Greetings from the President

Dear Western Students, Parents, Alumni, Employees, and Friends of the University:

As I continue to meet more faculty, students, staff, parents, and alumni the more I experience justifiable pride in the enormous strides the University is making. Let me list a few:

• Western has experienced five consecutive years of record breaking growth. In fact, Western should come very close to enrolling 6,000 students this fall.

• While Western is growing, we will never outgrow our primary focus on the well being of our students.

• Students enrolling this fall will find a caring faculty who will know each of them by name.

• Western's faculty strive to create undergraduate research opportunities and partnerships with their students.

• The University continues to be dedicated to our core value of community service. Western relishes its unique position among all the state institutions of higher learning as THE applied learning university in Missouri.

Students enrolled at Western will be witness to many wonderful and historical events as well as encounter mind-changing experiences. Our students will see and experience the completion of one of the finest math and science complexes available at any regional university. They will see first-hand a magnificent indoor sport and recreational facility on campus that will be ours during the school year and in the summer will house the Kansas City Chiefs training camp.

As students join the Western family, they become part of the unique and ever improving phenomenon that is Missouri Western State University. They are an integral part of a University that raises the bar in so many ways. As these same students leave the University, they will join the special ranks of alumni who have all “Discovered Gold.”

Sincerely yours,

Robert A. Vartabedian, President
Missouri Western State University

P.S. Missouri Western is raising money to help deserving students by offering Dr. Vartabedian's newly published book, Public Speaking: An Executive Summary, in exchange for a donation to the Western Advantage Scholarship Fund. To find out more about this excellent reference for the student or busy executive, please visit http://www.missouriwestern.edu/president/book -- Thank you!