The MWSU Alumni Board welcomes two new members Jake Cunning 鈥�16 Jake Cunning 鈥�16 is a human capital senior consultant for Deloitte Consulting in Atlanta. Supporting clients within the consumer and life sciences industries, he works closely to develop strategies to assess, manage and activate organizational [...]
As Missouri鈥檚 official Applied Learning University, Missouri Western ensures that students graduate with hands-on experience that will benefit them within their career field. Students majoring in Strategic Communication gain this hands-on experience in a course divided into two semesters: COM 415 Public Relations Campaigns and COM 444 Public Relations Practices. [...]
Dr. Teddi Deka, honors director and professor of psychology; Dr. Jennifer Jackson, assistant professor of communication; and Dr. Jordan Atkinson, assistant professor of communication, presented 鈥淏uilding a Better Brand,鈥� designed to facilitate creation of branding kits for use in honors programs to increase consistency in appearance and message, at the [...]
Zo毛 Jones was named the 2020 Missouri Western Student Employee of the Year and Student Employee of the Year for the State of Missouri. She served as editor-in-chief of the Griffon News student newspaper. The National Student Employment Association, in conjunction with the Midwest Association of Student Employment Administrators, coordinates [...]
Missouri Western鈥檚 spring break 2020 began on March 9 before the COVID-19 pandemic halted activities and travel, and several student groups and faculty members were able to enjoy educational and/or service opportunities. Glade Restoration Thirteen students and two biology faculty members, Dr. Cary Chevalier and Dr. Mark Mills, traveled 300 [...]
Professor and students create 鈥淥ld St. Jo鈥� Toby Lawrence, assistant professor of cinema, and his cinema students are creating an ongoing episodic documentary series about the history of St. Joseph called 鈥淥ld St. Jo.鈥� They aired the first episode last fall: 听鈥淭he Fur Years - 1799-1843.鈥� It can be viewed [...]
When LaTonya Williams 鈥�03 was a student, her email signature was LaTonya 鈥淚鈥檒l sleep when I graduate鈥� Williams. But even though several years have passed since she graduated, she still doesn鈥檛 seem to have gotten the 鈥測ou can sleep now鈥� memo. Williams, who graduated with a journalism and public relations [...]
Lauren Prywitch 鈥�14 always knew she wanted to work in television on one of the coasts. Her path to get there may have been 鈥渒inda crazy,鈥� she says, involving several internships, radio station sales and Boston Red Sox Radio, but she made it. 鈥淚 knew I wanted to do what [...]
Several students traveled abroad after the spring 2018 semester ended in May. Dr. Caroline Whiteman, assistant professor of French, led a group of five French students to Quebec, Canada. They took part in an intensive program through the University of Montreal and also toured Old Quebec. Eighteen nursing and physical [...]
