The Quad

Jennie Nielsen, A&S senior and scholarship recipient, with Karen Vorst, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences.

On October 27, 2009, UMKC Chancellor Leo Morton announced receipt of $1,000,000 to endow the need-based Armacost Scholarships for students in any major in the College of Arts & Sciences.

Donors of other scholarships and A&S scholarship recipients were present and heard Jennie Nielsen (A&S senior and scholarship recipient) describe the freedom to be a student that her several scholarships afforded her.

More on A&S Scholarships

• A&S Scholarship Web site
• Osher Scholarship Web site
• A&S Scholarship Application

In 2006-07, A&S awarded 75 scholarships in the amount of $47,000. For 2009-10, 142 scholarships worth $292,000 were awarded.

Deborah Cameron is now available to help A&S students who are confronting non-academic and personal issues that may be impeding their progress at UMKC. Her office is 23 Scofield Hall. Contact Deborah at (816) 235-1446 or via e-mail at Deborah.Cameron@umkc.edu

The A&S Endowment Fund total currently stands at $9.225 million. Of that amount, almost $3 million is for scholarships.

Jennifer Underwood is the first recipient of the new staff award in Arts & Sciences

Jennifer Underwood, a UMKC employee since 1981 and currently Administrative Assistant in Communication Studies, was recently selected from among the many nominations submitted as the recipient of the inaugural (2009) College of Arts & Sciences Staff Member of the Year Award.

The award criteria are that the staffer must be: Respectful, Responsible, Resourceful, Receptive, Responsive, and Reasonable. The selection committee was comprised of two faculty members and three staff members from the College. To read more about Jennifer and the department she so ably serves, go to: http://cas.umkc.edu/comm.

We note with sadness in our hearts but happiness in our memories the passing of James Phillips, (1935-2009), Professor Emeritus of Physics. His obituary can be found at: www.legacy.com/obituaries/kansascity/obituary.aspx?n=james-m-phillips&pid=135830377

In FY 2009, A&S budget funds covered almost $1,600,000 in GTA stipends and $143,000 in GRA stipends. (This does not include stipends covered by external grants.)

• Michael Kruger (Physics) was among the regional finalists for the Outstanding Chapter Advisor Award given by the Student Physics Society.http://cas.umkc.edu/physics/sps/news.html
• Clancy Martin’s (Philosophy) recent novel How to Sell nominated as one of the Best Books of 2009.
  www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704595.html
• William Black (Economics and Law) was interviewed by the New York Times.
  www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/business/11hohlt.html?_r=3&hpw

Syed Hasan received the Geological Society of America Engineering Geology Division’s Meritorious Service Award at the Annual GSA Meeting

Syed Hasan (Geosciences) has been named to the Board of Directors of the Council for Frontiers of Knowledge.

Hasan also received the Geological Society of America Engineering Geology Division’s Meritorious Service Award at the Annual GSA Meeting, Portland, OR, October 2009. http://cas.umkc.edu/geo/pressRelease.html

Fall A&S Enrollment 1999-2009

Fall Enrollment Numbers

Spring A&S Enrollment 2000-2009

Spring Enrollment Numbers

Note: Numbers adjusted to reflect changes in enrollment attributions to schools in 2005-06.

In Fall of 2007, there were 2,504 students with declared majors in A&S. In Fall of 2009, that number is 2,908—an increase of 16.1 percent.

After our “Late Summer” E-zine appeared, we received word of more summer activities worthy of note.

Judy Ancel (Economics)
Awarded the 2009 United Association for Labor Education (UALE) Outstanding Contribution to the
Field of Labor Education award for the Heartland Labor Forum radio program.

http://uale.org/uale-2009-awards#OC
www.heartlandlaborforum.org

Hadara Bar-Nadav (English)
Awarded a full fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center for a four-week residency in poetry, June 2009.

Richard Allman (Art and Art History)
Awarded a two-week residency from the Vermont Studio Center in painting, June 2009.

Read more about the Vermont Center www.vermontstudiocenter.org/about

In FY 2009, A&S budget funds provided $237,000 in fee remissions for graduate students serving as teaching assistants and research assistants. (This total does not include fee remissions made available through the School of Graduate Studies.)