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Large Blue sign stating UMKC - University of Missouri Kansas City, surrounded by trees and snows at the front of the UMKC Volker Campus

The end of snow days: Student and faculty reactions to a winter of online learning

Simone Folsom
March 26, 2021

UMKC experienced its first round of weather-based campus closures for the year last month. While the campus was closed, classes were not. Instead, UMKC announced for three consecutive days that students and faculty would continue with remote working and learning as per normal.  Such...

UMKC student chancellor C. Mauli Agrawal posing in the volker campus student union.

UMKC students voice mixed opinions on shift to online-only classes

Kate Beilsmith
November 30, 2020

UMKC Chancellor Mauli Agrawal announced on Nov. 18 that most of the remaining in-person classes will move online for the rest of the semester. Clinicals, labs, and experiential classes will remain in-person, but all lecture-based courses will be taught virtually.  Not...

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