A look back at the past 10 years reveals a lot to be proud of at Missouri Western, and we wanted to share that with our readers. New construction and renovations since Dr. Vartabedian has been president include a new math and sciences building, a new residence hall, a completely [...]
Missouri Western’s Study Away Office offers a variety of trips and exchange opportunities every year, and destinations in the past academic year included Panama, New York, England, Scotland, Norway, France, India, Ireland, China and Oregon. We recently spoke with professors and students who took advantage of the travel opportunities. Ireland: [...]
Elaine Bryant, director of ATLAS (Advising, Tutoring, Learning and Academic Support, says she and her staff are here to make sure students have a successful college experience and persist to earn a degree, and office personnel recently began some new initiatives toward that end. One was a pilot program that [...]
Throughout its 102-year history, Missouri Western has never lost sight of its mission of preparing students for careers and providing work-ready employees for businesses and organizations. A News-Press/Gazette article about the St. Joseph Junior College noted that many people returned to college in the 1930s during the Great Depression, seeking [...]
Most people would say that a benefit of living in a college town is the number and variety of events offered for the community, and in that regard, Missouri Western does not disappoint. A look back at the past year of events that were open to the community reveals everything [...]
Dr. Gordon Mapley knows that sometimes, life gets in the way of a college degree. As executive director of the Western Institute, he knew there were hundreds of people in St. Joseph who had a lot of credit hours without completing a degree, and he wanted to figure out a [...]
Missouri Western alumni are not only making an impact locally and nationally, but also in foreign countries. Ally Browning ’08 and Gary ’97 and Rachel Chaney have found their calling in serving others – Browning in Honduras and the Chaneys in Africa. Eyes wide open: Ally Browning ’08 As [...]
The National Science Foundation awarded the largest grant in University history – $1,106,896 – to two Missouri Western professors, Dr. Todd Eckdahl, professor of biology, and Dr. Jeff Poet, professor of mathematics, and two Davidson College (North Carolina) colleagues, Dr. A. Malcolm Campbell, professor of biology, and Dr. Laurie Heyer, [...]
It was Sept. 1. It was the second half of the first football game of the 2016 season. Fans were enjoying the newly renovated Spratt Memorial Stadium, especially the new video board. Suddenly, the 2,500 square-foot video screen went black. After a few seconds, an error message appeared on the [...]
