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Indie Pop-Up Film Festival another perk for Film majors, and anyone else who loves celluloid, at The Woods
Through Media Corps, WWU students will soon have the opportunity to receive a wide range of experience in multimedia
When Casey Wieder served as an Assistant Director of Athletic Enrollment at Ottawa (Kan.) University, he was able to use one of his passions – broadcasting sports – to expand multimedia opportunities for students at the school. “With my background covering athletic events at the NAIA level, I was able to help the institution transition […]
Former Bass Pro Shops President and Chief Operating Officer Jim Hagale talks business choices and his love for Arabian horses in visit to WWU
If there is one thing that Jim Hagale knows how to do, it is to succeed in the business world. Wildly. The former President and Chief Operating Officer for Bass Prop Shops, Hagale’s marketing and strategic business vision took him from creating his own apparel manufacturing and marketing firm as a young man to the […]
Bridge to the future: newly renovated Senior Lake Bridge is latest new campus landmark for 2022
Few years in recent William Woods memory have seen the establishment of as many new campus landmarks as in 2022. And now, the most prominent project of them all – the rebuilding of the famous bridge across Senior Lake – is now complete. This week the newly rebuilt bridge, which has yet to be formally […]
The “mural” of the story: retired longtime WWU Art professor has artwork permanently displayed at Columbia, Missouri Airport
For a professor lucky enough to teach at one university for 22 years, the pay-off is generations of students who learned from you, appreciated your guidance and took what you taught them out into the world and a successful professional career. Jane Mudd, part of the Art faculty at William Woods University from 1997-2019, will […]
WWU Social Work students help provide a lesson in “Reality” for junior high students through unique program
Allison Mattox ’23 was a student at Mexico (Missouri) Middle School when she was confronted with what life would be like as an adult when it came to family finances and budgeting. The Social Work major at William Woods was in eighth grade when she took part in a program called Reality Store, where participants […]
New campus landmarks, increased enrollment mark first week of Fall 2022 semester classes
The William Woods campus that students said goodbye to for the summer when they departed last Spring had a somewhat different feel when the calendar turned to August. During the first week of classes for the Fall 2022 semester this week, one could not help but notice so many new faces. As in new students, […]
Alumni You Should Know: Allyson Lewis ’82, Founder and CEO, The 7 Minute Life, Hot Springs, Arkansas
Allyson Lewis ’82 remembers the exact moment her life changed. “I was forty-one and as a full-time working mother, felt the constant crushing pressure of deadlines and obligations,” she recalled. “My life sped past me in a blur from one day to the next, one month to the next, and one year to the next. […]
Summertime in the William Woods horse stables: a unique experience for EQS student workers
On a Sunday evening in late May, a handful of Equestrian Studies students at William Woods University, working in the University’s horse stables for the summer, got an experience they may never get again in their budding careers in the industry. At 6:30 p.m. on May 22, just as the evening shift of student workers […]
After being grounded for three years, WWU students return to the world of global travel in 2022
There was a time when William Woods could accurately say, “Come to The Woods, and The World will be yours.” Meaning, of course, that those students who chose to be Owls had the chance to take life-changing trips to locations literally anywhere in the world during their time as students at WWU, through the University’s […]