Columbia Business Times May 2019

A BUSINESS TIMES COMPANY PUBLICATION MAY 2019 EDUCATION

PETER STIEPLEMAN

@PStieple Superintendent, Columbia Public Schools

A HIGHER EDUCATION PERSPECTIVE

20 UNDER 20 CLASS OF 2019

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olumbia has no short supply of education entities, from alternative preschools to private schools to homeschooling to public school to higher education. Whatever families value most about their children’s education, there is likely to be a school in town that will match those values.

In my family, my mom preferred to homeschool me for as long as she could and did so until seventh grade. I then attended a private school in Columbia until I graduated.

That worked for my family. But I grew up with friends who went to public school, who were homeschooled all the way through 12th grade, and who attended another private school.

There’s a larger story to tell about Columbia’s ON THE COVER Columbia Public Schools education sector than focusing only on the largsuperintendent Peter Stiepleman, er school systems that come quickly to mind, and PhD, is this month’s cover model. that’s where the CBT team wanted to go with this Out and about in the community Education Issue. We wanted to look at the private often, he's most likely to be seen in town wearing his tweed cap or school business and where our higher education inon his phone tweeting about the stitutions are headed, and we wanted to honor 20 good things CPS is doing. exceptional high school students with our annual 20 Photography by Anthony Jinson.

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Columbia has 19 private schools ranging from preschool age to 12th grade. We thought this was a high number, so we asked ourselves a few questions: Why are parents choosing private school over public? What does the acceptance process look like?

What does the business side of a private school look like? We then went to a few of the principals at these schools to find answers to our questions. Read what they have to say on page 62.

We reached out to the higher education institutions in town — Columbia College, Moberly Area Community College, Stephens College, and the University of Missouri — and asked them to cast a 10-year vision for their school that they could share with readers. How are they innovating? What changes will they be making? You can read their pieces on page 69.

It’s that time of year again when we honor and celebrate Columbia high school seniors who have shown leadership in the classroom, on the sports field, and in their school. Fair warning — you may feel like an underachiever when you read what they’ve accomplished, but we couldn’t be prouder to have them as a part of our community (page 45).

Peter Stiepleman, PhD, a recognizable name and figure around town, graces our cover this month. He is the superintendent of Columbia Public Schools. We asked him a series of questions that had him choosing one thing over the other in our This or That section on page 90.

He left a few witty and clever comments that are sure to bring out a chuckle.

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13 FROM THE EDITOR 19 CLOSER LOOK 20 BRIEFLY IN THE NEWS 23 BUSINESS UPDATE Missouri State High School Activities Association

26 NONPROFIT SPOTLIGHT Junior Achievement in Central Missouri

28 CELEBRATIONS The Paul Mitchell School

31 MOVERS & SHAKERS 33 P.Y.S.K. Melissa Randol, Missouri School Boards’ Association

37 7 QUESTIONS Jo Fey, Moberly Area Community College

39 A CAPITOL CONVERSATION Tube to the Future

41 LOCAL PERSPECTIVE Mason Aid

43 OPINION: AL GERMOND Three Political Trends

The Private School Business Taking a closer look at three local private schools through their enrollment requirements and numbers.

85 NEW BUSINESS LICENSES 86 DEEDS OF TRUST 87 ECONOMIC INDEX 89 BY THE NUMBERS 90 THIS OR THAT Peter Stiepleman, Columbia Public Schools

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Asking Columbia’s colleges and universities to share their vision for their schools over the next 10 years.

As more young professionals enter the workforce with mounting student debt, employers are stepping in to help employees reach financial health.

Meet the 20 exceptional high school seniors who are making Columbia proud through their leadership in their schools and the community.

A tuition-free program for Korean students at MU started after the Korean War has evolved into a global leadership program for degree and non-degree seeking individuals across Asia.

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Every beer, wine, and liquor at Twain: Missouri Taproom is a Missouri product — with the exception of one bourbon from Kentucky, but even that was modeled after a recipe that Mark Twain wrote about in his essays, says manager Josh Bowles.

Bowles says the idea for the taproom started brewing in the summer of 2018. The taproom had its soft opening on Twain’s November 30 birthday and its grand opening in January. They are located in and owned by the Tiger Hotel.

Beyond the menu, Missouri elements can be found throughout the taproom, from its playlist with local artists to Amish-made woodwork from Sturgeon, Missouri, in the bar. “It’s as Missouri as we can possibly make it,” Bowles says. “When you hear Mark Twain, Missouri comes to mind, and he liked to have a good time and have a drink often.

That’s pretty well-documented.”

Faced with an osteoporosis diagnosis in November 2017, Dayna Glanz knew she didn’t want to take the pharmaceutical treatment route. She did some research and stumbled upon a franchise called OsteoStrong, a company that uses machines that put pressure on bones to trigger bone density building. Within 48 hours, she was at one of OsteoStrong’s locations in Creve Coeur, in St. Louis County, and signed up for their services.

For nine months, she drove there once per week for the 10-minute exercises.

In March 2019, she opened up her own OsteoStrong location in Columbia, which she dubbed COMOStrong. Glanz says these machines are used once per week, and it takes seven minutes to do all four machines.

“You can do it on your lunch break,” she says. “You can do it in your street clothes.

You don’t sweat.”

Located downtown, Bleu Restaurant and Wine Bar closed in 2016. Nathan Todd, chief operating officer of Bleu Events, says they received lots of requests for Bleu to re-open or open another restaurant. They finally did so in January when they opened their latest venture, Bleu Market and Bakery.

“When we were only a catering company, we lost that daily interaction with (customers) at the table and hearing how they like things,” he says. “Having the restaurant again allows us to get back into the community and service in a different way.”

Todd attended the soft opening with friends, where they ordered nearly everything on the menu. He says Bleu’s signature items — mac and cheese, shrimp and grits, and turkey pot pie — call his name. Todd says the official ribbon cutting ceremony of this spot with a “French country feel” will take place this month.

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MAGNA AWARD FOR EQUITY PROGRAMS Columbia Public Schools was awarded first place in the Magna Awards among mediumsized school districts in the county for its work with the Boone County Schools Mental Health Coalition. The National School Boards Association and the American School Board Journal sponsor the Magna Awards, which recognize school districts for reducing barriers for vulnerable or underserved children.

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THIRD ANNUAL BLACK HISTORY MONTH ART CONTEST U.S. Cellular awarded three children from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Columbia for their artwork celebrating Black History Month. First place went to seventh grader Saryia Patrick for her piece portraying Whitney Houston. Sixth grader Amecia Hayes and fourth grader Reagynn Childs tied for second place with their portrayals of Emmett Till and Harriet Tubman, respectively.

"The creativity, talent, and knowledge that came through in these kids’ artwork was amazing to see, and it was a privilege to showcase them in our stores.”

— Lynn Heath, store manager for U.S. Cellular in Columbia

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COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL MISSOURI AWARDS FIRST IMPACT GRANT The Central Missouri Foster Care and Adoption Association was named the recipient of the Community Foundation of Central Missouri’s first Impact Grant. This $5,000 award will be used to grow its transitions program, which helps high school seniors adjust to adulthood.

Students in the program are paired with mentors who provide support and impart life skills.

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NATHAN JONES LAW MOVES LOCATIONS On March 1, Nathan Jones Law moved to The Colonies in the Yorktown building at 2412 Forum Blvd., Ste. 101. The growing firm’s phone number and email addresses did not change.

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COLUMBIA HONDA EARNS PRESIDENT’S AWARD Columbia Honda has earned the prestigious President’s Award from American Honda Motor Co. Inc. for excellence in its sales and service performance, in the sales experience it delivers to customers, and in its business operations.

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15 TH ANNUAL HOSPITALITY STAR NIGHT In February, the Columbia Convention and Visitors Bureau and Columbia Hospitality Association recognized more than 40 individuals from Columbia hotels and handed out six awards. From The Broadway, Wayne Johnson was awarded Star Performer of the Year and Jared Klarfeld was awarded Rising Star of the Year. From the Drury Plaza Hotel, Ashlee Morrison earned Rookie of the Year and Leah Stotts won Salesperson of the Year. Eric Lawson, from the Courtyard by Marriott, was awarded General Manager of the Year, and the True/False Film Fest was named Hospitality Partner of the Year.

“Nothing is more important to Honda than taking care of our customers, and Columbia Honda helps set the standard for customer care.”

— Henio Arcangeli Jr., senior vice president of the automobile division for American Honda

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Preventative Action The Missouri State High School Activities Association supports schools in a variety of ways.

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A MAJOR EVENT LIKE THE 2019 Missouri State High School Activities Association Show-Me Showdown games showcases some of the state’s best athletes and teams to approximately 36,000 fans. It’s also a time for MSHSAA to shine.

Much of what the Columbia-based association does, in addition to filling arenas and state championships, is serve a membership of 735 schools by shaping a vibrant future for athletics and activities in the state.

RECRUITING OFFICIALS One of MSHSAA’s current priorities is recruiting and retaining new officials.

Across all sports, a large percentage of MSHSAA officials are over 50 years old. For example, during the 2017 season, 60 percent of registered softball officials were over the age of 50, with ages 60 through 69 making up 32 percent of the overall number.

The potential consequences of older officials stepping aside without having an equal number of younger officials ready to go has moved MSHSAA to take action before the imbalance becomes more pronounced.

“Our efforts to recruit officials was more of a proactive than reactive initiative,” MSHSAA communications director Jason West says.

“We haven’t gotten to where it’s been a catastrophic thing yet.”

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One of their signature recruitment initiatives, Trade Your Stripes, launched last year.

The program encourages those serving in the National Guard, recently retired servicemembers, and veterans to trade in their military stripes for sports officiating stripes. Many of the skills required for military service — like working as a team and dealing with high-intensity or stressful environments — translate well into athletic venues.

The idea was inspired by Battlefields to Ballfields, a national nonprofit founded by former NFL official Mike Pereira.

Two additional programs are tied to high schools. The 4-for-1 plan challenges coaches to recruit one former athlete into officiating every four years. Member schools were also asked to find two 2018 graduates (one male and one female) to become officials.

In 2018, MSHSAA had 129 new official registrations, including 73 fully-certified new officials in at least one sport. There are currently 5,500 individuals who are certified to officiate at least one sport.

“We’ve got three programs that we’re excited about and that have helped,” West says. “Trade Your Stripes was something we came up with and developed, and it seems to be taking off. It may be able to take off in other states, too.”

TRACKING CONCUSSIONS The Youth Sports Brain Injury Prevention Act, which establishes protocols for returning to practice or competition for athletes suspected of sustaining head injuries, became a Missouri law in 2011. It requires MSHSAA to educate coaches, athletes, and parents on the risks of concussions and requires them to publish an annual report assessing the impact of concussions and head injuries on student athletes statewide.

The association creates the report by using the data collected from survey responses gathered from member schools. The survey tracks the number of participants in sports and activities, the number of reported concussions for each, and how many days a participant misses due to a suspected injury.

Only 68 percent of member schools completed the survey in 2018, a decline from an 89 percent in 2016. “We’re not getting perfect attendance on that, but we are getting good measurables back from our schools,” West says.

Football definitely gets the headlines when it comes to concussions, but the National Federation of State High School Associations notes that the rates of injury in sports like girls’ soccer and girls’ basketball outnumber their male counterparts.

MSHSAA’s report for 2017-2018 reflects those trends. A total of 1,940 boys and 984

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girls were held out of practices and contests due to a head injury. Football had the highest reported number of head injuries with 1,185, followed by girls’ soccer (337), sideline cheerleading (279), boys’ wrestling (257), and girls’ basketball (238).

Hickman High School athletics director J.D. Coffman works with the school’s head athletic trainer to track the data and complete MSHSAA’s survey.

“I don’t think concussions were taken as seriously before because there wasn’t data to show how high-impact sports and concussions were connected,” Coffman says.

MSHSAA also offers concussion insurance to its member schools through its catastrophic insurance provider. It’s the third year MSHSAA has provided this option, and Missouri’s model also caught the attention of the Illinois High School Association in 2018, according to the Chicago Tribune.

The Columbia Public Schools district purchases the concussion insurance offered by MSHSAA, while roughly 50 percent of MSHSAA members take advantage of other insurance.

NEW INITIATIVES Every January, MSHSAA traverses the state to host town hall meetings with administrators and athletic directors in its eight regions. These conversations center on big picture items that membership may be voting on that year. It’s also a chance to distribute information and receive feedback.

ESports were a hot topic this year. The NFHS launched its inaugural eSports season last fall, opening the door for a state like Missouri to consider adding it to the mix.

West said he sensed some hesitation, mostly centered around the types of games played in eSports, particularly first-person shooting games. But there was plenty of excitement as well. In fact, many schools already have eSports clubs.

Many eSports participants are not typically involved in traditional sports and activities, and a MSHSAA-sanctioned offering would open doors for new students to be a part of a team, represent their school, and experience the other benefits of competition.

“It keeps them engaged, and that has ripple effects,” West says.

Coffman agrees: “It’s a perfect population to get involved because it showcases some students who wouldn’t typically be seen for their talent.”

Girls’ wrestling is an example of a recently added sport that has boosted participation. The inaugural season had 169 girls on wrestling rosters. That number jumped to 970 in the 2018-2019 season.

Hickman had 12 girls on its team this year, and 11 were first-time wrestlers.

“MSHSAA has done a nice job of listening to the member schools as to what they’d like to see change — for instance, adding girls’ wrestling,” Coffman says.

This growth caught MSHSAA by surprise. But as with many of its efforts, impact tends to be a byproduct of initiative.

“It’s not that we’re looking to be innovative,” West says. “We’re just looking for ways to help our members do their day-to-day jobs, and sometimes innovation happens.” CBT

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Preparing Students for the Workplace Junior Achievement in Central Missouri partners with local business professionals to introduce students to potential careers and entrepreneurship opportunities.

BY JENNIFER TR UESDA L E

HELPING K-12 STUDENTS UNDERSTAND how education is significant to the workplace is at the heart of what Junior Achievement does.

The national education nonprofit, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, brings local business people into public schools to teach students about entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and workplace readiness.

Junior Achievement has 107 chapters across all 50 states, including Junior Achievement in Central Missouri, which formed in Columbia in 2003. The chapter serves 12 Mid-Missouri counties and reaches thousands of students each year.

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that they otherwise might not be exposed to,” explains Ellen Drummond, district manager for JA in Central Missouri, which is affiliated with JA of Greater St. Louis. “It opens their eyes to possibility and helps them see how important small businesses are to the local economy, especially in our smaller communities.”

A TAILORED APPROACH With a well-documented dearth of skilled workers in the labor force, exposing students early and often to workplace readiness education perhaps is more important now than ever: According to JA USA statistics, nearly half of U.S. employers have indicated that shortages in skilled workers have negatively impacted their

businesses, and 91 percent of millennials wish they had greater access to entrepreneurial education programs.

With the goal of changing these trends, JA comprises 24 programs tailored to each grade level. The programs integrate into schools’ existing core curricula and often are folded into social studies courses. Part of what makes the JA model impactful is that each program is taught by volunteers from the local business community. Part of Drummond’s job is to recruit these volunteers and help them prepare for administering the program, often taught once a week for five weeks. Volunteers are given a lesson plan to follow and are encouraged to draw from their own experiences.

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“The lesson plan materials are laid out very well. [Volunteers] get a lesson plan booklet, and there are online resources. I also like to meet with volunteers briefly to walk them through the program,” Drummond says. “We are always in need of volunteers. We have about 100 so far this year.”

Elementary students are introduced to basic concepts like wants and needs, decision-making, saving money, taxes, and the value of work. Middle schoolers build upon the elementary programs by learning about budgeting, advertising, the global marketplace, career planning, and high-growth jobs, including those in STEM fields.

High school students are taught more advanced topics, such as how microeconomics and macroeconomics affect business decisions and how to identify needs in their community that could be addressed by entrepreneurship. They also learn real-world life skills like resume writing, job interview techniques, and financial planning.

AN INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE Each program is interactive, giving students time to practice what they’ve learned.

Fourth grade students, for example, have the opportunity to run a virtual hot dog stand to understand the fundamentals of running a business. Middle schoolers go on a scavenger hunt to learn about job hunting, and high school students get to operate a virtual company through online simulations.

“The kids are learning to do something with hands-on activities,” says Drummond. “The whole idea is that students are introduced to a concept and learn about it by doing it.”

Hands-on learning also happens outside of the classroom, giving students more opportunities to apply what they’ve learned in the classroom.

“JA BizTown is a capstone program in which fifth grade students travel to Junior Achievement of Greater St. Louis to participate in a real-world simulation that allows them to operate a [simulated] city for the day,” Drummond explains. “They are assigned jobs and work in one of 17 businesses. They even elect a mayor and have an IRS agent and an election commissioner. All

fifth graders in Columbia Public Schools will be attending JA BizTown in the next three years.”

High schoolers have a similar opportunity by participating in the JA Finance Park program, in which they are assigned a life scenario with a family, a job, and a salary — much like in the popular board game “Life.”

Based on their scenario, students have to make financial decisions that most adults encounter at some point. This past fall, a group of Douglass High School students participated in JA Finance Park, which was sponsored by Missouri Employers Mutual.

A GROWING PROGRAM “Our goal is to reach 9,000 to 11,000 students this year,” Drummond says, which is an increase from the 7,500 students reached during the 2017-2018 school year. “Columbia, Hallsville, and Centralia Public Schools will be utilizing our programs for summer school, as well.”

JA USA uses third-party evaluators to gauge the effectiveness of their programs nationally, and overall, JA participants at all grade levels show an increased understanding of the skills they will need to succeed in the workplace and in life. Drummond feels that success can be found at the local level, too.

“I run into parents and students who remember their JA classes and how great an experience it was,” says Drummond, adding that even some of the parents indicated learning something new when they attended the JA BizTown or Finance Park programs with their children. Drummond is excited about the growth of Junior Achievement in Central Missouri and feels it will continue to greatly benefit more and more students in the coming years.

“It's about getting kids to think about being responsible and giving back to their community,” she says. “It's a community builder, too.” CBT

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Eddie Davis, co-owner of the Paul Mitchell School in Columbia, standing in the old location.

August 2014

October 2014

October 2014

Paul Mitchell School opens their Columbia location on the northeast side of town.

The school participates in their first Caper event, a nationwide Paul Mitchell sales contest.

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“I DON’T WANT TO BE BALD,” said a customer as she burst into tears during her hair appointment with Eddie Davis, co-owner and director of Columbia’s Paul Mitchell School. She explained to Davis that she had recently received a cancer diagnosis. Moved by compassion, Davis told her to order the nicestlooking wig she could find and then come back to see him. Much was out of her control, but her hair didn’t have to be one of those things.

When the customer returned, every mirror was covered and every staff member wore a hat.

Davis shaved her hair off and placed the wig on; the customer never had to see herself bald.

“We get to connect with people on such a personal level and become part of their lives,” says Davis. “We do their hair in high school, for weddings, for their kids, a baby’s first haircut, all the way to their funerals.”

It is compassion and connection that Davis, who helped open the school in 2014, hopes to impart on his students, not just styling and coloring techniques. And that message seems to be getting through.

One graduate works at a local barber shop and sets aside several days each month to do hair for the homeless. Classmates put on a bake sale for a fellow student who had to take a medical leave of absence. Others hosted a beauty and makeover day for victims of domestic abuse.

INDIVIDUALIZED LEARNING On the first day of school, students are required to take an online assessment to pinpoint their best learning style: verbal, linguistic, spatial, interpersonal, or intrapersonal, to name a few. Teachers are

then required to include each student’s primary learning style in their lesson plans.

Haley Moore graduated from the school in August 2015 and hasn’t left. She has worked at the school in many capacities, doing everything from teaching to working in admissions to working in her current position as the financial aid director.

It is the learning styles test that makes Paul Mitchell schools different from the typical university and other beauty schools, she says.

“Whenever you’re in a traditional mode of going to college, you go into a lecture hall and you go to class and you’re expected to read a textbook and know how to take notes. You’ll make it or won’t,” Moore says. “Everyone is different, so we’ve got to make sure that everyone is hitting every single point in the right way.”

Classrooms are filled with doll heads fixed on tripods where students can practice everything from hair styling to eyelash extensions. “It’s kind of creepy when you first come in because you’re not used to all the doll heads,” Moore says.

Backpacks with brick-heavy books are virtually extinct there, as each Paul Mitchell student now receives an iPad. Davis says the school uses objectives-based curriculum. A typical class might be working on a mannequin and explaining the process to a partner or go onto Pinterest to get ideas for a lookbook — both would be effective ways of learning.

students’ well-being. Functioning similarly to a high school counselor, the advisor works to prevent students from crashing and burning, Davis says. “It’s a foreign concept in our industry because, typically, cosmetology schools are small and don’t have a lot of staff members,” he says. “It’s one of the things at Paul Mitchell that is one of the best investments we make — to cover the students we have.”

Moore says it’s their upbeat culture that makes Paul Mitchell School different from the rest. They have a positive quote wall, positive influence days, and sticker prizes. Moore says the staff likes to play jokes on one another, and some of her jokes include putting a cutout of Davis’ face on posters of Ryan Gosling that say things like: “Hey girl. You’re doing great on that pedicure. Keep it going.”

“It’s not all work and no play,” Moore says.

“You have to make life more of a joke, because it’s too short to not.”

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UP NEXT The school has big plans for this year. They’ve outgrown their current space and will move to a new location near the mall this summer.

When the school started, they had fewer than 20 students. Now, five years later, they are nearing 100 students. Davis says they’re adding a barber program this summer, which he expects to increase enrollment to between 150 and 200 students. CBT

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MELISSA RANDOL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR | MISSOURI SCHOOL BOARDS’ ASSOCIATION | AGE: 50 Job description: CEO of a nonprofit organization designed to advocate for the 918,000 children attending Missouri’s public schools by supporting those elected in local communities to govern our schools.

Years lived in Columbia: 27.

Original hometown: Springfield, Missouri.

Education: BS in economics and accounting from Missouri State University; JD from MU. Favorite volunteer/community activity: Of course, school board service is at the top of my list. The Caring People is a group that also has a special place in my heart. They serve single moms and their children through support groups in a faith-based environment.

Karen Stone and Ava Summers are remarkable leaders of the Columbia chapter of this organization. PTA is another great organization any member of the community can be a part of to stay involved in our schools. (You don’t have to have a child in school to be a member of PTA.) A favorite recent project: If children don’t feel safe, they can’t learn. MSBA administers Missouri’s Center for Education Safety, or CES. The CES supports all Missouri schools with preventive measures to ensure that our schools remain the safest place for children in our society. We offer training and resources addressing behavioral health support, school bus safety, sexual predator prevention, active shooter prevention, and bullying prevention, just to name a few. The past five years, we’ve been supporting school safety at a national level. Recently, Governor Parson asked MSBA CES to work with Lieutenant Governor Kehoe, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education,

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the Department of Public Safety, and the Department of Mental Health to craft a strategic plan for Missouri addressing school safety from the executive level.

A Columbia businessperson I admire and why: Jan Mees, the president of the Columbia Board of Education and the immediate past president of MSBA. Jan is an extraordinary leader who uses her skills to benefit her community and state through a variety of volunteer roles. She is someone who has found her fire and uses it to live inspired.

Why I’m passionate about my job: MSBA is a continuous improvement organization in an environment where the stakes are high because our work is impacting the future of our community, our state, and our nation.

Why I’m passionate about MSBA: I have the honor of representing individuals who willfully donate their most precious assets, their time and talents, to benefit the lives of individuals they may never meet. School board members are non-partisan elected officials who are unpaid for their service. In my opinion, they represent the bedrock of democracy.

If I weren’t doing this for a living, I would: Still find ways to advocate for children.

What people should know about being an executive director for MSBA: MSBA has the best staff, hands down.

Working with our staff makes my job a lot of fun. We have a significant number of services we provide school districts, and they’re delivered with commitment to excellence and passion for our public schools from all of our team members.

The next challenge facing the school board association: Expanding opportunities for quality, voluntary early childhood education throughout Missouri.

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yields a $6 to $16 return on the investment.

Boone County has done a good job addressing this issue, but Missouri is still behind. In fact, we are currently in the bottom tier of states for providing funding and other support to early childhood. We need to change that in order to improve societal and economic development opportunities long-term for our state.

My next professional goal: Continue learning and growing. My parents often said the purpose of life is to find your gift and the meaning of life is to give it away.

Biggest lesson learned in business: To achieve our full potential, we must step out of our comfort zone. We must celebrate the successes, fix the failures, and ensure that we have policies and processes in place so that we always strive to improve and remain relevant.

How I want to impact the education community: We need to get the accurate message out about the awesome job our educators are doing in Missouri’s public schools. Columbia is blessed with some of the best schools in our state and in our country — we have more Presidential Scholars in our high schools than over 90 percent of the public and private schools in the country.

One of Missouri’s public high school robotics

teams recently designed a part to fix a flaw in the cockpit of the B-2 Stealth bomber. They designed the part in 72 hours and saved the Department of Defense tens of millions of dollars with their design that is now installed on all B-2s.

Greatest strength: I’m a “mama bear” — tenacious, resilient, and focused — when it comes to working on issues impacting children.

Greatest weakness: I have a hard time disconnecting from technology.

Accomplishment I’m most proud of: Without a doubt, it’s my five children. My husband and I are thrilled that our children are all self-supporting adults making their way in the world. We recognize that raising successful children involves a community — we are indebted to our family, neighbors, friends, educators, school board members, church members, and others who played a role in shaping these amazing young adults.

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1. What’s your background? I grew up in Manhattan, Kansas, graduated from Baker University, and taught secondary English before teaching for Barton County Community College at Fort Riley, in Kansas.

Discovering a passion for community college, I completed my master’s degree at Fort Hays State University and then entered the doctoral program for community college leadership at the University of Texas. From there, I took a position as dean of both academic and workforce programs at Lone Star College–CyFair in Houston. In 2012, I accepted the position of dean of workforce development and technical education for Moberly Area Community College.

2. Tell us about your job: I supervise a number of career and technical programs for MACC, including the following programs in Columbia: information technology, business, accounting, business office administration,

3. What does your typical day look like? MACC holds meetings using online technology as much as possible; however, in-person meetings are often more effective.

I am routinely on the road three days or more a week to meet with partnering schools.

When in the office, I meet with faculty, staff, and administration to plan our responses to student and community needs and complete the stacks of paperwork involved in running an academic department.

4. What drew you to your position?

I knew within minutes of teaching my first community college class that I had found my place. I believe that the community college changes people’s lives, and I am passionate about that. My job in Texas provided me with experience both in the academic and workforce areas. Discovering my love for workforce education brought me back to the Midwest and the perfect job at MACC! 5. What don’t people know about workforce development programs that they should? I think many people in Columbia don’t realize how many workforce programs are available at our Columbia site or that MACC offers customized business and industry training. We offer classes for Microsoft Excel, supervisor leadership, and OSHA 10 on-site to Columbia businesses. In addition, we partnered with Boone County Joint Communications to offer an emergency telecommunicator certification training.

We’re also partnering with the Columbia Area Career Center to offer their adult programs, such as practical nursing and surgical tech, so that students will earn college credit in addition to their certification.

“I knew within minutes of teaching my first community college class that I had found my place.

I believe that the community college changes people’s lives, and I am passionate about that.”

6. Describe a success you’re most proud of: I am extremely proud of the people that I’ve been able to hire while at MACC. The amazing work done to create and grow programming for MACC’s communities happens because of the extraordinary faculty and staff working with me.

7. What inspires you to get up each day and make a difference?

I’m inspired by the stories I hear from my faculty about students who have overcome enormous life challenges to graduate and enter the workforce with great jobs throughout the Columbia community. CBT

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Tube to the Future

BY KRCG 13’ S K ER M I T M IL L ER

IMAGINE IT’S 1903 AND A COUPLE OF brothers who sell and repair bicycles for a living keep pestering you to invest in their idea to develop a machine that would allow people to move from place to place without touching the ground. You’re convinced the only thing in their sky will be pie, not people. The next two decades will prove you wrong.

Now, it’s 2019 and people are talking about a California car builder putting a pod inside a vacuum tube that, using magnetic levitation, could blast occupants the 250 miles from Kansas City to St. Louis in about half an hour. Are you in?

A growing number of state officials clearly are.

Missouri House Speaker Elijah Haahr has put together a task force to study the potential for “vactrain” transportation — more commonly called Hyperloop — and how the state should be involved. This will include analysis of whether public dollars should be used to lure a vactrain project to the Missouri River Valley, presumably from the developers of Virgin Hyperloop One. That’s the effort begun in 2012 by Elon Musk, with the more recent financial support of British billionaire Richard Branson (hence, the name “Virgin Hyperloop One,” as in Branson’s Virgin Records and Virgin Atlantic Airways).

Hyperloop (a name trademarked by Musk two years ago) engineers have been testing the technology in the deserts of California and Nevada, and Haahr told state capitol reporters he’s been a witness to those tests. “This is something I’ve been very excited about for a long time,” he said at a March news conference.

The pod reaches its impressive speeds in two ways: first, it uses magnetic forces to propel forward without touching anything and, therefore, without friction or drag; second, traveling inside a vacuum tube to eliminate wind resistance. While they’re not there

yet, developers say land-based pods moving at jet aircraft speeds are possible. Last fall, the Kansas City-based Black and Veach engineering firm conducted a feasibility study of a Hyperloop system between Kansas City and St. Louis and concluded the system was buildable at a cost between $7.5 billion and $10 billion. “Obviously, the work Black and Veach did early on was very helpful in getting us to where we’re at now,” Haahr noted.

Haahr has tabbed Missouri Lieutenant Governor Mike Kehoe to chair the task force. “We’re a state that has the ingenuity, the technology, the resources to look at what’s next in the future, and I think this is an exciting step,” Kehoe told reporters at the news conference. “You know, we’re the state that funded the first transatlantic flight with Lindbergh. We’re the state that built the Eads Bridge over the (Mississippi) river when nobody said it could be done. We’re the state that produced the (McDonnell Douglas) engineers that helped to put man on the moon.” Columbia State Senator Caleb Rowden, Callaway County Representative Travis Fitzwater, and UM System President Mun Choi are among the task force members.

The group will have private-sector input from people such as Andrew Smith of the St. Louis Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Missouri Hyperloop Coalition, which secured the private funding for the Black and Veach study. “Effectively, what this would do is unify the state and create a single economic development mega-region,” Smith told reporters. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported it was the regional chamber’s Austin Walker who solicited the interest of Governor Mike Parson and who approached Haahr about forming the task force. During the capitol news conference, Smith described the Hyperloop project as a chance for the state to position itself as a “global tech leader.”

A nonprofit called Heartland Hyperloop Inc. emerged last fall and launched an online petition to urge Governor Parson to include the Hyperloop in the state’s transportation investment plan. Spearheaded by former Missouri House Speaker Steve Tilley, Heartland Hyperloop has advocated for a combination of public and private funding for the vactrain. Clearly, that multi-billion-dollar price tag is the elephant in the pod . . . er, room.

As a former member of the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission and a former state senator who has backed unsuccessful efforts to increase taxes for highway construction, Kehoe insisted he would not support any use of state money for the Hyperloop until the state has agreed on a plan to pay for roads and bridges. Voters in November rejected a fuel tax increase and previously said no to a general sales tax to fund transportation infrastructure projects. Haahr added that “before we would spend any public money, we would want to have concrete plans to go forward.”

Kehoe indicated that the task force will spend the next several months holding public meetings in St. Louis, Kansas City, and Jefferson City. He said the group wants to have a final report ready for Haahr by September. As it works to develop and test the vactrain technology, the Hyperloop organization has presented the project as a competition, with states vying to be first. Those in the game see an unprecedented economic potential in being on the cutting edge. “When you look at St. Louis and Kansas City combined, you’re talking about an area that really has the same kind of potential as a Boston or a Bay Area or a Seattle,” Smith said. CBT Kermit is an award-winning 45-year veteran journalist and one of the longest serving members of the Missouri Statehouse press corps.

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WHEN IT COMES TO INTERVIEWING PRACTICES, many business owners are aware of what questions they’re legally allowed to ask, but they don’t always know what questions they’re asking that may make potential employees uncomfortable, especially those in the LGBTQ community.

The fact of the matter is that the LGBTQ community is growing. According to Gallup, 3.5 percent of the American population identified as LGBTQ in 2012. By 2017, that number had risen to 4.5 percent.

While this may not seem like astronomical growth, it takes on more significance when you look at the percentage of LGBTQ individuals by generation. Of millennials (those born between 1980 and 1999), 8.2 percent consider themselves LGBTQ while only 3.5 percent of Gen X (those born between 1965 and 1979) identifies as LGBTQ. This should matter to you as a business owner because chances are high that you are going to encounter someone who identifies as LGBTQ as you go through the interview process to hire competent employees.

While most people are familiar with the LGB (lesbian, gay, and bisexual) component of the community, the T (transgender) tends

to mystify people. Thus, navigating the workplace while transgender takes a more nuanced understanding of workplace dynamics.

People who identify as transgender identify as a different gender than the sex assigned to them at birth. To align how they see themselves with the way the world sees them, they can socially transition through name change and a change in their physical appearance.

Many may choose to also medically transition through hormones and surgery.

Here are three simple ways to make your hiring practices more inclusive of transgender and gender non-conforming employees.

ADD A SPACE FOR PREFERRED PRONOUNS Many transgender individuals use different pronouns than what their legal name might suggest. This can cause anxiety for the interviewee when they go in for a job interview because they have to explain their pronoun preference to the interviewer.

To avoid an awkward situation based on assumptions from someone’s legal name, include a line for pronouns on your application form. Simply add a blank spot beside the name section for people to fill out. This gives

It’s also important to have a box for people to include their preferred name in addition to their legal name. Many transgender and gender non-conforming people go by a name different than their legal one, or they have yet to get their name legally changed. No one wants to go into an interview and have to explain that they are transgender and go by a different name than what you thought.

Many people also have other reasons to not go by their legal name. You wouldn’t fault Rebecca for going by Becky; is it any different if Alecia goes by Allen?

AVOID GENDERED LANGUAGE Another tip is to simply avoid gendered language. It’s usually easy to find a genderneutral alternative or to simply not use gendered terms. For example, there is no gender-neutral alternative to sir or ma’am, so you can use their name instead or eliminate those titles from your speech. This keeps you from accidentally alienating the person who could make your organization better.

When using unnecessarily gendered language, you turn off potential hires and signal that your company is not a safe place for them to work.

It all comes down to respect. No matter who you are, people are people and deserve to be treated with respect and dignity. These are just a few steps to help ensure you’re inclusive in your hiring practices in regards to transgender and gender non-conforming people. CBT Mason Aid loves drinking coffee and talking about LGBTQ issues. They are passionate about creating a safer world for the community they love. Through their work with PRISM, an LGBTQ teen group in Columbia, they realized there was work to be done to educate others about the LGBTQ community.

More information about Mason Aid can be found at www.themasonaid.com.

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AT LEAST THREE disturbing trends continue to plague Columbia’s city government: voter turnout, city council members running unopposed, and the recent mayoral race.

Voter turnout, though with a slight spike in the April 6 election, remains low at under 20 percent of registered voters. Three of the six ward representatives have run unopposed in recent years, making one wonder why we bother to have an election in the first place.

And the just concluded race for mayor was the nastiest affair in the city's history, with sharply ramped up support for the incumbent from hither and yon.

On all three counts, most of us — whether or not we bothered to vote — are apparently

pretty well satisfied with the way things are going here.

If we are well satisfied, there's reason to applaud the outcomes and accomplishments over the past few years and the mayor and council who stand behind these touts.

It’s a good thing that the city council rejected the CVS drugstore and the cornucopia of employment and revenue it would have brought. Cheers for rejecting the Henderson Branch sewer project, even though the majority of us thought it was a good idea.

Ditto for the new north terminal at the airport that was also the voter’s preference. A bow to the “experts” on the city council who have the last word on locating power lines in

a matter that has dragged on for years. Clap your hands for the proliferation of speed bumps and poorly engineered traffic circles, and for revising the zoning code to cashier further development activity for now.

Columbia, however, is rather divided though, and sharply so, based on the steam that was generated in the race for mayor. The 49-year-old incumbent could be the mayor of Columbia for the rest of his life. Who would want to tangle with an incumbent with access to a boatload of cash so daunting no opponent could ever hope to muster in equivalency?

Then things got nasty when the mayor’s troll patrol moved in. Hearts and minds were fought for on the internet through blogs and Facebook. An opponent was recruited to run against the mayor who, in his heart of hearts, probably wants to spend the rest of his life in the mountains, not dealing with the growing mountain of problems facing Columbia.

Some of us are on edge because, though in the minority, we are far from pleased at the way things are going.

We are concerned about financial matters: the city’s overall financial health, pensions, and employee pay and benefits, especially among linemen at the water and light department. There’s been static revenue growth from sales taxes with little improvement in sight to remedy these deficiencies.

We are concerned about developments at Columbia Regional Airport. The recent setback over runway development and expansion could be a severe wound. To reiterate, the airport project will drag on for a number of years.

Implementation of the aforementioned, and far from understood, universal development code has put a damper on growth. How ironic that a surge of financial support for the re-elected mayor came from parties who took advantage of loopholes in the previous code so they could erect blocks of multistory student apartments and spark the outcry that brought us the UDC in the first place. It’s a case of “we got ours and you aren’t going to get yours." CBT Al Germond is the host of the Columbia Business Times Sunday Morning Roundtable at 8:15 a.m. Sundays on KFRU. He can be reached at algermond@businesstimescompany.com.

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K AVIN A NAND Rock Bridge High School; Stanford University; neuroscience

EACH SPRING, CBT selects 20 well-deserving high school seniors from across Columbia who stand out as exceptional leaders and students to join our 20 Under 20 class. Nominations and recommendations for this year’s class poured in from teachers, mentors, community leaders, and even a senator. The new class members are globally and socially minded students who make the most accomplished professional feel under-accomplished.

We could not be prouder to have them all in our community.

Who Are They?

K ATE B EDSWORTH Fr. Tolton Catholic High School; Drake University; business management & accounting

R ILEY C OLE Battle High School; University of Missouri; environmental sciences

Q UIN C OLHOUR Heritage Academy; Hillsdale College; biology

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This year’s class is comprised of Kavin Anand, Kate Bedsworth, Riley Cole, Quin Colhour, X’zaviaun Conson, Emelia Knarr, Ben Lewandowski, Joseph Lutz, Trenton Marks, Drew Morris, Pranavkumar “Pranav” Diptesh Patel, Taylor Reed, Daniel Schroeder, Grant Slusher, Heather Snow, Grace Stotler, Anna Kate Sundvold, Yahor Vazmitsel, Lauren VerBrugge, and Jasmine Walker.

While their areas of interest vary, this class’s core is driven by a desire to help others.

“Attending a smaller, private school has taught me one thing above all: the importance of community,” says Lutz, a Father Tolton Catholic High School senior. He plans to study biomedical engineering or biochemistry in the hopes of completing medical school and joining Doctors Without Borders.

Lutz found inspiration for his major in his favorite high school class, honors biology. “From learning about the seven characteristics of life to the intricacies of an ecosystem,” says Lutz, “it gave me a newfound appreciation for the natural world that I had never experienced before.”

A Columbia Independent School senior, Walker plans to major in business administration while completing her pre-med requirements at the University of Richmond with the aim of combining her business degree and medical knowledge to open a private practice.

“My goal is to help decrease birth rates among minority youth,” says Walker. “In order to accomplish this goal, I plan to hold a free clinic on Saturdays to provide medical care for highrisk youth and women who do not have access to affordable healthcare.”

Colhour, a Heritage Academy senior, plans to major in biology with an emphasis in neuroscience at Hillsdale College. “I want to become a successful psychiatrist who is able to assist people as they navigate the challenges of life,” says Colhour.

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Knarr plans to attend the Savannah College of Art and Design where she will major in illustration. Knarr, a Hickman High School senior, wants to help kids know they’re not alone. “I want to become an accomplished author and illustrator. I hope that the stories I tell will one day reach people and make them happy,” says Knarr.

Dedication to Community It goes without question that the 20 Under 20 class members have strong academic performances, but the hours of work outside of the classroom also set them apart from their peers.

During her junior year, Walker created Columbia Independent School’s first glee club.

She provided the leadership and heart for the club’s more anxious members to overcome their fears in order to lead duets and solos. She now leads middle school students in glee club rehearsals and helps them learn new song lyrics and choreography.

Columbia Independent School teacher Lisa Heffernan Weil says, “Jasmine is not someone who pursues things because they look good on a resume. She follows her heart.”

Stotler, a Christian Fellowship senior and future pre-med student at MU, initiated a workshop in her school, through the Stop the Bleed campaign, to train her peers on how to save lives in emergency bleeding situations before professional help arrives. She has also published three poems and two short stories.

“I would love to have a book published,” says Stotler. “That would be a dream come true.”

VerBrugge, a Hickman High School senior, developed her Adobe programing skills to the point where she walked into an internship at KMIZ as a news promotion manager intern.

She plans to attend MU and major in strategic communications. Eventually, she wants to work on the creative staff of an ad agency.

One of VerBrugge’s proudest high school accomplishments was working her way up to become the editor-in-chief of both the school’s newspaper and award-winning art and literary magazine.

Lewandowski, a fellow Hickman Kewpie, wants to work as a human or civil rights lawyer. He currently serves as his school’s student body president. He plans to study social policy or political science and then move on to law school. Fittingly, Amnesty International, where students discuss and work to support efforts ending human rights violations, was Lewandowski’s favorite club in high school.

X’ ZAVIAUN C ONSON Battle High School; U.S. Army

E MELIA K NARR Hickman High School; Savannah College of Art and Design; illustration

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J OSEPH L UTZ Fr. Tolton Catholic High School; St. Louis University; biomedical engineering

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T RENTON M ARKS Battle High School; Davidson College; biology

D REW M ORRIS Rock Bridge High School; George Washington University; political science

P RANAVKUMAR P ATEL Rock Bridge High School; University of Missouri; accounting

T AYLOR R EED Battle High School; Westminster College; undecided

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The Columbia Aeronautics and Space Association — the largest student led space simulation in the country — has been in decline for several years. In Knarr's first year as director of public affairs, she began restoring community relationships, reestablishing the educational outreach program, and completely redesigned the program’s website.

She has since taken on the student director role. She has been able to change the culture of the program to set up many successful years to come.

While Bedsworth, a Father Tolton senior, pursues a dual major in business management and accounting at Drake University, she plans to participate in campus activities such as faith groups and the Engaged Citizen Corps program. “My future goals are to graduate college with at least a master’s degree and obtain a secure job that I love,” says Bedsworth. “I want to be able to spend my free time with my family and friends, volunteer, and travel.”

Advising Greatness Stotler has found a somewhat unusual role model in Boris Karloff, the horror movie star best known for his portrayal of Frankenstein.

“His work ethic was incredible,” says Stotler. “He overcame racism and a disability to become the legend we know today.”

“When I look for role models, the trait I value foremost is selflessness,” says Lutz. Mike Jenner, from Lutz’s Boy Scout troop, is one of those people. “His compassion for the boys in the troop, his family, and even those he doesn’t know, is clearly shown in his life, and I aspire to be just like him.”

Slusher, a Father Tolton senior, says, “Not to be cliché, but I would have to choose advice that Michael Scott gave to Dwight Schrute in the television show, ‘The Office’: ‘Don’t be an idiot.’”

Slusher has plans to study history with an eye on law school. Already on the way to his goals, Slusher was a founding member of Father Tolton’s mock trial team. He, alone, recruited a local attorney and a faculty member to sponsor their club to keep the team competitive.

While some have found advice and role models in after-school groups and media, sports continue to be a major influence on these high school students as well.

“The best advice I have ever received came from my soccer coach, who taught us unrelentingly to ‘keep showing up,’” says Colhour.

“Over and over, he would recount the neces-

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sity of this principle for us, with regard to soccer as well as our lives as character-based young men.”

Reed helped usher in Battle High School's first women’s wrestling team. Serving as captain, Reed led her team to be a state qualifier, and she plans to continue her wrestling career into college. “My future goal is to become a secondary education teacher and to help kids with behavioral issues,” says Reed. “I’d like to make a difference in kids’ lives like so many of my teachers did for me.”

Anand, a Rock Bridge senior, is Stanford bound, where he will study neuroscience. “I’d like to change the pervasiveness of depression and anxiety in today’s youth and truly help individuals rediscover the excitement and easygoing attitude that marks childhood,” says Anand.

Planning to major in accounting at MU, Patel says the best advice he heard was, “Passion gets the ball rolling, but commitment and discipline is what keeps you going.” Known for dressing in khaki pants and button-down shirts, Patel, a Rock Bridge senior, seems like he was born for his chosen accounting future.

He would like to one day become a CFO. While Sundvold, also a Rock Bridge senior, is a nationally-recognized competitive dancer, she has diversified herself outside the dance studio. Sundvold is involved in Junior Leadership Columbia, a program for high-achieving, business-minded students.

Jennifer Lee, of the Columbia Performing Arts Centre, says, “Anna Kate has always been a natural born leader. Her assistance in running rehearsals and influencing her teammates around her has been paramount to the success of our program. Her assistance is impeccable.

As an adult, I find myself learning from her just as much as she does from me.”

The admiration flows both ways; Sundvold says Lee is the person she most admires. “She has been in my life for as long as I can remember. She has taken in so many young dancers and not only given them a passion for dance, but has also taught them how to be better people. I hope that I can inspire children the way she has,” says Sundvold.

Sundvold will graduate in the top three percent of her class. She plans to continue dancing into her collegiate career.

Priority: Fun While it may not sound like there’s any time for fun, this class acknowledges the need for balance.

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Fr. Tolton Catholic High School; TBD; history

H EATHER S NOW Fr. Tolton Catholic High School; University of Missouri; animal science

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“I like to browse Reddit and look at ridiculous stories,” says Knarr. “The ones about crazy parents and ‘choosing beggars’ are my favorite, but ‘beans in places where beans shouldn’t be’ is a pretty great board.”

Marks, a Battle high school senior, likes to spend his time reading or playing fantasy role playing games.

During the summer, he stays active on the water with his wave runner or on land by hiking whenever possible. He undoubtedly deserves a break after he earned a full-ride scholarship to Davidson College after matching through the National College Match, a college and scholarship application process that helps outstanding low-income high school seniors gain admission and full four-year scholarships to the nation’s most selective colleges. He plans to major in biology and minor in English. After his studies, he hopes to become a wildlife biologist.

“Later in life, I would like to get to a point where I can begin writing books, engaging in philanthropic endeavors, and ultimately acquire a house nestled in a forest,” Marks says.

Cole, a Battle High School senior, has collaborated with the Youth Community Coalition in creating the GOCoMo app in hopes of connecting younger students to community events. He says his biggest lesson in high school was to “be kind to all people, because we are all deserving.” Cole plans to major in environmental sciences at MU. Joining Washington University’s architecture program, Rock Bridge senior Schroeder wants to create buildings that are sustainable and use local material, that produce more energy than they use, and that are accessible and inclusive for people with disabilities. He has been interning for Peckham Architecture in Columbia during his senior year.

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Reach the Top and Keep Going As a Father Tolton student, Snow was required to complete 80 service hours, but she surpassed that requirement and accumulated 150 service hours. In addition to her service work, Snow serves as the production supervisor at her family’s business, the head farmhand on the family farm, and a caregiver for a local family.

Fluent in Spanish, Snow wants to make an impact in the agricultural industry and to help end world hunger.

She plans to attend MU to earn a degree in animal science. “My ultimate career goal is to improve the health and efficiency of livestock in commercial operations, and in turn, aid producers in feeding the ever-growing populations,” says Snow.

A transfer student from Belarus, Vazmitsel, learned AP-level chemistry before coming to Rock Bridge.

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A NNA K ATE S UNDVOLD Rock Bridge High School; Texas Christian University; business

Y AHOR V AZMITSEL Rock Bridge High School; University of Missouri; chemical engineering

L AUREN V ER B RUGGE Hickman High School; University of Missouri; strategic communications

J ASMINE W ALKER Columbia Independent School; University of Richmond; business administration

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attending MU for free to study chemical engineering. He plans to earn a PhD in chemical engineering or a related field. He will also be listed as an author on three upcoming peer-reviewed MU papers.

Despite these being a few of his accomplishments, Vazmitsel is still humble. “Marks and grades only reflect how good you are in a certain subject rather than your true intelligence,” says Vazmitsel.

Morris, a Rock Bridge senior, made his mark on Senator Josh Hawley’s recent campaign.

After a summer of canvassing and organizing rallies, Morris moved into a staff position, allowing him to travel with Hawley throughout Missouri.

Amalia Chua Halikias, policy director for Josh Hawley for U.S. Senate, says of Morris, “Few college graduates with whom I’ve ever worked have demonstrated the level of concrete policy knowledge, the combination of humility and drive, and the keen self-awareness and social acumen I have seen from Drew.”

During his free time, Morris reads Wikipedia pages on everything and anything, pursues photography and videography, and goes to McDonalds for their uniquely formulated Sprite, he says. Morris plans to pursue government and politics, practice law, and work with the increasing use of social media and technology.

College Alternative Not every 20 Under 20 student is headed to college right away. Conson, a Battle High School senior, will attend college after serving in the army. An active member of Men of Color, Honor and Ambition, he mentors younger students in the community. Conson served as team captain and a varsity letterman on the Battle football team, which has reached the state final four times, three of which happened while he was on the varsity team.

Conson says his proudest accomplishment in high school was being on the AVID site team. AVID is a college preparatory program for first generation college students or students that may have barriers to college. It is a program that students must apply to and interview for.

As the class of 2019 makes their way across the stage, may they listen to their peer Anand’s favorite advice: “Immerse yourself in the moment and don’t let the results, expectations, and stressors distract you from having fun and growing.” CBT

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A Scholarly Partnership What started as a tuition-free education program at the University of Missouri for Korean students wanting to earn a collegiate degree after the Korean War has evolved into a global leadership program for degree and non-degree seeking individuals across Asia.

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Sang Kim, director of the Asian Affairs Center at MU, along with Young-Mi Moon, Sun Hee Han, and Xining Wang.

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lthough the University of Missouri may not immediately come to mind when considering schools with strong, influential international relationships, both degree and non-degree seeking scholars actively pursue MU’s Visiting Scholars Program to obtain a better global perspective and to receive world-class leadership training. What causes Columbia to stand out in the Midwest as a leading influencer in global leadership?

The Visiting Scholars Program began in the 1960’s, when President Harry S. Truman saw South Korea attempting to rebuild itself after the devastation of the Korean War. President Truman worked with MU to be a flagship school for South Korean students and scholars to receive a tuition-free education in the U.S. With the burden of debt looming over their heads, South Korean officials carefully selected a few bright students to attend MU and strengthen their international leadership skills.

Over 20 years later, there are now more than 2,000 alumni of the program in South Korea, including a handful of incumbent congressmen in the Korean National Assembly.

The program has also grown to include the Global Leadership Program, which is designed for mid-career government officials to strengthen their personal, professional, and global development. Each semester, approximately 80 participants join the Global Leadership Program. The majority of the scholars come from South Korea, but scholars also come from China, Thailand, India, and numerous other countries.

IMPACT Managed and organized by the Asian Affairs Center at MU, the Visiting Scholars Program has arranged agreements with the various provincial governments of South Korea as well as the national assembly secretariat to receive officials at MU for training.

Although there are some in the program that are of common college age, a majority of the participants are government officials with more than a decade of professional experience.

Those currently pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree come primarily as students who want to enhance their cross-cultural communication and leadership skills.

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However, those who would be considered mid-career officials are often selected to enhance their professional development and to strengthen international relationships.

With the bulk of the program funded by respective governments, these professionals move to Columbia, often bringing their families with them. Along with the international and educational influences that these scholars bring, there is an economic impact that is crucial to the community.

After celebrating their 20th anniversary in 2018, the Asian Affairs Center totaled a rough estimate of the economic boost that families of the Visiting Scholars Program contribute.

There are around 80 families participating in the program at a time and they spend roughly $80,000 each while living in Columbia. That amounts to an estimated increase of $6.4 million in economic circulation per year.

Not only does the family impact apply in monetary forms, but it also applies to the diversity of the community as a whole. For example, the local public schools experience an increase in diversity when the visiting scholars have children of school age.

ADJUSTMENT Columbia’s community is easily capable of helping families adjust to the sudden change in culture. Many of the public schools offer

specialized classes for learning English, and MU pairs each visiting scholar with an undergraduate student who serves as a buddy and conversational partner.

Sang Kim, director of the Asian Affairs Center, commented on the program’s buddy system, saying, “Many undergrad students think it’s pretty cool to be able to say that they have a conversational partner who is also a government official from South Korea.”

Xining Wang, who is currently in the Visiting Scholars Program, came to Columbia from China. He heard about the program from a friend who is studying international education. Wang joined the program because of the renowned style of instruction. “The instructors are full of experience and teach English with the lessons. The lessons are full of variety and change every session,” he explains.

He says the goal of the program is “to improve international communication and to improve connections with America so that we [China] can collaborate.”

Part of what Wang has taken away from the program so far is a deeper sense of connection between Western and Asian culture, a more structured and focused way to reason logically, and a stronger sense of leadership.

Sun Hee Han has been a part of the Global Leadership Program through the Visiting

Part of what Wang has taken away from the program so far is a deeper sense of connection between Western and Asian culture, a more structured and focused way to reason logically, and a stronger sense of leadership.

Scholars Program since July 2018. Working for the Gangwon provincial office in South Korea, she now lives in Columbia with her husband and two children, who attend a local elementary school.

“I plan to stay here for one year, from July 2018 to July 2019,” Han says. “I feel it is such a short time for experiencing a foreign country.

On the other hand, it is a very precious time in a life that one can have.”

Han found out about the program from a colleague who worked with her in Gangwon and who had taken a GLP course from MU. Sparking her interest, Han contacted the Asian Affairs Center to seek help in joining the program herself.

She had researched programs in other countries but decided to join the GLP at MU. “The GLP seemed to be the most appropriate thing for me as a final choice, taking my family and studying English,” she says. “The GLP program offers courses ranging from English conversation beginners to academic courses.

Among those, I studied a course related to American culture and the workplace and was able to improve my English skills through note-taking and exploring books.”

When asked about some of the most notable benefits the program provided her, Han says: “The United States that I knew when I was in South Korea and the United States that I experienced in person were different. Watching American movies and dramas and listening to pop songs, I thought I knew America. But unlike movies and dramas, America was very frugal and diligent. And the land in the United States was huge and there were plenty of opportunities to enjoy nature outside of the big cities. In South Korea, driving for five to six hours was a very long time.

But in the United States, more than 10 hours was not that long. The roads are well built and toilets and buildings are all equipped with amenities. I participated in several clean-up volunteer activities organized by the City of Columbia. It was a good experience.”

Though the initial intentions of the Visiting Scholars Program were to simply strengthen professional and global development, the program has provided many additional benefits. Not only do individuals benefit from their training and experiences, but government institutions build bonds that are established through MU, which then go on to benefit interpersonal relationships — through alumni loyalty — on a global level. CBT COLUMBIABUSINESSTIMES.COM 59

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Columbia’s Private Schools Taking a closer look at three local private schools through their enrollment requirements and numbers.

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TUITION For Catholic families, tuition is tithed to the church For non-Catholic families, tuition is $4,300 ANNUAL FEES 1st Child: $380 2nd Child: $380 3rd Child: $300 4th Child: $280 5th Child: $250 ENROLLMENT about 650 students

Elaine Hassemer, Principal, Our Lady of Lourdes Interparish School

WITH THE SEVENTH LARGEST public-school system in the state and three colleges that quite literally surround its downtown area, Columbia has no shortage of access to education. Accredited by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, the Columbia Public School District enrolls more than 18,000 students in 21 elementary schools, six middle schools, four high schools, the Columbia Area Career Center, and an early childhood program.

With so many options for a great, free education, parents in Columbia may not think twice about sending their children to a local public school. However, for some families, public school may not be the best option for their child. Whether it’s family or religious values, tuition costs, school size, or the specific needs of their child, hundreds of families in Columbia have looked to private schools to educate their children.

There are a lot of private schools to choose from in Columbia and each one is unique in size, grade levels, admittance standards, tuition costs, and overall purpose or mission. To get a better understanding of how these schools operate, we spoke with several administrators.

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Our Lady of Lourdes Interparish School Near the Columbia mall sits is a unique, tithing-based Catholic school that serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade.

Founded in 1960, Our Lady of Lourdes Interparish School was created out of a desire from Catholic families in the area.

Its mission statement says the school seeks to “provide a Christ-centered learning community dedicated to the spiritual, intellectual, and moral development of each child.”

Principal Elaine Hassemer says that although students do not have to be Catholic to attend the school, about 96 percent are practicing Catholics.

To be admitted to the school, a parent must sign an agreement that upholds the teachings of the Catholic faith. The school also strongly encourages all of its families to be active members of a Bible-believing local church. Religion is an important part of the curriculum at Our Lady of Lourdes Interparish School

and students have religious studies every day and attend Mass.

As a tithing-based Catholic elementary school recognized by the Diocese of Jefferson City, families of students tithe the church to cover the cost of tuition. Families that are not members of the Catholic church pay a tuition of $4,300.

“It’s between the families and the pastor and it’s based on the family’s financial abilities,” Hassemer says. “You pay what you can pay.”

The school also collects yearly fees ranging from $380 for a family’s first child to $250 for the fifth child. These fees are collected throughout an eight-month span in payments between $45 and $55 per month.

Hassemer says the school has a capacity of about 650 students, and the enrollment for this year is close to that number. This year, Our Lady of Lourdes Interparish School is currently undergoing a $6.6 million addition to its main school building.

TUITION Lower School: $13,100 Upper and Middle School: $14,900 NEW STUDENT FEE $250 per student

ENROLLMENT 353 students Lower School: 210 students Middle School: 97 students Upper School: 46 students

Adam Dubé, Head of School, Columbia Independent School

Columbia Independent School Off of Stadium Boulevard and across from Columbia Cosmopolitan Recreation Area lies Columbia Independent School. The school was founded in the fall of 1998 after a group of 32 parents came together in the hopes of creating a secular college preparatory school in the area.

In the beginning, the school was housed inside Hickman Hall on the Stephens College campus with just over 50 students in grades six through nine with a faculty of 16 teachers. In 2002, CIS added a lower school program serving children from junior kindergarten through fifth grade. In 2009, they moved to their current location, effectively unifying the junior kindergarten through 12th grade students in one school. Now, 20 years after the school’s founding, CIS enrolls over 350 students.

Adam Dubé, the head of school for CIS, says that as the only secular independent school focused on college preparation in Columbia, CIS serves a unique purpose in the community.

“A little over 20 years ago, there was a group of parents who recognized that there really wasn’t a school in Columbia that focused on being a college preparatory school and, though there were many schools that prepared students to go off to college, there were

no schools where all of the curriculum and all of the philosophy was designed to prepare students for success in college and success after college,” he says.

The 353 students enrolled at CIS are divided among three schools: the lower school, which serves students from junior kindergarten to fifth grade, the middle school for sixth to eighth graders, and the upper school, which serves ninth through twelfth graders. The school’s faculty is comprised of 40 full-time and 11 parttime employees, 75 percent of whom have advanced degrees.

To be accepted to any of the schools, students must submit recommendations from teachers as well as their school records or transcripts. For students wishing to enroll in the middle or upper schools, an entrance exam must also be completed.

“What we’re really looking for is readiness.

Is the student ready for the grade that he or she is going to enter and, as a school, are we positioned well to really challenge and support the student as he or she needs to be?” Dubé says.

There are separate tuition costs for CIS students depending on grade levels. Tuition for the lower school is $13,100 per year and $14,900 for

the middle and upper schools. All newly admitted students are also asked to pay a new student fee of $250 per student. To help families who may not be able to pay the school’s full tuition, CIS offers need-based financial assistance.

“About 20 percent of our tuition goes back out in the form of tuition assistance,” Dubé says. “We give over $1 million a year in tuition assistance to families. About 40 percent of the families at our school receive some level of tuition assistance, and that number is based purely on the family’s financial need.”

Dubé says that about 85 percent of the school’s budget is funded by tuition, and the rest is from fundraising sources such as charitable gifts, events, and an annual fundraising gala.

Although the school is not currently full, Dubé says there is a waiting list for some classes at the lower school level. Over the next few years, he says he expects the school’s overall enrollment numbers to increase. With 210 students in the lower school and 97 in the middle school, Dubé says he has placed a lot of effort in growing the upper school and, with such a high percentage of retained students, he expects the school enrollment to increase to 400 in the coming years.

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TUITION Kindergarten: $7,300 Grades 1-5: $7,600 Grade 6: $8,400 Grades 7-8: $8,950 Grades 9-12: $9,350 FEES Books, supplies, and technology fee: $300 Enrollment fee: $150 One-time application fee: $50 per student ENROLLMENT about 290 students

Scott Williams, Associate Pastor and Principal, Christian Fellowship School

Christian Fellowship School Associate Pastor and Christian Fellowship School Principal Scott Williams says the school was founded in 1981 out of a desire of members of the Christian Fellowship Church to provide a Christian-based education for their children. Although the school began as a service for its church members, after several years, it opened its doors to the greater community and now serves students from preschool through 12th grade.

“Sometimes parents look to us because their local public school feels very crowded and their child isn't fitting in very well for some reason, whether it be social or academic or it may just be values that the family holds,” Williams says. “We find that parents come to us for a number of reasons and what we want them to carry with them is that we are a Christian school that seeks to integrate a biblical worldview into our curriculum.”

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enrollment is back up to about 290 students, and Williams says he anticipates that number to increase in the coming years.

Tuition at Christian Fellowship School varies by grade level, starting at $7,300 for kindergarten students and increasing to $9,350 for ninth through twelfth graders. Williams says about 30 percent of families at the school receive some kind of tuition assistance ranging from just a small percentage up to 90 percent. He says the school provides over $300,000 a year in tuition assistance to families.

Williams says a lot of this money is paid for through fundraising and donations from current families and school supporters. These tuition costs, donations, fundraisers, and school fees such as athletics, books, supplies, and technology fees help pay the school’s budgetary needs.

As a school designed to serve Christian families, Williams says families who send their children to Christian Fellowship School have to sign a statement of faith that says they’re in agreement with the basic teachings of Christian orthodoxy and must be supportive of the mission and values of the school.

All teachers and staff at Christian Fellowship School are Christian, participate in local churches in the area, and are trained in integrating a Christian worldview into the curriculum.

The school represents 40 different congregations in the Columbia area and students attend daily Bible classes.

“We serve a broad range of students in terms of academic ability and our students do perform well,” Williams says. “We have some very, very bright students.”

Williams says the school’s average ACT score for graduating seniors was 25 and, according to standardized testing, 98 percent of students at Christian Fellowship School perform at or above their cognitive abilities.

“I strongly believe in a strong public school system, and Columbia has one of the best, but that doesn't mean that one’s local public school is the best fit for every student,” Williams says.

“There are students with other needs, whether it’s because they feel lost in a larger system, they’re being bullied, they need academic motivation, or maybe it’s because of the family’s religious values — the parents should have more options available to them.” CBT

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STEPHENS COLLEGE

By Dianne Lynch, PhD, president

Larry Sommers, former president of Harvard University, said a few things worth remembering. My favorite? “Change happens slower than you think it will and then faster than you thought it could.”

Welcome to higher education in 2019: While state universities are struggling to maintain taxpayer support and private colleges are scrambling to carve out market distinction, families want to know why their children can’t attend any institution they can get into for free.

It’s a perfect storm of market and cultural disruption. And the higher ed sector — steeped in tradition and culturally averse to change — is scrambling to recalibrate.

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self-confidence, resilience, sisterhood, and sense of purpose that will define and empower their lives.

It’s what we want for our daughters — today, perhaps, more than ever. And it’s why women’s colleges are experiencing a revival of interest and enrollment.

Here at Stephens, we’re also intentional about the disciplines we offer and the quality we require; we start new things, but we also stop doing the ones we can’t deliver better than market. Call it sector segmentation or niche marketing. We call it knowing whom we serve and committing to doing it better than anybody else.

It’s our strategy for 2020, for 2030, and beyond. And it’s already transformed our curricula, our campus, and our culture.

Since 2015, we’ve invested millions in the health sciences, including new facilities, new leadership, exceptional faculty, and significant financial aid. Today, our new Center for Health Sciences is a state-of-the-art facility, and we just graduated our first class of master’s students in physician assistantship — with a 100 percent pass rate on their PANCE exams.

That’s had a ripple effect on our undergraduate health sciences program, which is our fastest growing degree. That’s because we’re creating an incubator for young women who aspire

to highly competitive health care professions, from veterinary science to physician assistant studies to cancer research. And we’re developing pipeline partnerships in deep collaboration with the health care sectors we serve.

We’re investing in musical theatre, including $1.75 million in new facilities at our summer stock theatre in Iowa. It’s one of the many reasons our theatre program is ranked No. 3 in the nation this year by the Princeton Review.

And we’re funding our students’ success in creative writing, design, arts immersion education, strategic communication, and equine studies. These are programs where we consistently garner national attention and awards for competitive excellence.

Beyond the classroom, we’re investing in the soft skills that distinguish Stephens grads from the competition. Every student completes a non-academic graduation requirement of 16 workshops and interviews designed to teach work ethic, professional presentation, business etiquette, and resilience. We’re already seeing the impact in their national internships and post-grad job placement.

And we walk the talk when it comes to listening to student voices — it is, after all, their Stephens. That’s why we’ve become the pet-friendliest campus in the country. It’s why we provide free mental health and urgent-care, free Uber on the weekends, and sushi in the dining room.

It’s why the president has an open-door policy, 24/7 (and, yes, red shoes).

Some things about us will never change: We’ll continue to be the campus where women can — and are expected to — do it all. We’ll remain committed to doing only what we can do better than market, from health sciences and creative and performing arts to a new AI-embedded degree we’re developing in design. And we’ll continue to offer students a safe, supportive, and accepting “home away from home” right in the heart of all the co-ed splendor of MU. But as for everything else? We’ve said for 185 years that Stephens prepares women for the lives that await them. As those lives change, Stephens will, too. We’re good at that.

In closing, it’s probably worth noting that Larry Sommers is also the guy who suggested that the under-representation of women in science and engineering could be due to “a different availability of aptitude at the high end” — in short, that women just don’t have what it takes to succeed in STEM fields. Proof positive that even the president of Harvard isn’t always right.

Just ask our science grads.

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COLUMBIA COLLEGE

By Scott Dalrymple, PhD, president

When most leaders think about the future of a college or university, they tend to think in terms of programs: what new majors or departments they'll add. That's good, and we do that too. But in my eyes, there's something even more important to consider.

Ask a hundred people what concerns them about higher education today, and few will say they just can’t find the major they want.

Instead, people are worried about how to pay for college. Solving that problem is what gets me excited.

Tuition pricing seems simple, but it's often confusing and opaque. It's easy to find a college's posted tuition cost, but that's just a starting point. In reality, 20 people in a classroom may all pay different tuition rates. It's a lot like the airline industry: The person sitting next to you may have paid a lot more for her ticket or a lot less. A typical higher education classroom might include students who paid between 0 and 100 percent for their seats.

Higher education institutions track our average tuition markdown, calling it our discount rate. Amazingly, the average discount rate at private, liberal arts institutions is around 50 percent. That may sound good for students, but it’s not, really, since it's based on a fictitious list price rather than any objective measure of value. All it really does is confuse students. (At Columbia College, our overall discount rate is approximately 12 percent, partly because we don't inflate our list price.)

Fees are just as confounding. Few students ask about fees before they enroll, yet in some

university programs, total fees can actually exceed tuition. They get you coming and going with application fees, technology fees, library fees, student activity fees, parking fees, laboratory fees, program-specific fees, transcript fees, graduation fees, and more.

Then there are books. My youngest son is a biology major at another college. (Inexplicably, he didn’t want to go where his dad worked.) Since my wife and I pay the bill, we're painfully aware of the cost of textbooks. We pay more than $2,000 per year for his books, some of which cost $300 a piece.

Our son is lucky; his parents can afford to pay.

Sadly, though, textbook costs lead many college students to go without at least one book each semester. They try to scrape by without, sometimes unsuccessfully.

So what's the solution? At Columbia College, we call it “Truition.” While we've had a traditional college campus in Columbia since 1851, the vast majority of our 20,000-plus students take courses online or at one of our 35 locations across the country. Those students now pay just one price (a competitive $375 per credit hour for undergraduates) which includes all costs: tuition, fees, and books.

There are no hidden fees, no fine print. We're doing for college pricing what Southwest Airlines did for airline pricing.

One reason we can do this is that we negotiate directly with major textbook publishers, buying the books ourselves and giving them to our students, who collectively saved more than $10 million last year. And saving isn’t the only advantage; now every student has every book on the first day of class, meaning nobody falls behind for financial reasons.

What does the future hold for Columbia College? I'll give you a CBT scoop: Our faculty members are considering the possibility of bringing Truition pricing to our traditional program in Columbia, perhaps by Fall 2020.

That would mean that our traditional students (and their parents) could benefit from this innovative approach to higher education.

Successful entrepreneurs listen to what people are complaining about; that's where the opportunity is. In higher education, it's cost.

I'm a firm believer that the next great educational innovations will not be curricular or technological — they will have to do with the way people pay for a quality education.

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grams in the community, and the future promises even more. In the fall of 2020, MACC and CPS plan to significantly expand dual credit and dual enrollment offerings and develop a middle college program. This will give CPS students the opportunity to graduate high school with significant college credit, even up to an earned associate degree. This partnership will expand the pathways for Columbia students as they enter the next level of higher education or the workforce.

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MOBERLY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

By Jeff Lashley, PhD, president

The past 10 years have seen tremendous growth and success for MACC Columbia. The next ten years will bring many new opportunities and challenges as MACC continues to build on this momentum. Meeting the needs of our students, developing and maintaining a trained workforce for our business and industry partners, and serving the communities in the MACC service region will continue to be the top priorities.

To achieve these priorities, MACC will continue to develop pathways and partnerships by strengthening connections and commitments to Columbia and Boone County. Ultimately, MACC will strive to meet its mission to provide dynamic and accessible educational opportunities that empower our students and enrich our communities.

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Higher education is more collaborative than ever before, which leads to the creation of new opportunities for our students. Collaborative partnerships have allowed MACC to offer innovative programs and pathways that simply would not have been possible as solo ventures.

Recent partnerships with K-12 districts and higher education institutions have resulted in some of MACC’s most successful programs.

Thankfully, higher education institutions in our area have embraced the spirit of collaboration. MizzouMACC is a co-enrollment program between MACC and MU that has been successful in allowing students to experience the benefits of both institutions simultaneously. This program provides numerous advantages allowing eligible students to use their A+ scholarship for MACC courses, enroll in university coursework, live in MU campus housing, and ultimately have a seamless transfer experience.

The students get the best of both institutions.

Similar programs have been developed with Stephens College and Truman State University.

Moving forward, these programs have great potential to expand and improve the student experience and make their pathways to degrees clearer and easier to navigate.

Partnership with Columbia Public Schools has allowed MACC to offer health sciences pro-

In the past 10 years, MACC has developed important relationships with business and industry partners, economic development professionals, county and city government, and the business community through the Columbia Chamber of Commerce. Building upon these relationships will be critical to meeting the current and future workforce needs of Columbia and Boone County.

Moving forward, we will partner with industry to develop programs for high-demand jobs.

We will replicate the model used to develop our mechatronics program, which addresses the workforce needs of advanced manufacturing.

Many workforce needs of the future have yet to be defined, so it is essential that we partner with business and industry to define and develop the necessary training programs together. We must also leverage resources and programs from both state and federal sources to help support these programs, which are often expensive to start and maintain. Opportunities are abundant in areas such as apprenticeships, health sciences, information technology, logistics, cybersecurity, a variety of advanced manufacturing programs, and wind energy, to name a few.

Forward-Thinking & Quality Focused Over the next 10 years, MACC must be forward-thinking. We intend to be at the table anticipating workforce needs and technological advances. Technology has changed higher education as dramatically as it has changed our personal lives. It is impacting current jobs and will shape future careers. Things that did not exist 10 years ago are embedded in our culture and lives today.

While we will remain nimble to address all of the knowns and unknowns the future will bring, MACC will also stay focused on an unchanging principle for community colleges, which is our commitment to quality teaching and learning.

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UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI

By Latha Ramchand, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs

For an increasing number of college students, the educational requirements for their dream job and the ground covered by a college degree are not in perfect alignment. As the economy and the needs of the workforce change, the value higher education provides to students

should also be rethought and adapted to fit the changing environment.

Consider this: In 2016, the largest demand for labor in Missouri was in the health care sector. Health care jobs comprised more than 20 percent of job postings that year, while only 9.8 percent of online job seekers sought these positions.

This is a classic problem of supply and demand, and as an educational institution, the University of Missouri is well-suited to tackle this problem. For someone who desires health-related knowledge but does not want to pursue a medical degree that isn’t required for their job, a different approach to education is needed, one in which traditional degrees are not the only path to success.

At MU, students have a range of options to choose from, and the options are relevant to the workforce needs of Missouri. Degrees in the health professions, for example, range from undergraduate degrees in communication science and disorders to graduate degrees

in applied behavior analysis and diagnostic medical ultrasound.

The next decade will see us build on a network of options for students of all backgrounds and career tracks. From online programs to new certifications, our goal is to offer content that participants can choose from and learn via modalities that suit their style of learning, be it face-to-face, online, or through a hybrid approach. Being relevant and rigorous is key to our vision, and this means we have our ears tuned to the needs of the workforce in the state of Missouri and beyond.

This also means we must become more agile as an organization so we can meet the needs for “just-in-time learning.” Degrees are starting points to a career of lifelong learning. Indeed, the typical millennial is expected, on average, to change jobs 11 times during their working lives, and that means continued learning and retooling.

While a single degree once secured a particular place in the job market, the workforce now demands more. Required competencies often span multiple disciplines. This is where certifications will play an increasing role.

Offering credentials without a degree — our graduate-level certificate in the fast-growing field of data science and analytics, for instance — is one way we’re addressing market needs.

Increased flexibility is not solely the domain of certificates, of course. Mizzou Online allows those who might otherwise be unable to attend a university to earn an education, an opportunity that goes hand in hand with certification programs that allow for a specific, tailored learning experience. Soon, students will also be able to supplement their education with classes from any of the four UM System campuses, widening access to a variety of programs and making self-driven education more convenient and practical than ever before.

Moreover, online education can have a positive impact on the on-campus classroom, opening up in-person class time for higher-level discussions and allowing instructors to focus on facilitating discussions and critical thinking exercises.

In the end, each of these evolving aspects of our academic programs are part of a customer-centered ethic. We must be nimble to meet the needs of our students, meet the workforce needs of today, and anticipate the future of work tomorrow. As we adapt, the success of our students translates into success for our state, our nation, and beyond. CBT COLUMBIABUSINESSTIMES.COM 73

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The Bank of Missouri executives collaborated with Our Lady of Lourdes Interparish School writing teacher, Donna Blauch to develop entrepreneurial skills in her seventh and eighth grade classes.

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The collaboration sparked creativity and resourcefulness in students who completed persuasive assignments for their fictional Columbia restaurants. The 69 OLLIS students divided up into 18 teams of three or four and became completely immersed in the project. They created business plans and full fledged, three to five minute presentations including a storyboard, logo, design layout, full menu, and anything else to go above and beyond their competition.

The panel of judges included bank executives from the retail, small business and, commercial divisions.

The judges were so impressed with the presentations they created additional awards to honor the student’s hard work.

The first place winner was Snapshots Sweets, where guests would be able to customize their own dessert and then create a social media post around it. “The kids far exceeded our expectations, the amount of time and precision they put into the presentations was impressive,” says Lauren Berube, Branch Operations Officer.

The Bank of Missouri valued the opportunity to give the students real life experiences to strengthen their writing and speaking skills. Eager to help them develop more skills, they offered to come to the classroom to assist in business plan creation for additional grade levels.

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Employers are increasingly creating student loan repayment programs for their employees.

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couple years ago, in an effort to better recruit and retain talent at hard-to-fill positions, MU Health Care took a close look at enhanced incentives it could offer current or future employees.

Senior Director of Talent Peter Callan and his team surveyed the industry landscape and sought input from current staffers in high-need, high-turnover areas — mostly nursing, but also respiratory therapy and lab technician jobs — about what they most desired, and MU Health Care came away with three solutions.

One was heightened hourly pay for staffers who worked weekends. Another was an annual payment for people who stayed in particular units for five years. The third was a student loan repayment program through a third-party company, Tuition.io.

While the state vacancy rate for resident nurses is 14.3 percent, according to the Missouri Hospital Association, MU Health Care’s is 4.5 percent. Callan says he gets calls on an almost weekly basis from other similar health systems wondering what MU Health Care is getting so right.

“The programs have been wildly successful, actually,” Callan says. “The end result has been very positive for us, both with employee engagement and fewer vacancies. It does work.”

In the fall of 2015, multinational services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers became the first major company to announce student loan repayment assistance as a perk for its full-time employees.

The trend has only intensified since then: Tuition.io counts Staples and Hulu among its corporate clients, for example. A survey conducted last May by the CommonBond student loan refinancing company found that 78 percent of employees polled said they would be more inclined to accept a job offer if it included loan repayment assistance as a benefit, and 86 percent said they would be more willing to stay at their current job if it offered that perk.

Loan assistance is not a one-size-fits-all perk. But, with Americans shouldering nearly $1.5 trillion in combined student loan debt, it’s an issue that affects a large portion of the workforce, and area employers are considering what they can do to help lighten the load.

“We benchmark all of our benefits locally and nationally,” says Sarah Mazzocco, director of human resources at Missouri Employers Mutual. “We look at our offerings on a regular basis to ensure that they are on market and competitive to recruit and retain top talent. We are constantly scanning the market for what we can make available to our employees.”

CONTINUOUS GROWTH ENVIRONMENTS The average debt owed by students graduating from four-year colleges in Missouri, according to the Institute for College Access and Success, was $27,108 in 2017. That figure was below the national average of $28,650 and ranked 32nd out of 50 states, but the fact remains that 58 percent of Missouri students graduated college with debt.

Those who moved on to achieve graduate degrees have it even worse: a median of $57,600 in loan debt, according to a 2014 report

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FACTS & FIGURES $1.46 trillion Total student loan debt in the U.S. (2018)

44.8 million Student loan borrowers (2017)

$30,944 Average student loan debt for borrowers (2017)

65% Borrowers who are 39 or younger (2017)

47.5% Borrowers whose balance had not decreased from the previous quarter (2017) Source: Federal Reserve Bank of New York

$28,650 Average student loan debt owed from four-year college graduates

$27,108 Average debt owed by students in Missouri

58% Missouri students who graduate with debt Source: Institute for College Access and Success report; data from 2017

St u d e n t Lo a n H e l p For employees in its high-need areas, MU Health Care offers up to $166 a month for up to five years in student loan repayment assistance, topping out at $10,000 entirely off the principal. MEM is designated as a certified employer in the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

Employees need to have federal loans in order to qualify and have already made 120 qualifying monthly payments. While only a handful of employees are currently enrolled in the program at MEM, senior compensation consultant Kelli Hathman says interest is growing.

Callan says 241 staffers have gotten loan assistance through MU Health Care, but it isn’t even the most popular of the three recent program additions: 299 have gotten retention rewards and 365 have taken advantage of the weekend program.

This is emblematic of another consideration facing these companies: They need to be reactive to the specific needs of their employee bases.

While Boone Hospital Center does not offer loan repayment, it does use sign-on bonuses for hard-to-fill positions to entice employees who can then use the bonus to help pay down loans, according to Human Resources Manager William de Lima. Boone Hospital also offers tuition reimbursement for continuing education for its staffers, which is a popular benefit for area employers.

MU Health Care offers 75 percent off tuition at any UM System school. MEM offers up to $5,250 in tuition reimbursement per calendar year, and Boone Electric Cooperative offers a sliding scale of reimbursement based on the grades an employee receives — 75 percent for a B or better, 50 percent for a C — based on the cost per credit hour at the University of Missouri, even if employees don’t choose to take classes through MU. Boone Electric, like most companies, requires its employees to be taking courses related to their professions in order to benefit from tuition reimbursement. MEM and Boone Electric have both offered this service since the 1990s.

“When an employee shows they’re trying to pursue an education, that shows a lot of initiative on their end, that they want to keep learning,” says Laura Baker, manager of member

"When an employee shows they’re trying to pursue an education, that shows a lot of initiative on their end, that they want to keep learning."

– Laura Baker, manager of member services at Boone Electric

services at Boone Electric. “That’s definitely a benefit to the co-op and themselves. We definitely want people that want to keep learning.”

Employers also meet staffers where they are through certification and targeted education programs that don’t require going back to school to get a degree.

MU Health Care offers scholarships for RN programs at the MU Sinclair School of Nursing, Columbia College, and Moberly Area Community College, as well as an in-house “career institute” that provides specialized training for seven professions, including medical assistants and neurodiagnostic technicians.

In addition to offering certification courses for specialties within the insurance field, Mazzocco says MEM encourages its employees to engage in “prescriptive” learning programs that emphasize leadership and management training for career development.

“We want our employees to be curious and to constantly grow,” Mazzocco says. “We want to encourage them to have that type of mindset, that they’re interested in growing their skill set and the company because of their willingness to do that. It’s important to us that we hold that value in high regard and keep the focus on that.” CBT

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Number of public schools in Columbia Source: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

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The 2018-2019 budget for Columbia Public Schools.

Source: Columbia Public Schools K-12

Number of private schools in Columbia for the 2018-2019 school year Source: Private School Review

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Number of language immersion schools in Columbia.

Source: Missouri Dual Language Network

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70-74%

Percentage of persons age 25 or above who are high school graduates.

The estimated percentage of FAFSA completion for the 2018-2019 cycle for Columbia Public School District through December 2018

Source: U.S. Census Bureau 2013-2017

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