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UMKC Hosts Listening Sessions For Upcoming Oak Street Development Plan

UMKC Hosts Listening Sessions For Upcoming Oak Street Development Plan

Cristian Martinez, Sports Editor
June 28, 2023

Throughout the presentations and questions, UMKC’s Vice Chancellor of Finance and Administration Sean Reeder used one phrase to describe the Oak Street and 51st Street development project.    “A gateway to the campus,” Reeder said.    On June 27, members from...

UMKC’s famous Epperson House is facing an uncertain future.

The future of Epperson House

Emma Slump
December 1, 2021

The Epperson House is running low on hope. The once beautiful, lively and allegedly haunted mansion now sits desolate in disrepair atop the hill at the corner of 52nd and Cherry streets. “I fear for the future of Epperson House, I really do,” said Chris Wolff, UMKC’s...

Row of windows down a hallway with sticky notes on the windows. One sticky note says plainly, you deserve to feel safe

RISE: Accessing campus resources for education, prevention and support

Anna Ryan
February 9, 2021

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...

Oak Place demolished, legal battle over its “reckless” construction far from finished

Oak Place demolished, legal battle over its “reckless” construction far from finished

Henry Gamber
August 28, 2020

UMKC began the demolition of Oak Place Apartments on July 7. The apartment building, which sits on the western edge of the Volker Campus, has been a problem child for the university since 2017, and the problems with the building are far from over.  Oak Place Apartments...

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