Charles Edwin Bishop (June 8, 1921–January 14, 2012) was an American academic.
 He was chancellor of the University of Houston System from 1980 to 1986, president of the University of Arkansas from 1974 to 1980, and chancellor of the University of Maryland, College Park from 1970 to 1974.
 Bishop attended Berea College, the University of Kentucky, and University of Chicago.
 He holds a B.S. in agriculture educations, M.S. in agriculture aconomics, and Ph.D. in economics.
 He also taught at North Carolina State University and served as vice president of the University of North Carolina.
James Fieser is professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee at Martin.
 He received his B.A. from Berea College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from Purdue University.
 He is founder and general editor of the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
 He is author, coauthor or editor of more than ten text books.
Charles Williams was born in Lexington, Kentucky, on January 25, 1886.
 In 1904 he attended high school at Berea College, but the following year Williams was forced to transfer to an all-black school, Hampton Institute, because the state general assembly had passed the Day Law, stating that blacks and whites could no longer attend the same schools.
 At Hampton Institute, Williams resumed his high school education and continued on to further his college education
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (often referred to as The University of Minnesota, Minnesota, the U of M, UMN, or simply the U) is a public research university in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota.
 The Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses are approximately 3 mi apart, and the Saint Paul campus is actually in neighboring Falcon Heights.
 It is the oldest and largest campus within the University of Minnesota system and has the sixth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 51,147 students in 2013–14.
 The university is the flagship institution of the University of Minnesota system, and is organized into 19 colleges and schools, with sister campuses in Crookston, Duluth, Morris, and Rochester.
Berea College is a liberal arts work college in the city of Berea, in the U.S. state of Kentucky.
 It is located in Madison County, approximately 35 miles south of Lexington.
 Founded in 1855, Berea College is distinctive among post-secondary institutions for providing free education to students and for having been the first college in the Southern United States to be coeducational and racially integrated.
 Berea College charges no tuition; every admitted student is provided the equivalent of a four-year, full-tuition scholarship (currently worth $97,200; $24,300 per year).
Sumit Ganguly is a Professor of Political Science at Indiana University and the currently holds that university's Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, focusing on comparative politics in South Asia.
 Dr. Ganguly completed his undergraduate degree at Berea College in 1977, his masters degree from Miami University in 1978, and his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign in 1984.
 Prior to coming to Indiana University, he taught at Michigan State University, Hunter College in the City University of New York system, Columbia University, and the University of Texas at Austin.
Larry Shinn (born January 16, 1942) was president of Berea College, Kentucky, from 1994 to 2012.
 Prior to this appointment he was Vice-President of Academic Affairs, Dean of Humanities and Head of the Religious Studies Department at Bucknell University.
Rich Brenner (1946 – 2012) was a graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio.
 He was student senate president, sports editor of the college newspaper, Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities, and a member of Lamba Chi Alpha fraternity.
 He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from BW in 1968.
 Rich broadcasts his first football game at his college over the radio with play-by-play reports in October 1965, and spent the summer of 1967, between his sophomore and junior years of college, as a correspondent in Vietnam.
 He began with television career in 1975 American television sportscaster.
 For two decades, he reported with FOX8 until his retirement in April 2008.
 He was a captain in the United States Marine Corps Reserves.
 In 1972 he entered the 4th Civil Affairs Group located at the Washington, DC Navy Yard.
 He served as a platoon leader and rose to the rank of Captain, USMCR before leaving that unit in June 1975.
 Rich anchored sports for WLVA in Lynchburg, Virginia (1975-1977); WAVY in Portsmouth, Virginia (1977-1978); WRAL, Raleigh, North Carolina (1978-1981); WMAQ, Chicago, Illinois {1981-1983); WTVD, Durham, North Carolina (1983-1986) and WGHP-Fox8, Greensboro, North Carolina (1987-2008).
 Rich worked tirelessly for charities in his community and across the state.
 He was a dedicated volunteer, who donated his time as emcee for many fundraising events and charities.
 He also served as a tutor to kindergartners at Pilot Elementary School.
 Rich also found time to teach a broadcasting class at Elon University.
 He has mentored hundreds of young aspiring sportscasters and journalist over his 34 years in broadcasting.
 Rich developed a cough during a talk given to military and first responders at "The American Red Cross Salute to Heros" He was taken to the hospital where he died that evening of a heart attack.
 Rich was speaking about a passion of his and many others to finish building The Carolina Field of Honor, which was opened on Memorial Day 2013.
John Courter (June 25, 1941 – June 21, 2010) was an American composer, organist, and carillonneur who served as a professor of music at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, from 1971 until his death on June 21, 2010.
 A native of Lansing, Michigan, Courter earned a bachelor's degree in choral music education from Michigan State University in 1962 and a Master's of Music degree in organ in 1966 from the University of Michigan.
 He also studied at the North German Organ Academy and held diplomas from the Netherlands Carillon School.
Walter George Muelder (March 1, 1907 in Boody, Illinois – June 12, 2004) was an important American social ethicist, ecumenist and public theologian.
 He studied under Edgar S Brightman at Boston University and began his teaching career at Berea College and the University of Southern California.
 He served as Dean of Boston University School of Theology from 1945 to 1972, and was known as the "Red Dean" because of his socialist and pacifist leanings.

Question: Are the University of Minnesota and Berea College in the same state?
Answer: no