Centennial Capital Campaign update As the Centennial Capital Campaign moves forward in its second year, excitement is in the air. Spratt Memorial Stadium is nearing completion, resulting in an outstanding stadium building, Stadium Club and concourse; and the largest video scoreboard in Division II. Jerry Pickman ’85, executive director of [...]
Justin Myers in his new store, Heartland Paint. CSB Entrepreneur Buys Local Business With the assistance of the Craig School of Business’s Center for Entrepreneurship at Missouri Western, Justin Myers ’14, became an entrepreneur, at the same time ensuring that a longtime local business will remain open. Myers [...]
On a warm, sunny day last October, hundreds of high school students filled hallways and classrooms in Potter Hall for the annual Department of Art’s Visual Art Day. For the fourth year in a row, more than 900 students from throughout the region spent the day on campus, exhibiting their [...]
Campaign close to initial celebration goal As the end of the first year of Missouri Western’s Centennial Capital Campaign approached, the University was very close to its initial celebration goal of $20 million. At press time, the Missouri Western State University Foundation was still optimistic that this goal would likely [...]
Nine years after Missouri Western’s first graduate classes began with two master’s degree programs, one graduate certificate program and an enrollment of 41, the Graduate School continues to grow in both enrollment and offerings. This past fall, enrollment was 219 with 16 master’s programs and five graduate certificate programs. When [...]
Two years ago, Dr. Bob Bergland, professor of journalism, decided to take up biking so he could compete in triathlons. He had run track and cross country in high school and college, even running in four marathons while in graduate school, and had often swum when he had a running [...]
Every year but one for the past 13, Dr. Maureen Raffensperger, director of the physical therapist assistant (PTA) program, has traveling half a world away to utilize her physical therapy skills and quietly make a difference in India. After finding out about Good Shepherd Hospital in Puttur, Andhra Pradesh through [...]
At first glance, Missouri Western’s centennial theme, “100 Years of Transforming Lives,” seems to refer to how the University has transformed students’ lives. But on the other side of the commencement stage, more than 28,000 alumni have earned degrees from the St. Joseph Junior College and Missouri Western, and have [...]
In 1915, an opportunity for higher education for St. Joseph citizens became available when the predecessor to Missouri Western State University, St. Joseph Junior College, opened its doors. That same year, St. Joseph, Missouri could boast of having two hospitals, St. Joseph’s Hospital on 10th Street, and Noyes Hospital, which [...]
