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College
Name
City
State
Start Date
End Date
Affiliation
Other Information
Source
Aroostook
State College
Presque Isle
Maine
1903
state supported
founded as Aroostook State
Normal School; now operates as University of Maine at Presque Isle
Songe, Alice H.American Universities
and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes.1978.
Bliss
College
Lewiston
Maine
1897
1972
records located with Maine
Department of Education, Augusta, ME
Songe, Alice H.American Universities and Colleges: A
Dictionary of Name Changes.1978.
http://maine.gov/education/highered/Transcripts/Transcripts.htm
Casco
Bay College
Maine
records located with Andover
College, Portland, ME
founded as Saint Joseph College,
became College of Our Lady of Mercy in 1948, renamed Saint Joseph College in
1956
Songe, Alice H.American Universities
and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes.1978.
Gorham
State College
Gorham
Maine
1878
state supported
became University of Maine at
Portland-Gorham after merger in 1970 with Portland campus of University of
Maine at Orono; later changed to University of Southern Maine at Orono
Songe, Alice H.American Universities
and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes.1978.
http://www.usm.maine.edu/aboutusm.html
Immaculate
Heart of Mary Institute
Maine
Sisters Servants of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary
founded for education of
Sisters, probably never admitted lay students
Schier and Russett.Catholic Women's
Colleges in America.2002.
A split in the New England
Conference occurred in 1824 when the General Conference created the Maine
Annual Conference to cover the newly formed State of Maine.In September 1825, through the generosity
of a Kent's Hill farmer named Luther Sampson, the Maine Wesleyan Seminary
opened, being a merger with a small, private boarding school established in
1820 by Elihu and Emma Robinson in Augusta.In 1828, following the example of Wesleyan Academy, the seminary
opened a department for young women, called the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and
Female College, becoming known as Kent's Hill School in the early 1900s.The Methodist affiliation was dropped in
the 1950s, but the school survives
Songe, Alice H.American
Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes.1978.
Our
Lady of Mercy
Portland
Maine
1912
Sisters of Mercy of the Americas
From 1912 to 1956, the college
was located on the grounds of the Motherhouse in the Deering district of
Portland. In 1949, the name of the College was changed from Saint Joseph’s to
The College of Our Lady of Mercy; but with the change of site to Standish in
1956, the original name of Saint Joseph’s was resumed. In 1970, Saint
Joseph’s became a coeducational institution.
Eleanor Haney."A History of Saint Francis
College," an excerpt from Shaping the Future: the
Founding of the University of New England,
1989.
http://www.une.edu/alumni/history.html
Shaw
Business College
Bangor
Maine
1898
renamed Husson College in 1947;
absorbed Eastern Maine Medical School of Nursing in 1980's; renamed Husson
University in October, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husson_College
Waterville
College
Waterville
Maine
1813
founded as Maine Literary and
Theological Institution, Waterville College in 1820, to Colby University in
1867, and to Colby College in 1899
Songe, Alice H.American Universities
and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes.1978.
Westbrook
College
Portland
Maine
1831
Universalists
located in Westbrook, ME
(1831-1870), Deering, ME (1871-1898), and Portland, ME (1899-); merged with University of New England in
1996 under the Westbrook charter
