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The Limestone College Board of Trustees approved plans that include a name change to Limestone University in 2020 .  The moves were adopted to coincide with the 175th anniversary of the institutional founding in 1845. Limestone College is located in Gaffney, South Carolina and enrolls 3,015 students.  You can also read, " Limestone College aims at university status ," from The Gaffney Ledger .

The Hillsboro Star-Journal published an article, " Tabor goes up in smoke ," written by Rowena Plett.  Plett describes a devastating fire at Tabor College that quickly destroyed the main campus building on April 30, 1918.  She also explores how the campus and community pulled together and were able to survive this tragic event.  The Mennonite Archival Image database offers several images of the building engulfed in flames and the Kansas Historical Society's Kansas Memory project incl udes a photograph of a composite work of paint, sliced brick, and slate by Professor Solomon Loewen , at the Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies at Tabor College, depicting a building burning.

Dickinson State University in Dickinson, North Dakota is celebrating the centennial of its founding in 1918 .  The institution was  founded as Dickinson State Normal School. The name changed to Dickinson State Teachers College in 1931 and to Dickinson State College in 1963. The DSU Centennial web pages include links to the History of DSU, digitized versions of 72 editions of Prairie Smoke , the college yearbook, hundreds of historic photographs. and information on upcoming events.

The SoGlos online magazine in  Cheltenham,  Gloucestershire published a fascinating interview with Rachel Roberts, archivist at Cheltenham Ladies' College .  Roberts discusses  her responsibilities for collecting, recording and displaying the archives and the insight they offer into the school’s history. The college was founded in 1853 and serves as an independent boarding and day school. The college website includes a number of innovative presentations of historical information.  The  COLLEGE IN ONE HUNDRED OBJECTS  was set up to celebrate our landmark 160th anniversary in 2014.  The projects brought together pupils, Guild members (alumnae) and staff in developing a shared tribute to Cheltenham Ladies' College distinctive values and atmosphere. You can visit the archives web page  and also follow the archives on Twitter @CLCArchives for regular informative tweets.

I was looking for information this morning on the history of Concord University in Athens, West Virginia and found the wonderful athens we knew site created and maintained by Garland Elmore, Jr.  While Elmore's website is designed to offer information on the broader Athens community, it includes a number of pages with text and photographs focusing on Concord University .   The institution was founded as Concord State Normal School in 1872. The name changed to Concord State Teachers College in 1931. The name changed again Concord College in 1943 it became Concord University in 2004. The university's web site offers a History & Goals page that includes tables with lists of principals/presidents, institutional names with corresponding seals, and other historical information.

The Board of Trustees of Mount Ida College announced today that the institution will close and agreement has been reached for acquisition of the campus by the University of Massachusetts .  The Mount Ida website includes statements from the trustees and the institution's president, Barry Brown, along with an F.A.Q. section for students and others interested in learning more about the agreement. Mount Ida was founded in 1899  on Mount Ida Hill in Newton Centre, MA by George Franklin Jewett and Abigail Faye Jewett .  It closed during the Great Depression and  was reopened by William F. Carlson and his son F. Roy Carlson in 1939.  Mount Ida was accredited as a junior college in 1961.  It merged with  Chamberlayne Junior College in 1987 and the New England Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences in 1989.  Mount Ida offered baccalaureate programs after 1998 and graduate degrees after 2009. You can also read a press release, " Mount Ida College reaches agreement with UMass regarding