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| Type | Publiccommunity college |
|---|---|
| Established | 1963; 62 years ago (1963) |
| President | Katricia Pierson |
| Students | 3,864[1] |
| Location | ,, United States |
| Mascot | Roughrider |
| Website | www |
Crowder College is apubliccommunity college inNeosho, Missouri. It serves the Community College District of Newton and McDonald counties in southwesternMissouri and other outlying areas. The school enrolled 3,864 in 2023.[1]
Established in 1963 on the grounds of the formerFort Crowder, the college grantscertificates,diplomas, andassociate degrees. Its name honorsGeneral Enoch Crowder, a prominent Missourian, soldier, and statesman, as well as the veterans ofWorld War I, who received their training at Fort Crowder.
Crowder College is accredited by theHigher Learning Commission and approved by theMissouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education andCoordinating Board for Higher Education. Specific programs are approved or accredited by theMissouri State Board of Nursing, Teacher Education Certification, through the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, and theNational Institute for Automotive Excellence (ASE).
Graduates of theAssociate of Arts programs are admitted without examination to junior standing in all public universities and colleges in Missouri and many outside the state of Missouri. Crowder is a member of theMissouri Community College Association and theAmerican Association of Community Colleges.
The Longwell Museum, located in the Crowder College Elsie Plaster Community Center, has many displays and artifacts from the Fort Crowder days, when over 50,000 soldiers were stationed there. The museum also holds artwork by artists associated with Neosho, includingThomas Hart Benton andJames Duard Marshall. In 1989, the Longwell Museum hosted the "Benton and Friends" exhibition in honor of the centennial of Thomas Hart Benton's birth. That exhibition brought together more than 80 works by Benton,John Steuart Curry,James Duard Marshall,Charles Banks Wilson, andGrant Wood.[2]
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Crowder's solar team designed and built the firstsolar powered vehicle to successfully complete a coast to coast journey across the United States in 1984.[3] Since then Crowder has continued to distinguish itself in world and national solar energy competitions, most recently theSolar Decathlon inWashington, D.C., where the solar house entry from Crowder was selected as the "People's Choice" and placed 6th overall in the competition.[when?] Crowder was the only community college in the competition. This award-winning house is now located on the Crowder campus. The Crowder campus includes awind powered turbine supplying energy to the MARET (Missouri Alternative & Renewable Energy Technology) Center.
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