Coker College Trustees Approve Name Change

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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