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UMSL administrator named ACE Fellow

UMSL administrator named ACE Fellow

Aug 9, 2011

Gwendolyn Deloach-Packnett, who has served the University of Missouri–St. Louis for 14 years as the founding director of the Office of Multicultural Relations, has been selected to participate in the American Council on Education Fellows Program.

Packnett is currently assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs at UMSL. As a member of the ACE Fellows Program, she will spend the 2011-12 academic year at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis observing and monitoring the administration.

Camp exposes teen girls to career choices

Jul 12, 2011

The University of Missouri–St. Louis continued its outreach efforts to pre-collegiate students with the second annual UMSL Girls’ Leadership Camp.

Established in 2010 by Malaika Horne, director of the Executive Leadership Consortium at UMSL, this year’s GLC was held June 26-29 at the J.C. Penney Conference Center. Seventy-seven girls from public and private high schools from all over the St. Louis region — and the U.S. — attended the camp.

Campers came from Mary Institute Country Day School, Horton Watkins High School in Ladue, Sumner High School in St. Louis, Normandy Senior High School and St. Elizabeth Academy. Some campers came from as far away as St. Genevieve, Mo., Colorado and California. A growing number of campers are recent immigrants to the United States.

Book on autism wins design award

May 31, 2011

A book about autism that was designed by University Marketing and Communications at the University of Missouri–St....

UMSL gets serious about marketing

Mar 8, 2011

Serious education. Serious value. And now serious marketing. The University of Missouri–St. Louis has launched an...

Retired scholar advocates K-12 reform

Nov 22, 2010

Kent Farnsworth, a longtime educator, decided last year that changes needed to be made in the way American children are educated.

“During a trip to Helena, Ark., I stopped at a charter school, Delta College Prep, that is doing extraordinary work with some of the most economically challenged students in the country,” Farnsworth said. “As I was driving back to St. Louis, I kept thinking, why can’t any school district do the same thing, even if it isn’t a charter school – and then (I) realized it could.”

Farnsworth recently retired as the Mary Ann Lee Endowed Professor for Community College Leadership Studies in the College of Education at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. He has published a new book, “Grassroots School Reform: A Community Guide to Developing Globally Competitive Students.” It argues that significant school reform in the United States will not happen if left to national or state policy makers, but must be a community-led initiative.

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