The University of Missouri–St. Louis recently received several awards for its marketing and communications efforts last year.
The Council for the Advancement and Support of Education presented the university a total of eight awards for its writing, graphic design, media relations, multimedia and video production projects created during 2010. The awards were announced Jan. 11 at the CASE District VI annual conference, in Kansas City, Mo.
The University of Missouri–St. Louis held its second annual Faculty Author Reception last Wednesday to showcase the high number of published faculty on campus.
The reception was the brainchild of Ron Yasbin, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at UMSL. An array of more than 20 books and CDs and over 30 journal articles were on display in the third-floor rotunda of the Millennium Student Center.
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.