Dr. Jim Sanders ’84 wants to give back to his alma mater by helping current students. Sanders, assistant athletic director for the Kansas City Public Schools, organized fellow alumni last year to form the Black Alumni Network. The new group has two goals: help black alumni reconnect and help current [...]
When Jerry Myers ’71 was a freshman at Central High School in St. Joseph, the vice principal took a group of students to a St. Joseph Junior College basketball game. Since then, Myers says, he has been a Griffon. “From then on, there was no question that I was only [...]
After several months of campus and community forums and discussion, Missouri Western’s swimming pool will be repaired and remain open. Thanks to a five-year agreement with the City of St. Joseph, the pool will now be open to the public at least 30 hours per week, as well. In February, [...]
A partnership between Missouri Western’s Western Institute, area businesses, the University’s Innovation Stockyards, the St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce and the St. Joseph School District has created a workforce development initiative that will provide skilled employees for manufacturing companies in the region. Last fall, Dr. Gary Clapp, coordinator of workforce development [...]
A St. Joseph family has established a fund to help students and alumni acquire financing to start or purchase a business. The Bradley family, owners of the News-Press & Gazette Company, pledged $300,000 to the MWSU Foundation to create the Bradley Entrepreneurship Loan Program. “The Bradley family has long supported [...]
Dr. Paul Orscheln is Missouri Western’s associate vice president for enrollment management, a newly created position. He started at the University in February. In this role, Dr. Orscheln will oversee the offices of Admissions, Registrar, and ATLAS (Advising, Tutoring, Learning and Academic Support), which includes the Center for Student Success [...]
For Gerald Small, instructor of health, physical education and recreation, it’s all about getting youth outside and doing things they might not normally get to do. That was why he started Missouri Western’s Adventure Sports Academy last year, and is offering it for a second time next month. Last year, [...]
When Fumi Cheever, a native of Japan, was an undergraduate student at the University of Nevada-Reno, she didn’t have a lot of interaction with the Reno community. So when she was working on her master’s degree at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, she sought out volunteer opportunities in [...]
Missouri Western established a new School of Nursing and Health Professions in February. The School of Nursing and Health Professions will be housed within the College of Professional Studies and will be led by an associate dean. The School will include Missouri Western’s master’s degree programs in nursing and undergraduate [...]
