Culver-Stockton College

Culver-Stockton College is a private, residential, four-year, liberal arts college located in Canton, Missouri. Culver-Stockton College offers a liberal arts education with practical learning experiences. The campus is located on 140 acres on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River. Culver-Stockton College was founded as Christian University in 1853. As of fall 2006, the college enrolled 853 students . Mission: The mission of Culver-Stockton College is to provide students of promise a superb education within an active learning community founded upon integrity and the best values of faith... and the human spirit. In the 1850s, D. Pat Henderson and other Christian Church leaders were interested in creating an institution for the education of male and female students. Describing the site of the college that he had helped to select, Henderson said: "Here on the summit of two of a circle of hills, divided by a vale so virgin in its primitive luxuriance of forest and tangled wood that twilight lingers at midday beneath its bough, are to arise the structures dedicated to the equal culture of the male and female mind." (Howard L. Conard, ed.
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