Blue Mountain Christian University ( BMCU ), formerly Blue Mountain College , is a private Baptist college in Blue Mountain, Mississippi . Founded as a women's college in 1873, the college's board of trustees voted unanimously for the college to become coeducational in 2005. The university offers baccalaureate degrees as well as graduate programs.
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78-656: Is a mountain in British Columbia . 49°16′14″N 122°28′22″W / 49.27056°N 122.47278°W / 49.27056; -122.47278 This article related to a mountain, mountain range, or peak in British Columbia , Canada is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a location on the Coast of British Columbia , Canada is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Blue Mountain College By 1873,
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104-782: The United States Blue Mountain Lake (hamlet), New York , hamlet in the United States Water bodies [ edit ] Blue Mountain Lake (New York lake) a lake in the United States Blue Mountain Lake (Arkansas) , artificial lake in Arkansas, United States Blue Mountain Creek , in New South Wales, Australia Other places [ edit ] Blue Mountain (ski resort) ,
117-578: The college was founded as a woman's college by Confederate Brigadier-General Mark Perrin Lowrey , a pastor who was known as "a preacher general" during the war. Blue Mountain Female Institute , as it was called at first, started with 50 students with Lowrey and his two daughters serving as the faculty. In 1877, the college was officially chartered by the State of Mississippi. Lowrey, his sons W. T. and B. G., and grandson Lawrence Lowrey all served as
130-834: The college was renamed Blue Mountain Christian University to distinguish the institution from two-year community colleges and to highlight its Christian identity and mission. The Blue Mountain Christian (BMCU) athletic teams are called the Toppers. The college is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Southern States Athletic Conference (SSAC; formerly known as Georgia–Alabama–Carolina Conference (GACC) until after
143-571: The eighth president on August 1, 2012. Originally an independently owned institution, the college was turned over to the Mississippi Baptist Convention in 1920 by the Lowrey Family. It remained focused on women's education until 1956 when a program to train men for church-related vocations was started. In October 2005, the college's board of trustees voted to make the school fully coeducational. On November 4, 2022,
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#1732772758902156-542: The first four presidents. By 1910, the institution was using the name Blue Mountain Female College . After the sudden death of President Lowrey in 1960, a longtime professor at the school, Wilfred Tyler, became the first non-Lowrey family president followed by E. Harold Fisher in 1965. Bettye Rogers Coward served as the seventh president from 2001 to 2012. Janice I. Nicholson, a BMC alumna, served as transitional president prior to Barbara Childers McMillin's becoming
169-531: The title Blue Mountain . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blue_Mountain&oldid=1222341522 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Blue Mountain (British Columbia) Blue Mountain
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