The Board of Governors at Missouri Western State University has approved a new three-year contract for Dr. Robert Vartabedian, Missouri Western’s president. The new contract runs through June 30, 2019, replacing a five-year contract that was set to expire in 2018. “The board is very happy with Dr. Vartabedian’s performance,” said Brig. Gen. Gregory Mason, [...]
Dr. Robert A. Vartabedian The Missouri Western State University Board of Governors has approved a five-year contract extension with Dr. Robert Vartabedian, Missouri Western’s president, from July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2018. “The board is very happy with President Vartabedian’s performance,” said Kylee Strough, chair of the Board of Governors. “Despite many [...]
President Vartabedian visits the Central High School library to announce a gift of more than $470,000 from the estate of a Kansas couple. The gift from Earl and Susie Euler will fund scholarships for CHS graduates to attend Missouri Western. The Missouri Western State University Foundation has received a gift of $474,000 from [...]
Truffles and Max celebrate the expanded partnership between Missouri Western and Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. A program that has helped nine Missouri Western State University graduates become business owners over the last four years is about to get much bigger. Missouri Western and Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory Inc. today announced an expansion of [...]
Gov. Jay Nixon today announced that Missouri Western State University, the St. Joseph Metro Chamber and several other education and business partners have been awarded a grant of $1 million to establish an Innovation Campus, which will help employees and potential employees in high demand business and industries complete post-secondary degrees and better contribute to [...]
The Missouri Western State University Board of Governors has adopted an operating budget of nearly $48.5 million for fiscal year 2013, which begins July 1, virtually unchanged from the $48.3 million budget approved last year. The operating budget includes estimated revenue from tuition and fees of nearly $27 million, about the same as the current [...]
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon today signed an appropriation bill for higher education that increases the state funding available to Missouri Western State University by about $250,000. “The governor’s original proposed budget called for a 12.5 percent reduction to higher education, so this is a very positive outcome,” said Dr. Robert Vartabedian, Missouri Western’s president. “It [...]
Mel Klinkner, vice president for financial planning and administration at Missouri Western State University, has accepted the position of vice chancellor for finance and administration at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Klinkner’s resignation from Missouri Western is effective Aug. 3. “Mel has done an excellent job for us in his role as vice president for financial [...]
Missouri Western State University’s operating funds per student, when adjusted for inflation, have declined by up to 18 percent in the last four years, according to a report from a nationally recognized financial consultant. “Some key functions of the university have been fiscally starved and need to be addressed, including filling some critical vacant positions, [...]
Dr. Susie Hennessy, professor of French and foreign language coordinator at Missouri Western State University, was decorated as a Chevalier (knight) of the French “Ordre des Palmes Académiques,” or Order of Academic Palms, during a ceremony at the university. Dr. Hennessy was presented with the order’s insignia, a medallion on a ribbon, by [...]
