the Northeast Evangelism Training School. Following a site visit by the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education (DHE) and the appointment of a new interim president late in 2012, the college won approval by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education to offer two degrees beginning in 2013. The college also began pursuing non-degree educational program. In 2013 it became the home of the Northeast Evangelism Training School. The following year, the college began offering three non-higher education programs. In November 2014 Dr. Avis D. Hendrickson was appointed president of the college, the first woman to hold that post, and as it turned out the college's final president. Final closure Despite the new programs launched by the college, it continued to experience severe financial struggles. After receiving a report from an independent task force, the college's governing board voted in February 2018 to close the college. Degree programs closed at the end of the spring semester and certificate programs closed at the end of the summer. The campus was sold in 2021. Campus Atlantic Union College was located on 135-acres in Lancaster Massachusetts. Racial & ethnic profile Atlantic Union College, coeducational since its founding, long served the full range of ethnicities of Seventh-day Adventists. While racial and ethnic proportions varied, during the college's last year of operation in 2011, ethnicity of the student body was 65.7% Black or African American, 16.7% Hispanic/Latino, 6.9% White, 5.9% Asian, 3.9% Race and/or ethnicity unknown and 1.0% Two or more races non-Hispanic/Latino. During the 1990s, the administration of Dr. Sylvan Lashley was accused of infractions from racial discrimination to mishandling of student aid funds, which resulted in a federal investigation. In 2003 a former employee filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission on Discrimination, charging President Sylvan Lashley and assistant Dwight Carnegie with reverse discrimination. In 2015, the AUC Board of Trustees created a "Reconciliation and Unity" committee to address the lingering effects of past tensions, both social and personal, approving a Resolution on Reconciliation and Unity. See also List of Seventh-day Adventist colleges and universities List of Seventh-day Adventist hospitals List of Seventh-day Adventist medical schools List of Seventh-day Adventist secondary schools Seventh-day Adventist education Seventh-day Adventist Church Seventh-day Adventist theology Adventist Colleges and Universities Christian school History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church Further reading References External links Universities and colleges affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church Seventh-day Adventist universities and colleges in the United