Welcome Home 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckwS1S3tElY&feature=youtu.be For every Bear, everywhere. Mark your calendar, call your favorite BFFs (Bear Friends Forever!) and make plans now to “come home” for Homecoming weekend: Oct. 27-28. Access full list of reunions and events “I believed there needed to be a lifting up of the way we saw … [Read more...]
Beckman and Ortman are special education teachers in the Ozark (Mo.) R-VI School District. They earned their bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Missouri State University and were frequent classmates in the College of Education, quickly bonding over a common interest in special education studies. “We were both like-minded, always wanting to know what the best practices are, … [Read more...]
More than $20 million in grants and contracts received during Fiscal Year 2017 enabled Missouri State University faculty and staff to pursue research, education and service projects. From improving the teaching of English to supporting the Northwest Project and more, faculty and staff addressed the needs of communities, schools and businesses in southwest Missouri and … [Read more...]
Lifetime achievement award Lieutenant General Karen Dyson MSU degree: Bachelor’s in business administration, 1980 You’ve seen Dyson’s name in this magazine before: Just last summer, she was the cover image and profiled in a story about Bears Who Broke Barriers. Dyson is the first female finance officer to achieve the rank of three-star general in the U.S. Army. This … [Read more...]
Imagine you’ve never been to Liechtenstein. You don’t speak the language. You’ve never sampled the food. You aren’t familiar with the culture or the customs. You don’t know anyone who has been there. And you’re moving there, by yourself, as a teen or young adult. Would you be apprehensive? Wouldn’t you want someone to answer your questions, offer expertise or be a … [Read more...]