Atlanta University Center
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The Atlanta University Center is the largest contiguous consortium of African-American higher education in the United States of America. The center is made up of five historically black colleges in southwest Atlanta, Georgia. The institutions included in this consortium are Clark Atlanta University, Interdenominational Theological Center, Morehouse College, Spelman College, and The Morehouse School of Medicine The consortium structure allows for students to cross-register at the other institutions in order to attain a broader collegiate experience. They also share the Robert W. Woodruff Library.
Morris Brown College was a member of the Atlanta University Center until it lost its accreditation and federal funding in 2002 because of financial mismanagement during the 1998-2002 tenure of Dr. Dolores E. Cross as school president.
The AU Center campus is located near downtown Atlanta, southwest of the Georgia Dome.
[edit] Denominational Campus Ministry Centers
At present, two denominational ministry centers serve students in the Atlanta University Center.
The Jones Episcopal Student Center and Chapel is ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, and is named after Absalom Jones, the first African-American priest in the Episcopal Church, U.S.A.
Lyke House: the Catholic Center at the Atlanta University Center is a ministry of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta and named after the late Atlanta Archbishop James Patterson Lyke.
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