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,...

Gov. Mike Parson hosted a roundtable at UMKC to bring together Kansas City area leaders earlier this month.  Parson held the event, which took place in Bloch Executive Hall on Feb. 9, to discuss partnerships between the university and the workforce. Most of the nearly...

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...

Note: Due to the rapidly evolving nature of this situation, some facts and figures may fall out of date in a matter of hours to days. How many people are currently infected? As of the time of this article over 162,000 cases have been reported worldwide, with...

https://soundcloud.com/horatio-swavay/roo-report-s2e7 On this week's episode, the Roo Report is joined by UMKC student and ASUM member Brandon Henderson and staff writer, Caleb Wilson. Brandon recently wrote an op-ed for the University Newspaper about his frustrations with...