COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Another University of Missouri dean at the Columbia campus is stepping down. The school’s provost said in a Tuesday email to staff that College of Arts and Science Dean Michael O’Brien is resigning. Provost Garnett Stokes said O’Brien is joining Texas A&M University-San Antonio as provost and vice president for academic…
Columbia, MO (KTRS) A national professor’s group says its investigation has found that the University of Missouri bowed to political pressure when it fired an assistant professor over her role last year in a race-related student protest. The American Association of University Professors released its report late Wednesday night. An association committee will recommend in…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Enrollment at the University of Missouri is expected to decline by 2,600 students in the fall, causing tuition revenue to drop by more than $36 million. The projections would hurt an already poor budget situation and make it likely that the financial challenges would continue for several years as the smaller…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Jewish human rights group alleges the University of Missouri is “missing in action” when it comes to addressing anti-Semitism on campus. Simon Wiesenthal Center officials made the complaint in a letter to the university system’s interim president Mike Middleton. The group says a review of some 7,400 pages of…
( KTRS ) The University of Missouri will have the smallest class of new students this fall, since 2006. University officials says that as of last week, more than 4,700 students had paid a $300 enrollment deposit. That’s a more than 22 percent less then this year’s total of nearly 6,200 students. This fall’s enrollment…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri lawmakers have approved the creation of a commission to review the University of Missouri System’s policies and administrative structure. The measure approved in the House on Tuesday follows months of legislative criticism over how the university handled protests over what some students saw as indifference to racism at the…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Lawmakers are scaling back reductions to the University of Missouri’s budget. Budget writers from both chambers agreed Wednesday to reduce a proposed $7.6 million cut to the university system’s administration to less than $4 million. They also eliminated a proposal to cut $1 million from the Columbia campus. Budget writers…
Columbia, MO (KTRS) – University of Missouri graduate student workers have overwhelmingly voted to unionize. The Columbia Missourian reports about 84 percent of the 795 graduate students who voted were in favor of allowing the Coalition of Graduate Workers to represent them in collective bargaining. Voting took place on Monday and Tuesday. University administrators still…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – A man charged with posting online threats to shoot black students and faculty at the University of Missouri’s Columbia campus has changed his plea to guilty. Nineteen-year-old Hunter Park admitted Monday to making a terrorist threat. Authorities say the threats showed up Nov. 10 on the anonymous location-based messaging app Yik…
( KTRS ) The University of Missouri is countersuing a law school professor who has asked a court to invalidate the university’s ban on firearms. Royce Barondes filed a lawsuit against the university in September, claiming the school’s rules violate his constitutional rights as well as state law. Since then, the university’s team of private…