- Derrick Alexander Named Avila University Head Football Coach
January 12, 2023, KANSAS CITY, MO – Today, the Avila University Department of Athletics named former Kansas City Chiefs standout and Avila assistant football coach Derrick Alexander the university’s new head football coach. “We are very excited to welcome Derrick back to Avila University as our head football coach,” Avila University Director of Athletics Shawn...
- Avila Full Circle: Angela Danley Returns to Serve as Director of Clinical and Field-Based Experiences
Angela Danley, Ph.D., returns to Avila as the new Director of Clinical and Field-Based Experiences, where she earned her Special Education degree and obtained Missouri certification in elementary education and Special Education K-12 in 1996. “As a first-generation college student, I chose Avila because of the rigorous program in education and the proximity to my...
- U.S. News & World Report Names Avila University a Top Performer on Social Mobility
After assessing an all-time high of 1,500 U.S. bachelor’s degree-granting institutions on 17 measures of academic quality, U.S. News & World Report has named Avila University #51 in Top Performers on Social Mobility for Midwest regional institutions in the 2022-2023 edition of Best Colleges. While a college degree is still considered the surest path toward...
- $298,016 Grant Awarded to Avila University
Avila University was recently awarded a $298,016 grant by the Missouri State Board of Nursing “to help enhance nursing education programs and develop solutions to help alleviate staffing shortages felt nationwide.” “The grant funding was allocated for workforce development to bring more nurses into the nursing workforce. As Tracy Koehler (Avila assistant professor) likes to...
- Atenas Mena, ‘14 Climate and Environmental Health Advocate
Avila Alumna, Atenas Mena is the Co-Executive Director/Environmental Health Director of CleanAirNow (CAN). She is a proud first-generation college student, Mexican American, the daughter of immigrants, and grew up in Kansas City, Kansas. Mena graduated from Avila University with a Bachelor’s in Nursing in 2014 and a Master’s in Nursing Leadership from Missouri Western State...
- Historic Football Season Continues with KCAC All-Conference Selections
The Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC) announced their 2022 Football All-Conference honorees, with Avila landing three awards as voted by the conference’s football head coaches. The team’s historic season continues this Saturday in their first-ever NAIA Playoff Tournament game. The #15 Avila Eagles travel to Indiana Wesleyan University for a 12:00 p.m. contest against the...
- Avila University Eagles Football Program Ranks 15th in the Nation with the Opportunity to Play in the NAIA Post-Season Tournament
A Win on Saturday Clinches First-Ever Tournament Berth KANSAS CITY, MO – This weekend marks a historic opportunity for Kansas City’s only college football team, the Avila University Eagles. A win over Friends University on Saturday, November 12, 2022, will secure the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference’s (KCAC) automatic bid in the NAIA National Tournament for the...
- Five Latinx Avila School of Education Students Receive $3k Grants
Five Latinx Avila School of Education students were each recently awarded a $3000 grant to assist with the educational cost of pursuing their dream of being an educator. The grant was awarded to Avila University by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), and through it, Avila partnered with the Latinx Education Collaborative...
- QA: Marlon Jones, BS Biochem, ’21
Marlon Jones was an Avila STEM Scholar and graduated class of 2021 with a bachelor’s in Biochemistry, and a minor in environmental science. “I work for Trinity Biotech, a production company for HPLC (High-Performance Liquid Chromatography) instruments and point-of-care devices. I fell in love with both sciences [chemistry and biology] and merged the two,” said...
- Q&A: Cameron Leathers, BS CS ’22
Cameron Leathers was an Avila STEM scholar and recently graduated in May 2022 with a bachelor’s in computer science. He now works at WellSky in Overland Park as a Support Analyst. “It’s the world headquarters. We supply medical, at-home personal care software to people all over the nation. I take incoming calls and emails from...