Community Interests
Within and Surrounding UMKC

UMKC

Applied Language Institute Need to Learn English for Academic, Business or Personal Reasons?

Berkley Child and Development Center serves as a teacher training and research facility for early childhood education and provides child care and education to children of families from the metropolitan community, including children with special needs and those from low-income groups

Center for Academic Development provides programs and services that help students meet their educational goals without compromising the high standards of the institution

Center for Aging Studies Learn more about family care giving and other topics

Center for Economic Information employs state-of-the-art information technology, both in support of academic research, and for the provision of useful information to economic decision-makers in the public and private sectors.

Club Kaycee serves up sights and sounds of the Golden Age of Kansas City Jazz

Community Counseling Services

UMKC Community Page

Communiversity provides adult education programs

Conservatory of Music and Dance presents more than 350 concerts a year

Continuing Education

• Arts & Sciences
• Dentistry
• Education
• Law
• PACE

UMKC Events Calendar

Gallery of Art

Institute for Labor Studies provides labor education for the unions and working people

Intercollegiate Athletics news, schedules, tickets

Insight - Webzine: online videos about student life

Jobs and Employment UMKC is an equal opportunity institution

KCUR Radio provides high quality, news, information and entertainment service in a non-commercial environment

Media Relations: press releases

Missouri Repertory Theatre

New Letters: a magazine of writing & art: in print and on the air

Project Refocus is designed for persons who have lost their jobs through company layoffs and closures--Missouri residents and others who have worked in Missouri, and provides training and job search services, assists local companies in finding qualified workers, and helps companies prepare their employees for impending layoffs or closings

SPARK: an Elderhostel Institute for Learning in Retirement

Summer Sports Camps

Virtual Tour This tour will take you to each building on campus

Welcome Center "Let UMKC's Welcome Center help you feel at home on campus"

Women's Center: resources for research and resolution of women's issues, serving UMKC administrators, faculty, staff and students and the Kansas City community

Metropolitan Area

Brush Creek Community Partners (www.bccp.org/)

The City Market (www.kc-citymarket.com/) Has been in the same location since 1857

City of Kansas City, MO (www.kcmo.org/kcmo.nsf/web/home?opendocument) City Government

Convention and Visitor's Bureau of Kansas City (www.visitkc.com/) The city’s link to those who travel to our town

Country Club Plaza (www.countryclubplaza.com) A charming shopping, dining and entertainment district

Kansas City Corporate Challenge (www.kccorporatechallenge.com/home.htm) To promote health, wellness, and camaraderie by presenting participants with physical endeavors designed to challenge their bodies and minds through the spirit of corporate competition

Kansas City.com (www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/) provides local information and services

KC Arts Walk.Com (kcartswalk.com/) A virtual tour through the cultural heart of Kansas City

Missouri (www.state.mo.us/) State Government

Missouri Repertory Theater (www.missourireptheatre.org/) A premier fully professional resident theater

Nelson Atkins Museum of Art (www.nelson-atkins.org/) One of the country’s premier art institutions

The Star (www.kcstar.com/) Kansas City's daily newspaper

Toy and Miniature Museum contains twenty-four rooms filled with antique dolls, dolls' houses, cast iron toys, trains, and scale miniatures

Truman Presidential Museum & Library (www.trumanlibrary.org/) One of the Presidential Libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration

Union Station / Science City (www.sciencecity.com/)

Kansas City Zoo (www.kansascityzoo.org/) provides opportunities to explore entire continents and immerse yourself in the animals' natural habitats