This file includes institutions that have closed, merged, or changed their names.  If you note a need for changing or updating information, please notify ray.brown@westminster-mo.edu.  An index with links to separate pages for other states and countries is available at http://www2.westminster-mo.edu/wc_users/homepages/staff/brownr/ClosedCollegeIndex.htm.  There is also a blog at http://collegehistorygarden.blogspot.com/ with links to other resources.  Thanks for your interest!
College Name	City	State	Start Date	End Date	Affiliation	Other Information	Source
Alaska Methodist University	Anchorage	Alaska	1957		Methodist	renamed Alaska Pacific University after 1978	http://www.alaskapacific.edu/university_info/
Sheldon Jackson College	Sitka	Alaska	1878	2007	Presbyterian	started by Presbyterian missionaries John G. Brady (later Governor of Alaska) and Fannie Kellogg on upper floor of an old military barracks as a training school for Tlingit Indians; in 1882, the building burned to the ground; another Presbyterian missionary, Dr. Sheldon Jackson, initiated a nationwide fund-raising campaign, and later that year a new building was constructed; Dr. Jackson was later named Alaska's first General Superintendent for Education; by 1884, the school was known as the Sitka Industrial and Training School; in 1910, the year of Dr. Jackson's death, the school was renamed Sheldon Jackson School and in 1917, a new boarding high school was added; the college program was organized in 1944 as an extension of the high school curriculum; and in 1966, the year before the high school closed, Sheldon Jackson was accredited; in 1972, the Presbyterian Church relinquished its direct authority for the operation of the college, ending 93 years of ownership by the Board of National Missions of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. The college maintained a covenant relationship with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and with the Alaska/Northwest Synod
last update:	4/15/2008