"30"^^ . "N"@en . . "W"@en . "Florida"@en . "Centennial Hall"@en . . "20"^^ . . . . . "less than one acre"@en . . "Private"@en . . . . "1976-05-04"^^ . "1800000.0"^^ . . "Academic, Spiritual, Physical"@en . "Georgia Board of Regents"@en . "The first African Methodist Episcopal (AME) pastor in the state, William G. Steward, originally named the college Brown Theological Institute. Charles H. Pearce was also involved in establishing an educational institution for the church. The school went through some financial difficulties and closed for much of the 1870s. It reopened in 1883 as \"East Florida Conference High School\u201D, then changed to \u201CEast Florida Scientific and Divinity High School\u201D. Over the next ten years, the curriculum was expanded and the school was renamed for the third bishop of the AME Church, Edward Waters."@en . "1979"^^ . "76000589"^^ . . . "Urban, 50 acres"@en . . "Tigers and Lady Tigers"@en . . "4"^^ . . "1866"^^ . . "The first African Methodist Episcopal (AME) pastor in the state, William G. Steward, originally named the college Brown Theological Institute. Charles H. Pearce was also involved in establishing an educational institution for the church. The school went through some financial difficulties and closed for much of the 1870s. It reopened in 1883 as \"East Florida Conference High School\u201D, then changed to \u201CEast Florida Scientific and Divinity High School\u201D. Over the next ten years, the curriculum was expanded and the school was renamed for the third bishop of the AME Church, Edward Waters. The original Edward Waters College campus was destroyed by the Great Fire of 1901, but by 1904 new land was obtained and work was started on the new facility. Edward Waters was accredited as a junior college in 1955 under President William B. Stewart and five years later had a restored four-year curriculum. Beginning in 1979 the school was accredited as a four-year institution by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and started awarding bachelor's degrees."@en . "1916"^^ . . . "EWClogo.PNG"@en . . "40"^^ . . . "41"^^ . . . "inline,title"@en . "Edward Waters College"@en . "1883"^^ . . "Purple, Orange and White"@en . . . . "81"^^ . . . "1658"^^ . . . . "Edward Waters College"@en . . . "Howell and Stokes"@en . "1955"^^ . "800"^^ . . .