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Article: Professor suggests survival of the fittest strategy for AME Colleges: closing some campuses and reallocating funds to others could be best option for struggling institutions.(African Methodist Episcopal Church)
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- Diverse Issues in Higher Education
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- December 14, 2006
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CHARLESTON, S.C.
Like Morris Brown in Atlanta, a number of African Methodist Episcopal Church-sponsored colleges are in financial trouble. A College of Charleston history professor says AME could improve its colleges if it closed weak campuses and moved resources to stronger ones.
Dr. Bernard E. Powers Jr. says the church should recapture the post-Civil War vision of AME Bishop Daniel A. Payne, a founder of Wilberforce University in Ohio and its first Black president. It was Payne's dream for the church to have a college to train ministers and newly freed slaves.
But as the need to educate preachers in the pulpit and church members in the pews ...