Founding of Two Adventist Educational Institutions [History]
07 Dec 2022
Founding of Two Adventist Educational Institutions [History]
This week in Adventist history, we look back at the founding of two of our educational institutions.
Walla Walla College officially opened on December 7, 1892. Seventh-day Adventists had arrived in the Pacific Northwest by 1870, and the denomination grew and was firmly established there during the next decade. During the 1880s, one elementary church school (in Portland, Oregon) and two academies were established (at Portland and Milton, Oregon). However, both academies were closed within a few years to create a single strong central school near Walla Walla, Washington. The General Conference and the conferences in the Pacific Northwest approved the new educational institution, to be known as Walla Walla College, in 1891.
On the same day in 1990, the Argentine government gave River Plate College university status through an official resolution issued by the Ministry of Education. As a result, the institution was transformed into River Plate Adventist University, organized into four schools: the School of Business Administration; the School of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences; the School of Health Sciences; and the School of Theology. Today, River Plate University (Universidad Adventista del Plata) is a coeducational boarding school at the senior college level with a secondary section.
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