Blue Mountain College in Blue Mountain, Miss., will soon open all programs to male students. The board of trustees voted unanimously to make this move effective January 2006.
Founded as a college for women in 1873, the college modified its mission in 1956 to include male students who were preparing for the ministry and those taking non degree courses.
Bobby P. Martin, chair of the Blue Mountain board of trustees, said, “Opening all programs to male students at Blue Mountain College is evidence of the institution’s commitment to serve students who desire to study in a Christian environment.”
Blue Mountain’s president, Bettye Rogers Coward, noted the importance of preserving an institutions core values upon which it was founded but adjusting, as necessary, to respond to educational needs today.
For more information about Blue Mountain College, call 1-800-235-0136 or visit www.bmc.edu.
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