Miles College

Statement of purpose: 

Miles College is a senior, private, human sciences Historically Black College with roots in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church that propels and gets ready understudies, through conferred personnel, to look for information that prompts scholarly and metro strengthening. The Miles College training connects with understudies in thorough study, insightful request, and otherworldly mindfulness empowering graduates to wind up deep rooted learners and dependable natives who help shape the worldwide society. 

Vision Statement: 

Miles College is a foundation of scholastic greatness whose understudies, graduates, and personnel add to the scholarly and expert imperativeness of the more extensive group, display innovative refinement, and quality the renderings of workmanship in every one of its structures. The College serves progressively various understudies and increases acknowledgment for worldwide organizations that guarantee social mindfulness. Understudy and staff contribution in worldwide studies and worldwide knowledge will introduce the College developing as a magnet for provincial talk in broad daylight strategy and worldwide mindfulness. Scholarly course offerings will incorporate bosses level courses conveyed through an assortment of educational conveyance systems that speak to an extensive variety of understudy needs. The course offerings are an impetus for proceeded with development in the quantity of understudies served. Miles College capacities as the prime example for schools and colleges all through the United States and worldwide group to take part in the study, talk, and utilization of answers for human issues all through the world. Understudies, who take part in the Miles College experience, show a promise to incredibleness, persistent change, and administration to others through general endowments to the dynamic foundation that Miles College has ended up. 

History: 

Miles College, established in 1898, is a chief human sciences organization situated in metropolitan Birmingham inside of the corporate furthest reaches of the City of Fairfield. The respectable organizers of the organization saw taught administration as the vital need operating at a profit group. Miles, which is completely authorize by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and licensed by Commission on Colleges for the recompensing of Baccalaureate Degrees, is the main four-year organization in notable Birmingham, Alabama assigned as an individual from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). Miles College is a science, innovation, building and arithmetic (STEM) higher learning foundation. The College is one of just 39 HBCUs to have the assignment of a United Negro College Fund (UNCF) organization. 

Miles College has as its image community engagement and activism. Now that its out in the open, amid the arranging phases of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), when individuals were choosing what test city to execute the Civil Rights Movement, it was proposed to go to Birmingham, Alabama in light of the fact that the understudies at Miles College were at that point participating in community challenges and blacklists against isolated open offices. Basically, the Civil Rights Movement, to a limited extent came to Birmingham Alabama, due to the activism of understudies at Miles College, serving to make Birmingham, Alabama the Civil Rights Capital of the world. 

The College offers baccalaureate programs with majors, for example, Accounting, Biology, Business Administration, Chemistry, Communications, Computer and Information Sciences, History, Language Arts, Criminal Justice, Early Childhood/Elementary Education, English, Mathematics, Political Science and Social Work. In entirety, Miles offers 28 Bachelor Degree programs in six scholarly divisions to an enlistment of more or less 1,700 understudies. 

We property the accomplishment of our understudies to ingenuity and scholarly reality and in addition to the employees who inundate themselves into the all encompassing training of understudies. Employees show understudies within the classroom; as well as, are a piece of their outside classroom lives too. Miles College has 135 employees who are noticeably dedicated to higher learning and expert advancement. Employees are different and bring proficient and individual encounters from more than twenty nations. No less than 30% of the employees are from Asia and African nations. 

Under the authority of President George T. French, Jr., Miles College is solid fiscally, and in 2006 acquired another 41-sections of land grounds nearby the current grounds. Already "landlocked," this procurement empowered Miles to twofold the area size of the College. Miles College is halfway and in a perfect world found. The City of Birmingham lies at the cross purposes of I-20, I-65, I-59, I-22 (Old U.S. Thruway 78), connecting the urban communities of Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; Memphis, Tennessee; New Orleans, Louisiana, Huntsville, Alabama; and Montgomery, Alabama, all of which have major HBCU establishments and a substantial number of dominant part schools and colleges. Moreover, the lion's share of HBCUs are situated in the South; and the condition of Alabama, which has 15 HBCUs, drives every single other state as far as the quantity of HBCUs inside of its limits.