Bethune-Cookman University or B-CU is a private historically black university in Daytona Beach, Florida. Mary McLeod Bethune founded the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School in 1904. The school underwent several stages of growth and development through the years and in 1923, it merged with the Cookman Institute of Jacksonville, Florida and became a co-ed high school. A year later in 1924, it became affiliated with the Methodist Church. By 1931, the school had become a junior college. The school became a four-year college in 1941 when the Florida Board of Education approved a 4-year baccalaureate program in Liberal Arts and Teacher Education. The name was changed to Bethune-Cookman College. On February 14, 2007, the Board of Trustees approved the name Bethune-Cookman University after the institution established its first graduate program. In October 2010 the American Association of University Professors accused the university administration of improperly dismissing tenured members of the faculty -- some for alleged sexual harassment (but, in the opinion of the AAUP, without due process), others for "budgetary reasons" but without a declaration of "financial exigency".