Covenant College history

On April 5, 1955, the Presbytery of the Great Plains met in Wilton, North Dakota, to consider establishing a liberal arts college under the Bible Presbyterian Synod.

After much debate, the old hotel was purchased for Covenant College in 1964.

In 1965, it was the site of the merger between the Evangelical Presbyterian Church and the Reformed Presbyterian Church, General Synod to form the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod.

Founded in 1955 in Pasadena, California as an agency of the Bible Presbyterian Church, Covenant College and Covenant Theological Seminary moved its campus to St Louis, Missouri the following year. It became and remains an agency of the Presbyterian Church in America after the 1982 merger between the RPCES and the PCA. As such, Covenant stands in the Reformed and Presbyterian traditions.

Paul J. Morton Professor of History Department Chair Dean of Academic Programs On faculty since 1994

Jay D. Green Professor of History On faculty since 1998

Richard R. Follett Professor of History On faculty since 2001

Alicia Jackson Associate Professor of History On faculty since 2004

Cale Horne Associate Professor of Political Studies On faculty since 2011

Covenant has had six presidents: Doctor Robert Rayburn, Doctor Marion Barnes, Doctor Martin Essenburg, Doctor Frank Brock, Doctor Niel Nielson, and Doctor Derek Halvorson, who began serving July, 2012.