December 1, 2023
For more than three decades, the Rockhurst University community has rung in the Christmas season with a combination of stirring choral music, familiar Christmas carols and Biblical readings. So get out your festive sweater, fire up some hot chocolate, and plan to attend the 33 rd annual Ceremony of Lessons and Carols , scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2...
November 10, 2023
Over the summer, sophomore Sarah Joseph had the opportunity to learn as part of a select group from around the world as part of the Stowers Summer Scholars program at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. The institute, located blocks from the Rockhurst University campus, invites outstanding undergraduate students to be part of an intensive eight-week experience learning from and...
October 31, 2023
Photos courtesy Kyle Rivas/Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce Every year, the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce recognizes two outstanding female leaders with the ATHENA Award, one of its highest honors. The list of past honorees is a who’s who of Kansas City’s foremost female leaders, including philanthropist and civic leader Adele Hall and former Urban Neighborhood Initiative president...
October 18, 2023
Initial enrollment for the fall 2023 semester shows growth across nearly student group at Rockhurst University along with the highest student retention rate since before the COVID-19 pandemic. The University performs a census of its students after the eight day of the semester, and those initial counts for fall 2023 indicate growth in first-time college, transfer and graduate student enrollment...
October 16, 2023
On a number of critical measures related to their college experience, students at Rockhurst University are more satisfied than their peers at other private four-year institutions. That is one of many takeaways from the latest Ruffalo Noel-Levitz Student Satisfaction Inventory, taken by students at Rockhurst and other institutions every other year to measure their levels of satisfaction on a variety...
October 2, 2023
It was a great weekend to be a Hawk — the annual Family and Alumni Weekend festivities brought hundreds of Rockhurst University alumni and families back to “the nest” for the biggest party on campus. More than 1,000 visitors registered to attend one of the events on campus happening over three days. Activities included class reunions, including the 1973 Golden...
September 27, 2023
It’s been a while since first-year occupational therapy student Lindsey Fuentes sat down to really draw something. The mother of three said she does scribble shapes by request for her children. But it’s been a while since she really focused on observing a person or object and translating what she sees onto paper. “It was kind of intimidating at first,”...
September 19, 2023
Over the next six years, Rockhurst University will receive $1 million in Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics grant funding from the National Science Foundation as part of a holistic program to help cohorts of students with financial need complete their undergraduate degrees in the sciences. In addition to providing financial aid for up to 10 students in each...
September 18, 2023
Rockhurst University earned a number of accolades for individual programs and for the University as a whole — including a best-in-area ranking — in the 2024 U.S. News and World Report Colleges list, released today. The headline — Rockhurst is No. 13 in the Best Regional Universities, Midwest, category. That ranking puts Rockhurst in the top 10% of schools on...
