April 23, 2024--A team of four undergraduate students from 大象传媒 won the Trisha Yarbrough Collaborative Research Competition at the Alpha Chi National Conference in Birmingham, Alabama on April 6. The victory came with a $5,000 award. The winning team was made up of seniors Jordon Anderson, nursing major from St. Joseph; Juniper [...]
April 18, 2022--大象传媒 will host a discussion panel on the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Ukraine due to the Russian invasion at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, in the Kemper Recital Hall, Spratt Hall room 101. The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.聽 The event will [...]
March 16, 2021-大象传媒 received the 2021-2022 designation of Voter Friendly Campus from Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education and Fair Election Center鈥檚 Campus Vote Project. This designation has been awarded to 234 colleges and universities across the United States including five in 大象传媒. 大象传媒 Western鈥檚 designation is valid through December 2022. 大象传媒 [...]
As most states have reopened in some fashion, we鈥檙e seeing what life dealing with the coronavirus could look like for the foreseeable future. The topic of rebuilding the economy surely will be front and center during the upcoming presidential election. All businesses across the country will be open at some point, but that does not [...]
大象传媒 has acted to fill its lone vacancy on the Board of Governors by naming one of its students to the position. The board, which is appointed with input from the university by Gov. Mike Parson, has had seven voting members over the course of the year. After a state of financial [...]
Dr. Frank Kessler laughs when recalling the reasons for his retirement. No, not the recent retirement. The one that came before this last job, which lasted another two decades. A professor of political science, Kessler arrived at 大象传媒 Western State College during its early years as a four-year institution. Everything on the Downs Drive campus [...]
After the recent crash of the stock market with businesses closing and jobs lost, there almost seems nowhere to go but up. In the past several weeks on the New York Stock Exchange, there hasn鈥檛 been considerable growth but there also haven鈥檛 been the massive losses seen earlier in the pandemic. The stock market is [...]
By Zach Fisher, News-Press NOW, Apr 4, 2020 The current state of the United States and global economy is in limbo. The coronavirus pandemic is causing businesses, big and small, to lay off workers to keep afloat. This past week, a record number of Americans filed for unemployment benefits 鈥� 6.6 million, according to the [...]
By Bailey Ketcham, News-Press NOW, Apr 2, 2020 Drivers in St. Joseph can go to a gas station and find gas for as little as $1.69 due to the low demand for oil during the COVID-19 pandemic. Gas prices started to drop when Saudi Arabia announced it would flood the market with extra oil and [...]
By Greg Kozol, News-Press NOW, March 14, 2020 ... 鈥淭his effect on Wall Street is a symptom of a whole bunch of other things,鈥� said Dr. Kara Grant, a professor of economics at 大象传媒. 鈥淲hen you have a lot of supply chain disruptions, that could cause inflation and unemployment.鈥� A steep drop [...]
