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Huge shoutout to all students who made the Spring 2026 Dean's List! 🎓 This achievement is such a testament to your commitment to excellence, and you should be very proud!

Enjoy this win! 🎉

Visit the airport or FIFA Fan Fest in the next few weeks and you might see a familiar face! 🤔

Staff from Student Success, Admissions, and Athletics are officially on the ground, volunteering in various capacities to help facilitate the massive undertaking of running the biggest sporting event in the world! 🌍

If you have photos from the first match at Arrowhead, Fan Fest, or anything World Cup, we'd love to see them! Tag us or send them directly to our DMs 🤝

Meet some of the exceptional graduates of the Class of 2026! 🎓

Join us in celebrating their achievements, their stories, and the bright futures ahead of them. 🎉

Outstanding Grads 2026 Meet some of the exceptional graduates of Rockhurst University Clas...

Hawks in Italy! 🇮🇹

In partnership with Spring Hill College, a group of students have landed in Bologna for the next two weeks to learn about global healthcare and OneHealth initiatives. 🌍

Have so much fun! Bring us back some pasta? 🤲

Rockhurst University joins the Dunn family in mourning the loss of Bill Dunn Sr., ’46, longtime CEO of JE Dunn Construction, who died May 31 at age 102. The family has maintained deep roots in the Rockhurst University community, with Bill and his late wife, Jean, giving each of their sons the gift of a Jesuit education at Rockhurst.

JE Dunn Construction has not only been instrumental in the development of the Kansas City skyline, but also in the evolution of Rockhurst's campus – including Fr. Pedro Arrupe, S.J., Hall and the Magis Activity Center.

Bill Sr. served on the first lay Board of Trustees and remained an honorary trustee throughout his life. He was also a key player in the foundation of the Chillicothe Companions Program, providing education to staff and offenders at the Chillicothe Correctional Center, and the Priest Leadership Formation Program, which provides business and leadership skills to priests in the diocese.

Please join us in praying for the Dunn family. 💙

https://www.rockhurst.edu/news/2026-06-04/rockhurst-university-joins-mourning-bill-dunn-sr

With the release of Pope Leo XIV's encycical on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence, an important conversation has been raised.

John Kerrigan, Ph.D., professor and chair of English at Rockhurst University, shares his thoughts on the value of a liberal arts education against the backdrop of this unprecedented technological age. Will the study of humanities –literature, history, language, etc. – become defunct if AI can generate information instantly?

Kerrigan argues it is precisely because of the rapid output of artifical intelligence that the study of liberal arts is more important than ever. Human understanding, connection, analysis, and critical thinking will be what employers look for.

Read his essay here: https://www.rockhurst.edu/blog/why-humanities-matter-age-digital-transformation

The Spiritual Exercises in Everyday Life (SEEL) is a retreat that takes place over an eight to nine-month period, helping you nurture an ever-deepening prayer life inspired by St. Ignatius of Loyola.

The Ignatian Spirituality Center of Kansas City, whose office lives in our Alvin Brooks Center for Faith-Justice, provides participants with a personal guide to accompany you through St. Ignatius' Spiritual Exercises – a program written by Ignatius himself to help grow in devotion to God. Prayer guides are those who have walked through the Exercises before and have seen the fruits of the program.

For anyone who desires a deeper relationship with God, has big questions about their future, or is seeking more meaning in their lives, this is for you. Open to all backgrounds and denominations. Visit ignatiancenterkc.org for more info!