January 23, 2017
Rockhurst University has announced the dean’s list for the fall 2016 semester. This honor recognizes students who have achieved a GPA of 3.5 or above. The following students earned a place on the list: Morgan Abegg Caroline Adams Nicole Adams Zerina Adrovic Justin Ahlheim Rebecca Ahlheim Amber Akin Cesar Aldana Emily Allen Jordyn Altenburg Christiana Alvey Joseph Alvey Erica Amensen...
January 17, 2017
Rockhurst University has appointed Mary Mooney Burns vice president for university advancement. In this position, she will serve as a member of the University’s senior leadership team and oversee all aspects of fundraising, alumni and constituent relations, public relations and marketing. Burns joined the University in 2013 as senior director of University engagement and has served as interim vice president...
January 16, 2017
On an already rainy day, an auditorium of more than 100 student, faculty, staff and community volunteers at Rockhurst University were told to wade deeper. That was the challenge to those who spent the afternoon of their day off working with organizations and people throughout the city as part of the University’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day observation —...
January 8, 2017
At the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance’s annual Alliance Management Institute in Denver, Colorado, last week, Rockhurst received the Campus Program Excellence Award, a national recognition of the growing reputation of the program from peers in the nonprofit sector. Jenny Rinella, Ed.D., assistant professor and director of the nonprofit leadership studies program in the University’s Helzberg School of Management, was there to...
January 6, 2017
The Rockhurst University community is mourning the death of the Rev. Wilfred LaCroix, S.J., a longtime University professor of philosophy, on Dec. 22, 2016, in St. Louis, Missouri. At the time of his death, Fr. LaCroix was 83 years old. He had been a Jesuit for 57 years and a priest for 47. A native of Kansas City, Missouri, Fr...
December 23, 2016
The old saying goes that it’s better to give than to receive, and this Christmas season a number of Rockhurst University community members have taken that advice to heart, spending the days before the holiday break working to make the season a little brighter for those in need. In addition to faculty and staff who took up their own collections...
December 13, 2016
Exactly one month after the 2016 elections, six students from Rockhurst University joined hundreds of political junkies, policy wonks and observers to try to find out, firsthand, just what happened. Led by Charles Moran, Ph.D., professor of political science, and Thomas Ringenberg, Ph.D., assistant professor of political science, the students traveled to Lawrence, Kansas, where the Dole Institute of Politics...
November 30, 2016
On Thursday, the Rockhurst University men’s soccer team will take to Children’s Mercy Victory Field at Kansas City’s Swope Park Soccer Village in the semifinals of the NCAA Division II tournament against the Golden Eagles of West Virginia’s University of Charleston. It will be the Hawks’ third semifinal appearance in four years. Set to play with the next best thing...
November 29, 2016
Again this November, students from Rockhurst University joined their peers and colleagues from Jesuit institutions across the United States and the globe for two days of solidarity during the annual Ignatian Family Teach-in for Justice. Originally motivated by violence in El Salvador throughout the 1980s and staged at the School of the Americas in Georgia, the Teach-in has since moved...