The African Methodist Episcopal university (AMEU) was founded in 1995 under the leadership of Bishop C. Garnett Henning, Sr., 112th Elected and Consecrated Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC) and the 26th Bishop of the 14th Episcopal District in actualization of the dream of the Rt. Rev. William Sampson Brooks’ plan to transform Monrovia College and Industrial Training School into a four year degree-granting institution.
In early 1993, with the expressed desire of Bishop Garnett Henning, the Monrovia College Board of Trustees approved a recommendation from the Monrovia College administration to develop a four year degree college in keeping with the college’s original charter of 1928; and the recommendation was later endorsed by the Board of Directors of the Liberia Annual Conference at the District Planning Meeting held in Accra, Ghana in November 1993. On March 28, 1994, Bishop Garnett Henning appointed an interim administration of the AME Church University, and charged the Team with developing the necessary framework for opening the University.