All are encouraged to celebrate the Faculty and Staff Campaign with a day of campus service. Faculty and staff volunteers at both Volker and Hospital Hill campuses will have the opportunity to engage in landscaping, painting, general cleanup, and other projects. Units with high percentages of their employees contributing to the Faculty and Staff Campaign [...]
Mark your calendars! UMKC’s Conservatory of Music and dance is hosting their annual celebration and benefit event at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in November. Crescendo 2012 will feature 250 students and faculty performing various songs and dance numbers ranging from jazz to classics. This event is an annual celebration designed to support [...]
The UMKC Foundation has been leading a university capital campaign to raise $250 million by 2016 to fund campus projects such as the new Bloch Building, Miller Nichols Library renovations, scholarships, and faculty endowments. The Foundation has raised just over $125 million in the past three years, surpassing the halfway mark to its goal. In [...]
Thanks to a $32 million donation from Henry W. Bloch, the Bloch School of Management is abuzz this holiday season with the anticipated 50,000 square foot addition that will be located just north of the existing building. UMKC is teaming up with BNIM Architects and JE Dunn Construction Co. with a goal of groundbreaking the new [...]
We are excited about the official launch of the $250 million Capital Campaign. By working toward empowering students to achieve, attracting and retaining outstanding faculty, and creating facilities that enhance learning in our students, we are following our vision to become a model urban research university. The Star’s November 8, 2011 editorial says UMKC is [...]
Dr. Ron MacQuarrie, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Dean of Graduate Studies will be retiring on April 7, 2011 after 37 years of service at UMKC. In 1973, MacQuarrie began his tenure as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry where he taught and implemented research. In 1995 he accepted the position as [...]
Mel Tyler, UMKC Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, was diagnosed with stage 3 multiple myeloma in April 2009, and wants to increase awareness about the need for bone marrow donors. His physicians have indicated he will likely need a donor stem cell transplant in the future and at the present time there [...]
