Columbia College (Missouri)

Columbia College  is a private aesthetic sciences school situated in Columbia, Missouri. It was established in 1851 as a nonsectarian school yet it has held an agreement with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) since its beginning. It has been associated to Columbia University in the City of New York since its restoration in 1970, which helped affecting the organization framework, scholastics and the coeducational environment at the school.In 2014, Columbia College was named a "Best Midwestern College" by The Princeton Review, a New York City-based training administrations organization; the school is one of 159 colleges in a 12-state locale to get the assignment, which are chosen taking into account scholastics and studies of ebb and flow students.Christian Female College got its sanction from the Missouri Legislature on January 18, 1851, making it the principal ladies' school west of the Mississippi River to be contracted by state lawmaking body. The city of Columbia firmly upheld female training, to a limited extent on the grounds that the University of Missouri did not yet concede ladies. Columbia was additionally home to Stephens College, established in 1833 and contracted in 1856. Foundation was an issue; the principal classes were held in an unfinished chateau. A run of the mill day for female understudies in 1851 began at 6 a.m. with a morning walk, trailed by love in the house of prayer. They went to classes until late evening and after that composed an every day arrangement. After they considered and did errands, the understudies went to a Bible address each night. They examined number juggling, antiquated history, sentence structure, old geology, reasoning, five books of Moses and composition.The College obtained the home of Dr. James Bennett and formally devoted the structures and grounds as the Christian College grounds in 1852.By 1856, there were 150 understudies, including 85 boarders.In the turmoil of the Civil War, Christian College President Joseph K. Rogers promised to keep the school open. Most of the city of Columbia was master Union yet the encompassing agrarian regions of Boone County and whatever is left of focal Missouri were unequivocally professional subjugation. Rogers was effective, thanks to a limited extent to staff who surrendered pay.President Rogers demanded the school stay nonpartisan and did not permit daily papers on the grounds, but rather secretly he read them. As the battling proceeded with, so did the battle for the school's survival. Just three understudies graduated in 1862 and four the next year. In any case, Christian College never missed a day of classes. After the war, Christian College saw its biggest enlistment to date with 182 understudies taught by nine employees.