Dec 04 2008
Maryville College
Maryville College was founded in 1819 by Isaac Anderson as the Southern and Western Theological Seminary. This Presbyterian institution was a center of radical anti-slavery and anti-secessionist intellectual thought in the run up to the Confederate secession and the Civil War. Maryville College was racially integrated in its first year and remained a model of integration until the State of Tennessee forced the school to segregate in 1901. As a direct response to the forced segregation, Maryville College gave one quarter of its endowment to the historically black Knoxville College. Immediately after the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. The Board of Education, Maryville College reintegrated.
Today Maryville College stands as one of the 50th oldest colleges in the United States. This private liberal arts college confers Bachelors of Arts and Bachelors of Music degrees in fifty different fields of study. Maryville College is fully accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the National Association of Schools of Music. Approximately 90% of the schools nearly 1,200 students receive financial aid.
For more information, visit the official website of Maryville College.
