Junior Sarah Mathews will be among the solists during the Spring Jazz Concert April 15. The swinging sounds of jazz greats Basie and Ellington along with the iconic standards of the Great American Songbook will be featured at the annual Spring Jazz Concert at Missouri Western State University. The concert will be at [...]
The Center for Multicultural Education at Missouri Western State University will offer free “Safe Zone Training” from 3-5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 15 in Murphy Hall, room 201. “Safe Zone Training” is designed to help people become more effective allies for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning and intersex persons. Participants will learn how to be [...]
Pianist Maya Tuylieva will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 10 in the Kemper Recital Hall inside Spratt Hall on the campus of Missouri Western State University. The recital is free and open to the public. Dr. Tuylieva has been described as “a profound artist, capable of commanding the attention of the audience with her [...]
Missouri Western State University will hold a tasting of Spanish “tapas,” or appetizers, at 3 p.m. Thursday, April 10 in Blum Student Union rooms 222-223. The tasting is free and open to the public. Missouri Western Spanish students will prepare authentic Spanish appetizers for people to sample. Participants will learn about the history of tapas [...]
The second annual Conference on Child Abuse Investigation will be held April 16-17 in the Fulkerson Center at Missouri Western State University. A free public presentation by the JAYC Foundation will precede the conference at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 15. The presentation by Dr. Rebecca Bailey and Terry Probyn is titled “Keeping Kids Safe: [...]
The Missouri Western State University Ambassadors will hold their annual Night at the Ritz fundraiser on Friday, April 11. The reception, “Ritz Under the Stars,” will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Remington Hall atrium on the Missouri Western campus. The cost is $35 per person, and reservations must be made by [...]
Gary Panter, groundbreaking graphic novelist and a three-time Emmy Award winner for his art direction and set design on “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse,” will be visiting the Department of Art within the School of Fine Arts at Missouri Western State University April 9-11. There will be a free public event, “A Conversation with Gary Panter,” at 7 [...]
A ceremony dedicating a portion of the Belt Highway in St. Joseph as the “Walter Cronkite Memorial Highway” will take place at 3 p.m. Friday, April 4, at the Walter Cronkite Memorial inside Missouri Western State University’s Spratt Hall atrium. The ceremony is free and open to the public. The late, legendary CBS News Anchor [...]
The Western Institute at Missouri Western State University will accept registration for summer driver’s education classes by mail or in person beginning April 1 and continuing through May 2. The cost is $75 per student for students who meet eligibility requirements. Registration forms are available at www.missouriwestern.edu/drivered. This is the first time registrations have been [...]
Tuition and fees for the vast majority of Missouri Western State University students would not increase in 2014-2015 under a plan approved by the Board of Governors, on the condition that Gov. Jay Nixon’s budget proposal for higher education is approved by the Missouri General Assembly. Gov. Nixon recommended a $36.7 million increase in higher [...]
