Because of COVID-19, it was a spring semester like no other. This is the story of how it unfolded at Missouri Western. Although a case was first reported in China in December 2019, it wasn’t until early January when the first cases were being confirmed in the United States and [...]
When Candy Whirley ’97 was 30 years old, married and a mother of two, she was managing a restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri when a local corporation asked her to teach a customer service class to their employees. “After I gave them the ‘how-to speech,’ I realized that that was [...]
Ken Rosenauer ’74 and Brent Rosenauer ’17 purchased the Savannah Reporter newspaper in January 2020. Ken taught journalism at Missouri Western for 34 years and retired in 2013. He was named professor emeritus of English. Clifford Hawk ’77 was awarded faculty emeritus status at Highland Community College in Highland, Kansas. [...]
Alumni Center There’s a new space on campus for alumni – the Alumni Center in Spratt Hall 105. This past spring, staff in the Alumni and Development offices moved from Spratt 106 and 110 to Spratt 105, the former home of the Western Institute. As part of the move, a [...]
In 2014, Dr. Jennifer Hegeman, professor of mathematics and chair of the Department of Computer Science, Math and Physics; was selected for a state task force to create college-level mathematics courses that could serve as alternatives to College Algebra and be more aligned with student majors. The result of the [...]
For the second time in as many years, Dr. Adrienne Johnson was selected for an assignment through the U.S. Department of State’s English Language Specialist program. Dr. Johnson, chair of the Department of Education and coordinator of the graduate-level TESOL program, travelled to Egypt in 2018 and to Taiwan in [...]
The Human Rights Commission (HRC) in St. Joseph, Missouri was formed in the fall of 2018, but as time passed, members realized that a lot of people in the community were not aware of their existence or their mission. A class at Missouri Western is hoping to change that. In [...]
Dr. Elizabeth Kennedy was named vice provost last fall. She had been the dean of the College of Applied Science and Technology and interim dean of the College of Health Professions at the University of Akron. In her role at Missouri Western, Dr. Kennedy will focus on a number of [...]
In the spring of 2019, Thomas Brecheisen, assistant professor of cinema, created the Griffon Production House, a group of budding cinematographers who just want to make films. Brecheisen started the group when he realized that the theatre productions in the Department of Theatre, Cinema and Dance were not being recorded, [...]
