the humanities, and there would be no distinction due to race, color, or sex." Only three years after opening, in 1849, it was renamed as the Mount Union Seminary.
The school would not be chartered under Ohio state law until June 9, 1856, after which it adopted the name Mount Union College.
In approximately 1911, Scio College of Scio, Ohio, merged with Mount Union, moving faculty to the Mount Union campus and abandoning the Scio campus. Mount Union College was renamed University of Mount Union effective August 1, 2010.
== Campus ==
The University of Mount Union is located on a 123-acre (50-hectare) campus in Alliance, Ohio, 70 miles (110 kilometers) from Cleveland, Ohio, and 80 miles (130 kilometers) from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university's 162-acre (66-hectare) Huston-Brumbaugh Nature Center is approximately six miles away from the campus. Two buildings, Chapman Hall and Miller Hall, are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Kehres Stadium is the oldest college stadium in the state of …
