Lee University
Lee University is a private Christian university in Cleveland, Tennessee. It was founded in 1918 as the Church of God Bible Training School with twelve students and one teacher, Nora I. Chambers.[5] The school grew to become Lee College, with a Bible college and junior college on its current site, in 1948. Twenty years later, Lee received accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools as a four-year liberal arts college. In 1997, Lee became a university; it now offers master's degrees as well as undergraduate degrees.[6]
Not to be confused with Lee College.History[edit]
Bible training school[edit]
Lee University’s current campus originally housed a Methodist institution, Centenary College and Music School, as early as 1885. Part of the original Centenary facility remains on campus today as part of Lee’s administrative building.[7]
In 1911, at its sixth annual General Assembly, the Church of God appointed a committee to establish plans for a Bible training school.[8] Six years later, on January 1, 1918, the school’s first term began with a tuition of $1 per week.[9] Classes met in the council chamber of the Church of God Publishing House in Cleveland. Rev. A. J. Tomlinson served as the first superintendent of education. The only teacher, Nora Chambers, had twelve students.[8]
Academic rankings
410 of 604
31 of 123
Forum (2017)
School of Nursing (2016)
Communications Building (2014)
Chapel (2011)
Science and Math Complex (2010)
School of Religion (2008)
Leonard Center (2007)
Center for the Humanities (2004)
McKenzie Athletic Building (2002)
Paul Conn Student Union (2000)
Helen DeVos College of Education (1998)
Deacon Jones Dining Hall (1996)
Curtsinger Music Building (1995)
DeVos Recreation Center (1993)
Dixon Center (1992)
Watkins Building (1992)
DeVos Tennis Center (1988)
Squires Library (1984)
Paul Dana Walker Arena (1983)
Conn Center (1977)
Pangle Hall (1967)
Higginbotham Administration Building (1964)
Walker Memorial Building (1945)
Vest Building (1939)
Mayfield Annex (1928)
Student life[edit]
Community covenant[edit]
All students are asked to sign a "Community Covenant" which lists several restrictions on behaviors and social interaction according to the school's institutional and religious policy. Most notable are a substance policy barring alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs; and its stance on homosexuality, which is banned in all forms. Men's and women's dormitories are kept separate, and premarital sexual intercourse is prohibited. Immodesty and "occult practices" are also forbidden.[31]
Lee University prohibits homosexual relationships for students.[32]
Greek organizations[edit]
As of 2008, the university recognized ten Greek-letter organizations.[33]
