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Missouri Southern State University was founded in 1937 as Joplin Junior College. [3] At its conception, Joplin Junior College had 114 students and only 9 faculty members. In 1964, residents of Jasper County, Missouri approved a $2.5 million bond issue to begin construction on a new campus, where the university is currently located.
Southern Fight Song is the official fight song for Missouri Southern State University. [8] The MSSU Fight Song lyrics were selected during a contest conducted in late 2012 and early 2013. Until the winner was announced at the Lions vs. Central Oklahoma Bronchos basketball game Thursday, February 21, 2013 in Leggett & Platt Athletic Center, only ...
Fred G. Hughes Stadium at the Robert W. Plaster Complex is located at 3950 Newman Road is a 7,000 seat football stadium for Missouri Southern State University in Joplin, Missouri. The stadium opened in 1975 and cost $1.7 million. It claims to be the first state college stadium in Missouri to use artificial turf.
Dec. 16—A grant of more than $347,000 for Missouri Southern State University that will fund expanded nursing education programs was one of 13 announced Monday by Gov. Mike Parson for Missouri ...
Mar. 1—The ground's the limit for a group of faculty and student volunteers at Missouri Southern State University who are converting more than an acre of campus into a thriving wildflower ...
MSSU Lions (college) (1966–2014) Joplin Miners (1917–1954) Joe Becker Stadium is an American baseball ballpark , built in 1913, located in Joplin, Missouri .
Apr. 22—It's being called an homage to the past, the upcoming "Southern Showcase, Onstage," where music from Broadway, television and popular music, both past and present, merge together into a ...
Today, Joplin is home to Missouri Southern State University, founded in 1937 as a junior college and expanded in the following decades. The one Bible college is Ozark Christian College. Messenger College also operated in Joplin until 2012 when the Pentecostal Church of God moved the campus to Euless, Texas that year. [57]