For its 2017 season, Tent Theatre will present “She Loves Me,” “The Three Musketeers” and “Nice Work If You Can Get It.”
Winston McDonald Haythe has worked for elite law firms, the Atomic Energy Commission, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency and more.
They’re first in their families to attend college.
Statistically, they’re less likely to graduate.
Anecdotally, they want their university to take into account the differences between them and other students.
We’ve heard them. We’re taking an active role, led by many staff and faculty members who are themselves alumni, former first-generation students — or both.
When you enter the office of Calvin Avery, ’81, Missouri State’s distance learning engineer supervisor, you’ll see coffee mugs lining his desk. Each one displays the logo of a station with which Avery has worked — CNN, Fox News, NBC and Warner Brothers, to name a few.
By the time you read this story, Julia Taylor won’t be in her hometown of Ozark, Missouri. She won’t even be on the same continent.