The Alumni Association at Missouri Western State University will honor eight individuals at the 34th annual Alumni Awards Banquet at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14 in the Fulkerson Center. Award recipients include: Distinguished Alumni Award The Distinguished Alumni Award was created by the Alumni Association Board of Directors in 1983 to recognize alumni of the [...]
Missouri Western State University’s 23rd annual R. Dan Boulware Convocation on Critical Issues will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13 in the Looney Complex arena. The featured speaker is Cokie Roberts, renowned journalist and political analyst. Her topic is “Insider’s View of the 2016 Presidential Election.” The event is free and open to [...]
At a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Aug. 30, Missouri Western State University celebrated the past and the future of the Thomas Eagleton Indoor Pool in the Looney Complex on campus. The pool has undergone approximately $600,000 in renovations this summer, including renovation of the entire pool shell interior and pool deck, the addition of a new [...]
Members of the Class of 2020 pose for a group photo during Griffon Edge 2016. The freshman class starting the fall semester at Missouri Western State University is almost four percent larger than the class from a year ago. “An increased freshman class is a very encouraging sign for our enrollment going forward,” [...]
Missouri Western State University will celebrate the grand opening of the new Craig Field at Spratt Memorial Stadium and the completion of Victory Plaza with a St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce Ribbon-Cutting ceremony at noon on Wednesday, Aug. 31. The ceremony is free and open to the public. It will be held at Victory Plaza, [...]
The Missouri Western State University Ambassadors recently awarded more than $16,000 in scholarships for the 2016-2017 academic year. Receiving the First Ladies Legacy Scholarship is Kimberly Chilton, senior nursing major from Stewartsville, Missouri. The First Ladies Legacy Scholarship was created by Drs. Robert and Laurel Vartabedian in memory of Dorsey Looney, whose husband Dr. M.O. [...]
Joslyn Spears '16 is the first recipient of the First Ladies' Legacy Scholarship. Joslyn Spears, a 2016 graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Kansas City, Missouri, is the first recipient of Missouri Western State University’s First Ladies' Legacy Scholarship. “As I complete my bachelor’s degree in nursing, I am very [...]
Tuition for most Missouri Western State University students will remain unchanged for the 2016-2017 school year. The Board of Governors set in-state undergraduate tuition on the St. Joseph campus at $197.79 per credit hour, unchanged from last year. Out-of-state and graduate students and those taking classes at the Kansas City Northland campus or Penn Valley [...]
President Robert Vartabedian (center) congratulates Wade Wetlaufer (left) and Tom Richmond on their awards. The Missouri Western State University Engineering Technology Advancement Committee presented awards to a student and a community leader at their annual banquet Monday, April 4. Brenten Davis, a senior manufacturing engineering technology major from St. Joseph, Missouri, was presented [...]
Dr. Steven Ericson The use of geography and mapping to study and solve crime will be the focus of the next talk in the Interdisciplinary Nature of Geography Speaker Series at Missouri Western State University. Dr. Steven Ericson, lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Alabama, will speak on “Theoretical [...]
