Dordt College Announces Get Upwardly Change

Dordt College announced this calendar week that it volition alter its get upward to Dordt University inward May 2019.  The college website offers a short video alongside president Erik Hoekstra as well as a page of often asked questions.

The establishment located inward Sioux Center, Iowa as well as affiliated alongside the Christian Reformed Church was founded inward 1953 as Midwest Christian Junior College. The get upward changed to Dordt College inward 1956.

WNAX radio offers a curt well segment reporting on the get upward change.

Iowa Colleges That Convey Closed, Merged, Or Changed Names

This tabular array below includes institutions that accept closed, merged, or changed their names.  If you lot authorities annotation a bespeak for changing or updating information, delight notify ray01brown@gmail.com or piece of occupation out a comment below.

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Vennard College

earlier post service at the fourth dimension of Vennard's closing in 2008 provides a brief history of the institution. Vennard was founded inwards Chicago inwards 1910 as well as moved to Iowa inwards 1951.

Western & Leander Clark Colleges (Ia)

An article on Leander Clark College written yesteryear Mike Donahey is included inwards the August 2009 resultant of the past times supplement to the Marshalltown, Iowa Times-Republican.

Western-Leander Clark College, is too available through the Open Library. The history was written yesteryear Henry W. Ward as well as published yesteryear Otterbein Press inwards 1911. Ward covers the founding of the establishment every bit Western College inwards 1856 as well as the afterwards deed to Toledo, IA as well as the advert modify to Leander Clark College. The college shut after 1919 next a devastating burn as well as merged amongst Coe College.

Western Normal College (Ia)

Even though Western Normal College operated briefly, it is an interesting representative of the demeanor upon of or then small-scale institutions on the students too communities where they were located. Western Normal operated inwards Shenandoah, Iowa from the mid-1880s until a burn destroyed the edifice inwards 1891.

Some of the onetime students included:
     * Lee E. Phillips too Waite Phillips [founders of Phillips Petroleum Company]

     * Henry A. Fields [founded the Henry Field Seed Company inwards 1907]
     * Jessie Field Shambaugh [considered past times or then to live on the "Mother of 4-H]

     * J. W. Long [State Auditor of Iowa]
     * Charles W. Wallace [scholar of English linguistic communication Renaissance Theatre]

Following the burn inwards Shenandoah, Western Normal operated for a few years inwards Hawthorne, Nebraska, most Lincoln.

Grand Stance College (Ia)

That All Good Seed Strike Root is a centennial history of Grand View College written past times Thorvald Hansen. The mass includes 264 pages in addition to is available for $10.00 through the Grand View Bookstore.

Hansen provides an interesting history of the establishment founded past times the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church inward America inward 1896. Pastoral grooming was a master copy focus during the early on years amongst faculty recruited from Denmark. Hansen offers a specially expert exploration of the tension betwixt proponents of the Folk School tradition in addition to those wanting to offering a to a greater extent than classical curriculum.

Grand View was located inward Des Moines, IA. An university or high schoolhouse subdivision was added inward 1912. Instruction at the junior college grade began inward 1924 in addition to Grand View was accredited past times the Iowa State Department of Public Instruction inward 1938. The North Central Association of Colleges in addition to Secondary Schools extended accreditation inward 1959. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 theological seminary was relocated to Maywood, Illinois inward 1960. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 cite alter to Grand View University took house inward Nov 2008.