Oakwood University

Oakwood University is a private, generally dark college found in Huntsville, Alabama, United States. It is possessed and worked by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. A gathering of College constituents settled on the choice on December 2, 2007, to change the school's name from Oakwood College to Oakwood University. 

Oakwood University 

Oakwood University is certify by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and the Department of Education of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (through the Adventist Accrediting Association) to honor the partner, baccalaureate, and graduate degrees. The primary graduate degree offered by the University was the Master of Pastoral Studies Degree (January 2008). The primary graduate understudies were given degrees on May 9, 2009. Oakwood likewise gave its first privileged doctorate on May 9, 2009, to former student Wintley Phipps, universally famous musical performer and the 2009 Commencement speaker. Oakwood University has been a part foundation of the United Negro College Fund following 1964. 

The University has performed well in outer rankings, having recorded among the Best Baccalaureate Colleges in the Southern Region (31) and 28 on the rundown of Best Historically Black Colleges and Universities by the U.S. News & World Report, tied with Alabama A&M University (additionally in Huntsville) and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. The University is likewise recorded all the time among the main 20 establishments of higher discovering that give African-Americans to therapeutic schools. 

Oakwood University claims and works the Christian radio station WJOU 90.1 FM, in the past WOCG.

Oakwood University was established in 1896 as Oakwood Industrial School. Legend has it that the school was named for a stand of oak trees found on the grounds. 

The school initially opened in 1896 with 16 understudies. Classes were offered in different exchanges and aptitudes. In 1904, the name was changed to Oakwood Manual Training School, and it was contracted to allow degrees in 1907. In 1917, the school offered its first guideline at the postsecondary level, and in that same year it transformed its name to Oakwood Junior College. In 1944, the name Oakwood College was embraced. The main four year college educations were granted in 1945. Oakwood College got its introductory accreditation from SACS in 1958, and in 2007, the school got approbation to recompense graduate degrees. Because of this higher accreditation, the school's Board of Trustees and constituents voted to change the name of the establishment again to Oakwood University of Seventh-day Adventists.

Oakwood University claims 1,185 sections of land (5 km2) in Huntsville, Alabama. The primary grounds comprises of 23 structures spread over 105 sections of land (0.4 km2). An alternate 500 sections of land (2 km²) under development. Building improvements are proceeding. The J. L. Moran Hall, finished in 1944 and named after the first dark president of Oakwood, stands with all the more as of late raised structures, for example, the McKee Business & Technology Complex, finished in 2002. 

The foundation additionally houses a limb office of the Ellen G. White Estate. 

The Bradford-Cleveland-Brooks (BCB) Leadership Center which opened in October 2007 houses a preparation place for evangelists and clergymen and additionally give extra classroom space to the Department of Religion and Theology. This building is likewise home to the classes for the first graduate degree program for the college (Master of Arts degree in Pastoral Studies). The recently finished Holland Hall will oblige around 300 guys, principally rookies, and will house its first understudies in the 2008–2009 school year. 

Understudy lodging 

Understudies at Oakwood, or "Oakwoodites" as they are now and again called, either live on grounds in any of the five home lobbies/regions, lease a loft from the school's own West Oaks Apartment Complex, or live off-grounds in the encompassing region. Oakwood is a sheets organization, and any understudy less than 22 years old not living with a quick relative over age 22 in the region is obliged to live on grounds. First year recruits guys live in the Holland Hall dorm, which is another home corridor for green beans guys and chose upperclass guys, while rookies ladies live in Carter Hall. There are two more private edifices for ladies: Wade Hall and the Annex are for senior female understudies. Edwards Hall is the residence for senior male understudies. Two extra quarters, Peterson Hall and Cunningham Hall, are as of now empty and anticipating remod.