Lost in the mazes of warehouses and gravel roads of the West Bottoms of Kansas City, the last thing you’d expect to see is a Vietnamese dragon painting, rich with bold red, blue and yellow hues alongside the simple declaration “COFFEE.” If you’ve stumbled across this...

The UMKC Alumni Association is wholly dedicated to providing graduates a connection to campus with the objective of raising money for scholarships, academic funds and the university.  Chris Longly, president of the UMKC Alumni Association Governing Board, offered an...

Eight minutes. If that’s all the time it took to get help, do you know where you’d go? For many students on campus, an action plan to prevent or respond to sexual violence isn’t at the forefront of their minds. If something were to happen, finding the resources necessary...

Logging onto the Zoom call, UMKC sophomore Skyler Boschen switched on her camera to reveal a soft smile, a bright window and, most unexpectedly, a bird perched on her left shoulder. As she stopped the blue parrot, Sky, from nibbling on her earring, Boschen recounted the story...

With a worldwide pandemic in full swing, overdue midterms piling up and exhaustion tugging at  caffeine-addled brains, college students this year had every reason not to make a trek to the polls.   And yet, perhaps those were the perfect reasons for countless...