Ryan Fitzpatrick didn’t take the easiest path in planning his post-graduate life. As a senior majoring in finance at the University of Missouri-Columbia, he started his job search in January by going to career fairs on campus but didn’t find any of the companies recruiting at MU to be a match. “A lot of companies recruiting at Mizzou are huge corporations, so it’s hard to get a big role in one of those,” Fitzpatrick said. “Plus, most of those companies were looking for graduates to come to St. Louis, and I was looking to go more to the Kansas City side.” Not having any luck with MU resources, Fitzpatrick turned to a neighbor who works for a staffing company just a week before graduation. There, he found spark of hope. He says he now has a promising prospect in Overland Park, Kan.-based Shaner Appraisals. Fitzpatrick is especially attracted to Shaner because it’s a smaller company with less than 50 employees, the sort of small firm he’s wanted all along.

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Missouri State University and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) signed an agreement on June 17 to examine ways to provide meaningful opportunities for underrepresented populations and increased education on and exposure to diversity and inclusion matters for faculty, staff and students.