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Bethune-Cookman College

Bethune-Cookman University
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Motto Enter to Learn, Depart to Serve
Type Private
Established 1904
Affiliation United Methodist Church
UNCF
Endowment $54,186,000
President Edison O. Jackson
Students 4,045
Location Daytona Beach, Florida, U.S.
Campus Urban, 85.5 acres (0.29 km²)
Colors Maroon and Gold
         
Athletics NCAA Div I FCS
Nickname Wildcats
Mascot Wil D Cat
Affiliations Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
Website www.cookman.edu
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The Pride's leadership
Donovan Wells Director of College Bands
James Poitier Associate Director and Arranger
Pedro Orey Assistant Director and Percussion Instructor
Ernest Hamilton Auxiliary Instructor
Horatio Walker Announcer

Coordinates: 29°12′37″N 81°01′50″W / 29.2102556°N 81.0306086°W / 29.2102556; -81.0306086

Bethune-Cookman University (B-CU), formerly Bethune-Cookman College (B-CC), is a private, co-ed, historically black university affiliated with the United Methodist Church, located in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States. The primary administration building, White Hall, and the Mary McLeod Bethune Home have been added to the US National Register of Historic Places.

Mary McLeod Bethune founded the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School in 1904. The school underwent several stages of growth and development through the years and in 1923, it merged with the Cookman Institute of Jacksonville, Florida and became a co-ed high school. A year later in 1924, it became affiliated with the Methodist Church. By 1931, the school had become a junior college.

The school became a four-year college in 1941 when the Florida Board of Education approved a 4-year baccalaureate program in Liberal Arts and Teacher Education. The name was changed to Bethune-Cookman College.

On February 14, 2007, the Board of Trustees approved the name Bethune-Cookman University after the institution established its first graduate program.


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