Maryville’s new “Solution Squad” is a highly accessible and innovative team of mobile student services representatives that assists students on the spot with a variety of tasks and questions.
With record enrollment for the 2018-2019 academic year, Maryville University continues to show strong growth and strategic planning success. Overall, Maryville’s student population has reached 9,200, an increase of nearly 20 percent over last year.
Staffed by members of the Solution Squad, Maryville’s new state-of-the-art Visitor Center located in the lobby of Gander Hall features high-tech monitors, information kiosks and multi-use meeting areas for prospective students and their families as well as other guests of the University.
Beginning in the K-12 school years, Maryville University helps to prepare young people in high-poverty, under-resourced schools for college success and future careers in emerging fields.
Renowned civil rights attorney Kathleen Zellner was honored by Maryville University with the annual Sister Mary Byles Peace and Justice Prize in September. Zellner was recognized for her extraordinary success in wrongful conviction advocacy.
Shani Lenore has been promoted to vice president for enrollment, having served as associate vice president of the division for the past seven years.
Graphic design major April Huber helped to create the Big Red M Box, an exclusive gift series offered through the M Store.
Victor Kizer, CSCS, TSAC-F, director of the exercise science program and assistant professor, has pursued his passion for exercise from the sands of Iraq and Afghanistan to the campus of Maryville University.
When the 100th PGA Championship came to Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis last August, a large contingent of Maryville University students worked behind the scenes, gaining valuable experience and observing how a major sporting event unfolds in real time.
A successful online course requires creative partnership between faculty and learning designers. Geriann Brandt, associate professor of criminal justice/criminology, is a recent and enthusiastic collaborator.