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| Motto | Where Character is Developed with Intellect |
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| Type | Private college |
| Established | 1907 (1907) |
| Accreditation | SACS |
Academic affiliations | Christian and Missionary Alliance,Association for Biblical Higher Education,Council for Christian Colleges & Universities |
| President | Robert M. Myers |
| Undergraduates | 1,600+ |
| Location | ,, United States |
| Campus | Rural, 1,100 acres |
| Colors | Blue and gold |
| Nickname | TFC |
Sporting affiliations | NCCAA |
| Mascot | Screaming Eagle |
| Website | tfc |
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Toccoa Falls College is aprivateevangelicalChristian college inToccoa Falls, Georgia, founded in 1907. The campus occupies 1,100 acres (450 ha), bordering theChattahoochee National Forest and is home toToccoa Falls, a 186-foot (57 m) high waterfall. It is affiliated with theChristian and Missionary Alliance and isaccredited by the Commission on Colleges of theSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). The college is also a member ofCouncil for Christian Colleges and Universities.
In 1907, Toccoa Falls College was founded byRichard A. Forrest in the community of Golden Valley,North Carolina, as the Golden Valley Institute. On January 1, 1911, Forrest put $10.00 down on the $25,000.00 purchase price for the Haddock Inn and 100 acres (400,000 m2) of land in northeast Georgia. In October, he relocated the school to nearToccoa, Georgia, in order to be near a mainline railroad. He renamed the school Toccoa Falls Institute and added secondary school courses to the theological classes. A 1913 fire destroyed the Haddock Inn, which was the classroom and residence building. After operating in tents for a time, the school built a new campus. In 1928 the secondary courses were reorganized, and the state of Georgia accredited it as Toccoa Falls High School, which remained open until 1976. In 1937, the state chartered the four-year college program and allowed it to grant the degreeBachelor of Arts in Biblical Education.[1]
On November 6, 1977, the Kelly Barnes Dam, which had been built up and used by the college for electrical power since the Toccoa Falls Institute days, collapsed. The 40-acre (160,000 m2) lake it impounded drained through the lower part of the campus. The resultingflood killed 39 people and injured 60,[2] as well as destroying much of the on-campus married student housing and damaging part of the men's dormitory. The dam was never rebuilt. With the destruction of the dam and the subsequent draining of the lake, there exists no possibility of a similar flood.[3]
The current president, Robert Myers, became the seventh president of the college in 2012.
On January 12, 2009, Gate Cottage, one of the most historic buildings on campus, was destroyed by fire. The cottage had been built in 1939 and was the fourth oldest building on campus. No one was in the building at the time of the fire. Gate Cottage has been rebuilt with a bigger gift shop and dining area for various occasions, but without the School of Counseling, which was relocated to a new location between the Mission Building and Bandy Hall.
With a vertical drop of 186 feet (57 m),Toccoa Falls, located on the college campus, stands as one of the tallest free-falling waterfalls in the eastern United States. The waterfall was purchased in 1907 as part of the campus of Toccoa Falls College and stands today as the distinguishing landmark of the college. Locals commonly refer to it as "The Falls."
Toccoa Falls College consists of four schools (School of Christian Ministries, School of Arts and Sciences, School of Professional Studies, and the Fetterman School of Nursing) with a total of ten departments. Within these departments, 35 majors and 43 minors are offered.[4] TheSeby Jones Library is the primaryacademic library on campus.
Toccoa Falls College offers a wide variety of activities. Intercollegiate and intramural sports as well as the Student Government Association (SGA) are two of the main extracurricular possibilities for student participation.
On-campus student housing consists of single-sex dormitories, a large men's dormitory, two women's dormitories, and some smaller, suite-style dormitories, as well as various cottages, including married student housing.[5] On-campus housing is advised by the college in the handbook, and is required for all regular underclassmen. There is a mandatory curfew for all on-campus students.
Toccoa Falls College offers a variety of sports, both intercollegiate and intramural. Men's sports include soccer, baseball, and basketball. Women's sports include soccer, basketball, and volleyball.
Intramural sports include soccer, basketball, softball, spike ball, tennis, volleyball, beach volleyball, ultimate frisbee, and flag football.[6]
The college's student-run radio station wasWTXR, The Eagle 89.7. The college also operatedWRAF, a radio station with various teaching and preaching programming as well as Christian music and a weekly Radio Theater program. All of the college's radio holdings, including WTXR and WRAF, were sold to Radio Training Network, Inc. effective July 25, 2016, for $2.1 million. WRAF is now arepeater station forWLFJ-FM at W220CK.
The Toccoa Falls athletic teams are called the Screaming Eagles. The college is a member of theNational Christian Collegiate Athletic Association (NCCAA), primarily competing as an independent in the South Region of the Division II level.
Toccoa Falls competes in six intercollegiate varsity sports: Men's sports include baseball, basketball and soccer; while women's sports include basketball, soccer and volleyball.
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| NCAA Division III | |
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| NJCAA Division I | |
| NCCAA Divisions I and II | |
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