The Griffon News

A proposal to re-organize Western’s Student Affairs was approved and is currently underway.
The proposed Student Affairs Organizational Chart filters from the single presiding Dean of Student Affairs and then moves to three new positions: Associate Dean of Student Development; Assistant Dean for Residential Life and Services; and the Assistant Dean of Student Services and Recreation.
Judy [...]

Missouri Western State University is making the investments necessary to establish a long term commitment to offering classes off Downs Drive. here are two locations where students can take credit and non-credit courses. One is the downtown St. Joseph campus at 6 and Robidoux streets that some may already know about, but, many students don’t [...]

 As was the case with last semester, there has been a significant increase in Missouri Western housing numbers for the spring semester of 2008.
Approximately 100 more students than last spring reside on Western’s campus.
According to Michael Speros, director of residential life, very few students move off campus from fall to spring.
“99 percent of residents usually [...]

 During the course of the last two semesters, many of Western’s top administrators and high-ranking academic positions have resigned. This is due, in part, to the naming of a new president, and to the fact that high turnover is a somewhat common practice at institutions of higher education.
 The president’s position has been filled by Robert [...]

  The MWSU business department is seeking prestigious accreditation despite higher salary costs, recent departures, open faculty positions and failed faculty searches.  The department is hoping to get accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).  If attained, Western would join the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, University of Missouri and Truman State [...]

  Since President Lyndon B. Johnsonís administration the Music Professor and Chair Matt Gilmore has worked diligently to get tenure and promotions and worked his way to the top of the heap, only to be topped by a newly hired professor with full tenure and a $5,000 higher salary than his.      In the last two years [...]

 While some schools have raised tuition for business and engineering students to offset higher salaries, that option is not one for Western according to some administrators.  According to a New York Times article the business school at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, last fall, started charging junior and seniors an additional $500 more tuition than underclassmen.  Iowa [...]