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Northwest Missouri State University (NW Missouri) is a public university in Maryville, Missouri, United States.It has an enrollment of 9,152 students. [4] Founded in 1905 as a teachers college, its campus is based on the design for Forest Park at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair and is the official Missouri State Arboretum. [5]
Missouri State University: Springfield: Public: Doctoral/Professional University: 23,418 1905 Missouri Western State University: St. Joseph: Public: Master's colleges and universities: 3,815 1915 Northwest Missouri State University: Maryville: Public: Master's colleges and universities: 9,662 1905 Southeast Missouri State University: Cape ...
In 1905, Maryville won a contest to get the Fifth District Normal School, which would become Northwest Missouri State University. It offered $58,672 and 86 acres (35 ha), including the Methodist Seminary, to the state. The college was on the northwest corner of the city, nearly adjoining the Wabash train station.
The UM System was created in 1963 when the University of Missouri (founded in 1839 in Columbia) and the Missouri School of Mines (now the Missouri University of Science and Technology, founded in 1870 in Rolla), were combined with the formerly private University of Kansas City (now University of Missouri–Kansas City, founded in 1933), and a ...
The lone surviving family member, Sue Merrigan Dorrel, was a student at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville at the time. She is an aunt of former Northwest Missouri State University football coach Adam Dorrel. In 1973, Kemper was sentenced to four consecutive 45-year sentences for murder and an additional six years for an attempted ...
Renaming of the school to Northwest Missouri State College in 1955; Statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Administration Building shot by a night watchman on May 17, 1959; Horace Mann High School on the campus closed in 1960; KDLX signed on the air in 1960; Women's basketball reinstitute in 1962; National Guard is called out during food riots in ...
However, funds ran out as Northwest began competing for funding with the newly founded Missouri Western State University 40 miles south in St. Joseph, Missouri. In 1988, the State of Missouri under Governor John Ashcroft announced plans to close Northwest altogether. Following spirited opposition, the plans were reversed and Northwest found it ...
This list of Northwest University buildings catalogs currently-existing structures of Northwest University in Kirkland, Washington, Salem, Oregon and Sacramento, California. Buildings are listed alphabetically.