Everything about The University Of Charleston totally explained
The
University of Charleston is a private university in
Charleston, West Virginia of over 1,000 students. Locals usually refer to the school as "UC".
The school was founded in
1888 as the
Barboursville Seminary of the
Southern Methodist Church. That church had lost control of the institution now known as
Marshall University in nearby
Huntington, West Virginia, during the
Civil War. In
1901 it was renamed
Morris Harvey College.
Morris Harvey was an estimable gentleman of olde Virginia, an elected county sheriff before the Civil War, a Confederate soldier & partisan ranger during the Civil War, and elected sheriff again after the Civil War in West Virginia. Harvey went on to make a fortune speculating in coal property and other businesses.
In
1935 the school moved to downtown Charleston and merged with Kanawha Junior College and affiliated with the Mason College of Fine Arts and Music. In
1940 after the Methodist reuinification the school became independent of the
Methodist Church.
Seven years later, the school moved to its present campus in the Kanawha City section of Charleston across the river from the State Capitol.
The college fell on hard economic times in the late
1970s and decided to strengthen its ties with the local community and rename itself the University of Charleston in
1978.
UC's athletic teams, known as the
Golden Eagles, compete in the
West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in
NCAA Division II. In
2003 the school resumed playing
football after abolishing the sport in
1955. In
2005 it entered into a partnership with the local school board to refurbish the school board owned
Laidley Field, which was renamed
University of Charleston Stadium at Laidley Field.
The school isn't related in any way with the much larger
College of Charleston in
Charleston, South Carolina. That school uses the name "University of Charleston" for its graduate programs.
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