RecycleMania, an annual tournament promoting waste reduction in campus communities, released its 2013 competition results and ranked UMKC as the Grand Champion school out of 523 participating colleges and universities in the nation. UMKC recycled 86% of its overall waste products during the 8-week competition. In addition, UMKC reduced 360 metric tons of CO2 from [...]
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 [...]
The Strategic Plan is a comprehensive plan of action for the future of UMKC as a university. In 2008, the Strategic Planning process began with a steering committee and sub-committees reviewing studies and reports about UMKC and identifying core goals of our University based on our vision and mission. These goals include: Placing student success [...]
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 [...]
The University of Missouri-Kansas City will open a new center this fall to help students who arrive without a major decide what to study and reduce their dropout rate. About 350 students come to the Kansas City campus every year without a major, and nearly four out of five of them don’t graduate. UMKC’s overall [...]
This week the Life-Health Sciences Advisory Council released the consultant report in regard to UMKC’s research and economic development. The external review was conducted by Dr. Shangraw, Jr. of Arizona State University and Dr. Marchase of The University of Alabama at Birmingham who visited UMKC on November 7, 2011. In the consultant report released this [...]
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 [...]
The UMKC Foundation announced a $1,000,000 estate gift from Jo Anna Dale in support of scholarship endowments for the College of Arts and Sciences Department of English and the Conservatory of Music and Dance. The gift will provide a $500,000 endowment for the English Department, and a $500,000 endowment for the Conservatory for scholarships. Dale hopes that [...]
Given that the semester in winding down, we thought it would be suitable to highlight some of our major accomplishments this semester: The School of Pharmacy received a national student community service award Kevin McCluskey was elected to the World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC) Executive Board The School of Medicine was awarded $3.8 million [...]
