plainview
District of the Methodist Church bought Central Plains College from the
Holiness Church for $32,000. The school was renamed in honor of the first
Texas bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and was reorganized as
a two-year coeducational college designed to prepare students to enter
Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. Enrollment averaged more than
200 from 1913 through 1915. The men's dormitory was gutted by fire in the
spring of 1914. Construction on a new building was begun, but before it was
completed, a second fire, on March 16, 1916, destroyed both the
administration building and the women's dormitory. The Northwest Texas
Conference closed the school and in 1929 transferred its surviving funds to
the board of education, which loaned the money free of interest to McMurry
College in Abilene. Seth Ward reunions were held from 1932 through 1975. |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/SS/kbs20.html |
| Seven
Points College |
Westminster |
Texas |
1888 |
|
|
J. M. Harder opened the college
and five years later sold the property to I. P. Rosser, who in 1895 sold it
to the Collin County Methodist Church; the name was then changed to
Westminster College and the school was chartered as a four-year college;
trained young people for the ministry; in 1902 the college moved to
Tehuacana; the Collin County Baptist Association bought the Westminster
property and used it as a preparatory school for Baylor University and it was
renamed Westminster Institute and later, Westminster Baptist Academy; the
school was closed in 1916; see entry for Westminster College |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/SS/kbs21.html |
| Simmons
College |
Abilene |
Texas |
1891 |
|
Baptist |
founded as Abilene Baptist
College, now Hardin-Simmons University |
Lane, J.J. History
of Education in Texas. 1903.
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/HH/kbh2.html |
| Soule
University |
South Chappel Hill |
Texas |
1856 |
1887 |
Methodist |
considered as predecessor to
Southwestern University |
www.southwester.edu/about/history.html |
| South
Park Junior College |
Beaumont |
Texas |
1923 |
|
|
opened by South Park Independent
School District; in 1949 became Lamar State College of Technology in 1951,
later Lamar University after 1971 |
www.lamar.edu/admin/history/
Brenner, Morgan G. The Encyclopedia of College & University Name Histories. 2003. |
| South
Texas Baptist College |
Waller |
Texas |
1898 |
1900 |
Baptist |
An ambitious institution
chartered by Baptists who formed South Texas Educational Conference about
1895 and in 1898 secured campus site from a local landowner, C.C. Waller.
Trustees serving when college opened in fall of 1898 were J.C. McGaughy,
Hempsted; James F. Duncan, Houston; C.W. Matthews, Montgomery; W.J. Durham,
Richmond; S.A. McCall, Willis; J.E. Boulet, E.J. Matthews, J.L. Miles, and
J.T. Sanders of Waller. W.E. Clark, A.M. Georgetown College of Kentucky, was
president; Matilda Shannon (Mrs. W.E.) Clark, the college matron; misses
Annie Black and Bellie James, Teachers; Thomas Shannon, secretary. The first
session opened with three students, closed with 33; Second opened with 15,
closed with 102. Courses of study covered primary through college subjects;
Tuition ranged form $10 to $20 a term. The third session opened on Monday,
Sept. 3, 1900. On the night of Sept. 8-9, the great 1900 storm blew in from
Galveston. It severely damaged the college building, wrecked several
churches, and demolished the public school. Although no lives were lost in
this town, damage throughout the section was so great that the college never
reopened. Its campus has served since 1916 as a public school site. |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/SS/kbs26.html
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us |
| South
Texas College of Law |
Houston |
Texas |
|
|
|
see entry below for South Texas
Junior College |
|
| South
Texas Junior College |
Houston |
Texas |
1923 |
1974 |
|
night classes in law offered as
early as 1915; founded as part of the South Texas School of Law and Commerce;
operated as a coeducational branch of the Young Men's Christian Association
of Houston and Harris County as a two-year liberal arts school. It was not
supported by taxes. Law school name change to South Texas College of Law in
1945. Classes met in the central YMCA building on Louisiana Street before
moving to the M&M Building on Main Street in 1967 when it became
independed of the YMCA. Enrollment increased from 144 in 1949 to 2,737 in
1973. The faculty numbered about 120 in 1973. The junior college was fully
accredited and conducted evening classes and two six-week summer sessions. In
1969 the library contained 51,071 bound volumes. Dormitory and athletic
facilities were initially contained in the YMCA and YWCA buildings. Purchased
by the University of Houston for it's downtown campus in the fall of
1974. |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/SS/kbs28.html
http://stcl.edu/library/FN15-2Jones.html |
| South
Texas State Teachers College |
Kingsville |
Texas |
1925 |
|
state supported |
name change to Texas College of
Arts & Industries in 1929; to Texas A&I University in 1967; to Texas
A&M-Kingsville in 1993 |
Brenner, Morgan G. The Encyclopedia of
College & University Name Histories. 2003. |
| Southeast
Texas Male and Female College |
Jasper |
Texas |
1878 |
1910 |
|
successor to Jasper Collegiate
Institute that opened in 1851; college property was deeded to the public
schools of Jasper |
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us |
| Southern
Bible College |
Houston |
Texas |
1958 |
1984 |
Pentecostal Church of God,
International |
reorganized and moved to Joplin,
MO as Messenger College |
www.thecb.state.tx.us/uhri/certauthhist.com
www.messengercollege.edu |
| Southland
University |
Denton |
Texas |
1904 |
1909 |
Church of Christ |
referred to as Southwestern
Christian College by Cummins |
Young, M. Norvel. A History of Colleges
Established and Controlled by Members of the Churches of Christ. 1949.
Cummins, D. Duane. The Disciples Colleges: A History. 1987.
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook |
| Southwest
Texas State University |
San Marcos |
Texas |
1903 |
|
state supported |
founded as Texas State Normal
School; names changed over the years to normal college, teachers college and
in 2003 became Texas State University at San Marcos |
http://www.txstate.edu/ |
| Southwestern
Union College |
Keene |
Texas |
1893 |
|
|
founded as Keene Independent
Academy; name change to Southwestern Junior College in 1916; to Southwestern
Union College in 1963; to Southwestern Adventist College in 1976;
Southwestern Adventist University since 1989 |
www.swau.edu/campusinfo/history/
Brenner, Morgan G. The Encyclopedia of College & University
Name Histories.
2003. |
| Stamford
College |
Stamford |
Texas |
1907 |
1918 |
Methodist |
opened as Stamford Collegiate
Institute with 236 students and thirteen teachers by the Northwest Texas
Methodist Conference at the request of the Abilene and Colorado districts and
with the donation of $67,000 and a twenty-acre campus by the town of Stamford.
The college had fifteen teachers and a student body numbering approximately
275 during its second year of operation; by 1909 it enrolled more than 300
and had a physical plant valued at $130,000. Its name was changed to Stamford
College in 1910. The college incurred a debt of $40,000 between 1910 and
1912, but was supported by the Conference with a donation of more than $6,000
in 1913 and continued financial support of a more limited nature thereafter.
The school apparently averaged about 200 to 300 students until 1917, when
drought and World War I caused the enrollment to drop to about 100. The
college closed after the administration building burned. Its debts were
liquidated, and the remaining funds were transferred to Clarendon College.
The property of the college was later sold to the Stamford County Line
Independent School District. James Winfred Hunt served as president of
Stamford College and subsequently founded McMurry College in Abilene in 1923.
The alumni of Stamford College were accepted by McMurry College in a
resolution dated April 5, 1949; at commencement the graduates of Stamford
College received certificates that recognized them as ex-students of McMurry
College. |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/SS/kbs52.html |
| Stephenville
College |
Stephenville |
Texas |
1893 |
1898 |
|
later John Tarleton Agricultural
College |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/TT/fta10.html
Brenner, Morgan G. The Encyclopedia of College & University Name Histories. 2003. |
| Synodical
College |
Gainesville |
Texas |
1890 |
1894 |
|
classes initially held in opera
house and were then moved in 1890 to former home of J.H. Belcher; Texas Synod
of Presbyterian Church agreed to assume control in 1893; in 1894 Thomas F.
Hughes purchased the building and moved his Select School for Young Woment to
the site before it also closed within two or three years |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/SS/kbs58.html |
| Terrell
Bible College |
Terrell |
Texas |
1929 |
1930 |
Church of Christ |
|
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook |
| Texas
A&M University at Laredo |
Laredo |
Texas |
1970 |
|
state supported |
name change to Laredo State
University in 1977; to Texas A&M International University in 1993 |
Brenner, Morgan G. The Encyclopedia of
College & University Name Histories. 2003. |
| Texas
Baptist College |
Tyler |
Texas |
1860 |
1863 |
Baptist |
opened as the Masonic Male
Academy, housed in a large brick building northwest of Oakwood (then Tyler)
Cemetery; established after the male department of Tyler University was
destroyed by fire in 1857. St. John's Lodge No. 53 sponsored the school, and
Capt. T. R. McConnell, a graduate of West Point, provided the military
training; offered five grades of study at a fee of ten to twenty-five dollars
a semester. Civil engineering and French classes cost students an additional
ten dollars, and another dollar was charged for incidental expenses. Other
income included $100 from public funds. In August 1860 the lodge sold the
academy to the East Texas Baptist Convention. It was rechartered as Texas
Baptist College and opened in February 1861. The new charter specified that a
board of twenty-three trustees elected by the Baptist General Convention
would govern the college. The staff offered two sessions of five months each.
Primary classes cost students twenty dollars, preparatory courses forty
dollars, and collegiate training fifty dollars. The matriculation fee was
five dollars, and an additional dollar covered incidental expenses. Students
could board with local families for ten dollars a month. William B.
Featherston, served as president, closed
during the Civil War |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/TT/kbt3.html |
| Texas
Baptist University |
Dallas |
Texas |
1905 |
1912 |
Baptist |
founded by the Baptist
Missionary Association of Texas with acquisition of the Patton Seminary; Dr.
J. R. Pentuff as president and A. S. Laird, former president of Patton
Seminary, as professor of mathematics; offered a bachelor's degree and
operated a school to prepare students for the regular four-year course. It
had a conservatory of music and departments of divinity, art, elocution, and
business. By April 1908 the faculty numbered fourteen. |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/TT/kbt5.html |
| Texas
Bible College |
San Antonio |
Texas |
|
1993 |
|
began as Texas Bible Institute;
name changed to Texas Bible College in 1987; lost state certification,
reverted to Texas Bible Institute and ultimately closed |
http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/uhri/certauthhist.cfm |
| Texas
College |
Tyler |
Texas |
1893 |
|
Christian Methodist Episcopal |
became Phillips University in
1909; readopted name of Texas College in 1912 |
http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=5&l2=22&l3=39&top=10
Songe, Alice H. American
Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. 1978.
http://www.texascollege.edu/index.php |
| Texas
College of Mines & Metallurgy |
El Paso |
Texas |
1913 |
|
state supported |
merged with El Paso Junior
College in 1927; name change to Texas Western College in 1949; to University
of Texas El Paso in 1967 |
Brenner, Morgan G. The Encyclopedia of
College & University Name Histories. 2003. |
| Texas
College of Osteopathic Medicine |
Fort Worth |
Texas |
1970 |
|
|
Placed under direction of North
Texas State University in 1975. In 1993 the name was changed to University of
North Texas Health Sciences Center at Fort Worth/College of Osteopathic
Medicine |
http://history.aoa-net.org/Education/collegehist.htm |
| Texas
Female College |
Weatherford |
Texas |
1890 |
1920 |
Cumberland Presbyterian |
Presidents: J.L. Dickens (1890),
W.B. Farr (1891), J.S. Howard for five years, and Emma Elizabeth McClure
after 1897 |
www.cumberland.org/HFCPC/schools/Texas.htm
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/TT/kbt11.html
Lane, J.J. History of Education in Texas. 1903. |
| Texas
Holiness Universtiy |
Peniel |
Texas |
1899 |
1920 |
|
name changed to Peniel
University in 1912; became Nazarene in 1915 and changed name to Peniel
College; merged with Oklahoma Nazarene College in 1920 with name changed to
Bethany-Peniel College; then other colleges merged Bethany-Central Holiness
College in 1929, Arkansas Holiness College in 1931, and Bresee College in
1940. In 1955 became Bethany Nazarene
College, and now Southern Nazarene University. SNU considers the founding date of Texas
Holiness (1899) as it's own. |
www.snu.edu/
Brenner, Morgan G. The Encyclopedia of College & University Name Histories. 2003. |
| Texas
Masonic College |
Larissa |
Texas |
|
|
|
|
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/claiborne/bios/cosgrove.txt |
| Texas
Medical College |
Galveston |
Texas |
1874 |
1880 |
|
Texas Medical College was
chartered on February 8, 1860, to be located in or near Houston; as finally
organized in 1864, it was the Galveston Medical College; reorganized in 1873
as the Texas Medical College and Hospital, the institution closed in 1890 with
the establishment of the medical branch of the University of Texas |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/TT/kct24.html |
| Texas
Military College |
Terrell |
Texas |
1915 |
1949 |
|
operated on site of Wesley
College; temporarily ceased operations from 1943-1946; physical plant sold in
1949 and Southwestern Christian College opened the following year |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/TT/kbf15.html |
| Texas
Normal College |
Denton |
Texas |
1890 |
|
state supported |
became North Texas State Normal
College in 1899, North Texas State Teachers College in 1923, North Texas
State College in 1949, North Texas State University in 1961 |
Songe, Alice H. American Universities
and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. 1978. |
| Texas
Presbyterian College for Girls |
Milford |
Texas |
1902 |
1929 |
Presbyterian |
merged with Austin College |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/TT/kbt21.html
Brenner, Morgan G. The Encyclopedia of College & University Name Histories. 2003. |
| Texas
State University for Negroes |
Houston |
Texas |
1947 |
|
state supported |
name changed to Texas Southern
University in 1951 |
Songe, Alice H. American Universities
and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. 1978. |
| Texas
University |
Georgetown |
Texas |
1873 |
|
Methodist |
established as Rutersville
College in 1838, merged with Wesleyan College, McKenzie College, and Soule
University in 1873; became Texas University after moving to present location;
adopted name of Southwestern University in 1875 |
Songe, Alice H. American Universities
and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. 1978. |
| Texas
Wesleyan College |
Austin |
Texas |
1912 |
1935 |
Swedish Methodist |
Rev. O. E. Olander was a leader
in the effort to found the institution, initially on twenty-one acres in
north Austin in an area called Wheelers Grove between 24th and 26th streets
and Waller Creek and Red River Street. The area is now the site of the University
of Texas Law School Building. Opened
with fourteen students. During the 1912-13 school year there were forty-seven
students enrolled; thirty-two students enrolled during the 1914-15 term. In
1926 Rev. Frank A. Lundberg became president. The Olanders, in addition to
running the school, operated the Sunnybrook Dairy in Austin, which provided
work for Swedish boys seeking higher education. In 1928 a large tabernacle
was built. Rev. Oscar Linstrum became president of the school in 1930. The
1930s saw a movement away from things ethnic and a movement to be more
"American." Swedish churches in Austin began to offer services in
English. Interest in ethnic colleges declined, and the University of Texas on
the college's western side was eager to expand. On May 26, 1931, the
college's board of trustees considered and accepted an offer from the
University of Texas to purchase the school grounds for $135,000. The trustees
also voted to continue operation of the school, and for several years the
University of Texas granted the college free use of the grounds. In May 1935
the name of Texas Wesleyan College was changed to Texas Wesleyan Academy. In
1936 the academy agreed to loan $100,000 to Texas Wesleyan College at Fort
Worth. In June of that year academic courses were discontinued, though a
small music school operated for some years, and a scholarship and loan
program for descendents of Swedes continued. In February 1939 Texas Wesleyan
College at Fort Worth filed suit against Texas Wesleyan Academy, stating that
the money from the sale of the school was church money and not private money.
In June 1941 a court ruled against Texas Wesleyan Academy and ordered that
the $100,000 loan to the Fort Worth school be cancelled and that $135,000 in
assets be turned over to Texas Wesleyan College. Texas Wesleyan Academy
appealed the decision but later reached a compromise. In 1957 the board of
Texas Wesleyan Academy discontinued student loans; the music school closed in
1956. In 1961 the board of trustees officially changed the name of Texas
Wesleyan Academy to Texas Wesleyan Foundation. |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/TT/kbt25.html |
| Texas
Wesleyan College |
Fort Worth |
Texas |
1881 |
1911 |
Methodist Episcopal Church |
name changed to Fort Worth
University in 1889; joined with Methodist Episcopal University of Oklahoma in
1911 |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/FF/kbf6.html |
| Texas
Western College |
El Paso |
Texas |
1914 |
|
public |
founded as Texas State School of
Mines & Metallurgy; name changed to Texas Western College in 1949 and to
the University of Texas at El Paso in 1967 |
www.utep.edu |
| Thorp
College |
Thorp Spring |
Texas |
1871 |
1873 |
Church of Christ |
founded by Sam Milliken and
Pleasant Thorp; gave way to Add-Ran Male and Female College; after Add-Ran
moved to Waco in 1896, campus became Jarvis Institute and later Add-Ran
Jarvis College; in 1910 sold to trustees of Thorp Spring Christian College |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/TT/kbt26.html |
| Thorp
Spring Christian College |
Thorp Spring |
Texas |
1910 |
1928 |
Church of Christ |
moved to Terrell, TX 1928 and
name changed to Texas Christian College, closed in 1931 |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/TT/kbt26.html
Cummins, D. Duane. The Disciples Colleges: A History. 1987. |
| Tillotson
College |
Austin |
Texas |
1877 |
|
Congregational Church |
initially chartered in 1877 as
Tillotson Collegiate and Normal Institute; first classes in January 1881; it
is claimed that Allen Hall was the first building in the state and the first
west of the Mississippi built for higher education of Blacks; new charter
issued in 1909 for Tillotson College; organized as a junior college in 1925,
as a woman's college in 1926, and again as a co-educational senior college in
1931; accredited by Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in 1943;
agreed to merge with Samuel Huston College in 1952 to form Huston-Tillotson
College |
http://www.htc.edu/abouthtc/history.asp
Lane, J.J. History of Education in Texas. 1903. |
| Tomball
College |
Tomball |
Texas |
1985 |
|
public |
name change to Lone Star
College-Tomball in 2008; one of five colleges that comprised the North Harris
Montgomery Community College District and now operate as the Lone Star
College System |
http://tomball.lonestar.edu/2540/ |
| Toon
College |
Terrell |
Texas |
1897 |
1904 |
|
renamed Terrell University
School in 1902; offered to Methodist Episcopal Church in 1905; predecessor to
Wesley College |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/WW/kbw8.html |
| Tri-State
College |
Texarkana |
Texas |
1900 |
1901 |
|
a coeducational school under
control of the Enon, Red River, and Southwest Arkansas Baptist associations;
used property that had previously belonged to a school known as South-west
Ark College; Tri-State was first known as Inter-State College because it served
both Texas and Arkansas and was renamed in an effort to attract students from
Louisiana; failure to obtain sufficient funds caused the school to close at
the end of its first year |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/TT/kbt29.html |
| Trinity
Lutheran College |
Round Rock |
Texas |
1906 |
1929 |
Augustana Synod, Lutheran |
Planned at the Kansas Conference
of the Augustana Lutheran Synod in 1904, when representatives of the Austin
District were organized into a temporary school board. Stamford and Round
Rock competed for location of the school, and Round Rock was chosen after it
offered fourteen lots, a cash bonus, and a well, and the International-Great
Northern Railroad agreed to ship building materials at half price. On July
13, 1905, the building's cornerstone was laid. J. A. Stamline was elected
president, and October 2, 1906, was set as opening day. The school opened
with four faculty members and an initial enrollment of forty-eight students
in the academy and eleven in the music department. The enrollment totaled
ninety-six the first year, seventy-six the second, and eighty-four the third.
J. Alfred Anderson became the second president in 1909 and was succeeded by
Theodore Seashore in 1914. Despite a drop in enrollment during World War I,
Seashore succeeded in making the school solvent and, in 1920, in securing its
accrediting by the state department of education. By 1921, however, the
enrollment had dropped to forty-six, and the regents doubted that they could
continue to maintain the school. A movement to transfer the institution to
Austin was voted down in 1923. Stamline and Oscar Nelson served as ad interim
presidents until October 11, 1923, when H. A. Alden became president under a
new organization of the Texas Lutheran Conference. Alden's efforts to expand
the school into a junior college were approved by the conference in 1925 and
by the state department in 1926, but by 1928 the enrollment had dropped to
thirty, the school was in debt, and the building needed repair. Though grants
from the Augustana Synod in 1928 helped temporarily, the enrollment was only
forty-seven, and in 1929 the school was merged with Texas Lutheran College at
Seguin |
Solberg. Lutheran Higher
Education in North America. 1985.
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/TT/kbt30.html |
| Tyler
Commercial College |
Tyler |
Texas |
|
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proprietary |
In the late 1890's, Whitesboro Teachers
Normal College moved to Tyler and consolidated with Tyler College to create
the Tyler Commercial College. Known as the "largest commercial and
shorthand school in the South", the school boasted a petroleum geology
department, a world-renowned cotton grading department, and a school for
radio station operation; purchased by Tracy Rutherford and renamed Tyler
Engineering College in 1957; moved to Dallas in 1960 as part of Metropolitan
Technical Institute |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/MM/kbm21.html |
| Tyler
Female College |
Tyler |
Texas |
1883 |
1886 |
Presbyterian |
established under the control of
the Eastern Texas Presbytery |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/TT/kbt33.html |
| Tyler
University |
Tyler |
Texas |
1852 |
1857 |
Baptist |
northwest of Oakwood (once
Tyler) Cemetery; founded by the Cherokee Baptist Association with sponsorship
was later transferred to the General Baptist Convention of Eastern Texas;
when that organization collapsed, the governance of the school was again entrusted
to the association, and on February 11, 1854, the association obtained a
charter from the state. Both male and female students attended classes in a
large brick edifice, in separate departments. The school had financial
difficulties and frequent changes of faculty. The male department was
destroyed by fire in 1857, then reopened as Masonic Male Academy; it later
became Texas Baptist College |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/TT/kbt34.html |
| University
of Central Texas |
Georgetown |
Texas |
1873 |
1875 |
Methodist |
charter granted by state in 1875
under name Southwestern University |
http://www.southwestern.edu/about/history.html |
| University
of Central Texas |
Killeen |
Texas |
1973 |
1999 |
|
formerly American Technological
University until 1989; agreed to discontinue offerings with establishment of
Tarleton University System Center - Central Texas in Killeen |
The Chronicle of Higher
Education, June 14, 2002
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/ |
| University
of Corpus Christi |
Corpus Christi |
Texas |
1947 |
|
|
established as Arts and
Technological College under auspices of the Southern Baptist Convention,
became University of Corpus Christi in 1947, hen became upper division state
university as part of Texas A & I Universityin 1973, now Texas
A&M-Corpus Christi |
www.tamucc.edu
Songe, Alice H. American
Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. 1978. |
| University
of Eastern Texas |
San Augustine |
Texas |
1847 |
1850 |
|
In 1847 Oran M. Roberts
succeeded in uniting two former colleges, the University of San Augustine and
Wesleyan College, under an independent board to form the University of
Eastern Texas. Religious control and denominational instruction were
prohibited. The institution took over the buildings of the two previous
institutions, which included two three-story structures. The school soon
failed and was succeeded in 1851 by the Masonic Institute of San Augustine. |
www.southwestern.edu/about/history.html
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/UU/kcu2.html |
| University
of Plano |
Plano |
Texas |
1964 |
1976 |
|
|
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/
Revel, Linda Foxworth. The Historical Development and
Demise of the University of Plano. Ph.D. dissertation. 1989. |
| University
of San Antonio |
San Antonio |
Texas |
|
Methodist |
the Texas Conference of the
Methodist Church and the board of trustees of the University of San Antonio
transferred the property of the university without restriction to the
trustees of Trinity University in 1942.
All credits and degrees given by the university and its predecessors,
San Antonio Female College and Westmoreland College, were acknowledged by
Trinity University. |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/ |
| University
of San Augustine |
San Augustine |
Texas |
1837 |
1847 |
Presbyterian |
united with Wesleyan Male and
Female College to form University of Eastern Texas |
http://libweb.sfasu.edu/etrc/COLLECT/MANSCRPT/CORPRATE/SanAugEdinstitute/saeimain.htm |
| Upshur
Masonic College |
Gilmer |
Texas |
1851 |
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founded as Gilmer Masonic Female
Institute; control shifted to Gilmer Methodist Church in 1852; in 1856 name
changed to Gilmer Female College; financial difficulties led to sale in 1857;
purchased by Gilmere Masons; name changed to Upshur Masonic College and then
closed at some point after 1861 due to Civil War |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/UU/kbu6.html |
| W. H.
Ford Male & Female College |
Newton |
Texas |
1889 |
1906 |
|
Named for secretary of the
Southwest College Company. President Joseph Syler and his wife were the
teachers. High-school level. After the college closed, this heart pine
building was for 2 years part of the Newton schools, then was moved to
Courthouse Square. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1965. |
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us |
| Waco
Female College |
Waco |
Texas |
1857 |
1895 |
Methodist |
properties purchased by Add-Ran
Christian University, a forerunner of Texas Christian University |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/ |
| Waco
University |
Waco |
Texas |
1856 |
1886 |
Baptist |
founded as Trinity River High
School by Trinity River Baptist Association.
Control was transferred to Waco Baptist Association in 1860. Name changed to Waco University after 1861
when Rufus Burleson and faculty from Baylor University (then located in
Independence) arrived. Ownership
transferred to Baptist General Association in 1881 and five years later
consolidated with Baylor University. |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/WW/kbw4.html |
| Weatherford
College |
Parker County |
Texas |
|
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still operating as the oldest
junior college in the state; founded by the Phoenix Lodge of the Masonic
Order in Weatherford, which in 1869 received a charter to establish a Masonic
Institute; classes started several years later; in 1884 name was changed to
Cleveland College in honor of Grover Cleveland; five years later the Central
Texas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, moved Granbury
College, which had originally opened in 1873 and had been under the
conference's authority since 1880, to Weatherford and combined the two
institutions as Weatherford College; David S. Switzer guided the institution
through the next decade; average yearly enrollment was about 300, and the
school offered classes from grade school through the senior year of college;
Switzer left in 1902 to establish his own college, and from 1903 to 1921 the
school operated intermittently; in 1921 the institution was reorganized as a
junior college Fred G. Rand as president; Weatherford Junior College was
accredited by the Texas Association of Colleges; in 1944 Southwestern
University took over operation as a branch institution, with the
understanding that if Southwestern should discontinue the relationship, the
college's facilities would then be offered to the city of Weatherford or to
Parker County; in 1949 Southwestern transferred the college to the county,
and the school officially became Weatherford College of the Parker County
Junior College District |
www.rootsweb.com/~txparker/edu/
Brenner, Morgan G. The Encyclopedia of College & University Name Histories. 2003.
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/WW/kbw7.html |
| Wesley
College |
Greenville |
Texas |
1909 |
1938 |
Methodist Episcopal Church |
Methodist Episcopal Church
acquired Terrell University School in Terrell, TX in 1905; by 1909 named
Wesley College, a high school and
junior college; closed in 1911 and reopened in Greenville, TX in 1912;
closed in 1938 |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/WW/kbw8.html
McMullin, William Craig. A Descriptive History of
Wesley College.
Ed.D. dissertation. 1987. |
| Wesleyan
College |
San Augustine |
Texas |
1844 |
1847 |
Methodist |
combined with San Augustine
University in 1847 to form private University of Eastern Texas |
www.southwestern.edu/about/history.html
Blandin. History
of Higher Education of Women in the South. 1909.
http://libweb.sfasu.edu/etrc/COLLECT/MANSCRPT/CORPRATE/SanAugEdinstitute/saeimain.htm |
| West
Texas Normal and Business College |
Cherokee |
Texas |
1905 |
1909 |
Church of Christ |
building used by Cherokee Junior
College from 1911-1918 |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/ |
| West
Texas State University |
Canyon |
Texas |
1910 |
|
state supported |
founded as West Texas State
Normal College, joined the Texas A&M System in 1990 becoming West Texas A
& M University |
http://www.wtamu.edu/ |
| Westminster
College |
Westminster / Graybill / Tehuacan |
Texas |
1895 |
1950 |
Methodist Protestant |
seventeen miles northeast of
McKinney; classes were first held in the frame building that once housed
Seven Points College, begun by J. M. Harder in 1888; in 1893 Harder sold the
building to I. P. Rosser who two years later sold the lot to the Methodist Protestant
Church which renamed the school Westminster after Westminster, Maryland;
subsequently the town changed its name to Westminster; served as a
preparatory school for Methodist Protestant ministers; in 1902 outgrew the
facilities in Westminster and the college moved to Tehuacana in northeastern
Limestone County, where it continued as a junior college affiliated with
Southwestern University until 1950; when the junior college closed that year,
its property was sold to the Congregational Methodist Church, which opened
another junior college there, the Westminster Junior College and Bible
Institute |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/WW/kbw12.html
Brenner, Morgan G. The Encyclopedia of College & University Name Histories. 2003. |
| Westminster
Junior College and Bible Institute |
Dallas / Tehuacana |
Texas |
1944 |
|
Congregational Methodist |
The campus of Westminster
College was unoccupied until 1953, when it was acquired by the Congregational
Methodist Church which then relocated their Bible School from Dallas as
Westminster Junior College and Bible Institute. The school's program was
expanded to include the basic junior college curriculum. The campus comprised
twelve buildings, including housing for faculty and students. In 1969 the
library held 9,000 volumes. The institution offered an associate of arts
degree. The Bible Institute, a department of the college, offered a four-year
curriculum leading to the degree of bachelor of religion. In 1968-69 the
college had fifteen faculty members and ninety-five students, but by 1970 the
student body had decreased to sixty; Elmo McGuire was president. In 1971
thirty-five students and seven teachers of the Westminster Junior College and
Bible Institute moved from Tehuacana to a forty-acre campus at Florence,
Mississippi; the institution continues operation as Wesley College |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/WW/kbw13.html
http://www.wesleycollege.com/ |
| Westmoreland
College |
San Antonio |
Texas |
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see entry for San Antonio Female
College |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/ |
| Wharton
College |
Austin |
Texas |
1858 |
1865 |
Episcopal |
|
Hunt and Carper, eds. Religious Higher
Education in the United States. 1996. |
| Wichita
Falls Junior College |
Wichita Falls |
Texas |
1922 |
|
state supported |
became Hardin Junior College in
1937; Hardin College in 1946, then Midwestern (State) University in 1950 |
Songe, Alice H. American Universities
and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. 1978. |
| William
Carey Crane College |
Independence |
Texas |
1885 |
1897 |
|
founded when Baylor University
and Baylor Female College were moved to Waco; William W. Fontaine, assisted
by Charles H. Wedemeyer and others, advertised the institution as a
continuation of the two Baylor schools in the old Baylor plants. The school
had ten pianos, 3,500 books in the library, and other equipment. Henry A.
McArdle headed the art department. Fontaine was succeeded about 1889 by R. E.
Binford, who secured a ten-year lease on the plants and changed the name to
Binford University. The plant was sold in March 1889 for a debt of $2,000,
and about 1897 all efforts to continue the institution were abandoned |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/WW/kbw18.html |
| Willis
Male and Female College |
Willis |
Texas |
1881 |
1900 |
|
Rev. and Mrs. S. N. Barker,
Methodists, who opened the college 1885; acquired by F. P. Crow and C. H.
Stovall in 1890 and by Cyril M. Jansky and Marion Kline in 1894; Crow
returned and operated the school until he sold it to the public schools in
1900 or 1901. |
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/WW/kbw20.html |
| Woodcrest
College |
Dallas |
Texas |
1940 |
1985 |
|
founded as Dallas Bible
Institute, later Dallas Bible College; in 1984 the college moved to Lindale
in east Texas and changed the name to Woodcrest College |
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/ |
| Woodland
College |
Kirvin |
Texas |
1863 |
1865 |
|
Enrollment more than 300
students. Colonel L. R. Wortham donated ten acres of land for use as a
campus, church and cemetery. Charter trustees: Col. L. R. Wortham, Thomas
Lamb, Dr. Rueben Anderson, Oliver Carter, John I. Winn, D. L. Carter, Noland
Womack, T. L. Sessions, G. A. Sessions. Prof. Hellery Moseley was its only
president. Mattie, Mary and Thomas Dixon were its teachers. The college
became a grade school at the close of the Civil War. |
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us |
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