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University of Kansas City

 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1933 - 1963
  • Usage: 1933 - 1963

Parallel Names

  • University of Missouri--Kansas City

Biography

The University of Kansas City movement began when business leaders, civic leaders, and philanthropists secured a charter for the university in 1929. The movement's leaders began a fundraising campaign that year. This university movement merged with the Lincoln and Lee University movement in 1930 to combine efforts to open a private four-year university in Kansas City.

The university was built on a 40-acre plot southeast of the William Rockhill Nelson mansion, near Country Club Plaza and south of Brush Creek. William Volker purchased and donated the land for the university. Volker subsequently purchased the Walter S. Dickey property after Dickey's death in 1931, and donated the land to the university. The Dickey mansion became the university's first campus building.

The University of Kansas City opened in October 1933 with a faculty of 17 and a student enrollment of 264. The university grew to merge professional schools and colleges such as the Kansas City School of Law in 1938, the Kansas City-Western Dental College in 1941, and the Kansas City College of Pharmacy in 1943. It also acquired the Kansas City Conservatory of Music in 1959. The university opened the School of Administration in 1953, the School of Education in 1954, and the Division for Continuing Educaiton in 1958.

The university became part of the University of Missouri System on July 25, 1963. By this time, the University of Kansas City had 3,300 students and 175 full-time faculty. Its name changed to the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Information from the University of Missouri--Kansas City website.

Found in 296 Collections and/or Records:

Benner, Roy W. Investment decisions: theoretical and empirical aspects: (Post-Keynesian controversy) / by Roy W Benner. MA thesis, 1958

 Item — Location 032106, Box: 010
Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...
Dates: 1958

Benson, Guy M. the evolution and a critical analysis of Laplace transforms / by Guy Meriwether Benson. MA thesis, 1955

 Item — Location 032105, Box: 007
Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...
Dates: 1955

Benson, Leonard G. Formal leadership in unions and industry / by Leonard G Benson. MA thesis, 1950

 Item — Location 032043, Box: 002
Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...
Dates: 1950

Bernhardt, Harold E. Relationship between score on social attitude test and subsequent related social action / by Harold E Bernhardt, Jr. MA thesis, 1953

 Item — Location 032102, Box: 005
Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...
Dates: 1953

Billings, Helen K. A study of responses of children 9 to 14 years of age to the Brown personality inventory for children with reference to age and sex differences with respect to relative prominence of arears of maladjustment / by Helen Kehr Bilings. MA thesis, 1951

 Item — Location 032103, Box: 004
Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...
Dates: 1951

Billings, Helen K. An exploratory study of the attitudes of noncrippled children toward crippled children in three selected elementary schools / by Helen Kehr Billings. PhD dissertation, 1960

 Item — Location 032125, Box: 012
Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...
Dates: 1960

Black, Harry . Economic History of the Predecessor Companies of the Kansas City Power & Light Company, 1881 - 1900 (An). MA thesis, 1953

 Item — Location OOR Range 26, Section 6, Shelf 3
Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...
Dates: 1953

Blake, Ruth R. No title given., 1954

 Item — Location 032104, Box: 006
Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...
Dates: 1954

Boyce, Dorothy H. The Straits, 1856-1945 Russian and British Interest. MA thesis, 1947

 Item — Location 032092, Box: 001
Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...
Dates: 1947

Bradbury, Gilbert V. Regarding the restricted relativity theory and functional equations / by Gilbert V Bradbury. MA thesis, 1954

 Item — Location 032104, Box: 006
Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...
Dates: 1954

Bridges, Alvin E. No title given., 1954

 Item — Location 032104, Box: 006
Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...
Dates: 1954

Brock, Jr, Russell O. The Hue and Cry In Medieval England. MA thesis, 1949

 Item — Location 032092, Box: 001
Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...
Dates: 1949

Brooks, Ronald W. Authoritarianism and delinquency / by Ronald W Brooks. MA thesis, 1960

 Item — Location 032125, Box: 012
Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...
Dates: 1960

Brouillette, Carl V. The Rearrangement of some Y-Substituted Allyl Phenyl Ethers in the Presence of Zinc Chloride. MA thesis, 1947

 Item — Location 032092, Box: 001
Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...
Dates: 1947

Brown, Donald V. Metallurgy basics / by Donald V Brown, 1951

 Item — Location 032103, Box: 004
Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...
Dates: 1951

Brunke, Louis . An historical study of the Western diatonic modes / by Louis Brunke. MA thesis, 1958

 Item — Location 032106, Box: 010
Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...
Dates: 1958

Brunson, Eunice . Leisure time interests of adolescent girls : a study of the Y-teen department of the Young Women's Christian Association of Kansas City, Missouri / by Eunice Brunson. MA thesis, 1950

 Item — Location 032043, Box: 002
Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...
Dates: 1950

Bucher, Jane . The physiological affects of "Red leg" disease in frogs/ by Jane Bucher and Clarence B Sinclair. MA thesis, 1950

 Item — Location 032043, Box: 002
Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...
Dates: 1950

Burks, Walter M. Missouri Medicine Man. MA thesis, 1958

 Item — Location OOR Range 26, Section 6, Shelf 4
Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...
Dates: 1958

Burks, Walter M. Thunder on the Right. PhD dissertation, 1962

 Item — Location OOR Range 26, Section 6, Shelf 4
Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...
Dates: 1962

Burnett, Marvin C. the stability of ethyl -3, 12-diacetoxy-6-bromo-7-ketocholanate towards dehydrohalogenation / by Marvin C Burnett. MA thesis, 1951

 Item — Location 032103, Box: 004
Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...
Dates: 1951

Cain, Martha L. Music Appreciation / by Martha Lee Cain. MA thesis, 1950

 Item — Location 032043, Box: 002
Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...
Dates: 1950

Calvert, Susie S. The relationship between children's group drawings and their communication patterns / by Susie Smith Calvert. MA thesis, 1961

 Item — Location 032126, Box: 013
Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...
Dates: 1961

Carbaugh, Daniel C. The physiocratic economics of Francois Quesnay / by Daniel C Carbaugh. MA thesis, 1961

 Item — Location 032126, Box: 013
Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...
Dates: 1961

Carpenter, Thomas H. A problem in choral techniques and methods / by Thomas H Carpenter. MA thesis, 1954

 Item — Location 032104, Box: 006
Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...
Dates: 1954