JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A former system president and a wealthy university donor will help review the University of Missouri following last year’s turmoil. GOP House Speaker Todd Richardson Wednesday named former system president Gary Forsee and Jeanne Sinquefield to an eight-member review commission. Sinquefield and her husband, conservative donor Rex Sinquefield, have given…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The University of Missouri is fighting a former assistant professor’s effort to collect unemployment benefits after she was fired for conduct during campus protests. Melissa Click, an assistant professor, was fired in February after a videotaped confrontation of her calling for “some muscle” to remove a student videographer from a protest…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The University of Missouri says graduate students have no rights to collective bargaining in response to a lawsuit from a group seeking to form a union. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that attorney Michael Kaemmerer says that even if they do have that right, they are doing it wrong. The assertions…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – An internal audit is highly critical of a University of Missouri’s College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources after a former employee admitted to stealing more than $716,000 over nine years. The Columbia Missourian reports that the audit found that fiscal oversight was “inadequate” for the 17 agricultural research centers scattered…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – An activist group has suspended its efforts to loosen marijuana restrictions in Columbia while awaiting the fate of a statewide push to allow Missourians to vote on legalizing medical marijuana. Mid-Missouri NORMAL wants Columbia to decriminalize the cultivation of six or fewer marijuana plants. Group president Josh Chittum says the issue…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri System is set to cut several administrative positions and reduce some salaries in an effort to offset a $3.8 million reduction in state funding. The Columbia Missourian reports that the Board of Curators voted unanimously Thursday to approve the system’s budget for fiscal year 2017. The budget…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – A man who posted threatening messages against black people on an anonymous social media app during racial protests at the University of Missouri last year has been sentenced to probation. Hunter Park was a Missouri University of Science and Technology student on Nov. 10 when he posted the messages on Yik…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has appointed three members to the University of Missouri’s Board of Curators. Nixon said Wednesday the newly filled nine-member board now can select a new president after student protests led to the former president’s ouster last year. The announcement comes weeks after lawmakers adjourned. Senate President…
( KTRS ) Those who wish to keep guns off of College campuses, may have more ammo for their argument, after a man on the University of Missouri Columbia campus accidentally shot himself in the leg. University police report that officers responded Tuesday afternoon to a loading dock near a dining hall and found Michael…
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) _ A former University of Missouri employee has admitted in federal court that she stole more than $716,000 from the school over nine years. Fifty-four-year-old Carla Rathmann of Mount Vernon pleaded guilty Monday in Springfield, Missouri to one count each of mail fraud and credit card fraud. Rathmann had worked at the university’s…