Submitted construction bids for Center for Workforce and Student Success range $35.8 million to $39.7 million.

The Workforce Development publication explores themes such as payroll shifts, wages and benefits demand, labor shortage impacts and employee barriers impacting recruitment and retention.

A storm shelter to provide protection to the school population during severe weather events is nearing completion at Pittman Elementary School in east Springfield.

Nationally, the alarm continues to sound about a projected staffing crisis in the field of nursing – but at Southwest Baptist University, officials say enrollment in nursing programs is surging.

Newsmakers in the areas of banking & finance, education, nonprofit and real estate.

Descriptors of “community builder” and “business titan” were used in recent days by Springfield leaders to document the life of Sam F. Hamra, a longtime Queen City businessperson whose influence stretched across multiple industries for decades.

"The Voice of the Bears" plans to exit his role in fall 2025.

The candidates currently work at Appalachian State University, Arizona State University and University of Illinois.

An expansion to the Nixa High Pointe Elementary building will contain a 10,000-square-foot safe room with eight new classrooms plus offices and bathrooms for daily school use.

Newsmakers in the areas of accounting, education, insurance, media and nonprofit.

The early childhood center is adding more preschool spots with the funding.

The Economic Impact Awards ceremony and special publication spotlights excellence in business, including employee and revenue volumes and impact on the community, with honorees and top honors chosen by an independent panel of judges.

Clif Smart may not have been the obvious choice to lead a university, but he turned out to be the right one. Smart became interim president of Missouri State University at a critical time, when his predecessor resigned after just 11 months on the job. A leadership void had been created at the largest higher education institution in southwest Missouri, and in 2011, Smart, then university general counsel, was asked to step into it.

The Missouri State University Agricultural Innovation Hub is an 8,500-square-foot building now nearing completion at the Darr Agricultural Center campus.

Newsmakers in the areas of accounting, education, engineering, health care, law and publicly traded companies.

Former MSU President Clif Smart is recognized with the 2024 Lifetime Achievement in Business award.

The fundraiser has a $2 million goal by the end of March 2025.

The attraction is now under the same umbrella as Dolly Parton’s Stampede.

The funding covers Traveling Exploration Trunk program expenses for the next year.

Guest columnist Jeremy Harris: "To develop a workforce that is competitive, can sustain itself economically and grow with the future, education in many forms is necessary."