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Missouri State University-west Plains

School Overview:

School Notes:

• Missouri State University – West Plains was founded in 1963 as the West Plains Residence Center. In 1977, the SMSU Board of Regents and, subsequently, the Missouri General Assembly, designated the name "West Plains Campus of Southwest Missouri State University" to replace Residence Center. In 1981, the legislature enacted a permanent status bill for the campus. In 1991, the legislature passed House Bill 51 which gave the West Plains Campus the authority to offer "one-year certificates, two-year associate degrees and credit and non-credit courses."
• Missouri State University -West Plains specializes in providing quality education to students of all ages in the south central Ozarks region of Missouri. For over 35 years, the college has grown and expanded to offer a liberal arts transfer curriculum at the freshman and sophomore levels, selected occupational and technical education programs, and a variety of continuing education courses. Enrollment is approximately 1,600 students per semester.
• The campus consists of four classroom and administrative buildings—Kellett Hall, Looney Hall, Melton Hall, and the Lybyer Enhanced Technology Center. The $4.3 million Michael J. Lybyer Enhanced Technology Center, which houses Missouri State University – West Plains' Associate of Applied Science degree programs in Computer Technology, Industrial Technology, and General Technology, opened in Spring 2000.
• In addition to the classroom and administrative buildings, the campus includes the Garnett Library, a 60-person residence hall called the Grizzly House, the Putnam Student Center, Hass-Hoover Hall, and the V.H. Drago College Store. In 2000, the campus received two additional properties, Richards House, which is the permanent residence of the Missouri State University – West Plains Chancellor, and Gohn-Wood Hall, which will house the Missouri State University – Springfield Academic Outreach Office which is currently located across from the West Plains Post Office.
• Missouri State University – West Plains offers Associate degrees, transfer programs and training for immediate employment. Missouri State University – West Plains is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of College and Secondary Schools.
• Profile last updated: 08/22/2008.

In the News:

• Ozarks group collects artificial limbs for earthquake victims (KY3 Springfield)
  posted on March 9, 2010 at 01:22:13 pm
  The drive will go through March to give people who think they have a prosthetic limb in the attic or in storage plenty of time to find it.
• Student Nurses Collect Prostheses for Haiti (KSMU Ozarks Public Radio)
  posted on March 4, 2010 at 10:16:20 pm
  Thousands of men, women and children in Haiti not only lost their homes and livelihoods in January's earthquake: they also lost limbs when their arms or legs got crushed in the debris. KSMU's Chasity Mayes has more on what the Missouri State University-West Plains Student Nurses Association is doing to help these individuals, who are ...
• Recreation center will be topic at town hall (The Springfield News-Leader)
  posted on February 23, 2010 at 03:28:42 am
  Chancellor Drew A. Bennett of Missouri State University-West Plains will host a town hall meeting from noon-2 p.m. Wednesday at Putnam Student Center to discuss a proposed multipurpose student recreation center with the student body.
• SFCC men hold on to upset No. 20 West Plains (Sedalia Democrat)
  posted on January 28, 2010 at 07:02:51 am
  The State Fair Community College men’s basketball team upset 20th-ranked Missouri State University-West Plains 60-56 in a Region 16 game on Wednesday at the Fred E. Davis Multipurpose Center.
• MSU-WP dismisses Pioneers (Harrison Daily Times)
  posted on January 22, 2010 at 12:31:28 pm
  WEST PLAINS, Mo. — The Pioneers of North Arkansas College knocked the Missouri State University-West Plains from the national polls the last time that they met. The Grizzlies didn’t forget.

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