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UMSL Succeed wins What’s Right with the Region Award from FOCUS St. Louis

The program helps students with intellectual and developmental disabilities develop independent living and job skills while providing them with a college experience....

UMSL and Turn the Page STL collaborate on strategic literacy plan

The plan identifies five strategic priorities to make change and aims to increase reading proficiency by 10 percent in Promise Zone schools by 2023....

Neighborhood Leadership Fellows wins What’s Right with the Region! award

FOCUS St. Louis recognized the advanced leadership training program for ingenuity and vision in making the St. Louis region a better place to work and live....

‘Rewriting the narrative’: Kyle Lackey among St. Louis students featured in KNOW US display

Despite obstacles, graduate student Kyle Lackey pursued a college degree and now strives to give back to others in the St. Louis community. ...

MPPA graduate Cordaryl Patrick working to spur economic development in north St. Louis County

He serves as the economic recovery coordinator for the St. Louis Economic Development Partnership, aiding businesses in Ferguson, Dellwood and Jennings....