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Southern Virginia University

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Southern Virginia University is a small private college in Buena Vista, Virginia. It has about 1,000 students. It is owned by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but is not officially affiliated with the church.

The school was founded as a for-profit institution in 1867 as the Bowling Green Female Seminary. At that time "seminary" meant a school for girls or women. In 1900 the school was moved to Buena Vista and renamend Southern Seminary. The short form of "Sem" would be the common name of the college from then on. In 1922 the school became a junior college and was renamed Southern Seminary and Junior College. In 1959 it became a non-profit college under the control of trustees. In 1961 the school ended its high school program and became Southern Seminary Junior College

The financial health of the college began to decline in the 1980s, and by 1996 the school was at the point of closing. Late name changes were to Southern Virginia College for Women in 1990 and simply Southern Virginia College when the school began accepting male students in 1994.

In 1996 the school was sold to a group of Mormon businessmen from Virginia and the Washington, DC area, who had the goal of establishing an institution founded on LDS principles in the eastern United States. Brigham Young University, the most prominent school operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints only has campuses in Utah and two satellite universities in Idaho and Hawaii. In 2000 the school regained its accreditation and was renamed Southern Virgina University.

SVU does not receive funding from the LDS church and is not affiliated.

Some alumni of Southern Seminary, however, do not consider SVU to be a continuation of their alma mater, and rather consider it to have closed in 1996 and SVU to be a new institution.

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