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Dansalan College has roots in the work of Frank Laubach, an American Congregational missionary who developed the "Each One Teach One" literacy method among the Maranao around Lake Lanao. Laubach opened a Madrasah High School in Dansalan (now Marawi) in June 1941 with 23 students, but it closed when the Second World War reached the Philippines that December.
In 1950 Christians and Maranao leaders started Dansalan Junior College on land donated by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The college's own history says the founders were inspired by Laubach's work, while a 2023 Global Ministries note says Laubach founded it. It became a full college in 1968 and later added preschool and elementary classes. The Dansalan Research Center, founded in 1974 by Peter Gowing, became known for its collection on Muslim-Christian relations. On June 1, 1981 the school was reorganized as Dansalan College Foundation, Inc., a non-profit linked to the United Church of Christ in the Philippines. It was the only Christian school in Marawi, and about 99% of its roughly 2,000 students were Muslim.
During the 2017 siege of Marawi, gunmen burned Laubach Hall on the evening of May 23. The hall held the offices, library, science laboratory and chapel. They also burned 8 faculty housing units. Militants then used the campus as a stronghold, and after fire and airstrikes all 18 of its buildings and structures were destroyed. Since then the college has held classes at its annex near Iligan City, about 300 students in the first year, and has said it hopes to rebuild the Marawi campus one day.
As the crow flies, among the schools pinned where they stand.