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1904 – 2009 (in Fort Wayne)
Founded: The school's roots reach to Bethany Bible Institute in Bluffton, Ohio (1895). The Missionary Church Association re-founded the school in Fort Wayne in 1904, buying a four-acre grove on South Wayne Avenue for 1,800 dollars; Schultz Hall was its first building. It was sending missionaries to India by 1906 and held its first commencement in 1909.
Course: The name line runs: Fort Wayne Bible Training School, then Fort Wayne Bible Institute (1932), Fort Wayne Bible College (1950), Summit Christian College (1989), and Taylor University Fort Wayne (1992). The campus expanded south in 1946 on a 60,000-dollar purchase. Peak enrollment was 626 students in 1974.
Fate: On October 13, 2008 Taylor University announced the end of traditional undergraduate programs on the Fort Wayne campus, and the campus closed in 2009. WBCL radio, the school's station, and the university's MBA and online programs continued or transferred — the undergraduate college did not.
Sources:
- Timothy Erdel, history of Fort Wayne Bible College, Mennonite Quarterly Review 89 (July 2015) — Bluffton roots; the 1904 Fort Wayne founding; the name line.
- Taylor University; Taylor University Fort Wayne yearbook timeline (2008–09) — the 2008 announcement and 2009 closing.
- ACGSI — the South Wayne campus.