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 six historically black colleges in southwest Atlanta, Georgia. The member institutions are Clark Atlanta University, the Interdenominational Theological Center, as well as the prestigious Morehouse College, Spelman College, and Morehouse School of Medicine. The consortium scheme allow students to cross-register for classes at other institutions other than the one they attend. 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.

Denominational Campus Ministry Centers

At present, two demoninational minstry 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.

External Links

• The New Georgia Encyclopedia

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