FCS School of the Day # 8 - Bethune-Cookman
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:05 am
Got a little behind on these...
Bethune-Cookman Wildcats
Private - United Methodist Church
Founded 1904
Undergraduate Enrollment: 3,400
Daytona Beach, Florida
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
Municipal Stadium (10,000)
2008 Record: 8-3, 5-3
Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune founded the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls in 1904. The school underwent several stages of growth and development through the years and in 1923, it merged with the Cookman Institute of Jacksonville, Florida and became a co-ed high school. A year later in 1924, it became affiliated with the Methodist church. By 1931, the school had become a junior college and became Bethune-Cookman College.
The school became a four-year college in 1941 when the Florida State Department of Education approved a 4-year baccalaureate program in Liberal Arts and Teacher Education.
On February 14, 2007, its Board of Trustees approved the name Bethune-Cookman University after the institution established its first graduate program
Famous Alumni:
John Chaney
Boobie Clark
Kimbo Slice
Bethune-Cookman Wildcats
Private - United Methodist Church
Founded 1904
Undergraduate Enrollment: 3,400
Daytona Beach, Florida
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
Municipal Stadium (10,000)
2008 Record: 8-3, 5-3
Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune founded the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls in 1904. The school underwent several stages of growth and development through the years and in 1923, it merged with the Cookman Institute of Jacksonville, Florida and became a co-ed high school. A year later in 1924, it became affiliated with the Methodist church. By 1931, the school had become a junior college and became Bethune-Cookman College.
The school became a four-year college in 1941 when the Florida State Department of Education approved a 4-year baccalaureate program in Liberal Arts and Teacher Education.
On February 14, 2007, its Board of Trustees approved the name Bethune-Cookman University after the institution established its first graduate program
Famous Alumni:
John Chaney
Boobie Clark
Kimbo Slice