Oakwood College

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**Oakwood College**
Image:Oakwoodseal.gif
Motto	Education. Excellence. Eternity.
Established	1896
Type	Private
President	Delbert Baker
Students	approximately 1,800
Location	Huntsville, AL, USA
Campus	Suburban
Website	www.oakwood.edu

Oakwood College is a historically black college located in Huntsville, Alabama. It is affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Oakwood College is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the Department of Education of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists to award the associate and baccalaureate degrees. It offers a liberal arts curriculum in a Christ-centered atmosphere.

Oakwood is consistently listed among the top 15-20 institutions of higher learning that provide African-Americans to medical schools. <ref>[1]</ref>

1 History
2 Campus
3 Student Life
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] History

Oakwood College was founded in 1896 as Oakwood Industrial School. The school was located on land that had previously been a plantation. Legend has it that the school was named for a stand of oak trees found on the campus. When the school first opened in 1896, 16 students were in attendance for classes in various trades and skills. In 1904, the name was changed to Oakwood Manual Training School, and it was chartered to grant degrees in 1907. In 1917, the school offered its first instruction at the postsecondary level, and in that same year it changed its name to Oakwood Junior College. In 1944, the present name, Oakwood College, was adopted. The first bachelor’s degrees were awarded in 1945.

Oakwood College has been a member institution of the United Negro College Fund since 1964 and is listed in the list of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). As a Seventh-Day Adventist college, Oakwood’s mission is “Christ-centered, and designed to integrate faith and learning, as well as prepare students for the job of service in this world.”<ref>[2]</ref>

[edit] Campus

The twenty-three-building campus occupies 1,185 acres in Huntsville, Alabama. The main campus is on 105 acres, with another 500 acres under cultivation. The campus continues to grow in both programs and facilities. The J. L. Moran Hall, completed in 1944 and named after the first Black president of Oakwood College, stands with more recently erected buildings such as the McKee Business & Technology Building, completed in 2002.

The college also hosts a branch office of the Ellen G. White Estate.

[edit] Student Life

Students at Oakwood College, or "Oakwoodites" as they are sometimes called, either live on campus in either of the five dormitories, rent an apartment from the school's own West Oaks Apartment Complex, or live in the Huntsville/Madison area or beyond. Freshmen males live in the Peterson Hall dormitory while freshmen women live in Carter Hall. There are two more dormitories for women: Wade Hall is for second year and up women and Cunningham Hall is an honors dormitory also for upper-class women. Edwards Hall is the dormitory for second year and beyond men.