Midway College

Midway University

Motto	Ama Vicinum Acte
Type	Private Undergraduate Liberal Arts
Established	1847
Affiliation	Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
President	Dr. John P. Marsden
Administrative staff	13
Students	1194
Location	Midway, Kentucky, USA
Campus	Rural
Athletics	NAIA - RSC
Colors
Mascot	Eagles
Website	www.midway.edu

Midway University is an independent, liberal arts university with approximately 1,800 students located in Midway, Kentucky. Related by covenant to the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), it currently offers two and four-year degrees. Midway was the only women's college in Kentucky until 2016. In the Fall of 2016, Midway University admitted men to the Day College for the first time. The Day College offers majors in business, marketing, equine studies, sports management, english, mathematics, biology, nursing, psychology, criminal justice and teacher education. In addition to the Day College, Midway University offers programs to adult men and women, through the evening and weekend School for Career Development (SCD), offered on the Midway Campus and in more than 18 sites across Kentucky, and also through Midway University ONLINE. Both SCD and ONLINE offer accelerated degree-completion programs for working adults. In May 2016, Midway's Board of Trustees voted unanimously to begin admitting male undergraduates for the first time in the school's history in the fall 2017 semester.

The mission of Midway University: "As Kentucky's only college for Women and as a forerunner in coeducational adult accelerated learning, Midway University empowers undergraduate and graduate students as leaders through a professionally-oriented liberal arts education."

Midway University originally opened as the Kentucky Female Orphan School on October 3, 1849, with one teacher and sixteen female students. The nine members of the Board of Trustees oversaw the school's endowment, the building and five acres of land.

The co-founders of the school were Dr. L.L. (Lewis Letig) Pinkerton (1812–1875), minister of the Midway Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) from 1844 to 1860, and Mr. James Ware Parrish, a Midway Christian Church elder. They obtained a charter on February 17, 1847, from the Kentucky legislature through the help of Kentucky Senator Major George W. Williams. Before the school was permitted to open, an endowment of twenty-five thousand dollars had to be secured and investments made. This time was used for soliciting funds, purchasing land, construction of a building, and drafting and outline of government and management for the school. The outline was published in the Millennial Harbinger of November, 1848.