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Livingstone CollegeTHE COLLEGELivingstone College is a private, coeducational, residential, church-related, historically black college, located in Salisbury,North Carolina. The campus is within an hour’s drive of two major metropolitan areas: Charlotte and the PiedmontTriad of Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point. The college was founded in 1879 as the Zion Wesley Institute by agroup of A.M.E. Zion ministers which was later renamed to Livingstone College.Comprised of Divisions, namely the Division of Liberal Arts; Division of Mathematics and Sciences; Division of Business;and Division of Education, Social Work, and Psychology, the College offers the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, andthe Bachelor of Social Work degrees in 22 major fields. Largely supported by the African Methodist Episcopal Zion (A.M.E.Z.)Church, it provides an education to over 1,156 students from over 20 states and several foreign countries.For 131 years, Livingstone College has been providing academic operations that are nonsectarian and open to menand women of potential regardless of their race, religion, or national origin.HISTORYLivingstone College was founded in 1879 as Zion Wesley Institute by a group of A.M.E. Zion ministers for the purposeof training ministers in the Cabarrus County town of Concord, North Carolina. After three brief sessions, directed by principlesBishop C. R. Harris and Professor A.S. Richardson, the Institute ultimately closed in Concord. In 1881, Dr. Charles Priceand Bishop J.W. Hood changed their roles as delegates to the Ecumenical Conference and became fund-raisers with themission to re-establish Zion Wesley Institute. The Rowan County town of Salisbury, just 20 miles northeast of Concord, gavethe Trustees a generous donation of $1,000 and an invitation to relocate the school in Salisbury. They accepted both giftsand the College re-opened in Salisbury in 1882 with Dr. Price as President. The new site was J.M. Gray’s farm called DeltaGrove, which consisted of one building and 40 acres of land. In 1887, by an act of the legislature, the name Zion WesleyInstitute was changed to Livingstone College in honor of David Livingstone, the great Christian missionary, philanthropist,and explorer.Since its inception, the College has had two principals and eighteen presidents, including six interim presidents. Amongits possessions, the College owns 272 acres of land and the physical plant that currently consists of 35 brick buildings, sevenof which are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.13