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With a current enrollment of 15,000 students. Programs of note are Education, Mass Communications, Fine and Performing Arts, Creative Writing and Business. The main St. Charles campus is currently at 1.8 km&2 (450 acres). Lindenwood also operates satellite campuses in Wentzville , O'Fallon , south St. Louis County, northwest St. Louis County, Moscow Mills , Washington , Weldon Spring , Belleville, Illinois , and the Daniel Boone Campus in Defiance . HISTORY Lindenwood University was founded in 1827 by George and Mary Easton Sibley. It is the second-oldest higher-education institution west of the Mississippi River . The story actually begins in 1812 at Fort Sibley, now known as the town of Arrow Rock, Missouri . The fort was established to help with the situation regarding the Native Americans . In 1826 , Major George Sibley co-signed a $20,000 note, but his partner bailed out of the deal and left. Sibley, now left with next to nothing, took possession of everything his former partner owned--which happened to be little more than 0.5 km&2 (120 acres) of land in St. Charles, Missouri known as the "Linden Wood" because of the large amount of linden trees that grew there. In 1827 , the Sibleys started the Linden Wood School for Girls, as Mary Sibley already had been running a school in St. Charles. By 1989, though, Lindenwood was in trouble. Enrollment was around 800 students and the school was nearly broke. later staged a small protest in Saint Charles ."Dennis Spellmann, 70, President who Remade Struggling College, Dies." ''New York Times'' 3 Sept. 2006. ''Nytimes.com.'' 25 Jan. 2007 < http://www.nytimes.com >. Lindenwood was also in the news briefly in February of 2005 when Spellmann refused a National Park Service grant that would have provided $200,000 for the repair of a historic building (the Daniel Boone Home ) owned by the university. Spellmann reportedly said that the bureaucracy involved in a federal grant was too great to be worthwhile, and requested that the government instead apply the money to paying down the federal budget deficit. In 2006 , Dennis Spellmann died after a long battle with cancer. At the time of his death, the school had more than $50 million in endowments. Dr. James Evans, who had been serving as the university's acting president since Spellmann's death, was chosen as Lindenwood's twenty-first president on February 9, 2007. Anthony, Shane. "Jim Evans is Lindenwood University's new president'' ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' 10 Feb. 2007. ''STLtoday.com.'' 17 Feb. 2007 < http://www.stltoday.com >. ATHLETIC TEAMS A member of the National Association Of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), the Lindenwood Lions compete within the Heart Of America Conference and has teams in other organizations. The university boasts a total of 39 sports teams. The university has been fully accredited by the North Central Association of the Higher Learning Commission since 1915 and received its ten-year renewal in 2003 - 2004 . NOTABLE GRADUATES
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