Drury University

Drury University, previously Drury College and initially Springfield College, is a private aesthetic sciences school in Springfield, Missouri. The college enlists around 1,700 students and graduate understudies in six expert’s projects, and 1,279 understudies in the College of Continuing Professional Studies. In 2013, the Drury Panthers men’s ball group won the NCAA Men’s Division II Basketball Championship. The Drury people’s Panthers have collected 22 NCAA Division II National Championships between them, notwithstanding various NAIA titles prior to moving to the NCAA.

Drury was established as Springfield College in 1873 by Congregationalist church evangelists in the form of other Congregationalist colleges like Dartmouth College and Yale University. Fire up. Nathan Morrison, Samuel Drury, and James and Charles Harwood gave the school’s underlying blessing and association; Samuel Drury’s gift was the biggest of the gathering and the school was before long renamed out of appreciation for Drury’s as of late perished child. The early educational program underscored instructive, strict, and melodic qualities. Understudies came to the new school from a wide region, including the Indian Territories of Oklahoma. The first graduating class included four ladies. At the point when classes started in 1873, they were held in a solitary structure on a grounds possessing under 1+1⁄2 sections of land. A quarter century after the fact the 40-section of land grounds included Stone Chapel, the President’s House and three scholastic structures. Today, the college possesses a 115-section of land grounds, including the first noteworthy structures. On April 28, 1960, Drury College was the setting for an episode of NBC’s The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford. Tennessee Ernie Ford sang his brand name “Sixteen Tons” and the psalm “Grasp My Hand, Precious Lord”.

Drury College became Drury University on January 1, 2000.

The current president is J. Timothy Cloyd, previously leader of Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. Dr. Cloyd was chosen for fill in as the eighteenth leader of Drury University in 2016.

Strict affiliations
Drury, similar to Dartmouth and Yale, was established by Congregationalist evangelists and, similar to these schools, is presently not a strict organization. It stays partnered with the Congregationalist church and its replacement, the United Church of Christ. It has likewise been subsidiary with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) since the establishing of the Drury School of Religion in 1909.