Approximately $220,000 in renovations was completed in August at the Baker Family Fitness Center. Some walls were taken down to expand the crowded cardio area and give the whole fitness center a more open appearance. Space that housed the football coaches’ offices until the Griffon Indoor Sports Complex opened in [...]
T. Boone Pickens has a plan to end the United States’ dependency on foreign oil, and he shared it with more than 3,000 people at Missouri Western last fall at the 19th Convocation on Critical Issues. He says the solution is natural gas. “The United States today is fully capable [...]
Approximately $220,000 in renovations was completed in August at the Baker Family Fitness Center. Some walls were taken down to expand the crowded cardio area and give the whole fitness center a more open appearance. Space that housed the football coaches’ offices until the Griffon Indoor Sports Complex opened in [...]
Approximately 150 people gathered to hear poetry and folk art recitations and singing, enjoy games and sample traditional festival tea and foods at the campus’ Mid-Autumn Festival to celebrate a traditional Chinese holiday. Juan Wang, an associate professor of foreign linguistics and applied linguistics in the foreign languages department at [...]
The Missouri Western Foundation received several gifts recently. Four of the gifts created new scholarships and one supplemented the Western Advantage Scholarship Fund. LeRoy and Jeanne Eaton Trust A distribution of almost $619,000 from the LeRoy and Jeanne Eaton Trust was added to the Western Advantage Scholarship fund. It is [...]
Dear Alumni and Friends, Each new academic year brings with it a renewed sense of optimism and hope. This year, along with that optimism and hope came a different type of energy – one that surrounded the most successful football season in school history. Every game I attended – both [...]
Did you take a lot of college classes in several areas, but never complete enough credits in one academic area to graduate? If so, now is your chance to return to college and earn that degree. This fall, Missouri Western began offering a Bachelor of General Studies degree, intended for [...]
Last fall, a dinner was held to honor the past Board of Trustees, Regents and Governors with emeriti status. As we start to plan our centennial celebration in 2015, we wanted to look back on the history of our boards. On Jan. 19, 1965, when voters in 11 school [...]
Women’s and men’s basketball kicked off their seasons with a tip-off night to introduce players and coaches in October for 1,200 fans. The women opened their season with 9-2 record under new head coach Rob Edmsson. Rob came off of an NAIA National Championship at Oklahoma State University last [...]
