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 native of Kansas City, Missouri, Fr...
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 faculty and staff who took up their own collections...
December 13, 2016
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 professor of political science, the students traveled to Lawrence, Kansas, where the Dole Institute of Politics...
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 semifinal appearance in four years. Set to play with the next best thing...
November 29, 2016
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 1980s and staged at the School of the Americas in Georgia, the Teach-in has since moved...
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 — shrunken budgets, a depleted minor league player pipeline,...
November 11, 2016
The first time the Rev. Dave Holloway, ’77, joined the Navy, it was obligatory. The second time, he was called for a different reason. The current priest at St. Bernadette Parish in Kansas City, Missouri, who visited Rockhurst University in the fall as one of several alumni cocelebrants for Mass of the Holy Spirit, was a student at what was...
November 8, 2016
On Thursday, Nov. 10, Rockhurst University will become Missouri’s first Fair Trade University as designated by Fair Trade Campaigns , the result of an effort by students to ensure that goods the University buys and sells don’t come at the expense of the workers who make them. With the recognition, Rockhurst University joins more than 260 fair trade towns, schools...
October 30, 2016
The Helzberg School of Management’s second annual Executive Summit on Business Intelligence and Analytics on Friday, Oct. 28, put data front and center, inviting leaders from across different industries to campus for a daylong discussion of the ways that analytics are changing nearly every industry, from bread-and-butter accounting firms to hip marketing agencies. The idea of providing an annual opportunity...
