MoWest Winter 2025 Commencement

Dec. 11, 2025-Missouri Western State University will celebrate the achievements of 204 graduates during the Winter Commencement ceremony at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 13 in the MWSU Fieldhouse in the M.O. Looney Complex. The public is invited. Doors open to guests at 10:15 a.m.

MoWest will confer 172 undergraduate degrees, 51 of them with honors, and 32 graduate degrees this semester. Graduates come from Missouri and 11 other states as well as five foreign countries.

The ceremony will feature graduates from the College of Science and Health, General Studies, the College of Business and Professional Studies and the College of Liberal Arts. A brief reception will follow the ceremony in the Looney practice gym, sponsored by the Missouri Western Alumni Association.

The guest speaker for commencement will be Lee Tieman, managing partner of Tieman, Spencer and Hicks and Chair of the Missouri Western State University Board of Governors. The student representative, Patty Lashbrook, applied communications and journalism major from Faucett, Missouri, will also speak at the ceremony.

In addition to the commencement ceremony, nursing graduates will receive a pin symbolic of their training and new profession at a pinning ceremony at 8:30 a.m. Saturday in the Fulkerson Center.

Missouri Western State University is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. MoWest is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit missouriwestern.edu.