Tiffany Rice Receives the Robert J. Greef Award

Congratulations to Tiffany Rice, MWSU's recipient of the Robert J. Greef Award for Outstanding 

English Education Graduates. Tiffany was honored on Feb. 28 by the Missouri Council of Teachers of English at the Write to Learn Conference, which she attended with her mother, Carol Rice, and one of her professors, Dr. Susan Martens.

Tiffany grew up in Smithville, Missouri. The daughter of Adam and Carol Rice, she graduated from Smithville High School, then graduated cum laude from Missouri Western State University this past December. She was a volunteer at the Prairie Lands Writing Project’s annual High School Writing Day where she assisted high school students attending writing workshops on campus. She served as a workshop leader in MWSU’s developmental writing program and supported young writers in a blogging partnership with Bode Middle School in Saint Joseph. She is currently substitute teaching and planning for graduate coursework this summer with the Prairie Lands Writing Project while she prepares to seek a fulltime high school ELA position for the coming school year.