Rockhurst University has received the NCAA Presidents’ Award for Academic Excellence for achieving four-year Academic Success Rates of 90 percent or higher among its student-athletes for the 11th consecutive year.
Forty-three Division II member schools are recipients of the Presidents’ Award for Academic Excellence. Rockhurst is one of 10 schools to have earned the recognition every year since the award was started in 2011.
Positive male role models have shaped the life of Rockhurst Master's of Education (M.Ed.) student Donnell Fletcher from a young age, and now the Raytown, Missouri, teacher is doing the same for future generations.
Before he started leading students at Raytown Middle School, Fletcher learned life lessons from influential figures in his family and through high school sports.
°Ä¿Í×ãÇò and Keypath Education will launch four new online and hybrid degree programs, including two online graduate programs, one online graduate certificate program and one hybrid undergraduate degree designed to further °Ä¿Í×ãÇò’s goal to become a regional leader in healthcare education and to help fill the need for skilled, compassionate healthcare providers.
The new programs scheduled to launch in August 2022 are:
It’s been a while since °Ä¿Í×ãÇò last hosted a December commencement ceremony in person, on campus.
Rockhurst prides itself in providing learning opportunities beyond the classroom, but now it can add Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, to the list of its educational environments.
This fall, six Rockhurst Honors Student Association E-Board members attended the National Collegiate Honors Council’s 54th Annual Conference after having to miss last year due to its COVID-19 cancellation. °Ä¿Í×ãÇò Honors Program Director Maureen Walsh accompanied the group to the site of this year’s event, Disney World.
°Ä¿Í×ãÇò students working out in The MAC (Magis Activity Center) will regularly see individuals in yellow shirts asking if they’d like assistance. They’re not doctors, but they help students get a healthy dose of medicine.
It’s the fulfillment of a dream that began close to 70 years ago.
In 1954, °Ä¿Í×ãÇò students offered to raise funds for a statue of Mary on campus and an accompanying grotto for prayer. The statue was funded and Mary was placed on a stone cruciform for the time being, but the rest of the project proved difficult to fund.
°Ä¿Í×ãÇò will honor Alvin Brooks, longtime Kansas City leader in social justice and civil rights, with the establishment of the Alvin Brooks Center for Faith-Justice on campus. The center will house many of the university’s faith-justice related efforts, including a chapel, mission and ministry programs, and diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Work has begun to raise funds for the center and to identify a location and construction and design partners.
A new pilot program at Saint Luke’s College of Nursing and Health Sciences is opening career doors as early as high school for some future Kansas City healthcare heroes.
The work Rockhurst students do in the classroom often doesn’t stay in the classroom, and instead makes a true impact in the real world.
A Rockhurst completed a capstone project that led Pediatric Associates Kansas City to open a new clinic in Overland Park.
Mike Paar, Dr. Saba Siddiqi, Matt Seifert, Nick Timmons, Amin Wakas, Alexander Wegener and Brian White were all part of a Rockhurst team that helped determine if there was enough demand for a new PA medical clinic – and if so, where?
