page_title: Kobe College
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Kobe College / History / History
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: イライザ・タルカット（1836-1911） English: Eliza Talcott（1836-1911）
context_page_description: Kobe College, abbreviated to KC, is a private non-sectarian liberal arts college located in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan. Chartered in 1948, it is the first women's college with university status in West Japan.
context_section_description: 1873: Eliza Talcott and Julia Elizabeth Dudley, two Congregational missionaries from Rockford, the US as members of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, opened a private school at Hanakuma-mura, Kōbe.
  1875: The two missionaries founded a boarding school for young women so-called "Kōbe Home" (神戸ホーム), on Yamamoto Street in Kōbe.
  1879: Kōbe Home was renamed Kōbe Girls' School (女學校, jogakkō); the following year it was organized along a five-year (high school) curriculum, unique at that time. The school changed its name to Kōbe Eiwa-jogakkō (神戸英和女学校)."
  1885: A one-year college division was established.
  1891: A three-year curriculum in the college division initiated full-scale, higher education for women.
  1894: Kōbe Eiwa-jogakkō was renamed Kobe College (神戸女学院, Kōbe jogauin).
  1906: A Department of Music was founded.
  1909: A four-year higher education division was founded.
  1919: The higher education division was granted a permit to use the term university (大学, "daigaku") in its Japanese name.
  1920: Charlotte B. DeForest, the president of Kobe College, discussed the  incorporated entity for fund raising to support the construction of a new campus, which is now on Okadayama. As an independent organization, the Kobe College Corporation is incorporated in Illinois, U.S.A.
caption: Eliza Talcott (May 22, 1836-November 1, 1911)
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