Bachelor Science in Business Education

Students who apply and are accepted into the EPP in the Fall will take Block A the following Spring, then

Block B in the fall. Students who apply and are accepted into the EPP in the Spring will take Block B the

following fall, followed by Block A in the spring.

Admission to the Educator Prep Program (EPP) should be completed after the successful completion of required

EDU/SE courses and must be completed prior to student teaching placement. A qualifying score on the MoCA

(MEGA) and all application materials must be submitted and approved prior to student teaching placement.

Business Education candidates will student teach a 16-week block at the secondary level.

At the close of the Civil War, soldiers and officers of the 62nd United States Colored Infantry, stationed at Fort McIntosh, Texas, but composed primarily of Missourians, took steps to establish an educational institution in Jefferson City, Missouri, which they named Lincoln Institute.

Members of the 62nd Colored Infantry contributed $5,000; this was supplemented by approximately $1,400, given by the 65th Colored Infantry. On January 14, 1866, Lincoln Institute was formally established under an organization committee. By June of the same year, it incorporated, and the committee became a Board of Trustees. Richard Baxter Foster, a former first lieutenant in the 62nd Infantry, was named first principal of Lincoln Institute. On September 17, 1866, the school opened its doors to the first class in an old frame building in Jefferson City.

In 1870, the school began to receive aid from the state of Missouri for teacher training. In 1871, Lincoln Institute moved to the present campus. College-level work was added to the curriculum in 1877, and passage of the Normal School Law permitted Lincoln graduates to teach for life in Missouri without further examination. Lincoln Institute formally became a state institution in 1879 with the deeding of the property to the state. Under the second Morrill Act of 1890, Lincoln became a land grant institution, and the following year industrial and agricultural courses were added to the curriculum.