First, A Dream: Reflections for a Golden Jubilee 1963-2013

FIRST, A DREAM REFLECTIONS FOR A GOLDEN JUBILEE 1963—2013

FIRST, A DREAM REFLECTIONS FOR A GOLDEN JUBILEE 1963–2013 The story of UMSL, the University of Missouri— St. Louis, is one of visions and tribulations; dreams, duty and drama. UMSL was never supposed to happen. It was only through the tenacity of the people of St. Louis that it even began as but a two-year branch of the University of Missouri, much less became a metropolitan research university in its own right.

First, a Dream speaks of the university through different voices—faculty, staff, students, alumni, administrators and friends. While many of the founders have passed, some are still here, still contributing. Their voices—contemporary or historical—resonate across the pages as they have across the campus.

Not an attempt to be a chronological history of a growing university’s first half-century, rather First, a Dream is a book of essays. It is a collection of thoughts that put meaning to history, people to accomplishments, and context to the 50-year march forward. Though UMSL bears a strong international flair and nurtures world-class research, it is about the people of St. Louis—their vision, their fortitude and the bountiful results of their determination to foster a first-class, public education.

ABOUT THE EDITOR Ron Gossen is the University of Missouri—St. Louis Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Marketing & Communications, and directs the institution’s internal and external communications, web, events and marketing functions.

His career has included stints as a fishmonger and a mall Santa Claus (both while attending journalism school at University of Texas, Austin), a newspaper reporter, an erudite newspaper columnist writing on Southwestern literature, and many years managing agency and corporate marketing.

Since graduate school, Ron has taught marketing, management and communications at universities in his native San Antonio and in St. Louis, his home of choice. He teaches marketing in the UMSL College of Business Administration. Ron is the author of an industry guide book on branding, a graduate text chapter on strategy, and numerous published papers.

His work has earned the nation’s top awards in both public relations and marketing, as well as numerous awards for writing and design.

He serves as a co-chair of the UMSL Jubilee Steering Committee and is the editor of First, a Dream.

Special thanks for your help and support: Bob Samples, Linda Belford, Myra Lopez and Augie Jennewein; and to Jen Hatton, Maureen Zegel and Cindy Vantine. And, especially, Martin Leifeld and Tom George

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Nothing happens unless first a dream.

—Washington Monument by Night Carl Sandburg, 1922

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INTRODUCTION Page XI

THE CHANCELLORS Page XIII

CHAPTER ONE—FORESIGHT Page 1

CHAPTER TWO—LEADERSHIP Page 15

CHAPTER THREE—INQUIRY Page 29

CHAPTER FOUR—ENGAGEMENT Page 39

CHAPTER FIVE—CONFLUENCE Page 49

CHAPTER SIX—INSPIRATION Page 61

CHAPTER SEVEN—COMPETITION Page 77

CHAPTER EIGHT—SYNERGY Page 89

CHAPTER NINE—FUTURE Page 99

INDEX

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I N T R O D U C T I O N Thomas F. George

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he University of Missouri–St. Louis was dedicated in September of 1963 on the former site of the Bellerive Country Club. Classes were initially held in the old clubhouse and nearby storefronts along Natural Bridge Road. There were 26 faculty members, 667 students and no colleges.

UMSL today is composed of nearly 17,000 students, 85,000 alumni and 2,700 faculty and staff members. It has a $200 million annual budget, 10 schools and colleges and 91 degree programs.

UMSL is the largest research university in the state’s most populous and economically important region.

It provides excellent learning experiences and leadership opportunities for a diverse student body through its outstanding faculty, ranked programs, innovative research and regional, national and international partnerships.

The success of UMSL—and its students, faculty and alumni—is inseparable from the success of the St. Louis area. No other university brings more to bear on the social and economic advancement of the region than UMSL. Literally, hundreds of thousands of people have contributed to and benefited from the development of UMSL. This book tells their story. It celebrates their individual and collective successes.

This book also validates the vision of UMSL’s founders, including University of Missouri System President Elmer Ellis, who, at the campus’ dedication, said that the St. Louis campus would begin with a strong liberal arts curriculum as its foundation, but “what our successors in another generation will see to build [UMSL] into, only time can tell . . . . ” Well, those successors have done much—and continue to do much—in a relatively short period of time. And we’re all the beneficiaries.

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Thomas George is chancellor of the University of Missouri– St. Louis.

The clubhouse of the former Bellerive Country Club was the heart of the UMSL campus when the university was established. It housed administration, classrooms, the library and even limited dining. It was razed in 1977.

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Donald Driemeier

Blanche Touhill

Marguerite Ross Barnett

Arthur MacKinney

(Interim) 2002–2003

1990–2002

1986–1990

(Interim) 1985–1986

PAST CHANCELLORS OF

UMSL Arnold Grobman

Emery Turner

1975–1985

(Interim) 1974–1975

Joseph Hartley

Everett Walters

Glen Driscoll

James Bugg

1973–1974

(Interim) 1972–1973

1969–1972

1965–1969

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“UMSL was literally built from the ground up. Everything we have, we’ve had to fight for.”

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FORESIGHT

Fighting for Every Inch of Ground

By Amy Milton

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etched on an arch over a North Campus walkway is a quote by Carl Sandburg: “Nothing happens unless first a dream.” This quote is a fitting epigram in light of the university’s history. Fifty years ago, the University of Missouri–St. Louis began with little more than a dream and a plot of land. It started in 1960 as the Normandy Residence Center,

These accomplishments have not come

a two-year college using a former golf course

easily, says Elizabeth Van Uum, assistant to

country clubhouse with 15 classrooms

the provost for public affairs and economic

and fewer than 300 students. Now, it’s a

development and a long-time UMSL

comprehensive urban research university

employee. “UMSL was literally built

with nearly 17,000 students, distinguished

from the ground up. Everything we have,

faculty, and nationally recognized and

we’ve had to fight for.” As the University of

ranked graduate and undergraduate

Missouri–St. Louis has more than 62,000

programs, including 46 bachelor’s degree

alumni living in the St. Louis area, more

programs, 30 master’s degree programs,

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14 doctoral degree programs, 28 graduate certificate programs, two education specialist programs, and the only professional optometry degree in Missouri.

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Amy Milton is a third-year fiction MFA student at UMSL and a communications intern at the Missouri Institute of Mental Health.

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UMSL’S FIRST COMMENCEMENT / JUNE 9, 1967

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“On Being First”

The Athenians of old wielded a special magic with ideas and with speech, and they had well developed formulas for the recognition of those attributes which they especially admired. Almost above everything, the Athenians cherished the notion of being the first to achieve a particular distinction, and it is precisely for this that they would surely have sounded the praises of this Class of 1967 in the most elegant language. You deserve not only the compliments that come to any senior in 1967, but the additional glories of being in a group that racked up this first. Scores of classes will come after you, but you have been the first. Because of situations that you have faced and mastered, all others will find the way smoothed and marked. You are Volume I, Number 1—the head of the line, primus, the pace setter, the prototype, the founder, the holder of the charter, the oldest, the original and genuine. This is the first annual commencement at the University of Missouri at St. Louis… …My message today will be brief and to the point. As graduates of the first class, you go out into the world in a somewhat conspicuous category: the eyes of Missouri are upon you, to see how you pan out.

And based on your varied training and experience on these Bellerive Acres, you will probably stand up pretty well alongside Missouri’s pride, the mule. This fine fellow is, an alumnus of ours recently observed, described by the encyclopedia “as being well adapted to hot weather, relatively free from digestive ailments (and being dependent on those food dispensers in the club house, you’ve had to be), with a nervous system stable enough to accept hard work, poor handling, abuse and even inexperienced drivers. Mules are noted for their tough skin, strong hoofs, stamina and sure-footedness.”…

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…I urge you to proceed, in all things, with a judgment born of discipline. Excellence is admirable, but not in the wrong things; imagination unleashed and uncontrolled can lead straight to disaster. I cannot visualize anyone long continuing in achievement who is lacking in disciplined judgment… …You enter a world filled with problems. All at once this old planet is hosting a hot war and a cold war, and there are riots, rebellions, uprisings, and demonstrations on every side. There is an old morality and a new morality. God is dead; God still lives. We have an information explosion side by side with an opportunity gap. But you are not helpless in these quandaries…I won’t seek to advise you on which parades to march in, which banners to carry, what petitions to sign, what speeches to make or what to say in those speeches. I take it that during your four years here you have learned a lot about parades and banners and petitions. I assume that you have found that fads are things that go “in one era and out the other.”… …You have truly felt and understood the force of the lines:

Life is queer with its twists and turns,

As everyone of us sometimes learns,

And many a failure comes about

When he might have won had he stuck it out…

So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit…

It’s when things seem worst that you mustn’t quit.

On this, your most memorable commencement day, I bring

you the especially warm regard and the admiring respect of all the Curators, of all the students, of all the faculty, of all the University of

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Chap1_Carl Sandburg archway

Missouri. We salute you of UMSL on being first.

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than any other university in the region, it would seem that the fight has been an important one not only for the students, but for the region and the state of Missouri. From the beginning, UMSL’s faculty and staff have persistently worked to educate students, make advancements in research, negotiate for resources, and keep up with the needs of an ever-changing society. This continuous effort has been necessary in order to keep UMSL competitive, to best serve the students and community, and to pursue the dream of being a first-rate urban public research institution.

The University of Missouri–St. Louis was the fourth campus to join the University of Missouri system, which already included campuses in Columbia, Rolla (now Missouri University of Science and Technology), and Kansas City. Because UMSL and UMKC joined the system around the same time, people are tempted to compare them, but their origin stories are very different. The Kansas City campus came into the University of Missouri system already developed. It was always understood that UMKC would be a full-fledged university—research would be first, teaching would be second, and outreach would be third—and it would offer graduate, undergraduate and professional programs, such as medicine, law and dentistry. However, the original vision for UMSL under its first chancellor, James Bugg, a former University of Missouri–Columbia history professor, was not for the school to be a comprehensive university, but an undergraduate liberal arts and science program with no master’s, doctorate or professional programs. There would be a single arts and science college that would stress the liberal arts, and there would be two small career oriented programs, one in education and one in business. The priorities of this university would be teaching, research and service.

When UMSL opened, it was clear that Bugg’s liberal artsfocused vision for the university would not be accepted by the St. Louis community, which thought it was getting a fourth

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The sixth hole tee box remains from the former Bellerive Country Club.

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comprehensive University of Missouri campus. At the time, there was no public higher education in St. Louis and the community wanted the same opportunities that the University of Missouri offered other cities.

Within two years, Bugg and the UM System acquiesced to the public demand for graduate and professional programs and adopted the vision that UMSL maintains today: to be a comprehensive research university. It was, however, Arnold Grobman, UMSL’s fourth chancellor, who convinced the community that UMSL was also an urban university, or a university that is socially involved in its city and prioritizes helping the city to thrive and grow by providing education relevant to its citizens and business interests.

Grobman had strong evidence for this claim. Most of UMSL’s students came from the St. Louis area. Many of them were placebound and putting themselves through school. About 80 percent of students worked 20 hours a week or more and roughly 50 percent were part time and took more than four years to graduate.

Grobman was interested in meeting the needs of working and parttime students, especially women and African Americans, whom UMSL attracted more of than other local institutions. Students could work towards an education while staying home and working to support themselves and their families. Women who had children could finish their degrees while their youngest child went to grade

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school. “UMSL students have other things going on in their lives

I owe a great debt to

than school,” explains Van Uum.

this university. The University of Missouri–St. Louis took a chance on

To accommodate part-time and working students, UMSL

me. To the degree that I am a success today, and I always say the

offered evening programs with the same faculty, curriculum,

jury is still out, but to the degree that I am a success, a large part of

and standards as daytime classes. At the time, around 40 percent of student credit hours were earned in the evening.

that comes right back to this institution. The skills, the knowledge, the

Students could get a UMSL degree going part time, which

understanding that I have learned, has stayed with me over the years.

filled a niche at a price that place-bound, working students

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I treasure the degree, and I congratulate you for having it.

could afford. Grobman believed that every aspect of UMSL

—Thomas R. Hoerr, Director of New City School

should partner with the community. He asked the community

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what they wanted and the community helped UMSL become an urban university.

From that point forward, UMSL aimed to be one of the best comprehensive urban universities in the country. Dr. Marguerite Ross Barnett, who succeeded Grobman as chancellor, moved forward with the vision of partnering with the community. Her biggest breakthrough in realizing UMSL’s identity as an urban university was integrating the activities of the university with those of many of the largest corporations headquartered in St Louis.

When Blanche M. Touhill was tapped as chancellor, she expanded on the visions of her predecessors, hiring 35 endowed professors, joining more boards and developing partnerships with local business leaders, purchasing $20 million in property, and adding 35 new degree programs. At the beginning of her tenure, there were only 63 degree programs. “UMSL always had a strong liberal arts tradition—English, history, philosophy, economics,” notes Dr. Touhill. “We needed to fill-out other areas to be more comprehensive.” At the time, the nursing and optometry schools were introduced to meet community demands, despite funding difficulties. The nursing school was granted status on the condition that it surcharge the nursing students. “Our students were paying twice as much for the same degree at UMSL as they would have paid at Columbia,” explains Van Uum. Today, under Chancellor Thomas George, meeting the needs of students in St. Louis remains a major part of UMSL’s vision. “We boast that UMSL educates St. Louis,” says Dave Ganz, emeritus associate dean of the College of Business Administration, and former dean of students. “A very high percentage of our graduates remain in the St. Louis area, much more so for UMSL versus other premier universities of the region. Today, many top corporate and institutional executives are UMSL alumni. And, the college-educated work force in the St. Louis area is dominated by UMSL alumni.”

In recent years, the student body of UMSL has become increasingly diverse in terms of background. Many UMSL

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COMMENCEMENT / JANUARY 7, 1984

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Chancellor Grobman,

Vice-President George, platform guests, members of the 1984 graduating class…on the occasion of the observance of the twentieth anniversary year of the University of Missouri–St. Louis… …President Olson has characterized the 20-year growth of UMSL as “an heroic accomplishment in public higher education in Missouri.” And truly it is: UMSL stands as the largest university, surpassing Washington and St. Louis Universities, in the metropolitan area and the third largest in the state. How pleasant it is to look in retrospect and glory in this stirring record. …But, on a not-so-bright note, UMSL is now sharing the plight of all state supported institutions of higher learning— the burden of reduced federal and stagnating state financial support. This has placed UMSL in an arrested state of growth.

But, undaunted in the face of these adversities, UMSL leaders continue to hold their sights on long-range plans that envision sustaining growth in enrollments and the future addition of professional programs… …I also challenge you to actively, in the years ahead, to give your dedicated support in helping to see that the second twenty years of the University of Missouri–St. Louis are as brilliant and successful as have the first 20 years proven to be. In doing so you will find great satisfaction in having shared the vision which was so boldly advanced by those who

Chancellor Tom George, himself a physicist, visits UMSL’s Center for Nanoscience.

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ventured to lay the groundwork for this great university .

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students commute from home or perhaps have families, and

20 in the nation according to the Academic Analytics Faculty

75 percent of new undergraduates transfer from a Missouri

Productivity Index. For scholarly research, the Department

community college. Additionally, UMSL’s ranked programs

of Criminology and Criminal Justice is ranked second in the

and increasing recognition attract more and more international

nation by the Journal of Criminal Justice, and U.S. News & World

students. The university is also striving to attract more out-of-state

Report ranked the department’s doctoral program fourth. The

students and first-time freshmen, which fueled the demand for

International Business program has spent ten years in U.S. News

more residence halls in the 1990s.

& World Report’s top 20. The university’s dedication to being an

Campus housing now includes the University Meadows, a gated

urban university has garnered it a 14th place ranking of “Best

student apartment complex, Oak Hall, which accommodates over

College and University Civic Partnerships,” which measures

400 students age 22 and younger, Villa Hall, which accommodates

economic, social and cultural impact.

more than 75 students age 23 and older, and Mansion Hill

Despite these statistics, UMSL must continue to fight, expand

Apartments for students who are over 21 or have families. Some

and improve if it is to remain competitive and serve the needs of

residence facilities provide amenities such as fitness centers,

its students. Says Chancellor George: “Community engagement is

swimming pools, laundry rooms, and 24-hour on-call staff. On-

prime in what we do. We respond to requests from the community

campus housing is not only for the convenience of students, but

and partner with other institutions to provide opportunities for

encourages campus involvement and academic success.

students.” George cites as an example of this engagement the two

For many years, UMSL’s focus had been more on excellent

business incubators administered by UMSL, which provide facilities

academics than on student life, but that doesn’t mean UMSL

and services for start-up companies. In terms of future program

is exclusively classroom focused, or that it hasn’t evolved to create a dynamic campus life. Ganz explains: “Our students

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are getting a first-class education. We have many student

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The first thing that has not

organizations and I would hope we would continue to have

changed in the past 25 years is that you can all walk out of here

those extra-curricular opportunities for those students who have

today with the confidence that the education you received here is

the inclination to participate.”

not only one of the best in this state, but one of the best in this

While 35 percent of the students attend classes part time, there

country, and indeed, the world. Twenty-five years ago, I was told

is still a thriving campus life. The university boasts over 100 student

the same thing by many people. I must say that I was skeptical.

clubs and organizations, 15 campus-based and city-wide fraternities and sororities, 11 athletic teams, and many extracurricular

Today, I can tell you that I, and my other UMSL graduates, are

resources for students, including the Millennium Student Center

living proof of that statement. I can honestly say that I would

and the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center.

not be in the position I am in today if it weren’t for the quality

With all that UMSL has accomplished in 50 years, there

education I received at UMSL.

is still room to develop and grow. Currently, five of UMSL’s

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—Warner Baxter, President and CEO of Ameren UE

programs—counselor education, information systems, criminology, evolutionary biology and teaching—are ranked among the top

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development, George explains that UMSL is very selective about doctoral programs, noting the 14 already in place, with plans to introduce one or two new programs as resources permit. These new programs will likely be interdisciplinary, like UMSL’s recently added biotechnology program. Advanced negotiations are underway toward opening a branch location for the UMKC dental school, which would provide new opportunities to students in eastern Missouri.

The university will also continue to expand programs in the international arena. In the research arena, Chancellor George foresees nurturing basic research programs while looking for opportunities in applied, practical regions of research which will lead to licensing and patents.

There are plans for development of the physical campus as well. The university’s master plan includes several new buildings, such as the Wellness/Recreation Center and the new science building related to the renovation of the science complex. Budget permitting, longer-term plans allow for a complex for the Colleges of Optometry and Nursing, a new building for the College of Business Administration, and renovations and new construction for the College of Fine Arts and Communication. Landscaping and upgrades to Natural Bridge Road, in conjunction with the Missouri Department of Transportation, are also on the books.

Despite challenges, UMSL’s future looks bright and the outlook is optimistic. “We dream a lot here,” says the chancellor.

“Our ideas have never been the obstacle. Like any other institution, our current obstacle is dollars. We try to be creative, try to be lean and we look for opportunities to make the most of the resources we have.”

UMSL’s vision is and has been to be a first-rate urban public research institution, to provide quality education across the academic spectrum, and to serve the needs of the region and the state by solving urban problems and raising the quality of life in St. Louis. There is no doubt, looking at the university’s records and accomplishments, that UMSL is realizing this vision and is on its way to even more-impressive achievements in the future.

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“Sometimes the stars do align.�

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LEADERSHIP

UMSL was Built Through the Willpower of its Leaders

By Bob Samples

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MSL has never lacked for leadership. It takes a lot of people to turn a golf course into a nationally recognized metropolitan research university in half a century. And the majority of those people have never received the recognition they deserve.

That’s not a criticism of anyone. It’s just the way things work.

Presidents. Chancellors. Elected officials.

Introduction: Normandy, Missouri

Wealthy donors. Prominent alumni. They get

The greater Normandy area received

and deserve credit. Press releases. Magazines.

its name around 1811 from landowner

Speeches. Photography. History remembers

Charles Lucas, son of Jean Baptiste

them. And, for the past 25 years, it’s been my

Charles Lucas, who in 1784 had relocated

job to help make all that happen.

his family to the Pittsburgh area from

The following vignettes allow me to

Normandy, France. The elder Lucas

contribute to the recorded history of the University of Missouri–St. Louis and along the way give credit to some deserving people. They contain research and personal observations—neither of which may be my forte. So let the reader beware.

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Bob Samples is the associate vice chancellor for marketing and communications. He joined the University of Missouri System Office of Communications in 1988 and transferred to the St. Louis campus in 1990. Samples has worked with seven vice chancellors and three chancellors.

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moved his family to St. Louis in 1805 when President Thomas Jefferson appointed him a judge and land claims commissioner to the Louisiana Purchase Territory. He became very wealthy and was instrumental in the development of the region. Charles Lucas himself became a prominent attorney and landowner—including his vast holdings in the Normandy area. The younger Lucas was killed in 1817 in a duel with Thomas Hart Benton, who was the first U.S. Senator from Missouri.

It’s interesting that UMSL has a building named for Benton and the elder Lucas. Had the younger Lucas been a better shot perhaps UMSL would have a Lucas Hall I and Lucas Hall II. Natural Bridge Road was originally laid out around 1845 from St. Louis to Bridgeton, where it intersected with St. Charles Rock Road. It derived its name from a natural stone arch above Rocky Branch Creek.

St. Louis-area businessmen established Bellerive Country Club on 128 acres between Natural Bridge and Florissant roads in 1910. Bellerive, named for Louis St. Ange de Bellerive, the last French Governor in North America, relocated in 1960 to west St. Louis County.

A savvy group of residents from the Normandy School District, led in large part by district superintendent Ward Barnes, sought to bring a higher education institution to this large tract of land as a

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means to offer more opportunities to St. Louis area residents and

Always remember,

stabilize nearby neighborhoods. Their vision and efforts proved

knowledge is different from wisdom. Acquiring knowledge can

insightful and successful.

be solitary, it can be done in isolation, but it is impossible to Campus Builder: John Perry

acquire wisdom without understanding how your knowledge

The University of Missouri–St. Louis was dedicated in September

impacts others. So, no matter how sharp you keep your mind,

1963 on the former site of the country club. Classes were initially

you will never be successful unless you learn to collaborate with each other and those around you.

held in the old clubhouse and nearby storefronts along Natural

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Bridge Road.

Longtime University of Missouri–Columbia faculty-

—Jerry Dunn, Clinical Associate Professor and Director of Child Advocacy Center

administrator James Bugg accepted the invitation to lead the new

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The Pierre Laclede Honors College’s home is the historic 97-year-old Provincial House.

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In the early days of UMSL, when there were fewer than 30 faculty members and only 667 students. Some classes were held in storefronts along Natural Bridge Road.

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institution in St. Louis. He brought with him a number of UMC veterans who, like Bugg, were excited to make their own mark.

Among them was John Perry.

Perry began his career in the UMC auditor’s office in 1949 and had numerous positions in Columbia. In St. Louis, from 1963 until his retirement in 1986, Perry had several titles—including vice chancellor for administrative services—but really just one job: head of business operations.

Perry created from scratch departments to handle human resources, payroll, phones, computer and custodial services, as well as building and grounds maintenance. He also oversaw the layout and construction of 11 buildings, beginning with Benton Hall on the North Campus and the purchase and renovation of seven buildings on what would become the South Campus.

Commenting in The Current upon his retirement, Perry said he was attracted to UMSL for the same reason as many of its first faculty members. It was the challenge of “taking a golf course and starting up a university. How many people do you know who were involved in starting up a new university?”

I haven’t met John Perry. I hope I do, because when I came to UMSL in 1990 people spoke of him with reverence. He was a hero of sorts to staff.

Faculty also respected Perry. One longtime faculty member told me when “John Perry said a wall was going to be painted white it was painted white.” I took that statement as a compliment to Perry’s ability to effectively manage projects through the complexities of shared governance.

Perry served under five chancellors and two interim chancellors.

He was the first recipient of the UMSL Chancellor’s Medallion, created by Marguerite Ross Barnett to symbolize the campus’ highest order of appreciation and esteem. It was a well-deserved honor for an individual who quietly contributed much to the education of thousands of people.

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COMMENCEMENT / MAY 13, 2006

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Master of the Plan: Don Driemeier

Being a good person is

Acquisition of the original country club north of Natural Bridge

part of what qualifies you

Road in the 1960s and properties associated with the old Marillac

to be a leader. Live your life with integrity. Be honest—even

College south of Natural Bridge in the 1970s gave UMSL roughly

when it hurts! Develop more discipline, patience, and humility

190 acres. It would be more than a decade before UMSL would hit

in your life. Always earn more than you make (think about

another major growth spurt.

Two seemingly unrelated issues—student housing and a

that). Always be thankful, be generous to those less fortunate

regional mass transit rail project—prompted UMSL officials to

than you, and always be compassionate. Especially show

undergo a master planning process in the early 1990s to guide

compassion to those who can do nothing for you. Listen to people attentively and be free with an encouraging word.

future property purchases, road alignments and building locations.

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Don Driemeier, then deputy to the chancellor, was appointed the campus liaison with a consulting firm hired to create the master

—William Thomas Walker, Dean of the College of Professional and Continuing Studies

plan. He was later tasked with its implementation. The result was unforeseen and amazing.

The Pierre Laclede Honors College is fun, too, as seen in Dean Robert Bliss’ expression.

The master plan firm created a map plotting street alignments and locations for several proposed projects. With two transit rail stations being built on campus, the firm also suggested purchasing as much nearby property as possible for future growth and to ward off non-complementary development.

UMSL is a perennially under-funded campus. So, like many other great campus plans, this one was likely to gather dust on a shelf as being executed in any meaningful way. But sometimes the stars do align.

A statewide bond issue—along with an appropriation from the Missouri Legislature—provided UMSL with more than $20 million in 1994 for master plan implementation. And subsequent efforts by former Chancellor Blanche Touhill and lobbyist Betty Van Uum led to more state funds. It was a tremendous foundation for growth.

UMSL added more than 120 acres of property and acquired or built 12 prominent buildings and three parking structures. Among the buildings were University Meadows Apartments, Provincial House, Nursing Administration Building and Children’s Advocacy Center on

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the South Campus, and the Fine Arts Building, Millennium Student Center and Touhill Performing Arts Center on the North Campus.

Express Scripts is the largest private company headquartered on a college campus in the United States. It’s Missouri’s largest corporation.

One of Chancellor Thomas George’s greatest successes is also grounded in that original master plan, which suggested creating a business-research park along Interstate 70. Campus officials began buying property along the interstate, but the project stalled until George restarted the effort in 2005 when Express Scripts—the nation’s largest prescription drug fulfillment company—began looking to relocate its headquarters.

Today, Express Scripts is the largest company in the world with headquarters on a college campus. The company dedicated its new 330,000-square-foot facility on the UMSL campus in June 2007. It has since added a second facility on UMSL’s campus and other facilities across Interstate 70 in the NorthPark industrial development site.

Driemeier would be the first to downplay his role, but he excelled at navigating among the often-competing interests of nearby neighborhoods, individual landowners, lawyers, contractors, UM System administrators and faculty. Driemeier was the ultimate win-win guy, looking for the angle to pull it all together. Energetic and positive, Driemeier made it all look easy and almost enjoyable.

Hell-raiser or Fundraiser: Chuck Granger By all measures, Chuck Granger is, and has been for decades, a great science education instructor. Students and alumni rave about his unique methods of teaching. He also carries the hard-to-get title of Curators’ Teaching Professor.

Granger is an outstanding teacher, not just on campus, but also in his many endeavors to enhance science education in area schools. He’s also a bit of a squeaky wheel.

Granger had complained to our public relations office—me in particular—that UMSL does much in local schools without getting near the amount of publicity it deserves. I mostly agreed with him and understood his not-so-veiled criticism of our operation.

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A program Granger was helping run in the Wellston School

Lee mingled with the students for well over an hour. He listened

District was one example. We made an agreement: he would

earnestly as the students talked about each project, each display.

organize student presentations for an individual who had

He looked proud.

made a modest gift to underwrite the program and I would get

I looked relieved.

media coverage.

Lee’s visit resulted in a front-page metro section article and

True to his word, Granger arranged for Wellston students to

photo in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and a segment on both of

assemble in the Wellston High School gymnasium to demonstrate

KSDK Channel 5’s evening newscasts. It all worked as planned.

projects that were helping them learn and appreciate science and

I met Lee again in May after the Chancellor’s Report to the

personally delivered the donor on time.

Community. Chancellor Blanche Touhill was thanking staff

Out of Granger’s car appeared a rangy man, well over six feet

members for their work when Lee walked up, saying something to

tall with a strong handshake and a broad smile. It was 1996 and it

the effect of Let’s do it. Let’s do it.

was the first time I met E. Desmond Lee.

About two weeks later we were in a packed Ritz-Carlton Hotel auditorium where Lee announced he was endowing five professorships that would tie UMSL to the area’s major science and cultural organizations.

Lee obviously liked what he heard from the chancellor during her presentation and the way in which UMSL does business.

Lee and his wife Mary Ann became the largest donors in UMSL history, contributing to scholarship programs, buildings and 19 endowed professorships.

Lee and Touhill created quite a stir with their joint efforts.

Lee was awarded the St. Louis Man of the Year Award in 1996.

Touhill received the same award—renamed St. Louis Citizen of the Year Award for an obvious reason—in 1997.

Granger did not receive the same regional accolades, but his contributions nonetheless were essential in establishing Lee’s link to UMSL and for that he deserves credit from the tens of thousands of people who have benefitted from UMSL’s endowed professorship program.

Dignity and Foresight: Anath Boone The UMSL Alumni Association has a board that represents and

Curators Teaching Professor Chuck Granger (right) was instrumental in connecting UMSL with businessman E. Desmond Lee (left). Lee and his wife endowed 19 professorships at UMSL and were the largest donors in the school’s history.

plans activities concerning all members, but the chapters built mostly around academic departments are the backbone of the association.

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UMSL’s Dickson String Quartet is comprised of the four Dickson student siblings, originally from Washington state.

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They attract the most loyalty and create the longest-lasting bonds.

The arrival of Marguerite Ross Barnett as chancellor in 1986—the first African American to head a University of Missouri campus—fueled discussions about diversity in the UMSL community.

Several people voiced concern when a group of alumni sought to create an African American chapter of the alumni association, fearful the new chapter might create a greater divide among alumni and draw members away from the department chapters.

UMSL’s administration took swift action: it created a committee.

The process ultimately led to the formation of the African American chapter in 1991.

Looking back, the negatives associated with the chapter never materialized. The chapter has been one of the more energetic groups and chapter members have been among the most active within the alumni association board itself.

The African American chapter was and continues to be a reflection of its first president: Anath Boone.

Boone came to UMSL in 1967, but dropped out. A few meaningless jobs later, she returned to graduate in 1980. Life taught her to appreciate UMSL. It also made her more aware of the unique and not-so-unique challenges many African Americans face as first-generation college students.

Boone said the chapter was created to address the “limited concept” African Americans have of what it takes to succeed in college and the “limited role models” they encounter along the way.

The result has been mentoring programs for students and fellow alumni and events that raise funds for scholarships—including one named for the late Chancellor Barnett.

Boone is rightfully proud, but certainly not boastful. I believe it was her quiet, dignified demeanor that first impressed me and helped quell any negative opinions toward a race-based alumni chapter.

As a role model, Boone set the standard. And we’re all the better for it.

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“The top universities have an obligation to deliver new knowledge.�

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INQUIRY

The Role of Research at UMSL

By Ryan Trattles

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he Carnegie Foundation classifies UMSL as “RU/H: Research University—high research activity,” while the Academic Analytics Faculty Productivity Index (AAFP, a metric designed to measure the annual amount and impact of faculty scholarly work) ranks UMSL seventh nationally (and first in the Midwest) among all universities with 15

Blanche Touhill said it well: “The top

or fewer doctoral programs. These are

universities have an obligation to deliver

impressive statistics, and they’re deserved,

new knowledge.” The classifications and

well-earned, but they aren’t what define

rankings show us that the outside world is

UMSL as a research university. Anyone

recognizing what UMSL does. But what’s

with experience in research can tell

really important is that UMSL is curious

you that although brilliant discoveries,

and willing to put in the work to build that

accolades and prizes get lots of press and

new knowledge.

attention, what really drives research is a

That obligation to deliver new

certain grit, determination and curiosity.

knowledge, the curiosity and need

The statement that UMSL is a research university is really a statement about UMSL’s orientation toward knowledge, and toward itself. Former Chancellor

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“

to pursue research, stems not only from a desire to be a top

Dare to dream big

institution, but also from the unique position of UMSL as an

dreams and adopt lofty goals. To dream big dreams requires

urban university. The university is not only a research institution,

no more energy than to dream little dreams. Judge your

but a public metropolitan land grant university. With those

success not by some absolute standard but by the degree to

obligations, UMSL has a large role in the community. Research

which you achieve your lofty aspirations.

”

isn’t simply about the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge’s sake, it’s about the identification of problems or questions, and the

—Charles Armbruster, Retired UMSL Chemistry Professor

pursuit of answers. A primary component of UMSL’s mission is to better the St. Louis community, and the research done here is a considerable part of that. When statistics and rankings come out, such as UMSL’s Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice being ranked second in the nation for scholarly research by the Journal of Criminal Justice, or counselor education being ranked fourth nationally by the AAFP, it is sometimes easy to imagine that research as esoteric or abstract. In reality, these programs are doing work that directly benefits St. Louis. From the outset, UMSL’s orientation toward research was largely because of the needs of the community, and a desire to better St. Louis.

Nasser Arshadi, vice provost for research, when asked about the research process said, “There is no flashpoint, it’s a long-term enterprise. There is no ‘ah ha’ moment. It needs a lot of patience.

You have to stay at it,” and UMSL has understood that from the beginning. At its founding in 1963, there were no research buildings and equipment was sparse, but that didn’t stop faculty and staff from finding ways to engage in their research. David Garin, professor emeritus, who joined UMSL’s chemistry faculty in 1966, remembers that in his first year he would drive samples to Indiana University to run certain spectra for which UMSL wasn’t yet equipped. Despite small budgets, UMSL took aim, setting the groundwork necessary to build a respected research institution. By 1965 UMSL had already added research as a primary component to tenure. It was made well known to incoming faculty that they were expected to be actively engaged in research, at the forefront of knowledge in their field.

In 1968, only five years from its founding, James Bugg, UMSL’s

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Finance major Jonathan McMiller landed a full-time job at Boeing after having interned at the aerospace company.

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first chancellor, requested that the UM System Board of Curators establish a graduate school and a graduate faculty as soon as possible.

The step from solely undergraduate programs, to a full-fledged graduate school was something the St. Louis community demanded.

They wanted the chance for graduate and professional training.

The graduate school not only ensured that UMSL could attract star faculty, but also that UMSL could provide opportunities for the community to participate in research, to get practical experience in their chosen field.

It was UMSL’s second chancellor, Glen Driscoll, who pushed for further establishment of graduate programs. In the early 1970s, he was primarily concerned with four new graduate programs, doctorates in chemistry and psychology, and masters in English and mathematics. He knew that building new programs required funds, and he felt that these graduate programs would help to attract mature faculty, with established research records, who could compete for highly competitive national research grants and draw additional money to the University.

Aside from national grants, UMSL was able to benefit from smaller UM System grants. In 1979, the University of Missouri System sold its property at Weldon springs. The proceeds from this sale went to endow a research fund that to this day still funds UM System researchers. This meant that UMSL didn’t have to compete on a national scale for every penny of its grant funding. It also meant that UMSL had a source of funding for grants too small in scope for the national funding sources, such as funding for small improvements to research facilities or new pieces of equipment.

It’s no surprise that establishing research programs is expensive and though UMSL was by no means wealthy, the St. Louis community helped bolster UMSL’s access to resources, libraries and funds. Garin remembers that, “Most of the faculty were young when hired, just a few years out from PhD, and all had come from very highly rated institutions with great equipment, great libraries. We came here and there wasn’t much at all. I remember

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I felt very fortunate because in those days Monsanto gave us an open door to their library. At 10 P.M. on a Sunday, if I wanted, I could go over to Monsanto library and stay till 2 A.M.” Local companies like Monsanto, McDonnell Douglas, Ralston Purina, Boeing and more had a vested interest in the growth of graduate and research programs at UMSL. This kind of symbiosis meant that UMSL received professorial endowments, equipment and access to libraries, while the local businesses had a steady stream of well-educated local residents ready to seek employment. This sort of relationship is indicative of what it means to be an urban research university. The research seeks to remedy problems in the community, all the while educating and inviting students to participate. These St. Louisans then go on to work in local industry, bettering local business and economy. They in turn help UMSL to grow even more through funds, internships and so on, benefiting not only UMSL, but the community at large.

UMSL’s emphasis on research has had a profound impact on the experience of students, both graduate and undergraduate.

Professors here bring their passion about research into the classroom. They discuss new knowledge, their current research projects, the projects happening in their field. Anyone passionate about research inevitably wants to share that research with others.

Students don’t just get a standard set of information, they don’t get knowledge delivered as something static, but rather have an opportunity to see the working research process, and to understand that knowledge is an ever changing and growing thing. Driven students can move beyond the classroom and actively participate in the research process. College of Arts and Sciences Dean Ron Yasbin said, “The beauty of UMSL is that we’re a small research oriented university so our undergraduates can actually do research in their areas of interest. Faculty are more than happy to bring them into their labs. In fact, in Arts and Sciences we have a program where students can apply for support to do research.”

There are undergraduates engaged in research all over campus.

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Having a research orientation means that students can work with current equipment, and get a sense of what a research and professional atmosphere is like. Additionally, should students want to apply to graduate schools, they have a leg up since they’ve already done research. And better yet, since UMSL’s graduate school has grown to include 14 doctoral programs and 30 master’s degree programs, students often have a chance to stay at UMSL for their graduate education.

Teaching and research are inextricably linked. Great researchers often end up driving curriculum and that’s happening all the time at UMSL. Two faculty members from the School of Social Work were recently recognized by the national accrediting body, the Council of Social Work Education, and were recruited to help build curriculum in their areas of research, Sharon Johnson in health disparities and Shirley Porterfield in health policy. Their research impacts not only UMSL students, but the curriculum endorsed by the national accrediting body in their field.

Discussing research at UMSL inevitably leads in hundreds of directions, because research isn’t isolated, it’s integrated into the core identity of UMSL. It impacts the way students receive knowledge and experience in their chosen fields. It directs the way professors teach their courses and plan their lessons. It builds the strong relationships that UMSL has with local business and community. UMSL is a research university and though that statement might sound like a simple designation, it’s much more.

UMSL, from the outset, has been oriented toward research, not to gain accolades or prizes, but because research is a fundamental component of UMSL’s mission as an urban university.

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“

Never forget that it is in the

lives you touch—not in the things you hold—that you will discover the true meaning of success and personal fulfillment.

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“Community engagement has been a central focus of UMSL since the university was established. It’s who we are. It’s what we do.”

Patricia Zahn, an UMSL Employee Volunteer Program participant, helps build a Habitat for Humanity home in St. Louis.

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ENGAGEMENT

UMSL’s Collaborative Contributions to the Community

By Jessyka Lee

G

iving back. Paying it forward. These noble practices aren’t the exclusive realm of individuals or resourcesrich corporations. From the beginning, UMSL has set its ties in community outreach. As it was then, it remains now, honed and crafted by 50 years of service. To create an accurate list of

that service would be futile. Add to that

the regional economy and the numbers

is what many say is the most effective

reflect it. The campus averages more than

and visible contribution to metropolitan

3,000 graduates a year, totaling 85,000

St. Louis: the leadership spawned at the

alumni overall. An impressive 61,000-plus

university. If you live here, you know people

graduates still live within the region.

who have attended UMSL. Maybe they

The university doesn’t only give back

went to nursing school, returned for their

through educating St. Louis’s future

masters or earned a certification here. Or,

workforce leadership; it includes involved

they earned an undergraduate degree and

outreach commitments and engagement

are now doctors or lawyers. The graduates

throughout the region, state and Midwest.

are as diverse as the courses offered.

Our impact on the region is profound.

UMSL is the economic engine driving

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“

UMSL is an institution that works to give back to its community

Like many of you, I

in generous ways. In recognizing where the university started, and

began UMSL as a veteran. In my case, it was Vietnam—a very

where it stands today, a large, varied and meaningful list of UMSL’s

unpopular war—and veterans were not appreciated as is the

achievements stand out.

Endless adjectives could be used in describing the university’s

case today. So, while keeping my military experience quiet,

vision for greatness—ambitious, rewarding, and inspiring—but

but using the GI Bill and the discipline learned in the Air

Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Glen Cope

Force, I started at UMSL. By then I had accumulated two little

says it best: “Community engagement has been a central focus of

boys, and a full-time job at Brown Shoe Co. in Clayton.

UMSL since the university was established. It’s who we are. It’s

We lived in my grandmother’s basement in south St.

what we do. Civic engagement is woven into our mission, our research and our curriculum.”

Louis. For five years I raced up and down Hanley Road from

It is astounding to think the university first began as an

Brown in Clayton to catch a class and get back to work as I

undergraduate college, and now, 50 years later it is an award-

completed my degrees. Then, as now, UMSL afforded me a

winning, highly recognized metropolitan public research university.

serious education and an amazing value. The speeding tickets

It is a part of the fabric of St. Louis, and our commitment to the

on Hanley and the parking tickets at UMSL were a small price

community doesn’t stop at our doors.

The campus body—staff, faculty and students—is a vital resource

to pay for the start that UMSL gave me.

pool of volunteers for the region to draw from. In 1987, only a few

My career subsequently took me away from St. Louis for nearly

dozen people logged time on volunteer boards, doing what they

25 years, and upon retirement I was thrilled to reconnect with

could with the minimal amount of resources and involvement from

UMSL and find that some of the same professors are still teaching,

others. Today, over 500 volunteers, not counting the hundreds of

and the mission of the university continues to be fulfilled.

generous financial supporters and student volunteers, stand ready to make a difference.

UMSL grads are in demand because you work well with

The university’s financial friendships were further strengthened

others, and make things happen. And when you don’t know the

with the addition of Marguerite Ross Barnett, a nationally renowned

answer, have the humility and develop the ability to say, ‘I don’t

scholar and administrator, who was named chancellor in 1986.

know, but let me get back to you.’ Of course, then do so and make

Under her direction, enlisting community support began in earnest

things happen for your employer. You can also use that line when

when the Friends of UM-St. Louis (the former moniker for UMSL)

your grandmother says, like mine did, ‘Now that you’ve graduated

was founded. Surprisingly, the Friends consisted primarily of nonalumni, who raised money and the community’s consciousness

from UMSL, when will you move out of my basement?’ You can say, ‘I don’t know, but let me get back to you.’

about UMSL.

”

With Barnett at the helm, UMSL marked a 300 percent increase in private scholarships, initiated a doctoral program in biology with

—Charlie Hoffman, Former President & CEO of Covad Communications

the Missouri Botanical Garden, and built a research building as

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Missouri’s only professional optometry program supports the community with its mobile eye center.

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well as a library addition which now houses the St. Louis Mercantile Library—the oldest cultural institution west of the Mississippi River.

Barnett was also an early advocate for “community engagement.”

From talking with business leaders, she quickly discovered one of their main concerns was the state of elementary and secondary schools in the city. In 1986, recognizing an opportunity for partnership, Barnett founded the BRIDGE pre-collegiate program.

BRIDGE set up extracurricular programs in the Beaumont and Vashon high schools and invited participants to meet on the campus. These efforts were aimed at increasing high school graduation rates as well as rates of those students heading into college. Over the last 25 years, the program has grown, expanding well outside the original two high schools. BRIDGE maintains a 100 percent college matriculation rate. On average, 41 percent of BRIDGE participants have sought majors in math, science, engineering and technological fields.

The program helped garner national recognition for UMSL in 1991—the prestigious Anderson Medal. In 2012, BRIDGE received the College Board’s “Dr. Asa G. Hilliard Model of Excellence Award” for its commitment to positively impact the African American community. There are thousands of St. Louis college graduates and students who went to college as a result of Barnett teaming up with private business a quarter century ago.

Through the years, UMSL has been recognized in countless ways for its efforts of enriching and improving the St. Louis area, but recognitions and fame are not why the campus is so involved. There is clearly a passion to help, and to give back, that begins with the faculty and staff. It is a strong notion to lead by example, which has caused a vibrant affect with students and alumni alike. Chancellor Thomas George says the faculty and staff at UMSL are among the most generous people he’s ever met. “They give willingly of their time, talent and money to worthy causes and organizations,” he says.

In naming the programs that give back, some efforts are certainly bigger than others, but the university stresses that giving in any form

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is the most generous thing a person can do. Homecoming Week, for example, is when the campus shows its Triton spirit by hosting a blood drive. And since 1973, the College of Business Administration has offered free tax preparation services to low-income taxpayers and senior citizens. The program has garnered four Internal Revenue Service awards for number of returns prepared, outstanding community service and sustained superior performance.

UMSL’s Community Psychological Service, a non-profit outpatient mental health center, has cared for the community since 1977, with affordable counseling and psychological evaluation services for those who would not otherwise be able to pay. The College of Optometry runs a Mobile Eye Center, allowing children with vision problems to receive means-tested treatment.

The College of Business Administration faculty collaborates with the government and businesses to solve problems and improve operations and efficiency through the Business Development Center, which focuses on helping businesses improve operations and management through an inter-disciplinary team approach.

Most recently, the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice formed a partnership with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department to fight crime. In 2012-2013, criminologists were stationed in St. Louis Police Headquarters, working directly with the police department to implement and evaluate crime reduction initiatives.

UMSL’s community partnerships also stretch to the performing and visual arts. The opening of the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center in 2003 made UMSL a destination spot for music and theater lovers, not just in St. Louis, but across the Midwest.

Annually, the Touhill hosts more than 300 events and performances (many of them free), attracting more than 100,000 people.

Lois H. Pierce, director of the School of Social Work, ensures that UMSL collaborates with social work programs at other local universities, namely, Washington University and St. Louis University. Working together, the universities assure the practical

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needs of the social work students are meeting the community’s social services needs. Internships require a practicum of 300 hours in a social work agency. Along with these graduation requirements, social work students go far beyond in their service to the St. Louis community. They are involved in several other community projects, including collecting uniforms for Normandy High School as well as marshalling toy donations for under-privileged children during the Christmas season.

In 2010, UMSL was recognized for its institutional commitment to the community by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, which bestowed upon the university a “Community Engagement” classification.

Throughout the years, the list of UMSL’s accomplishments keeps growing, as do the number of participants and programs connected to UMSL. It’s not only in institutional and academic-related programming, but through the individual efforts of students, staff and faculty that UMSL continues to “pay it forward” in St. Louis. In 2011, the campus set a record in its contributions to benefit local St. Louis charities, raising more than $87,000. Among the beneficiaries were The United Way and Community Health Charities.

Patricia Zahn, director of the Des Lee Collaborative Vision, says it well: “We are creating a shared vision of how we can make our community a better place through our work and outreach. We are able to come together as a community of scholars to recognize, support and even challenge ourselves in our efforts.”

Indeed, UMSL’s engagement with the community has set a high standard among universities. With the university raising the bar all those connected to UMSL have proven themselves to be more than just a serious education at a serious value.

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“The kind of world in which our young people live makes it imperative . . . that the university provides a new international dimension for its students.�

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CONFLUENCE

Going Global: The Changing Face of UMSL

By Myra Lopez

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f you ever want a visual picture of the international reach of the University of Missouri–St. Louis, visit with Patricia Parker, the E. Desmond Lee Endowed Professor in Zoological Studies and chair of the Department of Biology. She has a map that’s covered in pins denoting where biology faculty members have conducted research and the countries of origin for students

President John Weaver appointed Edwin

in the department. The pins span several

Fedder, associate professor of political

continents and far-flung islands in the

science at UMSL, as temporary director

Pacific Ocean.

of a system-wide office located on

The map represents a successful strategy 50 years in the making. But, even from

UMSL’s campus.

“The kind of world in which our young

its earliest days, the university was aware

people live makes it imperative . . . that

of the larger, global picture and strived to

the university provides a new international

make UMSL more inclusive.

dimension for its students,” Weaver

In August 1967, a committee of UMSL

said in November 1967, advocating

faculty wrote a letter to then Chancellor

the establishment of the Center for

James Bugg calling for the creation of

International Studies.

an international center. In November of that year, University of Missouri System

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That system-wide office was opened in 1968, and the UMSL Center for International Studies opened that same year. The center’s focus was on supporting faculty research, lectures and conferences. Over time, the center’s focus grew to encompass international student recruitment as well as student and faculty exchange programs.

In July 2012, the Center for International Studies was renamed the Office of International Studies and Programs. The change reflects the modern mission and activities.

UMSL’s Growing Presence Abroad UMSL launched its first student exchange program with the University of Stuttgart in Germany in 1982. Fast-forward more than 30 years and UMSL’s study abroad program has grown to more than 80 exchange partners.

Many faculty members were already plugged in globally and eager to help foster those international relations between UMSL and foreign institutions. For some foreign faculty it was as simple as making a phone call to former colleagues back home and building on an already existing link. For others, they were inspired by their passion for a foreign language or culture to create a brand new exchange program.

Deborah Baldini is an example of a faculty member who did just that. She is an associate dean for the College of Arts and Sciences and also has also taught Spanish at UMSL since 1980.

Her love of Spain and the Spanish language spurred her to

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“

establish a two-week program for undergraduates to study Spanish

What a tremendous

at a university in Barcelona, Spain. While UMSL offers a year

challenge: to leave everything better than we found it.

abroad program in Madrid, Baldini felt a shorter program was also

Reaching our goal is seldom accomplished with a giant

needed for students who found longer study abroad programs, well,

leap. It’s more of a series of little steps moving in the right

foreign to them. “Many of our students are first-generation college

direction that finally get us where we want to be.

”

students,” she says. “Their parents didn’t study abroad. It wasn’t part of the culture of their family.”

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International House is home-away-from home to students from around the world.

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Baldini says immersing students in a language and culture enables them to not just study the language in a theoretical way, only examining grammar or literature, but actually experience the language as a tool used by people to communicate and live.

Additionally, they become great ambassadors for the university.

“They’re not just there to peek into another culture, but others are looking at them as representatives of our country and our institution,” Baldini says.

A tangible example of UMSL’s international reach is its unique relationship with two Middle Eastern universities. UMSL serves as mentor, model and mediator to both the Modern College for Business and Science (MCBS) in Muscat, Oman, and the Gulf University for Sciences and Technology (GUST) in Kuwait.

UMSL’s relationship with MCBS grew out of a friendship between a former student and Joel Glassman, associate provost for academic affairs and director of the Office of International Studies and Programs.

Muneer Al-Maskery (MA, economics, 1987; MA, political science and PhD, political science, 1992) helped found MCBS

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“

You have achieved

much . . . be proud of your accomplishment . . . you have many to share your achievements with . . . be grateful for their love and support . . . more gratitude, less attitude . . . you have many opportunities awaiting you . . . be optimistic . . . go out and get ’em . . . your education has just begun . . . never stop learning . . . your future is your responsibility . . . don’t delegate it away . . . no excuses . . . no regrets . . . one day soon you will be the bridge builder for others . . . build something you are proud of.

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in 1996. The Oman Ministry of Higher Education requires new

program, founded in 1999, is still young and growing, for the last

universities to have a mentorship with a U.S. university, so he

ten years it has ranked in the top 20 of U.S. News & World Report’s

reached out to Glassman for assistance. UMSL’s faculty traveled

best international business programs.

to Oman and drew up the school’s curriculum, which mirrors the

UMSL’s international business program includes more

curriculum on the St. Louis campus. UMSL faculty prepared the

than 70 study-abroad programs available in more than 40

syllabus, looked at the tests and helped the university get started.

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GUST was established a few years after MCBS. The founders of GUST sent a delegation to private schools throughout the

“

The Three P’s of Success:

PEOPLE: Everything in life revolves around people. In

Middle East to get ideas and liked what they saw at MCBS. They

order to be productive and make a difference, you have to

soon reached out to UMSL for similar assistance with curriculum

be able to interact and communicate effectively. Nothing will

and organization. Since its founding in 2002, GUST has grown to 3,500 students and offers degrees in business, English, mass

replace in-person communication—it is the most effective form.

communication and computer science. Chancellor Thomas

Look someone in the eye, shake hands, smile, talk and most

George is an active participant in the bilateral agreement,

importantly listen.

providing evaluation, assessment and highest level support. He has

PURPOSE: Focus on your purpose in life—it will not only

energetically carried the UMSL banner in Kuwait, serving as the

help you live productively but will also help you motivate, inspire

GUST commencement speaker and providing scientific lectures in

and teach others. Understand your purpose and how it links to

his area of physics.

the objectives and goals of your family, work and community

For nearly 15 years, UMSL has been a formal academic partner of the University of the Western Cape, near Cape Town,

teams. Put yourself in the shoes of others to understand their

South Africa. Over the years, more than 350 faculty exchanges

needs in order to successfully instill a sense of purpose and link

have taken place.

to your responsibilities. People who understand and believe in

Another defining moment in UMSL’s journey to an

their purpose will focus on their goals and objectives.

international presence was the establishment of endowed professorships to study five areas and cultures: Ireland, Greece,

PASSION: Passion drives your overall motivation, enthusiasm

Japan, China and Africa.

and excitement. The most successful people create a vision and

The endowed professorships were paramount in

they rally others around it by inspiring them to drive to be the

internationalizing UMSL’s reputation in St. Louis and abroad, raising the prestige of the institution and enabling the university to

best at whatever they do. Learn your passion and the passion

bring distinguished faculty members to UMSL’s campus.

of the individuals in your life and find a way to feed that fire in order to get the most out of life. This means challenging oneself

Internationalizing UMSL

and creating a world-class work environment.

The university boasts outstanding undergraduate and graduate

”

—Debra Hollingsworth, vice president of external affairs, AT&T, Inc.

International Business programs. And while the undergraduate

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countries. In addition, the program has students from China, Japan, Europe, Latin America and India. American students have interned at the overseas offices of companies such as Japan Airlines, Emerson Electric and General Motors. Foreign students have interned in the St. Louis area at companies such as Emerson Electric, Silgan Plastics, Novus International and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Folded into the international program is the International MBA program. Launched in 2005, it has created partnerships with international universities in China, Japan, India, France, Mexico and Taiwan.

Some of UMSL’s foreign students stay in America, get jobs, start families, put down roots and even become new citizens. “It was one of the best experiences I had in my life,” says Japanese native Akemi Brewer (BA, psychology, 2003), who lives in Dayton, Ohio, and works as a therapist/diagnostician for a community mental health services organization.

Brewer took an unusual route to UMSL, arriving here after a pen pal and alumna recommended the university to her. When Brewer was in St. Louis for a visit she tagged along to one of her classes and was smitten. “I sat in one of her math classes at UMSL. It was a very exciting experience for me,” Brewer recalls. “I am proud to be an alumna of UMSL. I would like many international students to experience the wonderful things I experienced at UMSL. They can achieve their goals, and UMSL is always happy to help students just like they did for me.”

Olga Prokopovych from Kyiv, Ukraine, earned a master’s certificate in public policy administration in 2003. She’s back in Ukraine now, where she works as a senior associate at the Kyiv office of a New York-based law firm. She says studying at UMSL had a tremendous impact on her and calls the education one of the most interesting and remarkable experiences of her life. “I had an opportunity to live in the heart of America, both in the sense of location and in the sense of people’s attitude towards me,” Prokopovych says.

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Chanthapanya – Korea

McZeal – China

Montgomery – China

Tucker – DominicanRepublic

Michael – Ireland

Evans – China

Rivedeneyra – Strasbourg

Williams – Egypt

Duffie, E – Paris

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Armenian Simon Simonian (BS, computer science, 1996) came to UMSL in 1995 as part of a student exchange program and lives in Chicago where he works as chief information officer at Argo Tea. “I learned more during my first year at UMSL than I’d learned during my three previous years of undergraduate study,” he says. “The curriculum was challenging, yet extremely useful.

Classes were tough, yet once you passed them, they gave you a total sense of accomplishment.”

Beijing, China, is nearly 7,000 miles away from St. Louis and 13 hours ahead of us, but that didn’t deter a former student from launching a Chinese Chapter of the UMSL Alumni Association there in 2011. The group has nearly 100 members. Chapter president Dongying Wei (MA, education, 2007; PhD, education, 2009) says she created the group as a way to give back to UMSL for all the opportunities she was given during her time here.

The internationalization of UMSL is a win-win for local and foreign students. Missouri students now get to study at a truly international university that looks like the world as a whole.

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“

Nice guys finish—first.

I realize the old saying says the opposite, but I am here to tell you that nothing is more important than the attitude you show up with every morning. I have had the good fortune of working with many of the corporate leaders in St. Louis, and without exception, they are considerate and will go out of their way to be helpful. The belief that you need to be ruthless and feared is just not true. What is necessary is that you have to be respected, and that is true whether you are in an entry-level position or the president of the company.

”

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INSPIRATION

Art for the University, Art for All

By Lindsay Shadwell

W

hen UMSL opened its doors, it was a little college with big dreams. As a new public university breaking ground in a city full of pricey private schools, UMSL had high hopes of offering St. Louis residents quality education at an affordable cost.

“What was required by the middle of the twentieth century,” former Chancellor Arnold Grobman said,

Fine Arts and Communications, described the

“was a public university or college of high

process of developing UMSL’s art programs:

quality designed to serve the great masses of

“Fine arts was envisioned as an important part

urban residents: those who were restricted

of the campus from the beginning. It’s just that

to their communities because of family or

other things took precedence for a while, so

economic considerations and who found

initially, there was a fine arts division and from

inaccessible residential campuses away

that then grew the music department and the

from home or high cost institutions in their

art history department. Ultimately, it evolved

own metropolitan areas.”

into more departments.”

A major component of that mission was

Art has always had a presence on campus,

offering world-class arts programming. But as

thanks to a few individuals who ensured

the popular saying goes, Rome wasn’t built in

that art was part of the student experience.

a day, and neither were UMSL’s art programs.

John Hylton, dean emeritus of the College of

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One such contributor was former student activities program director, Stephanie Kries, who was the first to use student activity fees to bring cultural activities to the university. She handled programming, and would bring in Shakespeare (and other plays) and classical musicians who were traveling around the country. Kries also provided the campus with its first public art, snaring a grant to go to New York and buy hundreds of art posters to put on the walls. Many of those old posters still decorate both high-traffic and obscure corners of the campus.

Before long, the campus had hired a handful of fine arts faculty to begin providing students with arts education opportunities.

Though UMSL did not yet have a fine arts major, the first phase of the plan to build a university that would provide its students with a well-rounded education was well under way. As former fine arts chair Jean Tucker saw it, exposure to art was an essential part of that education, prompting the trend-setting Tucker to lobby the university administration for a campus art gallery. When the art department moved from Benton Hall to the newly built Lucas Hall in the mid1970s, Tucker was granted space for a gallery, allowing her to develop what has become one of the university’s cherished assets: Gallery 210.

From its beginnings in 210 Lucas Hall, to its current status as a soughtafter place for artists to show their works, Gallery 210 has provided the UMSL community with opportunities to view quality art from its inception. The gallery’s current curator, Terry Suhre, affiliate associate

The late Des Lee and Chancellor Emeritus Blanche Touhill share a private moment in the Touhill Performing Arts Center.

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“

professor, knows a thing or two about putting on a good show. In 2000, the gallery was awarded the prestigious “Best Gallery” award by the

Follow your bliss, earn

Riverfront Times, with Suhre, himself, nabbing the “Best Curator” award. According to RFT, “[Suhre] has managed to make Gallery

a paycheck AND make the world a better place at the same

210 a prime destination for art viewing”—a difficult task due to the

time. These are perfectly consistent goals. Be generous.

imperatives of the job: “He’s the curator of a small university gallery.

Be calm. Whatever your barriers and problems, others have

That means he’s got to fill a yearlong calendar with art. He’s got to

worse. Your meaningful, consonant, conscious and well-lived

curate original shows and nab traveling exhibitions. He has to work

life will be its own reward to you.

with a small space and an even smaller budget.” Yet, Suhre manages

”

to excel in his position—a feat he partially attributes to the help he

—Patricia Wolff, MD, executive director of Meds & Food for Kids

receives from the gallery’s student staff.

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And perhaps, the gallery’s greatest accomplishment is not the unique art it exhibits, but the enrichment it provides UMSL students by offering valuable opportunities to gain experience working in a professional gallery environment. Says Suhre, “The internships we offer here . . . give our students a hint of the real world to a very real extent. They have to produce in a real, measurable way.

That’s why this kind of professionalism we stress here [at Gallery 210] is so important because when you move out into the world, that professionalism—presenting yourself as competent and knowledgeable in the work place—is key to success.”

Another cultural enhancement came in 1975 when Chancellor Grobman placed museum cases in high-traffic areas around campus.

Having been a museum director, it was clear Grobman was interested in a museum, but he didn’t have a building or even vacant classroom space. Grobman secured a dozen exhibit cases and hired a staffer to oversee the display of artifacts and art.

These few exhibit cases served as the inspiration for and predecessor to UMSL’s hosting of the distinguished St. Louis Mercantile Library, which makes its home in the university’s Thomas Jefferson Library.

Established in 1846 by St. Louis civic leaders and philanthropists, the Mercantile Library is the oldest library west of the Mississippi River. The library—which focuses on Western Expansion, the history of St. Louis, and American river and rail transportation— makes its collections widely available to patrons on the regional and national level. But cultural enrichment doesn’t only come in the form of museum artifacts; it can be obtained by building community.

And it was with this idea in mind that Ron Edwards, former Office of Student Activities staff member, developed Wednesday Noon Live, a popular concert series that became a bit of an UMSL institution, presenting more than two hundred shows during its 14year existence. Starting in 1979 as a way to build community among UMSL students, Wednesday Noon Live brought musical acts as big as The Allman Brothers to the campus at a time of day when the most students were on campus to enjoy them: noon.

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“

In 1990, another significant event occurred when Blanche Touhill

You will find that most

was tapped as chancellor, prompting a sea change that solidified

of the joy in life is in the journey, in the process, not the destination.

”

the place of the arts in the university. Touhill, who had worked at

—Gary Belsky, Editor in Chief of ESPN The Magazine

UMSL as a history professor since the early days, began to push into existence the chancellor’s dreams of a university with world-class arts programming. Says Hylton: “Dr. Touhill really made the arts a focus of her administration, so some of the plans that had been in place for years were pulled out of the drawer and looked at, and in a lot of the cases, were implemented. Under her chancellorship, it wasn’t just developing a performing arts center; it was developing all of the arts.”

Another exciting development came in 1996 with the acquisition of a new building to house classes for fine arts major. Prior to the university obtaining and renovating the Fine Arts Building, the art department was mainly an art history department. Post renovation, the university presented students with an increased offering of studio art classes, including graphic design and photography. A few years later, an addition to the building was added to facilitate printmaking courses and an educational certificate program to teach art. Later, a new building was acquired nearby and the university was able to offer three-dimensional art and pottery courses. Today, the university’s awardwinning graphic design department is nationally recognized.

Dan Younger, photography professor and former BFA Coordinator, remembers the excitement of building a cutting-edge laboratory for fine arts students in the new building. Younger says, “We started in ’96 after computers were an essential part of art, so our building did not have to be retro-fitted for computers. It had, at the time, three computer labs built from scratch that were part of the original design.” The department has since added a fourth computer lab, and hopes to add a fifth to keep up with the growing synergy between digital technology and art.

That same year, at the urging of a man with an unrivaled passion for community outreach, the Des Lee Collaborative Vision was founded. Businessman, E. Desmond Lee, in conjunction with Touhill, developed the collaborative to bring art, among other academic

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subjects, to children in populations traditionally undeserved. Des Lee Professor and filmmaker, Adeniyi Coker, has seen firsthand the value of the Collaborative’s programs. As an endowed professor in African American studies, Coker directs the annual Des Lee Africa Documentary Film Festival. The festival, established in 2007, provides filmmakers from all over the world opportunities to show their works and shines a positive light on St. Louis—the place the internationally exhibited festival calls home. Coker praises Lee for the festival’s positive impact: “I think he saw why we exist on this planet. Ultimately I think he understood what it’s all about. It’s funny when I go to places like Cameroon for the film festival. It’s held in a very poor school, they don’t have anything. They get up and thank the Des Lee Collaborative for the opportunity. It’s very touching because it’s Central Africa, with all this poverty around us, but here people are taken up with something that Des Lee intended. It’s really, really moving.”

In 1998, UMSL further established its position as a major player in the St. Louis arts scene when it began offering a master of fine arts in creative writing. At the time, the only MFA of this kind was at Washington University in St. Louis, known for quality, but quality with a very high price tag. According to current UMSL MFA director John Dalton, one of the department’s most unique features is the hands-on literary journal editing experience it offers its students. Dalton says, “Lots of universities have on-campus literary journals. Some are loosely attached to an MFA program.

Others function independently. Here at the University of MissouriSt. Louis, our literary journal, Natural Bridge, is an integral part of our curriculum. Our MFA students all take English 5190: Literary Journal Editing, a class that allows them to critically review hundreds of poetry, fiction and non-fiction submissions sent from all corners of America and beyond. They choose the best work and take part in editing and arranging the finished journal. It’s an invaluable experience. Only by reviewing many literary magazine submissions does an MFA student know when his or her own work is polished and complete enough to go out in the world seeking publication.”

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Just a few years after the MFA program was established, the College

of faculty and students, is very different for the performing and visual

of Fine Arts and Communications was founded—an important step

arts . . . There are many things—everything from daily operations to

in solidifying UMSL’s commitment to the arts as a legitimate field of

budgeting considerations, especially the tenure and promotion types of

study in the academy. Prior to the establishment of CoFAC, UMSL’s

things—where faculty achievement and daily work is so unlike what

arts programs were under the large umbrella of the College of Arts and

people in traditional academic departments do . . . their work is mainly

Sciences, where they were subject to traditional academic guidelines

represented in traditional research, archive work, and publications. We

and standards which some observers said were ill-suited for the

do some of that, and we do it quite well, but the dominant feature on

studio. According to James Richards, interim dean of CoFAC, “The

the art side is that [the work is] more in creative activity.” Richards also

nature of the work we do, especially the research and creative work

says that CoFAC seeks to represent “a combined artistic community,” which is most evident in the multi-functionality of the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center.

The renowned Touhill Performing Arts Center had been a dream in the making since 1975, when it was first proposed by then Chancellor Grobman, who was seeking to round-out the campus with specialized facilities. The building of a performing arts center was approved by the state and added to the state’s building list in 1979, where it stayed in limbo for two decades. The idea was languishing behind other University of Missouri campus’ needs when Touhill came into office in 1990. She made it her personal mission to get the funding needed to build the center, whose doors finally opened in 2003.

One of the groups benefitting from the Touhill is UMSL’s theater department. Says Coker: “I think the theater department contributes to the diversity of productions for the St. Louis community. We carry many shows that most theater production companies might avoid because they reason their clientele would dislike it. We don’t do bread and butter shows that we know would make money because they are popular. Because we are a university we have the advantage of picking shows that are rare or shows that have a message behind them or shows that are about the human condition.”

But it isn’t only UMSL’s academic departments that are benefiting from access to a world-class performance space; for the artist-inresidence dance company, Modern American Dance Company (MADCO), the Touhill’s support has proven invaluable. The company’s director, Stacy West, attributes much of the recent success

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to having a secure place to call home: “The company has changed a lot since it’s been at the Touhill because having a safe home that is underwritten for us by the university allows us to take the financial resources that we were putting into rent and other facilities and put it into the work and hiring the best choreographers and dancers. It has made our quality jump because we’re now feeling more stable and are at a place where the work is our focus. It has really taken the pressure off all that day-to-day management so we can focus on what we’re here to do, so I think audiences have seen the quality of the work get better.”

The Touhill is also an extraordinary resource for the St. Louis community, bringing 100,000 people a year through its doors.

Chancellor Thomas George notes the performing arts center’s multi-purpose qualities: “The opening of The Touhill in 2003 was, and continues to be, a centerpiece of UMSL’s fine arts strategy.

The College of Fine Arts and Communication was created to take advantage of this new venue and is doing an outstanding job of ensuring the Touhill serves the dual role of teaching lab and unique community performance venue.”

One of the individuals bringing droves of audiences through the Touhill’s doors is world-renowned composer, pianist and organist, Barbara Harbach. Since joining the university in 2004 as a professor of music, she has premiered eighteen original works at the performance venue, including acclaimed operas, symphonies and musicals.

Harbach, who is also director of the Women in the Arts organization and senior editor of WomenArts Quarterly Journal at the university, often pens her compositions with underrepresented groups in mind as part of her personal mission to empower women creators in all genres of art. As part of this mission, Harbach created the international Women in the Arts Conference, which in 2005 and 2011 brought artists from around the world to UMSL to perform within the Touhill’s welcoming walls. She says, “Part of a university’s mission is to support underrepresented groups. Any time we do something in Women in

Dr. Barbara Harbach, distinguished composer and professor of music. (Photo by Stephanie Zettl)

the Arts, it’s under the auspices of the university. So we are definitely helping promote the university in the arts as a high profile and quality

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institution that represents many women who are outstanding in their fields in the arts.”

With the Touhill thriving, UMSL is now focused on its next innovative venture in the arts: UMSL at Grand Center, where UMSL’s own St. Louis Public Radio (90.7 KWMU) recently relocated. George sees great potential for expanding UMSL’s arts partnerships at the new location: “Classes being held in UMSL at Grand Center have started, St. Louis Public Radio is on the air, and we are thrilled to have the St. Louis community see the exciting things the University of Missouri– St. Louis is doing in Grand Center. We are moving forward on our working relationships with our many other arts, education and media partners, such as the Nine Network of Public Media, the St. Louis Beacon, St. Louis Symphony, Jazz at the Bistro, Contemporary Art Museum, the Sheldon, and the Kranzberg Arts Center.”

Arts are a crucial part of higher education. It’s a truth UMSL has valued from its inception, exemplified in its implementation of plans to serve the St. Louis region in a way no other area school can: by providing city dwellers and students from across the world, with a rich cultural education, so they may be prepared for all the opportunities the world has in store. Says George: “Great urban centers attract and support vibrant fine arts activities. St. Louis is a great urban region and the University of Missouri–St. Louis is a central point for fine arts education, performance and displays.”

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“

One’s purpose is more

important than positions. Know your purpose and be purposeful in each position. Take the time to perfect a craft aligned with your purpose.

”

—Art McCoy, superintendent of the Ferguson-Florissant School District

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COMPETITION

Triton Spirit on the Fields and Courts Mary Ann Mitchell

F

rom the classrooms to the competition fields, University of Missouri–St. Louis student-athletes have built a legacy of succeeding at the highest level. Shortly after the university was founded in 1963, intercollegiate athletics were introduced as part of the campus experience, and is now ingrained in its

landscape. Since its first year of intercollegiate

club teams and university junior varsity

competition, the Department of Athletics has

teams, was the first intercollegiate sport

grown from an NAIA program to an NCAA

to be played. Men’s tennis also began

Division II member institution that sponsors

competing at NAIA level that school year.

11 programs and competes in the highly competitive Great Lakes Valley Conference.

Intercollegiate competition on the

In the beginning, UMSL lacked physical facilities and as men’s basketball began its program, it was forced to play

UMSL campus began for the first time in

home games at Concordia Seminary

1966. The Rivermen, as they were initially

gymnasium, Kiel Auditorium or

referred to, competed in the National

Normandy High School, which is also

Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and

where they practiced. It wasn’t until 1971

were unaffiliated with any conference.

Men’s basketball, which had previously been competing against junior colleges,

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when the current basketball playing facility—the Mark Twain Athletic & Fitness Center—was completed.

Chuck Smith, a name synonymous with UMSL Athletics, was hired in 1966 as the school’s first director of athletics and first men’s basketball coach. Under his leadership, the winning ways of the Rivermen rapidly became a tradition on the UMSL campus. Smith guided the men’s basketball program to the NAIA District 16 championship and national finals in only its third year of intercollegiate competition (1968–69), and in its second year as a member of the NCAA College Division (1972– 73), they christened the new Mark Twain Building with a regional championship and a trip to the NCAA Division II national tournament.

By 1969, UMSL had added four more men’s programs, including cross country, golf, baseball and soccer and basketball was no longer the only varsity athletic team enjoying success. The golfers, coached by Larry Berres, finished among the top 16 teams in the NAIA finals in 1969–70 and a year later they competed in the NCAA College Division Tournament, while the baseball team, under the direction of Arnold Copeland, earned its first College World Series trip in 1972 in just its fourth season of play.

Shortly after becoming an intercollegiate sport, men’s soccer left its own mark, winning the school’s first NCAA championship in 1973 under the direction of Don Dallas. The Rivermen defeated the University of California-Fullerton, 3-0, in the NCAA Division II title game to hoist the national championship trophy in just its sixth year. Junior Kevin Missey scored two goals in the win, while sophomore Mark LeGrand scored once as UMSL finished the season unbeaten with an 11–0–3 record.

UMSL men’s soccer continued to dominate the national scene as the program made 14 straight NCAA Tournament appearances from 1972–85.

UMSL’s move from the NAIA to the NCAA occurred in the fall of 1970 after an UMSL committee felt the move would be in the best interest of the university and that it would start in building 2009-10 GLVC Freshman Golfer of the Year, Shweta Galande, qualified for the NCAA Division II National Championship the following year.

schedules of higher caliber in all UMSL sports. continued on page 84

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UMSL ALL AMERICANS Baseball Josh Banks (Third Team, 1995; Second Team, 1996) Brad Beckwith (Honorable Mention, 1970) Eric Blaha (Second Team, 1998) Bob Bone (Honorable Mention, 1976) Dan Chinnici (Second Team, 1995) Chuck Diering (Honorable Mention, 1975) Marty Flores (Honorable Mention, 1979) Dan Geary (Third Team, 1985) John Horvath (Honorable Mention, 1973) Jim Lockett (Second Team, 1979) Skip Mann (Honorable Mention 1978 and 1979) Jim Munden (First Team, 1972) Bob Mutnansky (First Team, 1993) Dennis Olson (Third Team, 1977) Greg Ready (First Team, 1978; Honorable Mention, 1977) Jim Reiter (Third Team, 2003) Andy Runzi (First Team, 1993; Third Team, 1992) Brian Rupp (Second Team, 1992) Todd Schmidt (Second Team, 1996) Pete Serrano (Third Team, 1984) Greg Shepherd (Third Team, 1993) Mike Stellern (Second Team, 1982) Ron Tessler (Honorable Mention, 1976) Grayling Tobias (Honorable Mention, 1977) Frank Tusinski (First Team, 1973) Jim Winklemann (Third Team, 1977) Men’s Basketball Bob Bone (1974–75, 1975-76, 1976–77) Greg Daust (1971–72) Chris Pilz (1990–91) Jack Stenner (1968–69) Women’s Basketball Gina Gregory (1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87) Monica Steinhoff (1988–89) Kris Wilmesher (1985–86, 1987–88, 1988–89) Men’s Golf Dave Rhoads (1992, 1993) Softball Laurie Aldy (Second Team, 1987) Ally DeFosset (Third Team, 2009) Lisa Houska (First Team, 1991; Second Team, 1989)

Men’s Soccer Steve Buckley (1970, 1972) Kevin Missey (1970, 1973, 1974) John Garland (1972) Frank Tusinski (1972, 1973) Dominic Barczewski (1979, 1980) Dan Muesenfechter (1979, 1980) Tim Murphy (1981) John Stahl (1984) Ted Hantak (1985) Terry Brown (1986) Mark Reiter (1987) Scott Wibbenmeyer (1987, 1988) Jeff Robben (1988) John Galkowski (1989) Dave Gauvain (1989) Scott Litschgi (1991, 1992) Craig Frederking (1991, 1992) Todd Rick (1994) Women’s Soccer Jenni Burton (1995) Kathy Casso (1987) Cindy Deibel (1981) Beth Ernst (1996) Stephanie Gabbert (1988) Jan Gettemeyer (1981, 1982, 1983) Joan Gettemeyer (1981, 1982, 1983) Patty Kelley (1982) Debbie Lewis (1983) Carmen Llorico (1992) Sue Richert (1982) Men’s Swimming Dan Bostelmann (1992, two time) Mike Brickey (1991, two time; 1992, six time) Ted Fischer (1992, seven time) Jeff Heveroh (1991, three time; 1992, four time; 1993, two time) Devlin McDonough (1991; 1992, two time) Dave Roither (1991; 1992, two time) Stuart Vogt (1988, three time; 1989, three time)

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UMSL SPORTS HALL OF FAME STUDENT ATHLETES Jennifer (Burton) Anderson— Women’s Soccer (2007) Bob Bone—Men’s Basketball/Baseball (2001) Brad Beckwith—Baseball (2005) Ron Brewer—Men’s Golf (2012) Nicole Christ— Softball/Women’s Basketball (2010) Gina Gregory-Bowders— Women’s Basketball (2001) Kathy Casso—Women’s Soccer (2005) Greg Daust—Men’s Basketball (2001) Ron Edgar—Baseball (2005) Lisa Houska-Dey— Women’s Basketball/Softball (2002) Craig Frederking—Men’s Soccer (2003) Stephanie Gabbert—Women’s Soccer (2005) Jan Gettemeyer-Sansone— Women’s Soccer (2001) Joan Gettemeyer—Women’s Soccer (2004) Lauren Glenn—Women’s Golf (2012) Jim Goessling—Men’s Basketball (2007) Jeff Heveroh—Men’s Swimming (2004) Pat Hogan—Men’s Soccer (2010) Hubert Hoosman—Men’s Basketball (2007) Tom January—Men’s Tennis (2003) Sharon Kampwerth—Volleyball (2004) Laurie Aldy-Kuchno— Women’s Soccer/Softball (2002) Jim Lockett—Baseball (2007) Scott Luczak—Men’s Soccer/Baseball (2010) Leo (Skip) Mann—Baseball (2010) Carrie Marino—Women’s Soccer (2010) James Munden—Baseball (2003) Dan Muesenfechter—Men’s Soccer (2007) Chris Pilz—Men’s Basketball (2002) Ron Porter—Men’s Basketball (2012) Greg Ready—Baseball (2002) David Rhoads—Men’s Golf (2003) Jeff Robben—Men’s Soccer (2002) Dave Roither—Men’s Swimming (2004) Andrew Runzi—Baseball (2001) Brian Rupp—Baseball (2005)

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Chris Sanders—Men’s Golf (2007) Pete Serrano—Baseball (2010) William Shanks—Baseball (2012) Tim Smith—Men’s Soccer (2007) Monica Steinhoff—Women’s Basketball (2003) Jack Stenner—Men’s Basketball (2001) Grayling Tobias— Baseball/Men’s Basketball (2003) Frank Tusinski—Men’s Soccer/Baseball (2001) Stuart Vogt—Swimming (2004) Scott Wibbenmeyer—Men’s Soccer (2005) Kris Wilmesher—Women’s Basketball (2004) Andrea (Wirkus) Mitchell—Softball (2010) COACHES Judy Berres—Women’s Sports (2001) Arnold Copeland—Baseball (2003) Don Dallas—Men’s Soccer (2001) Jim Dix—Baseball (2001) Ken Hudson—Women’s Soccer (2002) Charles “Chico” Jones—Men’s Basketball (2012) Rich Meckfessel—Men’s Basketball (2007) Jim Niederkorn—Men’s Golf (2003) Chuck Smith—Men’s Basketball (2001) MARTY HENDIN DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD Skip Erwin (2004) Marty Hendin (2003) John Kazanas (2005) Barb Schorp—Adminstrative Assistant (2002) Rita Hoff-Scott—Women’s Sports (2002) Ted Struckmann—Trainer (2001) TEAMS TEAMS 1971-72 Men’s Basketball Team (2012) 1972 Baseball Team (2010) 1973 Men’s Soccer Team (2004) 1987-88 Men’s Basketball Team (2007) 1992 & 1993 Men’s Golf Teams (2012)

(year of induction)

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Women’s sports were introduced to UMSL in 1974–75, two years after the birth of Title IX. While several teams competed prior, this was the first year women’s sports received official recognition.

Instrumental in building women’s athletic programs was Judy Berres, who coached three of the four women’s teams that first year.

She came to UMSL in 1971, a year in which women’s collegiate athletics was nothing more than a dream to many. Her energy helped UMSL progress from club sports in 1972 and 1973 to the first women’s intercollegiate athletic competition on Sept. 27, 1974, when UMSL defeated Meramec Community College, 1–0, in field hockey. She also started the volleyball program and guided the team to a 74–21 record over its first three seasons.

By the 1980s, women’s sports were on the rise and the women’s soccer program earned the first postseason trip for an UMSL women’s team in 1981, the same year the school added it as an official sport.

The team, under the direction of head coach Ken Hudson, placed fourth in the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) national soccer tournament. Hudson directed UMSL to NCAA Tournament appearances in each of the following years.

UMSL joined its first athletics conference during the 198081 year, becoming members of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA), where the school captured four conference titles, including two in men’s golf (1992 and 1993) and one each in baseball (1984) and softball (1989). UMSL would remain there until 1996–97 when it joined the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC).

In 1997, UMSL added women’s golf, bringing the total number of intercollegiate programs to 11, including six women’s and five men’s, which represents its current status. During the last decade, the UMSL women’s golf program has elevated its stature with three straight NCAA regional appearances (2010–2012).

The women’s golf program hasn’t been the only sport to see success in the newest century. Baseball won the school’s only

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GLVC title in 2003, qualifying for its 13th NCAA Regional in its storied program, while men’s golf has made three NCAA Regional appearances since 2000.

UMSL has been known as the Tritons since 2007 with its mascot named Louie the following year. The new mascot stemmed from a pressing desire to create a mascot that would be not only be embraced by the student body, but would also embrace UMSL’s large female athlete population. The Riverman mascot, which was chosen primarily for its uniqueness and for its historical significance in St. Louis area, was never widely accepted and once women’s sports came on the scene, it became even less popular.

Over the years, the university commissioned a number of committees to find a new mascot, but each effort was unsuccessful.

In 2004–05, many students rallied around the name Hellbenders, but the administration was unimpressed.

Finally, in the fall of 2006 another committee was put together and the six finalists were determined, which included: Mud Cats, Archers, Aviators, Red Thunder, Tritons and the Rivermen. The committee recommended Tritons and Mud Cats to Chancellor Thomas George, who then chose the Tritons.

Academically, UMSL student-athletes have enjoyed just as much success as on the playing courts, boasting higher graduation rates than the average student body and maintaining a cumulative grade point average of around 3.00. Each year, an average of 55 student-athletes are named to the Great Lakes Valley Conference Academic All-Conference team, while in its history, nine studentathletes have earned the distinction of Academic All-American, including Bob Bone, who was a three-time recipient in men’s basketball and a two-time recipient in baseball.

In its comparatively brief intercollegiate history, the University of Missouri-St. Louis has made a steady rise to become a competitive force at the Division II level and is looking toward a future of building champions in the classroom, community and fields of competition.

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The renovation was also a key factor in the wellness component of Campus Recreation being created. Originally, this used to be housed under physical education and was geared towards active adults. Once Campus Recreation took it over, they began offering a variety of aerobics programs and today offer almost 30 different options a year, including zumba, spinning and yoga.

Rec treks, which are off-campus student outings that provide low-cost, fun and relaxing off-campus adventures, were also implemented. What first started as a bus and tailgate trip to a University of Missouri football game in Columbia, has turned into 10–15 different events a year, including paintball, laser tag, zip lining, kayaking and horseback riding.

Other components of Campus Recreation are personal training and martial arts.

CAMPUS RECREATION

While the 1990 and 2012 renovations of the Mark Twain

Competition on the UMSL campus isn’t just centered on

Athletic & Fitness Center marked major turning points for

intercollegiate athletics. Students of any age, size or athletic ability

Campus Recreation, the construction of the new 94,000-square-

have the opportunity to show off their skills or just have a good

foot recreation center, expected to be completed in the fall of

time and meet new people by participating in intramurals or other

2015, will undoubtedly mark another turning point and will be

programs offered by Campus Recreation.

part of the continued growth of the department.

The new facility will be built just south of the Millennium

Since its founding, it has grown from ten intramural sports per year to a department that now offers more than 20 intramural

Student Center and will include a three-court gymnasium, a six-lane

sports, as well as a variety of other activities, including wellness

lap pool, an elevated track, a juice bar, locker rooms and a wellness

programs, martial arts and rec treks.

center. With the new facility, even more options will available to the UMSL community and Campus Recreation will continue to live up

Campus Recreation first began under the leadership of Larry

to its motto of having something for everyone.

Berres and Mary Chappell. In 1981, Larry Coffin, current assistant director of athletics, recreational services and facilities, was named intramural coordinator, and under his direction, the program has

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become what it is today.

“

Life will throw you plenty

of fastballs, and seems that life’s arm speed is only getting

While Coffin’s leadership has been instrumental in the growth

faster. You will need to anticipate and project the future if you

of Campus Recreation, he also points to the 1990 renovation of the Mark Twain Athletic & Fitness Center as a turning point in its

are to get a hit. And beware of the curve ball.

development as open recreation hours increased from 50 per week

”

—Stephen Lehmkuhle, Senior VP of Academic Affairs, UM System

to nearly 72, giving students, staff and faculty more options.

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“Civic engagement is woven into the fabric of UMSL..�

Innovative Technology Enterprises (ITE) at UMSL is a business incubator for promising start-up companies.

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SYNERGY

Shared Values, Shared Benefits: UMSL’s Public-Private Partnerships

By Ryan Krull

G

reat synergies don’t just happen. Collaborations, partnerships and joint-ventures require foresight and offer opportunities for the parties. Fifty years of history has shown that when University of Missouri–St. Louis partners with private enterprise, it really is a win-win for those involved.

Growing exponentially, UMSL has

UMSL’s partners include prestigious

found opportunities for synergy at a level

corporations such as Boeing, Express

unmatched by most higher-learning

Scripts, Enterprise and Anheuser-Busch.

institutions. UMSL ranked 14th nationally

But UMSL’s partners also include a list

in civic partnerships, according to a

of nonprofit entities spanning the breath

2009 Westfield State College study. In

of St. Louis, the region and the entire

2010, the Carnegie Foundation for the

Midwest: The Missouri Botanical Garden,

Advancement of Teaching designated

St. Louis Public Radio, the St. Louis

UMSL as a “Community Engaged

Metropolitan Police Department, and the

Campus,” a recognition given to only 3 percent of all colleges and universities in the nation. Civic engagement is woven into the fabric of UMSL.

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Ryan Krull is a UMSL MFA fiction student and a native St. Louisan. His fiction and journalism have appeared online and in print.

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Saint Louis Zoo, to name but a few. UMSL has created synergies

raising, construction, land development, the environment and

with a diverse range of entities over its first 50 years, and each one

planning, to name a few. Importantly, they also lend their names

has been built on two things: shared values and shared benefit.

and prestige to the university in its dealing with the community.

But high-caliber partnerships don’t happen overnight and honors

By Grobman’s departure in 1985, UMSL was not yet partnering

like the ones given by the Carnegie Foundation aren’t awarded for

with outside entities at the level it eventually would, but the

a single year’s efforts; they are recognitions of decades of work. To

school’s fourth chancellor had extended the school’s influence

truly understand all that has been accomplished requires a look

more deeply into the community. He invited the community’s

back to where the university has been and what it has done to

influence upon the campus as well.

arrive where it is today.

Grobman knew that community engagement was the path

In the 1960s, early university leaders were responsible for

to campus growth. By doing this, he laid the groundwork for

literally building a school. Construction of classroom buildings,

Marguerite Ross Barnett, who became chancellor in 1986—and

securing good faculty and struggling to add graduate programs

who in just four years took the school’s partnerships to remarkable

were the primary concerns, while partnership and engagement

new levels.

took a backseat.

Immediately upon her arrival from City University of New

But in 1975 when Arnold Grobman—a highly regarded

York, Barnett expanded the school’s library, creating its lower level

biologist who worked on the Manhattan Project—became

floors and the space that today houses the St. Louis Mercantile

chancellor, he pointedly defined UMSL as an “urban university,”

Library. At the time, the state government was not willing to fund

an institution intrinsically linked with its hometown.

the entirety of expansion. Barnett was told that if the university

Grobman clearly understood that if UMSL reached out to

could raise $1.2 million, the state would supply an additional

the community and partnered, that in time the community

$4.8 million. It was a tall order that perhaps then-Governor John

would support the campus with powerful outreach to the

Ashcroft didn’t expect Barnett to be able to meet. Until that point,

curators, the state government, and the Coordinating Board of Higher Education.

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An early outreach initiative was Grobman’s creation of the first

“

You must remember that

the people who succeed are the ones that show up early

Chancellor’s Council, which now serves as an advisory board

and leave late. They are always dependable. They learn as

populated with smart, recognized and powerful individuals from private business, who in-turn lend their private-sector expertise to

much about as many things possible. They make themselves

help the chancellor guide the university. In creating the council,

valuable. If you go out of your way to learn as many jobs as

Grobman put the university squarely in the minds of many of the

you can, you increase your chances of staying employed!

most influential metro-area business leaders.

Don’t ever say. ‘That’s not my job.’ Always jump at the

Today, the council is comprised of top executives from Boeing,

opportunity to learn something new!

Ameren, Cassidy-Turley, Enterprise, Peabody Energy and

”

—Lee Armstrong Clear, Vice President & Marketing Manager of Clear Channel Radio-St. Louis

approximately thirty-five other large institutions. These individuals offer the chancellor their private sector know-how in finance, fund-

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UMSL fundraising initiatives had never raised more than $30,000 at any one time. Barnett was up to the task.

Barnett had the savvy and presence to solicit St. Louis’s most powerful CEOs, confident she would be able to walk away with a check. Her strategy? Check your employee rosters, she told them, and see how many of them are UMSL graduates. In most cases—even at that early stage—more of these companies’ collegeeducated employees had gone to UMSL than any other single institution, and thus the school was deserving of their support.

McDonnell-Douglas, Emerson and Anheuser-Busch, the three companies Barnett had set her sights on, each donated $400,000.

As a sign of the inroads Barnett was making, the chancellor was invited to sit on many corporate boards, including Monsanto’s and was appointed as an ex-officio with the all-business Civic Progress Board, a particular milestone that gave UMSL a seat at the table with the other university heads and the city’s most prominent CEOs. When Barnett left UMSL in 1990 to become president of the University of Houston, she was replaced by Blanche Touhill, a former UMSL history professor who carried the torch passed on to her by Barnett. Like her predecessor, Touhill joined boards— eventually over 120 of them—including nonprofits such as the Missouri Historical Society and the Saint Louis Science Center.

Touhill made it a point to collaborate with these institutions, with UMSL faculty frequently giving guest lectures at these locations.

One of these partnering entities, the distinguished St. Louis Mercantile Library, eventually left its downtown home and moved into the Thomas Jefferson Library on campus, occupying the space that had been part of Barnett’s library expansion.

In addition to creating relationships, Touhill was able to rely on past supporters to aid in new initiatives. In 1993, a $300,000 contribution from McDonnell Douglas played a large part in establishing the joint UMSL-Washington University engineering program.

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Then in 1996, Touhill was approached by local businessman-

working with Des Lee and nonprofits, George deserves equal credit

turned-philanthropist Des Lee, who asked how UMSL could be

for his approach to partnerships with private-sector entities.

more connected than it had already become? The answer was to

In 2005, the largest company in the state of Missouri, Express

further strengthen existing partnerships, resulting in the formation

Scripts, was looking to relocate from its headquarters in suburban

of the Des Lee Collaborative Vision. Initially funded by the retired

St. Louis. Dozens of suitors across the country wanted to be the

businessman and organized by Touhill, the DLCV had a profound

new home of Express Scripts, but the company chose UMSL’s

effect on the university and the St. Louis region. In just two years,

campus, and for the last five years its corporate headquarters has

the Collaborative Vision grew to include over 20 professorships

been located at the UMSL Research Park, a 100-acre business,

on campus. A DLVC endowed professorship was unique in that

technology and research park on the university’s North Campus.

faculty members holding these positions had to have a strong

This one-of-a-kind relationship has been praised in national

community service aspect to their position. The Collaborative

outlets such as the Wall Street Journal. Express Scripts CEO

Vision partnered closely with many local ethnic populations, and

(and UMSL alumnus) George Paz appeared with the chancellor

professorships in Chinese, Japanese, Irish, Greek and African

on CNBC, and Chancellor George is frequently asked by other

studies all became part of the DLCV.

universities to share his expertise on academic institutions

Today, the DLVC includes 35 professorships, all but a handful

partnering with large corporations.

here at UMSL. Some of UMSL’s most prominent faculty

Express Scripts being on UMSL’s campus has created

members are E. Desmond Lee endowed professors. Elizabeth

innumerable synergies. Access to a Fortune 100 company

Kellogg, associate chair of the Department of Biology, is the Des

ensures that UMSL business students can see how what they

Lee Professor in Botanical Studies. Much of her work involves

learn in the classroom applies to real-life situations. Express

attracting students from around the world to do research with

Scripts executives come in to the classroom to lend their

her at both UMSL’s Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center as

experiences. Students also have great access to internships

well as the Missouri Botanical Garden. Similarly, current biology

and networking. But the educational benefits run both ways—

program chair Patricia Parker is a Des Lee Professor of Zoological

UMSL offers an MBA program to cohorts of Express Scripts

Studies and a senior scientist at the Saint Louis Zoo.

employees and the instruction for these classes takes place in

In 2003, Touhill was succeeded by Thomas George, who had

the Express Scripts facility.

been chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Just

Under George, the school has built additional partnerships,

as his predecessor had been highly innovative in her approach to

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supports the Center for Emerging Technologies, co-established the Center of Research, Technology and Entrepreneurial Exchange

As a final word, I want

(CORTEX) and has even constructed its own technology

to tell you what my father told me on my graduation day. He

incubator. Companies populating these parks and incubators

said, ‘Son, you have done well and you have made me proud.

are mostly start-ups, driven by entrepreneurial spirit. Some were

Now make me happy and get a job.’

”

founded by UMSL faculty and others by outside entrepreneurs or researchers from other universities. These facilities provide start-

—Gary Dollar, President & CEO at United Way of Greater St. Louis

ups with the necessary space and resources to grow.

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UMSL’s own incubator, Innovative Technology Enterprises, is off Natural Bridge Road, halfway between UMSL and Lambert Airport. ITE was constructed with significant funding from Ameren, the Missouri Technology Corporation and the US Small Business Administration. UMSL’s commitment to all types of St. Louis businesses is exemplified by ITE, a place in which STL Medical Devices, a company founded by an UMSL professor looking to create a non-invasive blood glucose monitoring system, works under the same roof as Onshore Outsourcing, a company that trains specialists in the information technology field, helping to fill IT jobs in America.

As UMSL’s reputation for partnership grows, so do the opportunities for synergy. In 2008, Anheuser-Busch Foundation announced a $2.5 million gift in construction seed monies for a new College of Business Administration building. And in 2012, UMSL’s Gateway for Greatness campaign raised more than $153 million—a far cry from the $30,000 ceiling UMSL was unable to crash earlier. But even as the partnerships grow, the values and principles comprising their foundation remain the same, while building upon the ties; a classic example is that Express Scripts has become a major funder of the BRIDGE program.

“Partnerships . . . are the essence to growing the university in times of limited resources and competing interests,” says Martin Leifeld, vice chancellor for university advancement, who led the Gateway for Greatness campaign. “The university has long leveraged its relationships with the business and broader communities for the betterment of all.”

Shared benefit, shared values. Those principles have driven university partnerships and will propel new partnerships for the next 50 years, ensuring that both UMSL and its partners continue to serve the St. Louis area and beyond.

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ITE’s mainframe computers provide massive computing power to help start-ups.

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“The founders had a vision. UMSL has a plan.”

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FUTURE

Daunting and Unknown, but Eagerly Awaited

By Ron Gossen

A

50-year anniversary would seem to be quite an accomplishment. In academic institutional years, however, UMSL is but an adolescent. After all, Saint Louis University was founded 195 years ago, Mizzou is a spry 174 and Washington University in St. Louis is a come-lately at 160 years old.

As an adolescent, has UMSL met or exceeded the collective vision of “the Founders?” Certainly, that vision evolved

UMSL became the national research institution it is today.

No one can yet say whether that

quickly, and not without a huge measure

collective vision has been met or

of competitive dissention in both St.

exceeded. Answers can honestly range

Louis and the state. Originally seen by

from “beyond the wildest imagination” to

some as a two-year college, then only a

a simple “what else could be expected?”

bachelors degree-granting institution, then—with considerable argument— UMSL added master’s and doctoral programs. It wasn’t easy. Powerful forces wanted to limit UMSL. They lost. Their loss was the St. Louis region’s gain and

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Ron Gossen is UMSL’s chief marketing officer, leads the institution’s marketing and communications functions and teaches in the College of Business Administration. He is a Texan by birth and demeanor, but a St. Louisan by choice.

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The important question today is the future-vision. Where is the University of Missouri–St. Louis going? What will it be in 2063? Few of us will know, but we can certainly articulate the vision for UMSL as it enters institutional post-adolescent maturity.

Treading Water in Turbulent Seas While the private colleges and universities in the St. Louis region have seen building booms over the past decade, UMSL didn’t see a single construction crane on its skyline. From the completion of the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center in 2003 through the spring of 2013, on-campus nary a new classroom or lab was added. Other universities (now competing for an exceedingly scarce resource—new students) were building, building and building, but UMSL wasn’t.

Yes, most assuredly, the campus was improved with absolutely essential building renovations. Improvements to the aging Mark Twain

More Greeks and a Swift Farewell By Curt Coonrod The next 50 years will see increased use of innovative technology with UMSL students engaged in research and learning opportunities with faculty from across the world via hologram imaging. Parking spots will be easier to find as cyberspace will allow students to engage in academic inquiry through iCloud.

While the virtual aspect of the university will continue to grow, so will the on-campus experience. Student life will be enhanced by a hub of activity created by the revitalization of Natural Bridge which will bring businesses catering to university students. A Greek row also will be established along Natural Bridge which will add to the student experience. Our athletic teams will be strong contenders in the Great Lakes Valley Conference with at least two teams bringing home national championships for the Tritons. And finally, UMSL will rock the metropolitan region with one of only ten bookings of the Taylor Swift Farewell Tour.

The spectacular Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center was completed in 2003, providing a regional magnet for the performing arts.

Curt Coonrod is the UMSL Vice Provost for Student Affairs.

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UMSL at Grand Center houses St. Louis Public Radio/90.7 KWMU, classrooms and public spaces. It was completed in 2012.

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Athletic Center were made. Completion of the “Great Rivers Greenway District” greenways and the St. Vincent trails systems threading through and integrating the UMSL north and south campuses immeasurably enhanced the campus’ livability and aesthetics. But, while others grew in capacity and attractive new student amenities, UMSL “made do” in a period of declining state and federal appropriations and increasing competition for both funding and students.

The one exception—and a notable one in a grand way—was the development of UMSL at Grand Center, home to UMSL’s National Public Radio affiliate St. Louis Public Radio/90.7 KWMU. The three-story, $12 million project, on Olive Street in the heart of Grand Center (and a stone’s throw from St. Louis University) houses KWMU, classrooms, faculty offices and public spaces in its 27,000

Promoting a Culture of Innovation By Sam Darandari By 2063, the main campus of the University of Missouri–St. Louis has matured into a sustainable and technology enhanced living and learning environment that is socially and economically interwoven into the fabric of the burgeoning surrounding communities.

The traditional classroom and lab spaces have been transformed into multi-use, virtual and interactive learning environments, extending their reach beyond the physical barriers of walls, buildings, regional and national boundaries. Learning and working spaces enclosed in environmentally responsive envelopes have replaced most of the 20th-century buildings and are linked through pedestrian friendly passage and gathering spaces utilizing technology enhanced innovations in building, infrastructure and information system design.

Passenger and public transportation vehicles are restricted to the periphery of learning and working facilities and their surrounding open space to create a higher density and sustainable environment that promotes collaboration and a culture of innovation.

Sam Darandari is the UMSL Director of Facilities Planning and Construction.

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square-feet. The funds were “secured,” not with state appropriations, but through an arduous capital campaign spanning several years.

Current UM System Board of Curators Chair Wayne Goode is honored on campus for having sponsored the original legislation creating UMSL.

Importantly, the new building established an UMSL beach-head in the dynamic Grand Center arts mecca. It’s a small, but dramatic UMSL statement with an exclamation point.

Changes Start in 2013 with Benton and Stadler In the forty years since the completion of UMSL’s Benton and Stadler Science Complex, the periodic table of elements went from 103 to 118. The word “electron” became a prefix to “microscope.” And, fourfunction calculators had given way to terabytes of computing power to solve scientific riddles. Yet, try as it might over the years with hopes of state funding, or bond, or system funding, UMSL’s science home saw little improvement beyond the monies it could spare from the operating budget, raise from corporate donors or pull from research grants to

Golf and Biochemistry will Reign By Lawrence (Lol) Barton In 2063, the total student enrollment will be about 25,000 but only 20 percent residents.

Doctoral programs will have expanded, especially in the fine arts, and the athletic programs will also have expanded but we will still be Division II. The campus will have a close relationship with the Glen Echo Country Club and the golf program will be nationally ranked. The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry also will be nationally ranked but will be awaiting the renovation of the Research Wing of the Science Complex, fifty years after the renovation of Benton and Stadler Halls. The campus will include the former St. Vincent’s Home (Castle Park), thereby expanding the south campus. The surroundings to the campus will have changed to accommodate the students and Natural Bridge Road will barely resemble what it is now.

Lawrence (Lol) Barton is an UMSL Professor Emeritus of Chemistry. His faculty appointment started in 1966.

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upgrade its labs or purchase badly needed equipment. Changes did not come until the campus administration—under Chancellor Thomas George’s and Vice Chancellor James Krueger’s guidance—took it upon itself to fund an addition to Benton and Stadler. They chose to finance construction bonds through the already skinny campus operating budget. That creative financing saw the first crane on campus in a decade scheduled to start work in 2013. A $30 million, 76,000-squarefoot, four-story addition to the science complex will house science teaching labs. An additional $60 million is being sought to totally renovate Benton Hall and Stadler Hall; the project is listed by the Curators of the University of Missouri System as the highest priority for state capital appropriations in fiscal year 2014.

Surfing the Waves of Change by Lawrence Frederick Higher education, including at UMSL, is driven by technology and economics. New ideas and capabilities emerge with increasing rapidity.

For decades most higher education institutions were propelled by relentless, albeit tiny incremental steps, and annual tuition and fee increases. Those paradigms were unsustainable.

Some say half of today’s institutions won’t exist in 50 years. Others say the demand for our traditional product is up and always will be. Who is right? Both. Some classic institutions will remain at a cost only possible for the elite few. Most education will be on-line from large institutions/corporations using high production values, content derived from experts, delivered by professional presenters. Active learning will assure student success in shorter time. Scale will reduce the cost. It’ll be virtual worlds for meetings, testing and hands-on aspects. Everything will be rated and blogged by students-customers. Degrees will be replaced by certificates verifying mastery of learning outcomes. Jobs will require proof of specific outcomes.

Software will enable anyone to offer courses on anything, but the marketplace will sort it out. Everybody who is willing to surf the waves of change wins.

Lawrence Frederick is the UMSL Chief Information Officer.

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Benton and Stadler Science Complex will see a new wing completed in 2015.

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Finally, the dream is awakened. UMSL as a ranked scientific research university will acquire facilities to match its faculty’s capabilities and its students’ yearning. At UMSL, hope springs eternal, but ingenuity makes things happen.

A Fit Solution When the founders envisioned it, it was simpler: open your doors, provide a quality education at a good value and the students will come. The competitive education environment 50 years later couldn’t have been imagined: competitors with no classrooms, the barest of accreditation and few doctorate-holding professors are capturing larger and larger shares of a decreasing number of college-bound students; what were then sleepy little art, religious or rural state colleges became enrollment machines with worldwide presence, the convenience of satellite campuses and multi-state enrollment plans. The insertion of “brand management” and “competitive marketing” into the search for students confused the “do well and succeed” charter that was UMSL well into its first 50 years.

A great academic offering at a value wasn’t good enough: the students demanded more of the university than “simply” education. Twenty-first century college students expected a more holistic approach—amenities.

Every college recruiter would tell you “you can’t compete without amenities, and a well-equipped fitness center is the first thought.”

UMSL was behind and losing out. The aging Mark Twain, extensively renovated in 2012 at a cost of $700,000, was but little help in the furious competition. Then, the UMSL student body came through. In March of that year, they voted a $19.25 per-credit-hour fee to fund a $36 million, 94,000-square-foot recreation center. With

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A new building for the UMSL College of Business Administration is a top funding priority for the campus and the UM System. Private fundraising is nearing half the total projected costs.

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three basketball courts, a six-lane pool, whirlpool, strength- and cardio-

Administration Building. No date for construction has been set, but

training rooms and an elevated jogging track, due to be on line in 2015,

designs have been put to paper and only time will tell when those

UMSL will finally be able to compete for amenities-favoring students.

construction cranes will enhance the UMSL skyline.

Those construction cranes are slated to begin working just south of the

Starting with a Vision—Following through with a Plan

Millennium Student Center in the fall of 2013.

The founders had a vision. UMSL has a plan. In its fiduciary

More than a Facelift for the Colleges

responsibility to the state and UMSL’s local communities, the

The Benton and Stadler Halls and the recreation center project are

administration has long fostered urban planning to guide and facilitate

underway, but, finally, a real home for the UMSL College of Business

its growth and development. Guiding subjects as far ranging as capital

Administration also seems assured. With almost $19 million raised, the

projects, road renovation and transportation, to land use strategies and

university has the necessary “match” for a new capital funding formula

sustainability, the campus master plan documents the conversion from

passed by the legislature in 2012. Budgeted at $40 million, the College

vision to plan. Updated semi-annually, it establishes a flexible process to

of Business Administration building will be built on the grassy hill just

guide physical growth, supports UMSL’s strategic direction, promotes

north of Express-Scripts Hall. The founders could not have envisioned

the quality of the physical environment and establishes goals for a

the few business courses in the College of Arts and Science would

sustainable campus.

one-day become one of the university’s most renowned offerings—an internationally respected College of Business Administration with the

Feeding Expectation By Michael Murray

promise of its own bricks-and-mortar presence on campus.

The early purchase of Marillac College and the creation of the

As a St. Louis native who has taught at other universities in the city, I am very optimistic about UMSL at 100. A while back, a new colleague began inquiring about programs he expected to find here. His expectation was to find a city university with programs to complement a major city. If you described historic limitations on UMSL, he would end the conversation: “Yes, but this is . . . ST. LOUIS.” In this state’s largest and most cosmopolitan city, he expected to find what’s available at cohort institutions in comparable towns. UMSL’s programs and level of sophistication continue to grow with the accomplishments of our alumni. As a result, in fifty years, we are likely to have more alumni on the faculty. People of the stature of Police Chief Dan Isom are likely to return in a faculty role to share experiences.

So, I’m very optimistic and expect the success of the programs we have—and the alumni who’ve have done well—to feed expectations and growing support.

UMSL South Campus fostered the growth of one of the most effective and productive nursing schools in the region, as well as enabling UMSL to offer Missouri’s only professional optometry degree. Since that purchase in the 1970s, both programs have thrived with a lessthan-optimal physical plant, and each passing year, the aging facilities emphasizes the “less” more than the “optimal.” Though early in the planning, a new $70-million-plus joint Nursing and Optometry complex on south campus is within sight, with steps being taken to create facilities worthy of their reputations.

Arts have always been a mainstay of UMSL since its earliest days. Arts, now as the College of Fine Arts and Communication, deliver their robust programs in buildings spread across both campuses, from north of University Drive, to south of Natural Bridge Road. Initial planning is underway to consolidate many of

Michael Murray is a long-time UM Board of Curators’ Teaching Professor.

those locations into a single complex built around the current Arts

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Al-Maskery, Muneer, 53 Alumni Association, 24, 27 Armbruster, Charles, 30 Arshadi, Nasser, 30 Arts Administration Building, 110 arts at UMSL, 61–75 Ashcroft, John, 91

Campus Recreation, 86 Carnahan, Robin, 50 Center for Emerging Technologies, 94 Center for International Studies, 49–50 Center for Nanoscience, 8–9 Center of Research, Technology and Entrepreneurial Exchange (CORTEX), 94 Chappell, Mary, 86 Children’s Advocacy Center, 20 Clear, Lee Armstrong, 91 Coffin, Larry, 86 Coker, Adeniyi, 69–70 College of Arts and Sciences, 35, 50, 70, 110 College of Business Administration, 8, 12, 45, 96, 108–109, 110 College of Fine Arts and Communication, 12, 61, 70, 73, 110 College of Nursing, 12 College of Optometry, 12, 45 commencement, UMSL’s first, 2–3 Community Psychological Service, 45 competition at UMSL, 77–86 confluence of UMSL, 49–58 Coonrod, Curt, 100, 100 Cope, Glen, 40 Copeland, Arnold, 78 The Current, 19

B

Baldini, Deborah, 50, 53 Barnes, Ward E., 9, 16 Barnett, Marguerite Ross and community enagagement, 40, 42 and foresight, 8 and leadership, 19, 24, 27 and synergy, 91, 93 Barton, Lawrence, 104, 104 Baxter, Warner, 11 Bellerive, Louis St. Ange de, 16 Bellerive Acres, 2 Bellerive Country Club, 4–5, 16, 21 Belsky, Gary, 66 Benton, Thomas Hart, 16 Benton and Stadler Science Complex, 104, 106, 106–107 Benton Hall, 19, 62, 104, 106, 110 Berres, Judy, 84 Berres, Larry, 78, 86 Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center and community enagagement, 45 and foresight, 11 and the future, 100 and inspiration, 70, 73, 75 and leadership, 22 photos of, 62, 100–101 Bliss, Robert, 20 Bone, Bob, 85 Boone, Anath, 24, 27 Brewer, Akemi, 56 BRIDGE, 42, 96 Bugg, James, 4, 6, 16, 19, 30, 49 Business Development Center, 45

D

Dallas, Don, 78 Dalton, John, 69 Darandari, Sam, 103, 103 Des Lee Africa Documentary Film Festival, 69 Des Lee Collaborative Vision, 47, 66, 69, 94 Dickson String Quartet, 25 Dollar, Gary, 94 Driemeier, Don, 20, 22 Driscoll, Glen, 32 Dunn, Jerry, 16

E

Eaker, Norman, 53 Edwards, Ron, 65 engagement, UMSL’s community, 39–47 Express Scripts, 22, 22–23, 94, 96 Express-Scripts Hall, 110

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Fedder, Edwin, 49 Feigenbaum, Susan K., 37 Fine Arts Building, 20, 66 first, on being, 2–3 foresight of UMSL, 1–12 Frederick, Lawrence, 106, 106 future of UMSL, 99–110

Jefferson, Thomas, 16 Johnson, Sharon, 37

K

Kellogg, Elizabeth, 94 Kries, Stephanie, 62 Krueger, James, 106 Krull, Ryan, 89

G

Galande, Shweta, 78 Gallery 210, 62, 65 Ganz, Dave, 8, 11 Garin, David, 30, 32 Gateway for Greatness, 96 George, Thomas and community enagagement, 42 and competition, 85 and confluence, 55 and foresight, 8–9, 11–12 and the future, 106 and inspiration, 73, 75 and leadership, 22 photo of, 9 and synergy, 94 Glassman, Joel, 53, 55 Goode, Wayne, 104–105 Gossen, Ron, 99 Granger, Chuck, 22, 24, 24 Grobman, Arnold, 6, 8–9, 61, 65, 70, 91

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leadership of UMSL, 15–27 Lee, E. Desmond, 24, 24, 62, 66, 69, 94 Lee, Jessyka, 39 Lee, Mary Ann, 24 LeGrand, Mark, 78 Lehmkuhle, Stephen, 86 Leifeld, Martin, 96 Lopez, Myra, 49 Lucas, Charles, 15–16 Lucas, Jean Baptiste Charles, 15–16 Lucas Hall, 16, 62

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Mansion Hill Apartments, 11 Marillac College, 20, 110 Mark Twain Athletic & Fitness Center, 78, 86, 100, 103, 108 Mark Twain Building, 78 McCoy, Art, 75 McMiller, Jonathan, 31 Millennium Student Center, 11, 20, 22, 86, 110 Milton, Amy, 1 Missey, Kevin, 78 Missouri University of Science and Technology. see University of Missouri-Rolla Mitchell, Mary Ann, 77 Mizzou. see University of Missouri-Columbia Mobile Eye Center, 45 Modern American Dance Company (MADCO), 70 Murray, Michael, 110, 110

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Harbach, Barbara, 73, 73 Hoerr, Thomas R., 6 Hoffman, Charlie, 40 Hollingsworth, Debra, 55 Hudson, Ken, 84 Hylton, John, 61, 66

I

Innovative Technology Enterprises (ITE), 88–89, 96, 96–97 inspiration at UMSL, 61–75 International House, 51 international reach of UMSL, 49–58 Isom, Dan, 110

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Natural Bridge, 69 Normandy Residence Center, 1 Nursing Administration Building, 20

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Oak Hall, 11 Office of International Studies and Programs. see Center for International Studies Olson, 9 Otto, David G., 108

photo of, 62 and research, 29 and synergy, 93–94 Trattles, Ryan, 29 the Tritons, 85 Tucker, Jean, 62

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UMSL at Grand Center, 75, 102–103, 103–104 UMSL Research Park, 94 University Meadows, 11, 20 University of Missouri-Columbia, 4, 16, 19, 99 University of Missouri-Kansas City, 4, 12 University of Missouri-Rolla, 4

Parker, Patricia, 49, 94 Paz, George, 94 Perry, John, 16, 19 Pierce, Lois H., 45 Pierre Laclede Honors College, 17, 20 Porterfield, Shirley, 37 Prokopovych, Olga, 56 Provincial House, 17, 20

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Van Uum, Elizabeth, 1, 6, 8, 20 Villa Hall, 11

R

Reagan, Denny, 58 research, role of at UMSL, 29–37 Richards, James, 70 the Rivermen, 77–78, 85

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Walker, William Thomas, 20 Washington University, 9, 45, 69, 93, 99 Weaver, John C., 2–3, 49 Wednesday Noon Live, 65 Wei, Dongying, 58 Wellness/Recreation Center, 12 West, Stacy, 70 Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center, 94 Wolff, Patricia, 62 Women in the Arts, 73 WomenArts Quarterly Journal, 73

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Samples, Bob, 15 Sandburg, Carl, 1 School of Social Work, 37, 45 Shadwell, Lindsay, 61 Simonian, Simon, 58 Smith, Chuck, 78 sports at UMSL, 77–86 St. Louis Mercantile Library, 42, 65, 91, 93 St. Louis Public Radio, 75, 89, 102–103, 103 St. Louis University, 9, 45, 99, 103 Stadler Hall, 104, 106, 110 storefronts, UMSL classes held in, 18 Suhre, Terry, 62, 65 synergy of UMSL, 89–96

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Xu, Zhi, 95

Y

Yasbin, Ron, 35 Younger, Dan, 66

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Z

Thomas Jefferson Library, 65, 93 Touhill, Blanche M. and foresight, 8 and inspiration, 66, 70 and leadership, 20, 24

Zahn, Patricia, 38–39, 47

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