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The Cumberland Plateau is the southern part of the Appalachian Plateau in the Appalachian Mountains of the United States.

It includes much of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, and portions of northern Alabama and northwest Georgia.

The terms "Allegheny Plateau" and the "Cumberland Plateau" both refer to the dissected plateau lands lying west of the main Appalachian Mountains.

The terms stem from historical usage rather than geological difference, so there is no strict dividing line between the two.

Two major rivers share the names of the plateaus, with the Allegheny River rising in the Allegheny Plateau and the Cumberland River rising in the Cumberland Plateau in Harlan County, Kentucky.

A liberal arts college is a college with an emphasis on undergraduate study in the liberal arts and sciences.

A liberal arts college aims to impart a broad general knowledge and develop general intellectual capacities, in contrast to a professional, vocational, or technical curriculum.

Students in a liberal arts college generally major in a particular discipline while receiving exposure to a wide range of academic subjects, including sciences as well as the traditional humanities subjects taught as liberal arts.

Although it draws on European antecedents, the liberal arts college is strongly associated with American higher education, and most liberal arts colleges around the world draw explicitly on the American model.

Sewanee: The University of the South, also known as Sewanee, is a private, residential, coeducational liberal arts college located in Sewanee, Tennessee, United States.

It is owned by 28 southern dioceses of the Episcopal Church, and its School of Theology is an official seminary of the church.

The university's School of Letters offers graduate degrees in American Literature and Creative Writing.

The campus (officially called "The Domain" or, affectionately, "The Mountain") consists of of scenic mountain property atop the Cumberland Plateau, with the developed portion occupying about.

Tennessee is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States.

Tennessee is the 36th largest and the 17th most populous of the 50 United States.

Tennessee is bordered by Kentucky and Virginia to the north, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, and Arkansas and Missouri to the west.

The Appalachian Mountains dominate the eastern part of the state, and the Mississippi River forms the state's western border.

Tennessee's capital and second largest city is Nashville, which has a population of 654,610.

Memphis is the state's largest city, with a population of 655,770.

The Episcopal Church (TEC) is the United States-based member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

It is a Christian church divided into nine provinces and has dioceses in the United States, Taiwan, Micronesia, the Caribbean, Central and South America, as well as the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe and the Navajoland Area Mission.

The current presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church is Michael Bruce Curry, the first African American bishop to serve in that position.