Almost 400 fans attended Breakfast with the Chiefs on campus in May. Kansas City Chiefs Head Coach Andy Reid, General Manager John Dorsey and President Mark Donovan had scheduled a visit on May 17 to tour the facilities for their summer training camp, and they agreed to host a 45-minute [...]
Several students displayed their work or research posters at the annual Foundation Appreciation Reception in April. Pictured are graphic design students Shelby Hughes ’13, and Emily Stojevich-Swenson ’13. Both had their work accepted into the National Student Show and Conference, sponsored by the Dallas Society of Visual Communications in Texas. [...]
Music major Donovan Jones spent his summer performing professional opera with Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point, Eureka Springs, Ark. Jones, a sophomore vocal performance major, said his career goal is to be a professional opera singer, and this was the first step toward that goal. Opera in the [...]
Two teams of computer science students were selected to present their web application projects at a national collegiate conference last spring. They were two of only nine teams selected from colleges and universities across the country, and the Missouri Western students brought home first and second place. The first-place team [...]
A $207,000 grant from a Kansas City organization will help expand the entrepreneurship program in Missouri Western’s Craig School of Business. The grant from the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City – Kansas City (ICIC) will create a micro-lending fund for Missouri Western students who want to open franchises [...]
Congratulations to the following award recipients honored at the spring employee awards ceremony: Missouri Western Foundation James V. Mehl Award for Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Dr. Catherine Kendig, Philosophy Missouri Western Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching: Dr. Susan Carter, Music Dr. Beverly Payne, Craig School of Business Dr. Bill Russell, [...]
Kay Dickerson, coordinator of the Intensive English program, received the 2013 Northland Regional Chamber of Commerce Award for Excellence in Higher Education. Debbi Wright, instructor of chemistry, and Gwen Funk, with the St. Joseph School District GATE program, received the Missouri Environmental Education Association’s 2012 Community-Based Environmental Education Service Award. [...]
Shana Meyer was hired as vice president for student affairs at Missouri Western. “I am excited to join the team at Missouri Western,” she said. “The University and the community have been very warm and welcoming.” Meyer has been assistant vice president of student affairs at Fort Hays State University [...]
Dr. Kathleen O’Connor was named dean of the University’s College of Professional Studies and began her duties July 1. Dr. O’Connor began at Missouri Western as a nursing instructor in 1980. She became an assistant professor in 1987, then an associate professor and chair of the department of nursing in [...]
