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Memories of Former College at an Indiana Resort

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The French Lick Resort blog posted " Tales Out of School from West Baden's College Days " this week with a brief historical sketch and comments of several alumni from Northwood Institute.  Northwood Institute operated at the site from 1968-1983.  The institution was founded in Alma, MI in 1959 and the West Baden, IN site "...offered two-year and four-year degrees in business, performing arts and vocational studies. Northwood was renowned for some of its specialty programs like automotive marketing, fashion merchandising, and hotel and restaurant management."  After closing in Indiana, academic programs continued under a new name of Northwood University in Michigan, Florida, and Texas . The resort property used by Northwood Institute was known for its mineral springs and was initially developed as the West Baden Springs Hotel .  The hotel flourished but ultimately closed during the 1930s. A Jesuit Seminary then used the property after purchasing if for $1 follo
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Coker College Trustees Approve Name Change

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WBTW-TV, " Coker College has a new name ," and WPDE-TV, " Coker College Board of Trustees approves name change, school to operate as Coker University ,"  both of Florence, SC, reported this week that the Board of Trustees of Coker College approved a name change. The name change will occur in 2019. Coker College is located in Hartsville, SC and was founded in 1896 as Welsh Neck Academy. It became Coker College for Women in 1908 and the name changed to Coker College in 1970. It was affiliated with the  South Carolina Baptist Convention , but has been non-denominational since 1944.  It officially became co-educational in 1969, although men had been attending since the end of World War II.
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Archiving History at Lafayette College

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The Lafayette , newspaper of Lafayette College, posted an interesting article this past week, " A historic legacy: archivist Diane Shaw retires after three decades of growing college’s collections ."  Reporter Morgan Sturm provides details of Shaw's efforts to expand collections after joining the campus community in 1985.  Shaw preserved the history of the college and focused attention on the collection of artist’s books, rare books, manuscripts and anti-slavery works.  Shaw is also praised for her work on the Marquis de Lafayette Collection. Consider visiting Lafayette's  Special Collections & Archives web pages  that contain an extensive array of resources and digital exhibits. The College Archives documents and familiarizes visitors with the history of Lafayette College from its founding in 1824 to the present day.  Lafayette also partners with Archive-It to provide public access to resources through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine .
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Remarkable Ohio: Videos Commemorate History of Colleges

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The Ohio Channel website, a service of Ohio's public broadcasting stations, offers a number of short videos in a Remarkable Ohio collection highlighting sites where Ohio historical markers "...identify, commemorate and honor the important people, places and events that have contributed to the state's rich history." You can follow each of the links below to learn more about the respective institutions: Antioch College Baldwin University Findlay College Ohio Northern University Otterbein College Starling Medical College The Ohio State University Western Reserve College and Academy Wilmington College & Marble Hall
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Education Corporation of America Closes over 75 Campuses

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The Education Corporation of America headquarter in Birmingham, AL  announced today that it will close more than 75 sites  that enroll roughly 20,000 students.  The company began the process of notifying students and employees.  The sites include those operating as Brightwood College, Brightwood Career Institute, Ecotech Institute, Golf Academy of America and Virginia College. You can read more at Inside Higher Ed  in an article that was posted earlier today, " Large For-Profit Chain to Close ."  WSFA-TV in Montgomery, AL posted a short video with an article, " Virginia College closing in Montgomery, nationwide ." KCRA-TV in Sacramento, CA posted " Brightwood College closing Modesto, Sacramento campuses " on its website. Thirty-two sites are listed for Brightwood College in eight states on the  IPEDS College Navigator  site and twenty-seven sites in eleven states are listed for Virginia Colleges. Brightwood College Sites Virginia College Sites
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Mapping Change on Purdue's West Lafayette Campus

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Purdue University's Libraries, Archives, and Special Collections website includes a Purdue Campus Facilities and Buildings Historic Database page that allows users to become familiar with the history of the West Lafayette campus using an interactive map.  Users can adjust the slider below the map to see how the campus has changed over the course of the institution's history from 1874 up to the present.  There is also a search box for entering keywords to locate a more specific collection of buildings. Consider leaving a comment below with url if you know of a similar project on another campus...
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Invented Tradition at Simon Fraser University

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The scotsinbritishcolumbia blog published an interesting post on November 14, 2018 by Georgia Twiss, " A Tale of Two Simon Frasers: The Invented and Contested Scottish Tradition of SFU ."  Twiss argues that "...most people assume the university’s name and Scottishness honour Simon Fraser, the nineteenth-century imperial explorer and fur trade...but in truth has little to do with Simon Fraser the Explorer at all." Simon Fraser University was founded in 1965 and serves over 30,000 students through campuses in British Columbia's largest municipalities of Vancouver, Burnaby and Surrey.  Twiss comments that the "...naming of SFU was a fluke by way of an acronymic oversight. The original name, ‘Fraser University’, was chosen to reflect the region from where its student body would largely derive. However, upon the realization that the school would be colloquially referred to as “F.U,” the prefix “Simon” was added, with no direct statement as to whom it was meant
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