Spring Break
Missouri Gov. Bob Holden recently approved the release of $1.7 million in funding for a new Health Sciences Building on the UMKC Hospital Hill campus. This move finalized the state's 2001 decision to grant UMKC the money and will allow University officials to continue the process of project planning, developing design concepts and fundraising.
As budget cuts continue to weigh heavily upon the University, administrators and students are finding ways to make the best of the situation. Through visits with politicians, panel discussions from the Council of Public Higher Education, and encouraging letters to the curators and potential officeholders of the dangers wrought by further budget cuts, the University is hoping to raise awareness of the plight of higher education.
A writing tutor discusses the fine points of MLA punctuation over the phone with a local secretary. A student drops by and makes an appointment for help on an upcoming paper. Later, other students will come in for one-on-one tutoring sessions to prepare for the WEPT.
Job Fair provides opportunity for deadbeat students to 'get off their duff' Scheduling job interviews, answering want ads and networking can be a real drag when you're still in college. Which is why Career Services is making it possible for students to present their credentials to 60 of the top employers in Kansas City in a matter of minutes.
Blackboards and textbooks are objects traditionally associated with education, but the Kansas City Association of Black Journalists (KCABJ) gets minority high school and college students out of the classroom and into the "real world" of journalism. The KCABJ Urban Journalism Workshop conducted in June allowed students the chance to see someone that looks like them and that share the same interests.
Twelve students enrolled in Professor of Geology Iqbal Hasan's "Introduction to Waste Management" class traveled to the Deffenbaugh Industries site in Shawnee, Kan. last Wednesday afternoon to learn the fundamentals of a sanitary landfill. What they found was a highly complex system of waste containment, protection of surface and ground water resources, and proper management of leachate and landfill gases.
Phillip Kitcher speaks with students and faculty after last Friday's lecture titled "The Ideas of the University." Philip Kitcher, a professor of philosophy at Columbia University in New York spoke primarily about the nature and role of the university in a democratic society.
The Heartland Renewable Energy Society hopes to demonstrate the values of renewable energy at its third annual energy fair and tour this coming Saturday, Oct. 5. Darla Duggan of the Kansas City Clean Air Coalition, a coordinator for the event and an environmental activist, said the fair and tour are part of a national effort sponsored by the Heartland Renewable Energy Society.
The Center for the City and KC Consensus will announce next week the results of a survey on public policy issues sent to 5,000 area residents by a UMKC class. The survey is the result of a partnership between Consensus and the Center for the City, which funded the project.
Despite the noise of the talent show in Pierson Auditorium, the Student Government Association (SGA) Senate met last Wednesday, using the chance to utilize their newly developed Constitutions Committee. Through the course of this one-hour-and-twenty-minute meeting, superior court justices were selected and Senate President Pro-Temp Geoff Gerling was reelected.
