April 18, 2017
From young robot builders to neighborhood leaders — since 2002, these groups and more have called the Rockhurst University Community Center home. In 2016 alone, a variety of groups logged more than 1,700 hours at the center, hosting 485 meetings, an in-kind value of $180,495. Over the course of 15 years, the center has provided countless hours of in-kind space...
April 14, 2017
This week, thousands of high school athletes signed letters of intent with colleges and universities, a reward for years of hard work and practice. One special Rockhurst University recruit had a once-in-a-lifetime experience, signing his letter of intent in a draft day ceremony on Friday before a packed news conference in the University’s Convocation Center. Eleven-year-old Tyler Niemeyer from Lee’s...
April 12, 2017
Every day, students in Rockhurst University’s Helzberg School of Management learn from a nationally recognized faculty about the issues that face business owners and organizational leaders. But on Tuesday, students also got a chance to talk directly from those same leaders about the particular issues that have challenged their sense of leadership or ethics and the ways they’ve confronted those...
April 8, 2017
When Rockhurst University’s Voices for Justice student group announced their annual Social Justice Week activities, they also announced how those activities would benefit students halfway around the globe. Throughout the week of events like Karaoke for a Cause and the Fair Trade Fashion Show, the group said they hoped to raise $8,000 that would be matched for a total of...
April 6, 2017
April 4, 2017, marks a century since the United States entered World War I — an anniversary inspiring solemn recognition, historical reevaluation and opportunities for education. Kansas City will be the center of the celebration as the National World War I Museum and Memorial hosts the national commemoration ceremony for the occasion. It’s exactly where Emma Priesendorf, ’16, wants to...
April 5, 2017
Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Sly James, ’80, admitted the uniqueness of the occasion on Tuesday. “This is a rarity,” he said. “I’m a little bit speechless.” James had just become the latest recipient of the Rashford-Lyon Award for Leadership and Ethics from his alma mater during the fifth Rockhurst University Leadership Series luncheon, listening to praise from his colleagues about...
April 4, 2017
A man who set a record spending nearly a year in orbit above the earth told an audience of nearly a thousand at Tuesday’s Rockhurst University Leadership Series luncheon that even getting off the ground once seemed like little more than a dream. Kelly, whose keynote presentation “The Sky is Not the Limit: Leadership Lessons from a Year in Space”...
March 31, 2017
With more than 100 projects boasting everything from rockets to robots, Friday’s KC STEM Fest presented the best of some of Kansas City's young scientists, innovators and tinkerers. The afternoon of student-generated projects showcased the work of the Frontier School of Innovation in Kansas City, which operates four school campuses serving primarily students in economic need with a particular focus...
March 28, 2017
When it comes to preparing for careers, students in the Rockhurst University education department are among the top of the class in the state. That’s based on new data from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Earlier this month, DESE released to the public for the first time its Annual Performance Report for the state’s educator preparation programs,...
