University of Nauvoo to Nauvoo University
Just after father’s day my daughter’s new husband received a phone call from his maternal grandfather. He said he had a big project and wanted them to come to Nauvoo. They left here on Monday and drove straight through. The normal 18.5 hour drive, with a morning sick wife took them 24 hours. He is there to help with the website and other tasks incident to the reorganizing of the University of Nauvoo into Nauvoo University. This is a very exciting development. “The University was founded in 1840, became dormant in 1846, and reorganized in 2008.” That is 162 years.
Besides being an educator, I am a history buff and have been aware, for a long time, of what Joseph tried to establish before the saints left Nauvoo. I have always found it intriguing. In a day and time when women were rare on college campuses, Eliza R. Snow was attending classes at the University of Nauvoo. So, when I found out what was about to happen, the reorganization of the University of Nauvoo into Nauvoo University, I was happy to hear it.