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Columbia University offers a self-guided walking tour in New York City that features 25 sites along with information about the surrounding Morningside Heights neighborhood.  The tour web page includes links for a tour podcast in a variety of formats by Andrew Dolkart, a popular architectural historian and professor of architectural history at Columbia's School of Architecture.  There is also a 16-page .pdf with map and information on the various sites .

Colorado College in Colorado Springs, CO developed a self-guided walking tour of the campus that features a dozen historically significant buildings.  The sites on the tour are all listed on the  National Register of Historic Places or the State Register of Historic Properties .  The initial web page includes a helpful map with hot links to pages for each of the respective buildings.  You can also find a 20-page .pdf, " Colorado College Historic Building Walking Tour ," with information on the institution and each building included in the tour.  Colorado College was founded in 1874.

The Wellington (KS) Daily News published an article on June 6, 2018 by Adam Catlin, " Thirty-two years after its closure, St. John's College still brings back its alumni ."   St. John's College operated in Winfield, Kansas from 1893 to 1986 and Catlin reports on a recent successful gathering of St. John's alumni.  His article includes comments from a number of alumni he interviewed and also provides information on the institution and several historical images. The city of Winfield maintains the campus as  Baden Square  and has successfully repurposed a number of the building for other community activities.  You can read an earlier College History Garden post from several years ago that includes links to a couple of alumni web sites .

King's College, a small for-profit institution in Charlotte, North Caroline announced that it will be closing .  The institution was founded in 1901 in Raleigh, NC.  Courses were offered in Charlotte the following year in 1902.  Current enrollment is roughly 350 students. If you are interested in recent trends for closures, mergers,and acquisitions  access  College Closures since 2009  in the index at the right of any  College History Garden  page.  There are separate tabs for non-profit closures, for-profit closures, and one for mergers and acquisitions.  Each tab includes basic information for the institutions, i.e., Carnegie Classification, sector, accrediting agency, and the IPEDS unitid. advertisement for King's Business College from  The Progressive Farmer (Winston-Salem, NC) on January 26, 1904 Postcard King's Business College in Raleigh, NC source: North Carolina Postcard collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill King's College, Charlotte, NC

The Sedalia (MO) Democrat published a couple of articles on Central Business College, " Life at Central Business College in 1932 ," and " Central Business College alums praise education ." The proprietary institution was founded by C.W. Robbins in 1883 and closed in 1968. Robbins also operated the Sedalia Telegraph School as division of Central Business College. Robbins purchased the Missouri School of Telegraphy in 1907. He then purchased the Western Telegraph Institute of Sedalia the following year. He combined all three schools as Sedalia Telegraph School until closing out the program in 1917. The telegraph school enrolled both women and men and offered courses besides telegraphy in railway bookkeeping, spelling, penmanship, and station management.     A dvertisement for Central Business College from the Sedalia Weekly Bazoo, June 11, 1898. Advertisement from the Sedalia Weekly Bazoo on April 13, 1886. Advertisement for Missouri School of Telegraphy from the

The Florence-Lauderdale Public Library Digital Archive posted a couple of historical sketches on Facebook for Southern Female University and Florence University for Women . Text from the posts follows for those without access to Facebook: Florence’s Southern Female University . In its Friday, July 11, 1890 issue, the newly-founded *Florence Times* stated: “Florence already has buildings of which she may feel justly proud, but when the Baptist University is completed it will be the most magnificent structure in the city.” The *Times* was referring to the Southern Female University, under the auspices of the Baptist Church, which was then under construction near the water tower on Seymour Avenue, which in 1890 was a mile or two outside town. The Southern Female University was created in 1889 by the Alabama Baptists led by Rev. Dr. JB Hawthorne and the Hon. William B. Wood and the Florence Educational, Land and Development Co. The building was designed by the architectural firm of Rouss

The Alabama Pioneers website offers a number of posts on higher education institutions that include historical sketches written by Donna R. Causey.  Each post includes photographs and notes on sources for the information. Judson College in Marion, Alabama is the fifth oldest women’s college in the United States opened its doors on January 7, 1839 Here is the way young women attending college dressed around 1900 when they went on an outing May 23, 1973 – one of the oldest university buildings in Alabama was destroyed by a tornado  -- Old Southern University founded in 1856 and later merged with Birmingham College to form Birmingham Southern College Troy once burned to the ground in 1901 and was rebuilt, now it’s a thriving college town Summerfield – Beautiful, rare of a forgotten college and community in Alabama  -- Centennary Institute and Summerfield College Do you know the name of the college in Alabama (still exists) that was once the leading college in the South ? -- LaGrange Coll