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Proud other school, Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach; (c) Soul Of America<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bethune-Cookman University<\/h2>\n
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History<\/strong><\/p>\n

Located in the heart of Daytona Beach, Florida, Bethune-Cookman College is the result of the tireless efforts of educator, equal rights activist, and political lobbyist Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune. Beginning in 1904, Dr. Bethune opened the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls. <\/p>\n

The school, which also was the site of the community’s only hospital for Blacks, later merged with Jacksonville’s Cookman Institute to become Bethune-Cookman College in the mid-1920s.<\/p>\n

As founder of the National Council of Negro Women and president of the National Association of Colored Women, Dr. Bethune played a major role in the national desegregation movement. She became the highest-ranking appointee to President Franklin Roosevelt’s Negro Cabinet. But most agree that her greatest legacy is co-founding Bethune-Cookman College.<\/p>\n

McLeod Hospital, now General Studies Building, was named for Dr. Bethune’s parents and served as a training school for nurses as the only hospital for Daytona’s Black citizens. Cookman Hall, the first men’s dormitory, is named for Rev. Alfred Cookman whose monetary gift several years earlier helped to establish the Cookman Institute (Jacksonville, Florida). <\/p>\n

Mary McLeod Bethune Home, “The Retreat,” where she lived and is laid to rest, is also a National Historic Landmark as well as a United Methodist Historic Site, among others. <\/p>\n

The school’s name changed and upgraded from Bethune-Cookman College to Bethune-Cookman University in 2007.<\/p>\n

Academic Merit<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bethune-Cookman University offers these academic disciplines:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Accounting
\n\u2022 Biology
\n\u2022 Business Administration
\n\u2022 Chemistry
\n\u2022 Communication Studies
\n\u2022 Computer Engineering
\n\u2022 Computer Information Systems
\n\u2022 Computer Science
\n\u2022 Criminal Justice
\n\u2022 Elementary Education
\n\u2022 English
\n\u2022 Finance
\n\u2022 History
\n\u2022 Hospitality Management
\n\u2022 Information Systems Management
\n\u2022 Integrated Environmental Science
\n\u2022 International Studies
\n\u2022 Mass Communications
\n\u2022 Mathematics
\n\u2022 Music Education
\n\u2022 Nursing
\n\u2022 Physical Education
\n\u2022 Political Science
\n\u2022 Psychology
\n\u2022 Religion
\n\u2022 Social Science<\/p>\n