The Office of Student Engagement is dedicated to fostering student growth and development by promoting a wide range of events, resources, and activities. These opportunities are designed to encourage active involvement in academic, professional, civic, and social pursuits, providing students with a holistic platform for personal and professional development.

For more information about activities, events or leadership opportunities email studentengagement@aurora-ro.com. Follow us on Facebook, and check out our events on BlueConnect!

Game Room

Come visit the Jewell Game Room for weekday access to a pool table and a wide selection of video games with multiple systems available for use. The Game Room is located adjacent to the Office of Student Engagement, in the Lower Jewell Student Center. 

Student Engagement wants to make sure you know about events happening on campus, student organizations you can join, and ways to get involved in your community. Get involved on BlueConnect today!

Download the Involve app by Modern Campus, select KCKCC, login and get connected to BlueConnect. Find the app in the Apple or Android store. 

Fringe Benefits of Education (FBOE) is an organization that offers a circle of support for adults 17 years of age and older. Founded in 2007, FBOE has been focused on guiding young people to overcome their struggles, and to accomplish their dreams.

FBOE walks beside young adults to help them overcome barriers that cause hopelessness and disconnect from their dreams. Participation is open to young men & women who are on the fringe of transition, dropping out, losing hope of being successful, seeking employable skills, having a hard time transitioning, looking for ways to connect with community resources and wanting a better chance of beating the odds. Each participant will develop skills to create realistic and practical goals, an action plan, create a support system, build lifelong friendships, networking opportunities, tutoring and more. 

FBOE meets every Thursday evening (all year round) from 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. in the lower level area, Jewell Building, KCKCC Main Campus, 7250 State Avenue, Kansas City, KS, 66112. 

Interested in FBOE? Contact FBOE Advisor, Roger Suggs, at 913-288-7482 or rsuggs@aurora-ro.com.

The Basic Needs Center helps expand and enhance equitable access to basic needs services and resources college wide, to support student persistence, to aid retention and success with a focus on historically marginalized populations across the college. 

The KCKCC Basic Needs Center provides limited emergency financial assistance and oversees the Blue Devils Cupboard, which is the food pantry for the college community. For more information, visit the Basic Needs Center webpage. 

The KCKCC student senate (student government) works as a legislative body which includes: executive board members, student senators, and student club representatives from all the KCKCC clubs, organizations and special interests groups.  This legislative body is the voice for all KCKCC students. Through the voice of this body, issues concerning students, academics, faculty, staff, policies, procedures and the institution as a whole may be discussed during each of the bi-weekly general meetings held in the lower level of the Jewell Building.

All KCKCC students are welcome to attend the bi-weekly student senate meetings.  If you have a concern or something you would like to discuss privately or publicly at the meetings, please contact any of your student senate members at stusenate@aurora-ro.com. 

Any enrolled student may apply as an executive board member and can be appointed by the board to the senate if interested. Interested students should contact the Office of Student Engagement and/or any of the student senate officers by emailing stusenate@aurora-ro.com. 

The student senate office is located in the Office of Student Engagement, room 2313, lower level of the Jewell Building. Our door is always open for all of our KCKCC students.  Please stop by to see planning in action or just stop by the office to say “Hi.” We are always happy to hear from you. 

Student Senate President
Joseph Sanchez
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Student Senate Vice President
Amil McDaniel
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Student Senate Secretary 
Widlynn Dorilas
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Student Senate Treasurer
Dominic Kraly
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Student Senate Activities Coordinator
Zach Kickmon
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Student Senate CIO
Robert L. Garza-Wass
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Student Senate Parliamentarian
Lucas Jones
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Webinars and Online Events

Just because you graduated or you are enrolled in a specific degree program at KCKCC does not mean you have to stop learning or expanding your interests. As an alumni or current student at KCKCC, you have exclusive access to a range of online learning tools and programming. All classes and seminars are complimentary, please check out the list of upcoming courses and past recordings available on demand HERE. We hope you enjoy this new alumni and student benefit and hope to see you in an online event soon!