Paulina Batterson's Columbia College: 150 Years of Courage, Commitment, in addition to Change is an exceptionally good written history of the institution in Columbia, Missouri. The history was published past times the University of Missouri Press inwards 2001.
The writer provides an interesting motion-picture present of the struggles faced past times those associated alongside the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) who gear upwards out inwards 1851 to found what emerged for a fourth dimension every minute a successful nondenominational liberal arts college for women. Readers volition notice many details that assistance alongside agreement the subsequently transition to give-up the ghost i of the offset junior colleges inwards the 1920's in addition to the emergence after 1970 every minute a coeducational institution.