First Gen Roos and UMKC’s Alpha Alpha Alpha fraternity gave back Wednesday, Feb. 28 by making over 400 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to hand out to Kansas City’s unhoused population.    This generous give-back took place in the First Gen Den in Atterbury Student...

  ACT and GPA requirements will change in fall 2023 for first-time college students attending UMKC. Scholarships will be determined by either ACT or GPA, instead of both, for future students to receive automatic scholarships.   The scholarship changes will be renewable...

“If I’m being honest, I started crying telling them. I was so excited, but I was also really confused. How did I get a scholarship that basically covers everything?”    These were junior Madison Atkins’s thoughts as she told her family she received the Roo...

UMKC’s Financial Aid Department held an advisor event late last month to educate current college students on how to earn more scholarships.  Led by UMKC Financial Aid & Scholarships Director Scott Young, the hour-long seminar covered the basic information the department...

The Henry W. Bloch School of Management has teamed up with the Greater Kansas City Hispanic Development Fund (HDFKC) to form a new scholarship program aimed at incoming Hispanic students. Offering a potential total of $10,000 per student, the new program has been created to...