Since 2000, Meredith College has facilitated Governor's School East every late spring.
Sanctioned by the First Baptist Church, the Baptist Female University opened in 1891 in an office in downtown Raleigh. In 1904, the name was changed to Baptist University for Women. The name "Meredith College" was picked in 1909 to respect Thomas Meredith, originator of the Biblical Recorder.
In 1997, the school moved far from an immediate association with the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. In 2010, the Board of Trustees modified the statement of purpose to say: "Meredith College, grounded in the human sciences and focused on expert readiness, instructs and moves understudies to live with uprightness and give authority to the needs, opportunities and difficulties of society