The History and Operation of Cedarville College

7 c) A Baptist College. It seems providential that at the time Cedar– ville College was looking for someone to take over the operation of the school, the Baptist Bible Institute of Cleveland was looking for a means to expand its facilities. The Cleveland Institute was established in 1942 as the Baptist Bible Institute of Cleveland and occupied the educa– tional building of the Hough Avenue Baptist Church at the time of its _founding until 1953, when the institute was moved to the campus of Cedarville College. Early in the school year of 1952 and 1953, the trustees of the Baptist Bible Institute began making plans to secure a campus with a minimum of two dormitories and a classroom building. Several suit– able properties were located in Cleveland and offers to purchase or lease were made. Three times incipient proposals failed to material– ize. Just when all hope seemed to be lost, news came from Cedarville of a college campus being offered in a most unusual way. Upon inves– tigation, the Executive Committee of the Baptist Bible Institute found that Cedarville College had a campus of fifteen acres and nine buildings which were to be given over to a church group willing and able to con– tinue with a liberal arts program. On Saturday, April 4, the trustees of the Baptist Bible Institute of Cleveland met with the trustees of Cedarville College. By a process of resignations and elections, the ownership and control passed completely into the hands of the Baptist Bible Institute trustees. For three years, the two schools operated on the same campus, using the same faculty and facilities of Cedarville College. However, in order to develop a Hberal arts college, it was felt that the Bible Institute program should be dropped. In its place,