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Rockhurst University Announces Fall 2016 Dean’s List

January 23, 2017

Rockhurst University has announced the dean’s list for the fall 2016 semester. This honor recognizes students who have achieved a GPA of 3.5 or above. The following students earned a place on the list: Morgan Abegg Caroline Adams Nicole Adams Zerina Adrovic Justin Ahlheim Rebecca Ahlheim Amber Akin...Read More

Rockhurst University Appoints Vice President for Advancement

January 17, 2017

Rockhurst University has appointed Mary Mooney Burns vice president for university advancement. In this position, she will serve as a member of the University’s senior leadership team and oversee all aspects of fundraising, alumni and constituent relations, public relations and marketing. Burns...Read More

Student, Community Volunteers Celebrate King’s Legacy with Service, Conversations

January 16, 2017

On an already rainy day, an auditorium of more than 100 student, faculty, staff and community volunteers at Rockhurst University were told to wade deeper. That was the challenge to those who spent the afternoon of their day off working with organizations and people throughout the city as part of...Read More

Nonprofit Leadership Program Wins National Campus Program Excellence Award

January 8, 2017

Students and faculty after winning the Campus Program Excellence Award

At the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance’s annual Alliance Management Institute in Denver, Colorado, last week, Rockhurst received the Campus Program Excellence Award, a national recognition of the growing reputation of the program from peers in the nonprofit sector. Jenny Rinella, Ed.D., assistant...Read More

The Rev. Wilfred LaCroix, S.J., Remembered for Humor and Intellect

January 6, 2017

The Rockhurst University community is mourning the death of the Rev. Wilfred LaCroix, S.J., a longtime University professor of philosophy, on Dec. 22, 2016, in St. Louis, Missouri. At the time of his death, Fr. LaCroix was 83 years old. He had been a Jesuit for 57 years and a priest for 47. A...Read More

Students, Staff, Community Give Back for Christmas

December 23, 2016

The old saying goes that it’s better to give than to receive, and this Christmas season a number of Rockhurst University community members have taken that advice to heart, spending the days before the holiday break working to make the season a little brighter for those in need. In addition to...Read More

Students Get Look Inside 2016 Elections

December 13, 2016

Students and faculty at the Dole Insistute

Exactly one month after the 2016 elections, six students from Rockhurst University joined hundreds of political junkies, policy wonks and observers to try to find out, firsthand, just what happened. Led by Charles Moran, Ph.D., professor of political science, and Thomas Ringenberg, Ph.D., assistant...Read More

Hawks, NCAA Give Back As They Prepare for Final Four in Kansas City

November 30, 2016

On Thursday, the Rockhurst University men’s soccer team will take to Children’s Mercy Victory Field at Kansas City’s Swope Park Soccer Village in the semifinals of the NCAA Division II tournament against the Golden Eagles of West Virginia’s University of Charleston. It will be the Hawks’ third...Read More

Students Seek Solidarity, Common Ground at Ignatian Teach-in

November 29, 2016

Students and staff in Washington, D.C., during the Ignatian Family Teach in

Again this November, students from Rockhurst University joined their peers and colleagues from Jesuit institutions across the United States and the globe for two days of solidarity during the annual Ignatian Family Teach-in for Justice. Originally motivated by violence in El Salvador throughout the...Read More

Royals GM Kicks Off Young Alumni Leadership Series

November 18, 2016

There were times following his hire in 2006, said Kansas City Royals General Manager Dayton Moore, that even he had doubts about the future of the franchise he had been picked to lead. Following a run of success spanning the mid-1970s to 1985, the Royals organization had fallen on tough times —...Read More