Bennett College is a private historically black liberal arts college for women in Greensboro,North Carolina. It was founded in 1873 as a normal school to educate freedmen and train both men and women as teachers. Originally coed,in 1926 it became a four-year women's college. It is one of two historically black colleges that enroll only women,the other being Spelman College.
Candler School of Theology is one of seven graduate schools at Emory University,located in metropolitan Atlanta,Georgia. A university-based school of theology,Candler educates ministers,scholars of religion and other leaders. It is also one of 13 seminaries affiliated with the United Methodist Church.
Pfeiffer University is a private university in Misenheimer,North Carolina. It is affiliated with the United Methodist Church.
The Divinity School at Duke University in Durham,North Carolina,is one of ten graduate or professional schools within Duke University. It is also one of thirteen seminaries founded and supported by the United Methodist Church. It has 39 regular rank faculty and 15 joint,secondary or adjunct faculty,and,as of 2017,an enrollment of 543 full-time equivalent students. The current dean of the Divinity School is the Rev. Dr. Edgardo Colón-Emeric,who assumed the deanship on Aug. 31,2021. Former deans include the prominent New Testament scholar Richard B. Hays,who stepped down in 2015.
Yale Divinity School (YDS) is one of the twelve graduate and professional schools of Yale University in New Haven,Connecticut.
The Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) is a consortium of five predominantly African-American denominational Christian seminaries in Atlanta,Georgia,operating together as a professional graduate school of theology. It is the largest free-standing African-American theological school in the United States.
Ernest A. Fitzgerald was an American bishop of the United Methodist Church,elected in 1984.
The Vanderbilt Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion is an interdenominational divinity school at Vanderbilt University,a major research university located in Nashville,Tennessee. It is one of only six university-based schools of religion in the United States without a denominational affiliation that service primarily mainline Protestantism.
Robert Hitchcock Spain was an American bishop of the United Methodist Church who was elected in 1988.
Merrimon Cuninggim (1911–1995) was a Methodist minister and university administrator.
Bennett Harvie Branscomb was an American theologian and academic administrator. He served as the fourth chancellor of Vanderbilt University,a private university in Nashville,Tennessee,from 1946 to 1963. Prior to his appointment at Vanderbilt,he was the director of the Duke University Libraries and dean of the Duke Divinity School. Additionally,he served as a professor of Christian theology at Southern Methodist University. He was the author of several books about New Testament theology.
Alfred Wesley Gwinn,Jr. is a former residing bishop of the North Carolina Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. He held the office of Bishop of North Carolina from 2004 to 2012. His offices were located in Raleigh,North Carolina.
B. Michael Watson is a bishop of The United Methodist Church,elected in 2000. He served as resident bishop of the North Georgia Annual Conference,which comprises 1,000 churches,more than 1,500 clergy members,and more than 320,000 lay members. He retired in 2016 and currently serves as ecumenical officer of the Council of Bishops.
Hood Theological Seminary is a Christian seminary sponsored by the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Salisbury,North Carolina. It is a graduate and professional school sponsored by the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and approved by the University Senate of The United Methodist Church. From its founding in 1879 until 2001,the seminary was part of Livingstone College;it is now independent. The seminary is accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada.
Jesse Lee Cuninggim (1870–unknown) was an American Methodist clergyman and university professor and administrator. After serving as Head of the Department of Religious Education at Southern Methodist University in Dallas,Texas,he served as the President of Scarritt College for Christian Workers,which he moved from Kansas City,Missouri to Nashville,Tennessee.
Scarritt College for Christian Workers was a college associated with the United Methodist Church in Nashville,Tennessee,USA. The campus is now home to Scarritt Bennett Center.
John Keith Benton was an American theologian and university administrator. He served as the Dean of the Vanderbilt University Divinity School from 1939 to 1956.
Willa Beatrice Player was an American educator,college administrator,college president,civil rights activist,and federal appointee. Player was the first African-American woman to become president of a four-year,fully accredited liberal arts college when she took the position at Bennett College in Greensboro,North Carolina.
Sidney Clarence Garrison (1885–1945) was an American educator and psychologist. He served as the second President of Peabody College from 1938 to 1945. He was the (co-)author of several books about education.
William Thomas Greer Jr. was the third president of Virginia Wesleyan College and was named president emeritus upon his retirement in 2015.
