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Chancellor Cartwright announces new financial aid packages for Pell-eligible students

Chancellor Cartwright announces new financial aid packages for Pell-eligible students

Stephi Smith August 25, 2017

MU Chancellor Alexander Cartwright announced a new financial aid package that provides full tuition and fees for Missouri Pell Grant recipients at Jesse Hall on Thursday. “We know that this award is...

Frustrations arise for graduate students and seniors with attempts to buy parking passes

Frustrations arise for graduate students and seniors with attempts to buy parking passes

Kyle LaHucik August 2, 2017

With three weeks until the fall semester begins, students are already frustrated with their inability to park where they’d like. Senior Danielle Katz, who had purchased three campus parking passes prior...

Top Disappointments: UM System officials given inappropriate bonuses

Nancy Coleman May 2, 2017

It’s hard to pinpoint the most disheartening part of the UM System audit that was released in March. It might have been the $1.2 million doled out in incentive payments to top administrators over several...

Top Disappointments: Budget cuts continue to plague the university

Top Disappointments: Budget cuts continue to plague the university

Zia Kelly May 2, 2017

Within a month of being sworn in earlier this year, Gov. Eric Greitens released two budgets that each made major cuts to state higher education funding. This came as MU was already losing money as freshman...

Fresh Faces: Choi’s background in higher education led him to U.M. System presidency

Fresh Faces: Choi’s background in higher education led him to U.M. System presidency

Grant Sharples May 2, 2017

Mun Choi, the 24th president of the UM System, began his term March 1 as the first permanent president of the UM System in nearly a year and a half. The presidency had been filled by interim leader Mike...

Fresh Faces: Chancellor Search Committee looking for MU’s newest leader

Nick Corder May 2, 2017

Many MU students seem to be in the dark about both the goings-on of the Chancellor Search Committee, a group of individuals whose purpose is to suggest an administrator that will ultimately shape the future...

Fresh Faces: Three new members added to the Board of Curators

Caroline Watkins May 2, 2017

The Board of Curators can often seem like an omnipotent group of Wizard-of-Oz-esque overlords who decide your tuition’s fate behind a grandiose emerald curtain. But who are the new men (and woman) behind...

The Briefing: Board of Curators short five members

Emily Gallion February 1, 2017

The nine-seat UM System Board of Curators will go into their first meeting of the calendar year short five members, the Columbia Tribune reported Jan. 26. The terms of three members, Pam Henrickson, Jon...

Scientific society elects three MU faculty for their 'distinguished' research

Scientific society elects three MU faculty for their ‘distinguished’ research

Jackson Kinkead December 8, 2016

The field of onco-cardiology did not exist until Edward T.H. Yeh, now an MU faculty member, helped launch it in order to explore the relationship between chemotherapy and heart problems. Yeh, along with...

Nationwide search for next MU chancellor announced

Claire Mitzel December 5, 2016

Interim UM System President Mike Middleton announced a nationwide search for MU’s next chancellor in an email to the MU community on Monday. Middleton said in the email that the search is in consultation...

At welcome reception, new UM System president lays out plans for the university

At welcome reception, new UM System president lays out plans for the university

Olivia Garrett December 1, 2016

UM System President-designate Mun Y. Choi described the UM System’s commitment to students, research and excellence at a welcome reception for him on MU’s campus Thursday. Choi explained his intention...

Preparing for retirement, News Bureau Executive Director Mary Jo Banken looks back on her 28-year career

Preparing for retirement, News Bureau Executive Director Mary Jo Banken looks back on her 28-year career

Olivia Garrett November 29, 2016

When MU News Bureau Executive Director Mary Jo Banken first started working at MU as an administrative assistant, she quickly began looking to take on more responsibility. She asked Mary Still, the director...