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Leadership & Policy

SUNY Provost Set to be New University of Missouri Chancellor

COLUMBIA, Mo. — The University of Missouri System is set to hire the provost and executive vice chancellor at the State University of New York to run its flagship campus in Columbia, two years after the previous chancellor resigned amid protests over racial concerns on campus. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, citing multiple sources it didn’t […]

May 23, 2017

Leadership & Policy

Interim Missouri Chancellor Says She Won’t Get Permanent Job

COLUMBIA, Mo. — The interim chancellor and provost at the University of Missouri says she is not a candidate to become permanent chancellor. Chancellor and Provost Garnett Stokes, who took over May 3, said Tuesday she expects the new chancellor to be named within the next two weeks. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports Stokes didn’t […]

May 17, 2017

Faculty & Staff

University of Missouri to Cut 400 Positions Amid Budget Woes

COLUMBIA, Mo. — The University of Missouri expects to cut 400 positions amid enrollment drops and cuts in state funding. The Kansas City Star reports that Interim Chancellor Garnett Stokes spoke about the cuts with faculty, students and staff at a campus forum Monday. Stokes says at least half of the positions to be cut […]

May 16, 2017

Students

Mizzou Sees Effect of Declining Enrollment in Columbia

COLUMBIA, Mo. — The University of Missouri in Columbia is seeing the negative effects of budget cuts and declining enrollment. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports the university is expecting its smallest incoming freshman class in nearly two decades this fall, with as much as a 6 percent decline compared to last year. Local landlords are […]

May 15, 2017

Leadership & Policy

Auditor: $2M in Hidden Bonuses at University of Missouri

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The University of Missouri System has doled out more than $2 million in hidden bonuses to administrators over the last three years and paid former Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin thousands of dollars in the months after his resignation with no work responsibility, according to an audit released Monday by state Auditor […]

March 7, 2017

Leadership & Policy

New University of Missouri President to earn $530K a Year

COLUMBIA, Mo. ― The contract of the University of Missouri system’s new president shows he will earn $530,000 a year in base salary, along with nearly $80,000 annually in deferred compensation and housing allowances. University of Connecticut Provost Mun Choi was introduced Wednesday as the four-campus Missouri system’s next overseer, starting in March. Choi’s Missouri […]

November 3, 2016

Leadership & Policy

University of Missouri Names Mun Choi New System President

The University of Missouri has named Mun Y. Choi, provost of the University of Connecticut, as the new president of its four-campus system.

November 2, 2016

Students

University of Missouri’s Kappa Alpha Fraternity Temporarily Suspended

COLUMBIA, Mo. ― The University of Missouri-Columbia says it has temporarily suspended a fraternity after a hazing incident. The university on Monday announced the action against the Kappa Alpha fraternity but provided no details about the alleged hazing that occurred last week. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that the action comes after police investigated a […]

October 3, 2016

Students

Missouri Fraternity Suspended Over Reports of Racial Slurs

COLUMBIA, Mo. ― The University of Missouri temporarily suspended a fraternity on Wednesday over accusations of racial slurs directed toward black students, in the latest incident of racial tension that has roiled the campus for nearly a year. The university action followed the national organization of Delta Upsilon fraternity, which suspended the chapter earlier on […]

September 29, 2016

Students

University of Missouri Aims to Increase Minority Faculty

COLUMBIA, Mo. ― The University of Missouri says it’s putting $1.6 million toward doubling its numbers of minority faculty to 13 percent in four years. University leaders met on the Columbia campus Tuesday to discuss efforts in the past year to improve diversity, inclusion and race relations, The Kansas City Star reports. Kevin McDonald, interim […]

September 14, 2016

Students

Missouri Grad Assistants Worry About Social Media Monitoring

COLUMBIA, Mo. ― Graduate assistants at the University of Missouri suspect the university is monitoring their private social media conversations as the students attempt to organize. Among hundreds of pages of university emails related to campus unrest last fall, including the resignations of President Tim Wolfe and Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin, the university’s News Bureau […]

August 16, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Muhlenberg College Takes Strategic Step Toward Inclusiveness

Muhlenberg College hires 10 diverse tenure-track faculty in an effort to become more inclusive.

July 11, 2016