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Carson-Newman College

Carson–Newman University
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Former names
Mossy Creek Missionary Baptist Seminary
Carson College
Newman College
Carson and Newman consolidate to form Carson–Newman College
Motto Truth, Beauty, Goodness
Type Private
Established 1851
Religious affiliation
Baptist
Endowment $49 million
President J. Randall O'Brien
Administrative staff
199
Undergraduates circa 1800 (fall 2015)
Postgraduates circa 700 (fall 2015)
Location Jefferson City, Tennessee, U.S.
Campus Suburban, ca 200 acres (roughly 1 mi wide by .4 mi deep)
Colors Orange & Blue
         
Athletics NCAA Division IISAC
Nickname Eagles
Affiliations Tennessee Baptist Convention
CIC
CCCU
Website www.cn.edu
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Carson–Newman University is a historically Baptist liberal arts college located in Jefferson City, Tennessee, United States. A new enrollment record of 2,528 was set in August 2015. Studies are offered in approximately 90 different academic programs. The university has a current retention rate of 70%. Recent rankings include: Best College in the Southeast (The Princeton Review), 7th Best Baccalaureate College in the U.S., and America's number 2 ranked baccalaureate college for community service (Washington Monthly). Currently, the five most popular majors are: Nursing, Education, Business, Pre-Medicine/Biology, and Psychology. The school holds overall institutional accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

On July 8, 2008, the trustees appointed Baylor University Provost Dr. J. Randall O'Brien as the 22nd president of the college.

Following a ten-year effort of five early East Tennessee Baptists, the school was established as Mossy Creek Missionary Baptist Seminary in 1851, the school began by holding classes in a local Baptist church. Within a few years the institution became Mossy Creek Baptist College and occupied its own buildings on the site of the present campus.

In 1880, the university was named Carson College for James Harvey Carson (1801–1880), who left $15,000 of his estate to the school. For several years it existed alongside Newman College, a separate facility for the education of women named for William Cate Newman, who had donated money to the women's college. In 1889, the two colleges united as one of the first coeducational institutions in the South. The institution operated as Carson–Newman College until 2012 when the board of trustees voted to acknowledge recent organizational changes by changing the name to Carson–Newman University.


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