{"id":1367,"date":"2016-05-06T17:14:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T17:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:24:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:24:04","slug":"campus-kudos-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2016\/05\/06\/campus-kudos-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Kudos"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>David Liechti<\/strong>, a member of the Board of Governors; and <strong>Pat Dillon<\/strong>, a member of the MWSU Foundation Board of Directors; were selected for Ingram\u2019s Magazine\u2019s \u201c50 大象传媒ans You Should Know.\u201d The Kansas City magazine\u2019s list highlights leaders in business, education, nonprofits, arts and other areas.<\/li>\n<li><strong> Mike Ducey, <\/strong>professor of chemistry and department chair, was named 2016 Volunteer of the Year for the Kansas City Section of the American Chemical Society. Last fall, the department of chemistry hosted the American Chemical Society regional meeting for the Kansas City Section on campus. Additionally, 大象传媒 Western\u2019s student chapter of the American Chemical Society, the Alchemist Club, received a Commendable Award for its 2014-15 academic year activities. This is the second highest award a student chapter can receive.<\/li>\n<li>The Golden Griffon Marching Band led Rudolph\u2019s Holly Jolly Christmas Light Parade through Silver Dollar City, Branson, 大象传媒, in December. The band is directed by <strong>Nathan Gay<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Natasha Oakes, <\/strong>associate director of Athletics for internal operations\/senior woman administrator, has been selected to participate in a mentoring program for women and ethnic minorities that is designed to partner individuals with current Division II athletics directors for the purpose of enhancing career development.\u00a0It is a yearlong program that was created to encourage a long-range career in athletics administration with an ultimate goal to serve as a Division II director of athletics. Only 10 are chosen each year. Oakes will participate in the program throughout the 2016-17 academic year.<\/li>\n<li>Two students received awards at the Region V Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival: <strong>Christopher Rayle <\/strong>received runner-up for his sound design of \u201cThree Days of Rain.\u201d <strong>Michael Hadley<\/strong> received a Distinguished Recognition for his operating of projections in \u201cUrinetown.\u201d Additionally, <strong>Abby Sexton<\/strong> was accepted into the Open Jar Institute in New York City for summer 2016. According to its website, the Open Jar Institute is New York City\u2019s most Broadway-integrated actor training program.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Craig School of Business<\/strong> maintained its business accreditation by AACSB International \u2013 The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The accreditation has been earned by fewer than five percent of the world\u2019s business programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Liechti, a member of the Board of Governors; and Pat Dillon, a member of the MWSU Foundation Board of Directors; were selected for Ingram\u2019s Magazine\u2019s \u201c50 大象传媒ans You Should Know.\u201d The Kansas City magazine\u2019s list highlights leaders in business, education, nonprofits, arts and other areas. Mike Ducey, professor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,35,39,19,26,40,25,33,29,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4449,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions\/4449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}