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A Nationally Recognized Leader in International Education

• MSSU is one of 13 U.S. colleges and universities included in Internationalizing the Campus 2004: Profiles of Success at Colleges and Universities, a major report released this month by NAFSA: Association of International Educators. The report showcases U.S. colleges and universities making innovative, wide-ranging efforts to integrate global approaches to teaching into campus learning.
• The Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovation in International Education from the Institute of International Education (IIE).
• The Theodore Hesburgh Award from the American Council on Education and Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• The American Association of Higher Education magazine, Change, also spotlighted Missouri Southern’s unique international programs.
• The Promising Practices program, funded by the Carnegie Corporation, spotlights the strategic and creative ways that eight institutions have comprehensively integrated international learning opportunities into their undergraduate curricula and co-curricula.

In the Kaplan Newsweek College Catalog 2000 a national survey of approximately 4, 500 high school guidance counselors cited Missouri Southern as a "Hidden Treasure." "Hidden Treasures" are described as "terrific colleges that aren't as well known as they should be." "The best schools aren't necessarily the most renowned ones," the editors of the national publication stated. That year, only three other institutions in the state of Missouri made the "Hidden Treasures" list - College of the Ozarks, University of Missouri-St. Louis and William Jewell College. No institutions from Arkansas, Kansas or Oklahoma were listed for this recognition in that publication.

The public and private guidance couselors also cited Missouri Southern as an insitution "offering the maximum amount of individual academic attention."