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Kirksville and Truman Partner to Host State Special Olympics
The Truman campus recently served as the site of the 2025 Special Olympics Missouri State Summer Games. Between athletes, coaches, family members and spectators, more than 1,000 people came to Kirksville, May 30-June 1, for a weekend full of athletics, fun and community support. This was the first time Kirksville hosted the event. Truman facilities
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Truman Looks to Expand Internship Opportunities
To bolster opportunities for students, Truman created the position of director of internships and tapped Kim Sprought for the role. Sprought has been tasked with enhancing, facilitating and promoting meaningful internships and enriching career-related experiences for Truman students. She will collaborate with students, faculty, employers, alumni and other stakeholders to create and sustain a diverse
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Greetings, Truman Family and Friends! When you think about a word to describe Truman’s campus in the summer, what word comes to mind? Well, here’s the word for this summer – EXCITING! Not long after celebrating our impressive graduates in May, we immediately pivoted to hosting the 2025 Special Olympics Missouri State Summer Games (page
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The sixth annual Alumni & Friends Book Club will feature “Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age” by Truman alumna Dr. Kathleen Sheppard (’01). The history of Egyptology often focuses on male archaeologists seizing precious artifacts for their competing homelands. But that is only half