[2] The mission of DuBose Conference Center was to "offer hospitality, programming, and sacred space to groups of all faiths and backgrounds for education, creativity, and renewal.

"[3] In 1921, Reverend William Stirling Claiborne (1877-1933) and Dr. Mercer P. Logan founded the DuBose Memorial Church Training School on the former site of Fairmount College.

Its curriculum emphasized practical rather than scholarly teaching, including such courses as “The Bible in English,” “Church History,” and “The Contents and Use of the Book of Common Prayer.” In addition to living at DuBose, many of them with established families, they raised vegetables and cattle to help maintain the school and its buildings.

The Diocese of Tennessee built Bishop's Hall, a hotel-style lodging facility, in 1973 and expanded the “Stack Room” in the Pell Library Building to create the Large Chapel.

In 2009, the conference center elected to transition to a 501(c)3 Nonprofit organization but still affiliated with the three Tennessee Episcopal Dioceses and was run by a 21-member Board of Directors.