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Miles CollegeDr George T. French Jr.

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Miles College is a four-year, private, coed, liberal arts institution founded as Miles Memorial College in 1905 by the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, which is now called the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (CME Church). The Alabama and the North Alabama conferences each established educational institutions in Thomasville in 1898 and another at Booker City in 1902. The high school operated at Booker City by the North Alabama conference is considered to be the roots of Miles College. The reorganization of the school began in 1907, when it became a college and moved to its present site. In 1908, the school was chartered under the laws of the State of Alabama as Miles Memorial College in honor of Bishop William H. Miles, a former slave and ex-minister in the postwar missions of the African Methodist denominations. The first baccalaureate degree was awarded in 1911, the same year the Board of Trustees changed the name to Miles College. Miles College was the only four-year college open to black students for the first half of the twentieth century. Miles’ original mission, to provide quality education for the academically disadvantaged and to provide community service, continues today. In keeping with the religious origin and liberal arts tradition, the College assists students in acquiring respect for religious creeds in general, and for the Christian ethnic in particular. The school urges students to fulfill their human and intellectual potentials, and to develop the skills in communication and scholarship necessary for productive lives in American mainstream society. Comprising seventeen buildings, Miles College rests on 35 acres, about 6 miles west of downtown Birmingham.
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Sapienta et Pax et Amor Ominibus (Knowledge and Peace and Love for All)
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