Henrietta Rix Wood has been named Coordinator of Writing Assessment, a dual appointment position with her promotion to Assistant Teaching Professor of English. She will be working closelywith Assistant Vice Provost for Assessment Nathan Lindsay to design and implement the RooWriter writing assessment that will be introduced in August 2013 and will replace the Written English [...]
For the past 26 years, The University of Missouri/South Africa Education Program (UMSAEP) has made possible a remarkable array of academic relationships between the four UM campuses and the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa. One such partnership is the Western Cape Linkage Program, which provides UM faculty members with an opportunity [...]
Brenda Bethman, director of the UMKC Women’s Center and the Women’s & Gender Studies Program, and Affiliated Faculty in German in the Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures, has been awarded a Fulbright Grant to attend the 2013 Baden-Württemberg Seminar for American Faculty in German and German Studies. The award covers costs of seminar fees, travel, and room [...]
The University of Missouri system launched the TE Atkins UM Wellness Program between 2004 – 2006. The program has introduced initiatives addressing exercise, weight management, stress, and smoking in the past 9 years. These programs are geared toward promoting health for UMKC and other UM system employees. There are several classes and programs available for [...]
MuMu, the local chapter of the criminal justice honor society Alpha Phi Sigma has partnered with the Child Abuse Prevention Association (CAPA) to bring attention to the issue of child abuse. Nationally, more than 2 million reports of abuse and neglect are made each year, and more than 1,500 children die from their injuries. Missouri [...]
Celebrating Excellence,” the annual Faculty and Staff Awards Ceremony, is scheduled for April 9 at 2 p.m. in Room 401 of the Student Union. The award program is a tradition that recognizes the exceptional achievements of UMKC faculty and staff. The list of award recipients can be accessed here. All faculty and staff are welcome [...]
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 [...]
Undergraduate Faculty, UMKC is moving forward with several initiatives designed to improve the experience of our undergraduates. These include: UMKC University-wide General Education program for Fall 2013 in-coming freshmen, Student-progress tracking based on UMKC Major Maps and required updates by each program, and Electronic advising documentation and online appointment scheduling for office hours and advising. [...]
The European Space Agency has chosen Mark Brodwin, UMKC assistant professor of physics and astronomy, as one of the NASA-nominated science team members to participate in its Euclid telescope mission. The goal of the Euclid mission is to understand the nature of dark energy and dark matter through measurement of the expansion of the universe. [...]
