Brevard College -- Brevard, NC - Universities and Colleges on Waymarking.com

Date Founded 1853.
Oldest college or university in the mountains of North Carolina.

Brevard College was formed at its present location in 1934 through the merger of two Methodist colleges, Rutherford and Weaver, on a campus donated by the Brevard Institute. From the beginning, the purpose of all three schools had been to give young men and women in the mountains of western North Carolina an opportunity for an education, to help them make “not a mere ‘living,’ but a ‘life.’ ”
Our history begins in 1853 in Owl Hollow School, a one-room log cabin in the foothills of Burke County, under the leadership of The Reverend Laban Abernethy, a Methodist minister. The tradition that “None Shall Ever Be Turned Away for Want of Means” was the principle established by Reverend Abernathy. His school developed into Rutherford College and was later acquired in 1900 by the Western North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. A great number of men were trained for the ministry at Rutherford, and the school became known as the “School of the Prophets,” but the college was always coeducational.
In 1854, eight miles north of Asheville on the Salem Camp Ground in the village of Weaver, Weaver College was emerging, beginning as a boarding school known as the Masonic and Sons of Temperance High School. The school was unfortunately destroyed by fire in 1872. Montraville Weaver gave land for a new school, and Weaverville College was incorporated in 1873, independent of any religious denomination. However, in 1883, it was deeded to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. When it became a junior college in 1912, the name was changed to Weaver College.
The needs and resources of the time dictated the roles and purpose of Rutherford and Weaver colleges. During their tenure, both schools took the forms of a seminary, a two-year college, a four-year college, and a graduate school.
In September 1895, at the Red House on Probart Street in Brevard, a school for women was established by the Reverend Fitch Taylor and was first known as the Epworth School. Reverend Taylor, a businessman and local preacher from Asheville, felt it a mission to teach girls basic reading, writing, and domestic skills. The Women’s Home Mission Society took over the school in 1903, and property on the edge of town was acquired on the site that is today Brevard College.
Epworth School became the Brevard Institute, a high school with a commercial department, a music department, home economics, and agriculture and work-study programs like those of Weaver and Rutherford colleges. The Institute closed in 1933 when the town of Brevard became able to support a public school system. All three schools experienced financial difficulties caused by multiple disasters from the Great Depression, fires, and a cyclone.
In 1933 the Western North Carolina Conference ordered the merger of Weaver and Rutherford onto the grounds of the Brevard Institute. The Conference created a Board of Trustees, and appointed Dr. Eugene Coltrane as the first president. On September 17, 1934, Brevard College opened its doors with 385 students. The College continued the mission of Rutherford and Weaver to make college education possible for young men and women who would otherwise have been denied that privilege because of limited resources. Work-study opportunities included operation of a farm, food preparation, gardening, dairy farming, handcrafts, needlework, weaving, basketry, woodworking, and machine shops.
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Type of College
Four-year private, coeducational, comprehensive liberal arts college; affiliated with the Western North Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church.
Calendar
Two semesters—fall, spring
Campus & Location
120-acre campus within the City of Brevard, North Carolina; close to the Pisgah National Forest, Blue Ridge Parkway, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the city of Asheville, the Asheville Regional Airport and the Greenville-Spartanburg Airport.
Degree Programs
Bachelor of Arts; Bachelor of Music; Bachelor of Science
Majors
Art; Business and Organizational Leadership; Ecology; English; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Exercise Science; General Science; Health Science Studies; History; Integrated Studies; Mathematics; Music; Psychology; Religious Studies; Theatre Studies; Wilderness Leadership and Experiential Education.
Pre-Professional Studies
Pre-Law, Pre-Dentistry, Pre-Medicine, Pre-Nursing and Pre-Veterinary.
Special Programs, Opportunities
Honors Program; honor societies; double major; dual enrollment; internships; study abroad; independent study; teacher licensure program; experiential studies (Pisgah National Forest, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Cradle of Forestry, regional museums, area orchestras); interdisciplinary studies; Academic Enrichment Center; Pisgah Forest Institute.
Faculty
56 full-time faculty; 66 percent hold the highest academic degree in their field; 48 percent have tenure; student-faculty ratio is 10:1
Student Body
584 students from 34 states and 9 foreign countries; 94 percent full-time; 70 percent residential; 53 percent male, 47 percent female; 48 percent in-state students from 48 counties, 52 percent out-of-state and international students.

Name: Brevard College Location/Address: Broad Street Brevard, NC USA 28712 Phone Number: 828-883-8292 Web Site: [Web Link] Type of School: Undergraduate School (usually four years) School Affiliation: Public -- Community Date Founded: 1853 Enrollment: 584 Nicknames/Mascots: Tornados School Colors: Blue and White Location of GPS Coordinates: At the sidewalk in front of the C. A. Jones Library Building. School Motto: Not listed

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