A former U.S. Ambassador to Portugal will present a lecture titled “The Disintegration of Civil Discourse in American Politics” at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14 in Missouri Western State University’s Blum Student Union Hoff Conference Rooms, 218-219. The talk is the second of the 2013-2014 Peace and Conflict Studies Speaker Series, sponsored by the Peace [...]
The Department of Art and the School of Fine Arts at Missouri Western State University will hold its first Juried Student Art Show Nov. 13 to Dec. 4 in the Potter Gallery on the Missouri Western campus. The show is free and open to the public. There will be an opening reception from 4 to [...]
Corky Marquart ’84, chair of the MWSU Foundation Board of Directors, will reign as Queen of the 2013 Lights and Tights Renaissance Feast. Join Missouri Western State University on Thursday, November 14th as we visit La Mancha, Spain, circa 1605 for the 5th Annual Lights and Tights Renaissance Feast. Corky Marquart, as chair [...]
Bob Long leads the Jazz Ensemble during a recent rehearsal. The Jazz Program in the Department of Music at Missouri Western State University will present its Fall Jazz Concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12, in the Potter Hall Theater. The concert will feature performances by the Jazz Lab Band, Vocal Jazz, and [...]
Ryan Lombard is one of the featured student composers. The School of Fine Arts and the Department of Music at Missouri Western State University present the Missouri Western Composers Concert at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10 in Spratt Hall’s Kemper Recital Hall. The concert is free and open to the public. The Composers [...]
Missouri Western State University will host a reception and watch party for the broadcast premiere of “One PM Central Time,” a new documentary about the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the coverage of that day by Walter Cronkite and his team at CBS News. The reception will begin at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13 [...]
Kathy Cronkite, daughter of Walter and Betsy Cronkite, talks in front of an interactive timeline showing the highlights of her famous father’s life. Missouri Western State University dedicated an interactive memorial to one of the most important journalists of the 20th century and St. Joseph’s most famous native son, Walter Cronkite, on Monday, [...]
The Nontraditional and Commuter Student Center and the Division of Student Affairs at Missouri Western State University is holding a special event called “Heroes Among Us” to honor students, faculty and staff who are military veterans. The keynote speaker will be Timothy Hornik, a retired veteran who was blinded by a sniper’s gunshot wound while [...]
The Center for Multicultural Education and the Division of Student Affairs at Missouri Western State University will host the Tunnel of Oppression, an interactive event that highlights contemporary issues of oppression, Nov. 5, 6, 7 and 8. The event will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day in the Blum Student Union, [...]
Missouri Western State University has renewed its food service contract with Aramark Educational Services LLC for three years, through May 24, 2017. Missouri Western’s Board of Governors approved the contract renewal in a telephone poll Oct. 30. Aramark operates Missouri Western’s Dining Hall and Food Court in the Blum Student Union, the Deli in Popplewell [...]
