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Main Street Inn
Parkville, Missouri
Park University:
The school which was originally called Park College was founded in 1875 by John A. McAfee on land donated by George S. Park with its initial structure being the stone hotel Park owned on the bluff above the Missouri River. The original concept called for students to receive free tuition and board in exchange for working up to half day in the college's farm, electrical shop or printing plant. According to the terms of the arrangement if the “Parkville Experiment” did not work out within five years, the college grounds were to revert to Park.[2] There were 17 students in the first school year and in the first graduation class there were five women. McAfee led until his death in 1890. His son Lowell M. McAfee became the second president of Park until stepping down in 1913. The first international student at Park University arrived in 1880 from Japan. The defining landmark of the campus is Mackay Hall, named after Carroll County, Illinois banker Duncan Mackay who donated $25,000 in materials for the structure shortly before his death.[3] The building was constructed using limestone mined on the campus grounds and built with the labor of students. Construction began in 1883 and was finished by 1893. Today the building is the main focal point of the campus and dominates the hillside, overlooking the town of Parkville. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. For many decades the school was affiliated with the Presbyterian Church but it no longer has that affiliation.[when?] The college has had a relationship with the military since 1889. However, the relationship was greatly expanded in the late 1960s with the establishment of a Military Degree Completion Program and later in 1972 with the Military Resident Center System. Park's total enrollment has grown from its small base since 1996 when it first began offering online courses.[4] In 2000, it was renamed Park University.
Nearby Colleges & Universities:
- Avila University, Catholic university of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, Kansas City, Mo.
- Baker University, branch of School of Professional and Graduate Studies (Northland - Tiffany Springs, Mo. area)
- Benedictine College Founded 1858. Only Catholic College in America with a Noble Prize winning graduate. Atchison, Ks.
- Calvary University, Founded 1932, Kansas City, Mo.
- Columbia College, a private co-educational liberal arts university.
- DeVry University, Kansas City, Mo.
- Donnelly College, Two-year Catholic college founded in 1949, located in Kansas City, Ks.
- Friends University Kansas City Area Center, master's degree programs including Master of Science in Family Therapy, Lenexa, Ks.
- Graceland University, Independence, Mo.
- Grantham University, Lenexa, Ks.
- Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Ks.
- Kansas Christian College, Overland Park, Ks.
- Kansas City Art Institute, four-year college of fine arts and design founded in 1885, Kansas City, Mo.
- Kansas City Kansas Community College, 2-year college, Kansas City, Ks.
- Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, Kansas City, Mo.
- Kansas State University, Olathe, Ks.
- Metropolitan Community College), a 2-year college with several branches in the Kansas City, Mo. metropolitan area.
- MidAmerica Nazarene University, a 4-year private Nazarene liberal-arts university, Olathe, KS
- Ottawa University, Overland Park, Ks.
- Park University, Parkville, Independence, Lenexa, and downtown Kansas City, Mo.
- Rockhurst University, a notable Jesuit university founded in 1910, Kansas City, Mo.
- Rasmussen College, Overland Park, Ks.
- University of Kansas, Edwards Campus, Overland Park, Ks.
- University of Kansas Medical Center - Kansas City, Ks; branch of the University of Kansas (in nearby Lawrence, KS) that focuses on medical education.
- Saint Luke's College of Health Sciences, Kansas City Missouri.
- University of Missouri, Kansas City, Mo, one of four University of Missouri campuses, serving more than 14,000 undergraduates
- University of Saint Mary, Leavenworth, Ks
- Webster University, Kansas City, Mo, founded in 1915, in Kansas City since 1972. Evening programs for adult learners
- William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo.
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