Paine College was founded in 1882 as the result of an unusual collaboration between Black and white Methodists who believed in church-related education as a means of advancement for a newly freed and underserved people. Leaders such as Bishop Lucius Holsey of the Colored (now Christian) Methodist Episcopal Church and Atticus Haygood, a Bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church South (now United Methodist) worked to establish The Paine Institute to train preachers and teachers to educate the newly freed men and women. In January 1884, classes began in rented quarters at Tenth and Broad Streets in Augusta, Georgia. In 1903 Paine Institute was re-charted as The Paine College. Supported by the United Methodist Church and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, Paine College is a Historically Black, private, church-related, four-year, co-educational college. Through its residential, commuter, and off-site units, Paine College strives to develop self-sufficient and productive citizens committed to intellectual pursuits and aesthetic appreciation in a global society.
Programs
Accounting, Art, Biology, Business Administration, Early Childhood Education, Education, English, Foreign Languages, French, History, Humanities, International Business, Management, Marketing, Mass Communication, Mathematics, Music, Natural Sciences, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Social Sciences, Sociology, Spanish
Campus type
Normal
Carnegie
Baccalaureate Colleges--Arts & Sciences
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Address:
1235 Fifteenth Street
30910 Augusta
Georgia
United States
Phone: (706) 821-8200
http://www.paine.edu
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