Complex sentence: In 1956, the Board of Trust secured an amendment to the Charter, changed the institution to a private, independent corporation, and reopened the College of the Arts and Sciences as a two-year junior college, known as Cumberland College of Tennessee.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1956, the Board of Trust secured an amendment to the Charter and changed the institution to a private, independent corporation. It reopened the College of the Arts and Sciences as a two-year junior college, known as Cumberland College of Tennessee.