Enrollment up: A total of 5,562 students enrolled as of the official census date Sept. 25, 2017, including a 16.2 percent growth in the number of new freshmen. The total includes 5,321 undergraduate students and 241 graduate students and represents an overall increase of 3.2 percent over 2016-17 official enrollment. [...]
St. Joseph’s entrepreneurial resources continue to grow. In June, the St. Joseph Innovation Stockyard, along with the Missouri Western’s Center for Entrepreneurship, St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce and Buchanan County, announced plans to team up with Digital Sandbox KC and the Missouri Technology Corporation (MTC) to provide entrepreneurs in northwest [...]
What began as a pretty ordinary season became anything but, as Griffon volleyball won its first-ever regular-season MIAA championship and advanced to the NCAA Central Region semifinals. After beginning the season 7-8, the Griffons won 15 of 16 of the next matches. On senior night Nov. 11, the Griffons ran [...]
Griffon women’s soccer has been making history and steadily improving the last few years, but 2017 was a real breakout season. For the first time since soccer arrived on campus in 2005, the team was a contender for the conference title and advanced to post-season play. Overall, more than 30 [...]
Football’s first season under Head Coach Matt Williamson ’96 ended with a 4-7 record. Eleven Griffons received a total of 12 All-MIAA honors, including Cody Lindsay, who was named first-team linebacker. The three-time honorable mention All-MIAA selection led all MIAA linebackers with 17.5 tackles for loss and 6.5 sacks. Lindsay, [...]
The inaugural Griffon men’s and women’s cross country season began with the women taking first place and men taking third in their first-ever competition, the Bearcat Open in Maryville, Missouri. The women claimed the team championship by 34 points with six of the top-nine individual finishers, including champion Kaitlyn Shoemaker [...]
Director of athletics Josh Looney named Eric Kramer associate director of athletics for compliance and sports administration last fall. Kramer had served as the associate director of athletics for internal operations and academics 2014-15, assistant athletic director for compliance and academics 2011-14, and the compliance and academics coordinator 2007-11. Since [...]
1970s Mary Ann Wilkerson ’72/’87 retired from the City of Savannah, Missouri as a class A water plant operator in June 2017. Carol Hartigan '73 Carol Hartigan ’73, Certification and Policy Strategist for the American Association of Critical Care Nurses and the AACN Certification Corporation, received the Lifetime [...]
Dr. Jamel Santa Cruze Wright ’00 was named the 27th president of Eureka College in July 2017. She had been serving as interim president since July 1, 2016. Dr. Jamel Santa Cruze Wright '00 Dr. Wright, a native of St. Louis, graduated from Missouri Western with a Bachelor [...]
