The Griffon women’s basketball team re-wrote the record books with an unforgettable, championship season. Missouri Western won the regular-season MIAA Championship for the first time since 2002 and advanced to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2005. Along the way, the team set new program records for winning [...]
Dear Friends, Missouri Western has a long history of working within the region to determine the workforce needs that can be addressed by the University and build partnerships to effectively respond to those needs. In the past, community partners have included Heartland Health, now Mosaic Life Care, to develop an [...]
Dear Fellow Griffon Family, It is hard to believe that my time as our Alumni Association President is coming to a close. It has been an Angie Springs '02 honor to serve our University in this capacity and I look forward to continuing engagement with the University through [...]
1980s Chuck Kempf ’83 was named director of Parks, Recreation and Civic Facilities for the City of St. Joseph, Missouri. He had been working for the city since 2005. Dr. Robert Newhart ’83 was named superintendent of the St. Joseph School District and was given a two-year contract in November [...]
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 [...]
