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Cottey College

School Overview:

School Notes:

• Cottey College is a two-year independent, residential, liberal arts and sciences college for women. The college is located at Nevada, Missouri (pop. 9,000), approximately 100 miles south of Kansas City. The campus occupies 14 buildings on 11 city blocks, and a 33-acre wooded recreational area with lodge.
• Virginia Alice Cottey founded the College in 1884 with the firm belief that women deserved the same quality of education as men. When the founder became a member of the P.E.O. Sisterhood, she realized the organization paralleled her own goals and ideas about higher education for women. The P.E.O. Sisterhood accepted the College as a gift from Virginia Alice Cottey in 1927, which made it the only nonsectarian college owned and supported by women. The P.E.O. Sisterhood, a philanthropic educational organization of over 250,000 members, is dedicated to providing educational opportunities for women.
• Cottey helps young women reach their true potential in a dynamic, residential learning environment emphasizing the liberal arts. Our faculty and other campus resources are in place to provide guidance and to promote academic inspiration. Our students cultivate both academic and life skills including problem solving, effective writing, researching and analytical thinking.
• Profile last updated: 08/22/2008.

In the News:

• Bushwhacker Museum to be open while workers are at facility (Nevada Daily Mail)
  posted on November 18, 2009 at 06:07:03 am
  The Bushwhacker Museum will be unofficially open this winter as volunteers do maintenance work at the jail and complete some unfinished exhibits at the museum at 212 W. Walnut St.
• Book donations sought (Nevada Daily Mail)
  posted on November 10, 2009 at 04:22:33 pm
  The Nevada Housing Authority has some volunteers who are heading a project to expand and modernize the library for the residents. Donations of all types of books, new or good used, would be appreciated including children's books by Dec. 1.
• Cottey presents 'Troy Women' next weekend (Nevada Daily Mail)
  posted on November 7, 2009 at 06:07:33 am
  Nevada, Mo. -- The Cottey College Department of Theatre will present Troy Women on Friday and Saturday, Nov, 13 and 14, at 8 p.m. in the Auditorium of the Haidee and Allen Wild Center for the Arts.
• Lady Norse score sweep of Cottey College (Miami News-Record)
  posted on November 3, 2009 at 04:32:34 pm
  NEVADA, Mo. — Concluding play in Western Division of Region XVI volleyball, the Northeastern A&M Lady Norse won three straight games Monday night over Cottey College.
• Chambersburg's College Night gives students a step up (Chambersburg Public Opinion)
  posted on October 27, 2009 at 12:46:46 am
  High school juniors and seniors in Franklin County who are looking for options after high school can get information and have questions answered Tuesday.

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