United Way is a campus-wide annual sponsored fund-raiser. Donations are raised for the local Heart of the Ozarks United Way chapter by faculty, staff and students at Missouri State University-West Plains.

$6,372 Raised in 2008: Thanks to the generosity of faculty and staff, $6,372 was raised for the Heart of the Ozarks United Way this year, and 64 percent of the faculty and staff participated in the campaign.