Hiwassee College
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Former names
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Tullagalla Academy(1826-1848) |
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Motto in English
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Founded in Faith. Forged in Excellence |
| Type | private |
| Established | 1849 |
| President | Robin Tricoli |
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Academic staff
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21 |
| Students | 386 (Fall 2013) |
| Undergraduates | 386 (Fall 2013) |
| Location | Madisonville, Tennessee, United States |
| Campus |
Rural; 60 acres (0.24 km2) Total: 400 acres (1.6 km2) |
| Affiliations | United Methodist Church |
| Website | Hiwassee.edu |
Hiwassee College is a private, four-year, liberal arts college located in Madisonville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1849, the college offers associate degrees as well as four-year degrees, The majority of its associate degree graduates go on to attend, and complete, four-year degrees.
Hiwassee College’s early history is linked very closely with the founding in 1826 of Tullagalla Academy, a school for boys, located in the Fork Creek Community some five miles from the site of the present campus. At about this same time, a group of Methodist settlers set aside land near a bubbling spring for a camp meeting place that eventually came to be called Bat Creek Campground. Over the years, a church and other structures were erected and used by persons who assembled annually for “camp meeting services.” By 1845, the enrollment of the academy exceeded its capacity to accommodate the students so the school moved to Bat Creek Campground and utilized the facilities available there. This area is located across the road from the present location of the Hiwassee campus.
When the academy director left in 1848, a group of five local Methodist leaders worked to continue a school at the campgrounds, but at the college level. Thus, in 1849, the college was organized, replacing and expanding the academy’s program. The new institution was named Hiwassee, taken from the Cherokee word “Ayuwasi,” which means “meadow place at the foot of the hills” and is reflective of the beautiful region at the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains where the campus is located. They selected as their first president, Dr. Robert E. Doak, a twenty-five-year-old Presbyterian scholar. This act proclaimed to the entire region that the emphasis at the college was to be on Christian education and not on denominationalism.
Hiwassee College was chartered by the State of Tennessee in 1850 and thus, began a long history of meeting the educational needs of young men and, later on, young women of the area. For many years, Hiwassee College offered training beginning with elementary school and continuing through the bachelor's degree. At some periods in its history, the college granted the master's degree. Currently, Hiwassee College offers programs of study leading to a two-year or four-year degree.
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