Cuttington

In 1889, the Episcopal Church in Cape Palmas founded Cuttington Collegiate and Divinity School on the Sothern most tip of Libereia. The school was named for Robert Fulton Cutting, treasurer of the Board of Missions of the Episcopal Church in The United States. In 1885, Cutting had donated five thousand dollars to the Dioces of Liberia to purchase land on which to build a school which would include a farm which would afford practical training for boys in the mission schools. In 1889, Bishop Samuel D. Ferguson laid the corner stone of the first building and named it Epiphany Hall. Students came from all of Liberia and from other West African countries, and standards of admission and achievement were high. The college was incorporated to grant degrees in 1922, but was forced to close down in 1929 after the stock market crash in the United States.

In 1949, Cuttington was re-opened as a four year co-educational liberal arts college, and renamed Cuttington College and Divinity School. The Liberian Government donated 1500 acres of rich agricultural land in the North to be the Cuttington Campus. In 1977 the institution was renamed Cuttington University College after establishing six degree granting programs: Education, Humanities, Social Science, Natural Science, Nursing, and Theology. Today, the University has additional programs which include graduate studies in Theology, Nursing, Education, and Business Administration; The Institute for Peace & Conflict Resolution; The Research & Development Institute; and The Service Learning Programs.
An operating and developing farm, a campus elementary school, a community clinic, and the Epiphany Chapel serve the Cuttington community and surrounding residents.

Cuttington University Archives, Edited