Stephens College (Columbia, Missouri)

Stephens College is a ladies' school situated in Columbia, Missouri. It is the second most seasoned female instructive foundation that is still a ladies' school in the United States. It was established on August 24, 1833, as the Columbia Female Academy. In 1856, David H. Hickman secured the school's contract under the name The Columbia Female Baptist Academy. In the late nineteenth century it was renamed Stephens Female College after James L. Stephens enriched the school with $20,000. From 1937-1943 its Drama Department was prestigious by its director and educator, the performer Maude Adams, James M. Barrie's first Peter Pan. The grounds incorporates a National Historic District: Stephens College South Campus Historic District. 

Arranged in the focal point of the state, Stephens is around 120 miles (193 km) from both Kansas City and St. Louis. Columbia is known as "School Town, USA" in view of the 34,000 undergrads going to Stephens, the University of Missouri and Columbia College. The Stephens grounds is situated close downtown Columbia.The school takes after a human sciences educational modules and has four schools: Design, Health Sciences, Interdisciplinary Studies and Performing Arts, and Equestrian Studies.Notwithstanding undergrad programs, Stephens offers expert's projects in directing, vital initiative and screenwriting. Stephens has concentrate abroad projects in France, England, Korea, Ecuador, Sweden, Ireland, Italy, Japan, and Korea. Worldwide classes and study visits additionally are accessible. The Stephens staff incorporates around 55 full-time teachers. Most have Ph.D.s or fitting terminal degrees in their field.

Rankings

U.S. News and World Report places it in the top third of all positioned local universities in the Midwest, and thinks of it as a "particular" school with regards to admissions Stephens is among The Princeton Review's Best 379 Colleges in the U.S. The style system is thirteenth on the planet, first in long haul esteem and fifth in instructive experience, and is among the main 50 in the world.The theater program has been positioned number 11 by the Princeton Review. 

Stephens is one of four ladies' schools, alongside Bennett College, Spelman College, and Brenau University, to have sororities on its grounds. Sigma and Kappa Delta, both of which are National Panhellenic Conference sororities, have on-grounds parts. The sororities are administered by the Panhellenic Council and the Junior Panhellenic Council. Stephens understudies can likewise join truly Black or Asian sororities at the close-by University of Missouri grounds.

There are additionally around twelve scholarly respect social orders on grounds: Mortar Board, Psi Chi, Alpha Lambda Delta, Sigma Tau Delta the English honor society, Tri-Beta, Kappa Delta Pi, Phi Alpha Delta, and others. Despite the fact that Stephens College is no more a two-year foundation, it is the area of the alpha part of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society of the Two-Year College. The understudy daily paper is named Stephens Life and is online with a magazine printed once a semester. The school's artistic magazine is named Harbinger and is discharged each spring.

Stephens opened pet-accommodating home lobbies in 2004. The College likewise permits understudies to encourage cover creatures in return for scholarships.

Subject Jane Film Festival

Subject Jane Film Festival

The Citizen Jane Film Festival is a yearly film celebration. The celebration was first held October 17–19, 2008. Movies included are expected to showcase ladies behind and before the camera.

Stephens College groups are known as the Stars. The school contends in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) as an individual from the American Midwest Conference (AMC). Ladies' games incorporate b-ball, focused move, crosscountry, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, volleyball, and an assortment of equestrian stallion studies.