The ninth annual Missouri Western State University/Phi Mu Alpha Jazz Festival on Saturday, Feb. 14 will feature clinics and a performance by The Project H, a 7-piece ensemble recently chosen as Kansas City’s Best Jazz Ensemble by readers of the Pitch. The MWSU Jazz Ensemble will perform at the conclusion of the festival, at 5:15 [...]
Abby Sexton, Daniel Brooks, Kayla Mertz and BJ Myers participated in the All-Collegiate Honor Choir at the Missouri Music Educators Association conference in Osage, Missouri. Four Missouri Western State University students were chosen to sing in the All-Collegiate Honor Choir during the annual Missouri Music Educators Association at Tan-Tar-A Resort in Osage, Missouri [...]
A workshop titled “Civil Rights Issues and Advocacy Training for LGBTQ Equality Day” will be presented from 11 to 11:50 a.m. Friday, Feb. 6 in Spratt Hall room 205 on the Missouri Western State University campus. The training is sponsored in part by the Pride Alliance of Missouri Western. It is free and open to [...]
Kimball Gallagher presents a piano recital at Missouri Western Feb. 5 and will talk to music students about entrepreneurship Feb. 6. Both events are open to the public. Juilliard-trained pianist Kimball Gallagher will stop at Missouri Western State University as he nears the end of a 7-year concert tour of seven continents, 30 [...]
A member of The Wildlife Society collects biological samples during a managed deer hunt at Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge. Missouri Western State University’s Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society was named 2014 Student Chapter of the Year for the North Central Section of The Wildlife Society, the sixth time the chapter has [...]
Yvonne Meyer, currently Chief of Public Safety at Cape Cod Community College in Massachusetts, has been named Chief of Police for the Missouri Western State University Police Department. Meyer will begin her duties Feb. 17. “Chief Meyer has the right combination of skills and experience to successfully lead the Missouri Western State University Police Department,” [...]
The Career Development Center at Missouri Western State University is celebrating its grand reopening with a St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce ribbon-cutting ceremony at 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 29, at Eder Hall, room 202. The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. “The Career Development Center has services to [...]
The Missouri Western State University Foundation kicked off the public phase of its Centennial Capital Campaign with the announcement of three major gifts: the life’s work of an internationally known local artist, an endowment that creates a faculty position in population health, and the largest individual gift in Missouri Western’s history – a $10 million [...]
Thousands of fans have attended Chiefs Training Camp at Missouri Western since 2010. Under a contract amendment approved by Missouri Western’s Board of Governors, the Chiefs will be back in St. Joseph for at least the next three summers. The Board of Governors at Missouri Western State University has approved a contract amendment [...]
Missouri Western State University will officially kick off its Centennial Celebration and Centennial Capital Campaign with a special event featuring a multimedia piece produced by Quixotic of Kansas City at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17 in the Potter Hall Theater on the Missouri Western campus. The event is free and open to the public, but [...]
