Erskine College
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Erskine College is a four year, Christian liberal arts college located in Due West, South Carolina.
In 1835, the Presbyterian church established an academy for men in Due West, which in 1839 became Erskine College, the first four-year church-related college in South Carolina. It is named for Ebenezer Erskine, one of the founders of The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. He was a pastor who led a group that separated from the Church of Scotland into a separate Associate Presbytery.
While the college has had a Professor of Divinity from its inception, the theological portion became a distinct but affiliated school, the Erskine Theological Seminary, in 1858.
Erskine began admitting women in 1894, and officially became coeducational in 1899.
In 1927, it merged with Due West Female College, founded in 1859.
External link
- Erskine College official web site (http://www.erskine.edu/)