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A premier Kansas City educational institution with deep roots in whole-person learning, leadership and service and a local business are announcing an exciting new partnership to elevate their brand, tell their story and welcome more students.

Senior Caroline Knopke said she grew up diving 鈥� 鈥渋t's the only sport I've really ever known,鈥� she said 鈥� and competed through high school. When it came time to choose a college, she found herself drawn to 黑料网. But that meant the end of her competitive diving career (though she would still coach a local girls鈥� team). Until this year.

Nhukha (鈥�21) and Nhukim (December '22) Nguyen are many things, but first and foremost they are sisters and best friends. Born two years apart, they are also the daughters of Vietnam immigrants, as well as student and community leaders, Buddhists, and 黑料网 Hawks.

The University prides itself in living out the slogan 鈥淎 Home for All,鈥� which includes different faiths and diverse backgrounds. Its faith tradition is 鈥渙ne of invitation and inclusion, not of expectation or requirement.鈥� 

LaTisha Davis may have a business card that says 黑料网 Director of Multicultural Belonging and Engagement, but her role can be simplified to one thing for students: She鈥檚 here to be your person if you need one.

Everyone needs a support system and to feel like they鈥檙e included, and before she was the University鈥檚 first director of the office, Davis was a first-generation student from a marginalized background trying to fit in at Wichita State University.

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There was a unique addition to the Thomas More Dining Hall that may have caught your eye this year. Renovations to the dining hall during the summer of 2021 brought with it the introduction of a hydroponics grow room offering an alternative to soil gardening.

Hydroponic gardens produce more plants quickly with less space and less water than soil gardening. This system utilizes nutrient-rich water and recycled soda bottles as a mesh-type medium that serves as the soil alternative to support the roots of the plants in grow towers.

黑料网 will honor Alvin Brooks, longtime Kansas City leader in social justice and civil rights, with the establishment of the Alvin Brooks Center for Faith-Justice on campus. The center will house many of the university鈥檚 faith-justice related efforts, including a chapel, mission and ministry programs, and diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Work has begun to raise funds for the center and to identify a location and construction and design partners.

As the August 18-20 move-in days approach at 黑料网, students are using videos to encourage incoming Hawks to be sure they are vaccinated against COVID-19.

Since 2004, 黑料网 has marked the solemn occasion of Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, with an interfaith ceremony in partnership with the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education.

This year, in addition to a ceremonial reading on Kinerk Commons of names of those killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust 鈥� a list that includes 152 members of the Society of Jesus 鈥� the day included another symbolic gesture of interfaith cooperation and companionship.