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Committee releases proposed policy about free expression and public spaces

Claire Mitzel • June 5, 2016

The Ad Hoc Joint Committee on Protests, Public Spaces, Free Speech and the Press released [a draft policy](http://committees.missouri.edu/protests-free-speech/docs/recommended-policy-use-of-university-ground-05-2016.pdf)...

UM System announces independent audit of diversity policies

Claire Mitzel • May 24, 2016

On Monday, interim UM System President Mike Middleton [announced that a systemwide audit will take place](https://www.umsystem.edu/ums/news/news_releases/052316_news) to review and analyze current diversity...

Board of Curators approves tuition hike for fall 2016

Claire Mitzel • May 18, 2016

On Wednesday, the Board of Curators unanimously approved a tuition hike for all students except Missouri resident undergraduates for the 2016–17 school year, differing from a [previously announced decision...

AAUP report: Academic freedom, shared governance endangered at MU

Claire Mitzel • May 18, 2016

Two months after beginning an investigation into assistant communication professor Melissa Click’s termination, the American Association of University Professors released its report, finding that academic...

MU braces for 2,600 fewer students in the fall, $46 million budget shortfall

Claire Mitzel, Alyssa Bessasparis • May 14, 2016

MU will be expecting the smallest class since 2006 with about 1,500 fewer freshmen than last year’s freshman class in addition to an even larger budget shortfall. Vice Chancellor for Finance Rhonda Gibler...

Faculty, staff and graduate students protest retiree health insurance changes

Claire Mitzel • May 10, 2016

Walking from Jesse Hall to Speakers Circle on Monday, 18 faculty, staff and graduate students voiced their discontent over recent changes made to UM System employee retiree health insurance benefits. “Not...

UM System will not recognize graduate worker union

Kyra Haas • May 6, 2016

Following the UM System’s rejection of the Coalition of Graduate Workers’ April 18–19 union authorization election results, CGW will turn to the courts to determine whether it can legally collectively...

Presidential search committee approves position profile

Claire Mitzel • May 6, 2016

Including nine “opportunities and challenges” of the UM System but not expanding on the qualifications desired in the next UM System president, a [“position profile” document](https://board.um.umsystem.edu/May%204%202016%20Board%20of%20Curators%20Special%20Meeting/04%20PSC%201-4%20President%20University%20of%20Missouri%20System%20-%20Position%20Profile%205%203%202016%20CLEAN%20version.pdf)...

MU seniors bring back beer to Senior Sendoff

Jackson Fletcher • May 6, 2016

The first and last memories most MU students make on campus involves walking through the columns. As freshmen, they participate in the annual Tiger Walk, hosted by the Mizzou Alumni Association, that...

MU researchers find association between dog-walking, physical health

Kyra Haas • May 4, 2016

Dog-walking can improve the physical health of older adults, according to a study MU researchers published in March. [The study](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299345284_Dog_Walking_the_Human-Animal_Bond_and_Older_Adults'_Physical_Health)...

Tim Wolfe’s indeterminate path to the presidency

Claire Mitzel • May 4, 2016

“We have to make all 6 million Missourians aware of what we’re doing at the University of Missouri,” then-UM System President Tim Wolfe said in an April 2012 interview shortly after stepping into...

Biggest steps forward: diversity initiatives

Alyssa Bessasparis • May 3, 2016

After former UM System President Tim Wolfe resigned on Nov. 9 following student protests, the UM System realized changes had to be made. The system has created a variety of new positions and programs to...