Lindenwood College - St. Charles, Missouri
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BruceS
N 38° 47.243 W 090° 29.978
15S E 717172 N 4296152
Lindenwood College now Lindenwood University was founded 1827 is the second-oldest higher-education institution west of the Mississippi River.
Waymark Code: WM1QXX
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 06/27/2007
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The following is an excerpt from Missouri: A Guide to the 'Show Me' State,
1941 in the St Charles section:
Lindenwood College,... one of the oldest schools for women in the
Mississippi Valley, was established by George Champlin Sibley and his wife, Mary
Eastern Sibley, in a log cabin on the present grounds. In 1853 it was
chartered as Lindenwood College by a special act of the legislature, which was
amended in 1870, vesting the appointment of directors in the Presbyterian Synod
of Missouri..... It is an accredited four-year college, with an enrollment of
approximately 500 and a faculty of 50.
Lindenwood University has recently undergone an extensive expansion program
with many new building constructed within the last ten year. The school
was facing extreme hardship and was nearly broke in the 1980's when Dennis
Spellmann took over running the school. He instituted immediate changes which
changed the direction of the school. One of the more well known programs was
"Pork for tuition" which allowed rural farmers to pay tuition with farm
products. The school is
now a co-educational university with a student body of approximately
15,000 and offers programs in over 100 undergraduate and graduate degree
programs.
The University also has an endowment in excess of $50 million. The university has many old buildings including Sibley Hall built in 1856
around the original log building built in 1827 which
is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The coordinates listed are for Sibley Hall.