The college, which is now mostly vacant, has played an important role in education in the Southeast. It is East Tennessee's ...

As the nearly 150-year-old East Tennessee university works to regain accreditation, Knoxville College has announced its 32nd ...

College has a storied history, dating back to a post-Civil War push to train formerly enslaved people as teachers.

Plumes of smoke could be seen across the city as flames engulfed Elnathan Hall, a former administrative building and women’s ...

The unused building was ruled a total loss. Knoxville College is a small unaccredited HBCU campus in the Mechanicsville neighborhood, near downtown Knoxville. After struggling for decades with ...

Knoxville College sits on 58 acres and has 18 buildings. The institution lost its national accreditation in 1997 and became East Tennessee’s only historically Black college or university (HBCU).

With the HBCU now fully remote, Elnathan Hall hasn’t been used in 40 years, according to Frank Shanklin, a member of Knoxville College’s Board of Trustees. The college was founded in 1875 ...

They are still looking into that.” Knoxville College is a small, non-accredited HBCU campus near downtown Knoxville. The college has been contending with debt, low enrollment, and a loss of ...

Knoxville College, an HBCU located in Tennessee, has been struggling to gain accreditation recently. But the university has a new problem on its hands as a vacant building on its historic campus ...