The Institute for Urban Education (IUE) is an urban teacher preparation and scholarship program at UMKC that helps students serve Kansas City’s historically underserved public schools.   Through an effective cohort model, field experience and post-graduate mentorship,...

Law students at UMKC are not just passing their exams—they’re setting new records and raising the bar for academic excellence. Nearly 90.6% of law students passed the bar exam for the first time in 2024, a number 9% higher than last year and 5% higher than the average...

   The average blood donor is between the ages of 50 and 60. The Community Blood Center of Kansas City wants to change that.    In an ongoing effort to encourage more young people to donate blood, the UMKC Honors Program aims to host a campus blood drive at least twice...

 The new Uplift Resource Drive in the Bloch School wants to provide resources to the unhoused population of KC, and Alice Oropeza is ready to take action.    Community members will be able to donate items until Nov. 21 and the supplies, such as hygiene items, will go directly...

  17 UMKC BSN students and one PhD nursing student attended an immersive disaster exercise called the Missouri Hope program that prepares participants for emergency disaster situations.    In this three-day experience students are trained to treat and transport patients...