MBU Magazine Fall 2008

A mere 20 years ago, this institution, then called Missouri Baptist College, boasted an enrollment of 540 students. Chapel was weekly held in the basement of the Field Academic Hall. Resident students were housed in the University’s one and only residence hall. The MBU Athletic Department was composed of seven teams. And leaders of this institution wouldn’t launch the first graduate program for more than a decade.
 
New women’s wrestling program promotes integrity, equality

Nearly a dozen students from across the nation have united at MBU to form only the eleventh collegiate women’s wrestling program in all of the United States. Their goal: to be the best women’s wrestling program in the nation while educating those unfamiliar with the sport they love about its innumerable benefits.
 
Saving History

Perusing through the Emancipation Proclamation. Hanging with Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown. Discovering a speech written by Woodrow Wilson. It’s all in a semester’s work for those accepted into the competitive American Studies Program.

Just ask MBU senior Tim Jones.
 
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