| College
Name |
City |
State |
Start Date |
End Date |
Affiliation |
Other Information |
Source |
| Ashland
County Teachers College |
Ashland |
Wisconsin |
1914 |
1971 |
|
|
| Badger
Business College |
Green Bay |
Wisconsin |
|
|
operated in 1930s-1950s |
http://eab.state.wi.us/resources/closedschools.asp |
| Barron
County Teachers College |
Rice Lake |
Wisconsin |
1907 |
|
|
|
| Bellin
College of Nursing |
Green Bay |
Wisconsin |
1909 |
|
|
founded as Deaconess Sanitarium
Training School for Nurses; renamed renamed Bellin Memorial Training School
in 1928; name changed to Bellin Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in 1942;
closed briefly from 1953-1955; renamed Bellin Hospital School of Nursing in
1962; renamed Bellin College of Nursing in 1988; name changed to Bellin
College in 2009 |
www.bcon.edu |
| Brockway
College |
Ripon |
Wisconsin |
1850 |
|
|
founded as Lyceum of Ripon,
became Brockway College in 1851, the Ripon College in 1864 |
Songe, Alice H. American Universities
and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. 1978.
Burke, Colin B. American Collegiate Populations. 1982. |
| Buffalo
County Teachers College |
Alma |
Wisconsin |
1902 |
|
|
|
| Campion
College of the Sacred Heart |
Prairie du Chien |
Wisconsin |
1880s |
1920's |
Jesuit |
may've operated as school for
young men until 1970's; acquired by Wisconsin Synod Lutherans and operated as
Martin Luther Preparatory from 1975-1990; currently Prairie du Chien
Correctional Facility uses the site |
http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=5&l2=22&l3=39&top=10
Leahy, William P. Adapting to America: Catholics, Jesuits, and Higher Education
in the Twentieth Century. 1991. |
| Carroll
College |
Waukesha |
Wisconsin |
1846 |
|
Presbyterian |
name change to Carroll
University August 2008 |
http://www.cc.edu/ |
| Central
Wisconsin College |
Scandinavia |
Wisconsin |
1893 |
1932 |
Lutheran |
founded as Scandinavia Academy;
Minutes, 1893-1920, 1926-1932, of the Board of Directors are available on
microfilm at the State Historical Society of WI, Archives Division, 816 State
St, Madison, WI |
"The rise and demise of
Scandinavia Academy & Central Wisconsin College, 1893-1932" / part
I, Art Lee; part II, Alumni Board SA/CWC Alumni Assoc. Publisher:
Scandinavia, WI: Scandinavia Academy/ CWC Alumni Association, c1992 |
| College
of Racine |
Racine |
Wisconsin |
1935 |
1974 |
Sisters of St. Dominic |
founded as St. Catherine's
Female Academy; later known as St. Albertus Junior College (1935-1946),
Dominican College (1946-1957), Dominican College of Racine (1957-1972) and
College of Racine (1972-1974) |
Songe, Alice H. American
Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. 1978.
www.uwm.edu/Library/arch/lcomm/student.htm |
| Columbia
County Teachers College |
Columbus |
Wisconsin |
1908 |
1971 |
|
|
| Divine
Savior College |
Milwaukee |
Wisconsin |
|
Sisters of the Divine Savior |
founded for the education of
Sisters, probably did not enroll lay students |
Schier and Russett. Catholic Women's
Colleges in America. 2002. |
| Dodge
County Teachers College |
Mayville |
Wisconsin |
1925 |
1972 |
|
|
| Dominican
College |
Racine |
Wisconsin |
1947 |
1974 |
Sisters of Saint Dominic |
see entry for College of Racine |
http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=5&l2=22&l3=39&top=10
Schier and Russett. Catholic Women's Colleges in America.
2002. |
| Door-Kewaunee
County Teachers College |
Algoma |
Wisconsin |
1909 |
|
|
|
| Downer
College |
Fox Lake |
Wisconsin |
1855 |
|
|
founded as Wisconsin Female
College; later merged with Milwaukee Female College; became Milwaukee-Downer
College; later merged with Lawrence University in 1964 |
www.lawrence.edu/library/archives/history.shtml
Brenner, Morgan G. The Encyclopedia of College & University Name Histories. 2003. |
| Dunn
County Teachers College |
Menomonie |
Wisconsin |
1899 |
|
|
|
| Gale
College |
Galesville |
Wisconsin |
1854 |
1949 |
|
Burke lists as a Methodist
institution; Wisconsin Educational Approval Board site states Methodist Synod
of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church; founded as Galesville
University; after closure became Marynook House of Lord and used for
education of priests by St. Louis Province of Society of Mary, moved to St.
Louis in 1973 |
http://archives.luther.edu/rg10.html
Burke, Colin B. American Collegiate Populations. 1982.
http://eab.state.wi.us/resources/closedschools.asp |
| German-American
Normal College |
Milwaukee |
Wisconsin |
1878 |
|
|
Steiger, Ernst. Steiger's Educational
Directory of 1878 |
| Green
Bay Business College |
Green Bay |
Wisconsin |
|
|
|
| Green
County Teachers College |
Monroe |
Wisconsin |
1910 |
1967 |
|
Songe, Alice H. American
Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. 1978. |
| Holy
Cross Community College |
|
Wisconsin |
|
1968 |
Sisters of the Holy Cross |
|
Schier and Russett. Catholic Women's Colleges in America. 2002. |
| Holy
Family College |
Manitowoc |
Wisconsin |
1869 |
|
Franciscan Sisters of Christian
Charity |
founded as Holy Family Normal
School, became Holy Family College in 1935 and then Silver Lake College of
the Holy Family in 1972, now Silver Lake College |
Schier and Russett. Catholic Women's
Colleges in America. 2002.
Songe, Alice H. American Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name
Changes. 1978. |
| Holy
Redeemer College |
Waterford |
Wisconsin |
1968 |
1985 |
Redemptorists |
now a retreat center |
www.redemptorists-denver.org/archives/transcripts.html |
| Juneau
County Teachers College |
New Lisbon |
Wisconsin |
1916 |
1971 |
|
|
| Langlade
County Teachers College |
Antigo |
Wisconsin |
1905 |
1971 |
|
|
| Layton
School of Art & Design |
Milwaukee |
Wisconsin |
1920 |
1974 |
|
|
|
| Lincoln
County Teachers College |
Merrill |
Wisconsin |
1907 |
1967 |
|
Songe, Alice H. American
Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. 1978. |
| Madison
College |
Madison |
Wisconsin |
1858 |
1998 |
|
formerly Madison Junior College
and Madison Business College |
www.channel3000.com/news/stories/news-980928-124000.html;
http://eab.state.wi.us/resources/closedschools.asp |
| Manitowoc
County Teachers College |
Manitowoc |
Wisconsin |
1901 |
1971 |
|
|
| Marinette
County Teachers College |
Marinette |
Wisconsin |
1905 |
|
|
|
| Mater
Dolorosa College |
Milwaukee |
Wisconsin |
|
Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother |
founded for the education of
Sisters, probably did not enroll lay students |
Schier and Russett. Catholic Women's
Colleges in America. 2002. |
| Metropolitan
College of Business and Technology |
|
Wisconsin |
|
1970s |
|
http://eab.state.wi.us/resources/closedschools.asp |
| Milton
College |
Milton |
Wisconsin |
1844 |
1983 |
|
established as Du Lac Academy;
became Milton Academy in 1856 and Milton College in 1867; the web site at
www.miltoncollege.org includes information on history, preservation of Main
Hall, photos, items for sale, and contact information for transcripts |
www.miltoncollege.org
www.edcc.edu/milton/Default.htm
Smith, Gregory Lee. Milton College: An Evaluative Case Study in Decline. Ph.D. dissertation.
1985.
Songe, Alice H. American Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name
Changes.
1978. |
| Milwaukee
College |
Milwaukee |
Wisconsin |
1851 |
1894 |
|
founded as Milwaukee Female
College; merged with Downer College to form Milwaukee Downer College |
www.lawrence.edu/library/archives/timetrad/mdttmenu.html
http://www.lawrence.edu/library/archives/history.shtml |
| Milwaukee
College of Business |
Milwaukee |
Wisconsin |
1945 |
1993 |
|
name changed to
Davenport/Detroit College in 1988, then to Milwaukee College of Business, and
later to Patricia Stevens Career College in 1991 |
http://eab.state.wi.us/resources/closedschools.asp |
| Milwaukee
College of Osteopathy |
Milwaukee |
Wisconsin |
1898 |
|
|
under the name of the Milwaukee
Institute of Osteopathy. Name changed to the Milwaukee College of Osteopathy
in 1900. Purchased by the American School of Osteopathy in 1901 |
http://history.aoa-net.org/Education/collegehist.htm |
| Milwaukee
Downer College |
Milwaukee |
Wisconsin |
1895 |
1964 |
|
consolidated with Lawrence
College |
www.lawrence.edu/library/archives/timetrad/mdttmenu.html
http://www.lawrence.edu/library/archives/history.shtml |
| Milwaukee
Medical College |
Milwaukee |
Wisconsin |
|
|
merged with Wisconsin College of
Physicians and Surgeons in 1913 to form School of Medicine of Marquette
University; became independent in 1967 and adopted name of the Medical
College of Wisconsin in 1970 |
Songe, Alice H. American Universities
and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. 1978.
http://www.mcw.edu/display/router.asp?docid=241 |
| Mission
House College |
Plymouth |
Wisconsin |
1862 |
|
|
name changed in 1956 to Lakeland
College; seminary moved to Minneapolis/St. Paul as United Theological
Seminary |
http://www.lakeland.edu/aboutus/history.asp |
| Mount
Saint Paul College |
Waukesha |
Wisconsin |
1962 |
1970 |
Salvatorian Fathers |
initially founded for
seminarians and later accepted other students; merged with Dominican College
in Racine and became The College of Racine; this institution closed a few
years later |
Songe, Alice H. American
Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. 1978. |
| Mount
Senario College |
Ladysmith |
Wisconsin |
1962 |
2002 |
Catholic |
|
The Chronicle of Higher
Education, April 6, 2001; May 17, 2002; June 14, 2002 |
| Northwestern
University |
Watertown |
Wisconsin |
1865 |
1995 |
Lutheran |
combined with Martin Luther
College in New Ulm, MN |
Burke, Colin B. American Collegiate Populations.
1982.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15661b.htm
http://84.1911encyclopedia.org/W/WI/WISCONSIN.htm |
| Outagamie
County Teachers College |
Kaukauna |
Wisconsin |
1912 |
1972 |
|
|
| Pio
Nono College |
St. Francis |
Wisconsin |
1870 |
1923 |
|
the Catholic Normal School of
the Holy Family was also located in St. Francis; founded by Joseph Salzmann;
named for Pope Pius IX; curricular focus on musicwith commercial program
added in the 1890's; by 1923 the normal school/college was dissolved and Pio
Nono operated as a boarding and day high school for boys; the archdiocese
continued to operate St. Francis Minor Seminary, later renamed de Sales
Preparatory Seminary (with a move to Lake Drive in 1963)as a high school and
two-year college until 1970, when the college department was changed to a
four-year program and relocated; Pio Nono reopened in 1965 in the building
previously operated by the seminary |
http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=5&l2=22&l3=39&top=10
www.archives.nd.edu/findaids/ead/xml/ins.xml
www.tmore.org/stfms.htm and www.tmore.org/pionono.htm |
| Polk
County Teachers College |
Frederic |
Wisconsin |
1905 |
1971 |
|
|
| Racine
College |
Racine |
Wisconsin |
1852 |
1935 |
Episcopal |
acquired by Community of St.
Mary to operate as a home for children from Chicago; transferred to Episcopal
Diocese of Milwaukee in 1985 and now operated as DeKoven Center |
http://justus.anglican.org/resources/pc/bios/dekoven/dekoven4.html;
http://www.thrill.org/dekoven/index.htm
Hunt and Carper, eds. Religious Higher Education in the United States. 1996. |
| Racine-Kenosha
County Teachers College |
Union Grove |
Wisconsin |
1913 |
1971 |
|
www.uwm.edu/Library/arch/lcomm/student.htm |
| Richland
County Teachers College |
Richland Center |
Wisconsin |
1903 |
1967 |
|
Songe, Alice H. American
Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. 1978. |
| Sacred
Heart College |
Watertown |
Wisconsin |
1871 |
1955 |
Congregation of Holy Cross |
college closed 1886-1888 while
continuting to operated as a preparatory school for young men; from 1955-1968
operated as Sacred Heart Military Academy; now operating as Maranatha Baptist
Bible College |
www.watertownhistory.org/Articles/SacredHeart.htm |
| Saint
Albert's College |
Racine |
Wisconsin |
1935 |
1946 |
Sisters of Saint Dominic |
predecessor to Dominican
College; see entry for College of Racine |
Schier and Russett. Catholic Women's
Colleges in America. 2002. |
| Saint
Clara's College |
Sinsinawa |
Wisconsin |
1848 |
1922 |
Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa |
established as Sinsinawa
Academy, became St. Clara College in 1901; moved to River Forest, IL in 1922
and renamed Rosary College |
http://www.dom.edu/about/about.html
Schier and Russett. Catholic Women's Colleges in America. 2002.
Songe, Alice H. American Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name
Changes.
1978. |
| Saint
Clare College |
Saint Francis / Milwaukee |
Wisconsin |
1937 |
|
Sisters of Saint Francis of Assisi |
now Cardinal Stritch University
after 1946 |
www.lakeofs.org/History.htm
Songe, Alice H. American
Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. 1978. |
| Saint
Francis College |
Burlington |
Wisconsin |
1846 |
|
|
http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=5&l2=22&l3=39&top=10
Burke, Colin B. American Collegiate Populations. 1982. |
| Saint
Francis Minor Seminary (junior college) |
St. Francis |
Wisconsin |
1941 |
1963 |
Catholic |
operated on site of former Pio
Nono College |
http://eab.state.wi.us/resources/closedschools.asp |
| Saint
Francis de Sales College |
Milwaukee |
Wisconsin |
|
1982 |
Catholic |
accredited by North Central in
1970; continues as a seminary |
|
| Saint
Joseph College |
Edgerton |
Wisconsin |
|
|
www.redemptorists-denver.org/archives/transcripts.html |
| Saint
Mary's College |
Prairie du Chien |
Wisconsin |
1913 |
|
School Sisters of Notre Dame |
moved to Milwaukee and adopted
name of Mount Mary College in 1929 |
Songe, Alice H. American Universities
and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. 1978. |
| Saint
Rose Junior College |
La Crosse |
Wisconsin |
1890 |
|
Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual
Adoration |
founded as Saint Rose Normal
School; name changed to Viterbo College in 1937 |
Songe, Alice H. American Universities
and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. 1978. |
| Saint
Thomas Aquinas College |
Sinsinawa |
Wisconsin |
1846 |
1865 |
Dominican |
opened by Samuel Mazzuchelli,
O.P. |
www.domlife.org/body_thomascollege04.html |
| Salvatorian
College |
St. Nazianz |
Wisconsin |
1909 |
1960's |
Salvatorian Fathers |
operated as JFK Academy in the
1970's and was abandoned by the 1980's |
www.archives.nd.edu/findaids/ead/xml/ins.xml
http://village.saint-nazianz.wi.us/villagehistory.htm |
| Sauk
County Teachers College |
Reedsburg |
Wisconsin |
1906 |
|
|
|
| Sawyer
College of Business |
Milwaukee |
Wisconsin |
1916 |
1979 |
|
http://eab.state.wi.us/resources/closedschools.asp |
| Sheboygan
County Teachers College |
Sheboygan Falls |
Wisconsin |
1909 |
1972 |
|
|
| Sinsinawa
Mound College |
Brant County |
Wisconsin |
1846 |
1864 |
Catholic |
Burke also lists a
"Sensinew Mound College" probably a mis-spelling; Dominican Sisters
occupied after 1867, moving their mother house from Benton, WI |
Burke, Colin B. American Collegiate Populations.
1982.
http://www.archives.nd.edu/aidan/aidan517.htm |
| Spencerman
Business College |
Milwaukee |
Wisconsin |
1863 |
1974 |
|
taken over by Concordia
University Wisconsin |
http://eab.state.wi.us/resources/closedschools.asp |
| Taylor
County Teachers College |
Medford |
Wisconsin |
1912 |
|
|
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| Vernon
County Teachers College |
Viroqua |
Wisconsin |
1909 |
1971 |
|
|
| Waushara
County Teachers College |
Wautoma |
Wisconsin |
1911 |
1971 |
|
|
| Wayland
University |
Beaver Dam |
Wisconsin |
1855 |
|
Baptist |
|
www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=5&l2=22&l3=39&top=10
Burke, Colin B. American Collegiate Populations. 1982.
www.wayland.org |
| Wisconsin
College of Physicians and Surgeons |
Milwaukee |
Wisconsin |
1894 |
|
|
see entry for Milwaukee Medical
College |
Songe, Alice H. American Universities
and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. 1978. |
| Wisconsin
Female College |
Fox Lake |
Wisconsin |
1855 |
|
|
predecessor to Downer College
that later merged with Milwaukee Female College in 1895 and still later, with
Lawrence College |
http://www.lawrence.edu/library/archives/history.shtml |
| Wood
County Teachers College |
Wisconsin Rapids |
Wisconsin |
1903 |
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