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Foley: Graduate students aren’t workers

Foley: Graduate students aren’t workers

Claire Mitzel April 21, 2016

Interim Chancellor Hank Foley spoke at Thursday’s Faculty Council meeting and reiterated that he didn’t support [graduate student workers voting in favor of unionization on Tuesday](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2016/4/19/graduate-workers-vote-favor-unionization/). Foley...

Loftin’s new position focuses on connecting faculty with research opportunities

Loftin’s new position focuses on connecting faculty with research opportunities

Taylor Blatchford April 20, 2016

R. Bowen Loftin is still working at MU, but five months after resigning as chancellor, he doesn’t yet have a defined job title. “It’s close to being finalized, and then I’ll have a business card,...

Parking and Transportation Office to use paperless parking system

Parking and Transportation Office to use paperless parking system

Brandon Buscher April 20, 2016

Students will no longer have to buy physical parking passes or pay paper parking tickets when MU implements a new parking enforcement system in the fall. MU will adopt the NuPark system, which is online-based...

What you missed at last week’s Board of Curators meeting

Taylor Blatchford April 19, 2016

The UM System Board of Curators met at Missouri University of Science and Technology last Thursday and Friday for their final scheduled meeting of the 2015–16 school year. **[Presidential search qualification...

As school year comes to a close, MU ramps up recruitment

As school year comes to a close, MU ramps up recruitment

Thomas Oide April 19, 2016

This past March, MU estimated that 1,500 fewer students would enroll this coming fall than last year, but the university is doing everything it can to boost enrollment for this fall and the future. Interim...

Graduate workers vote in favor of unionization

Graduate workers vote in favor of unionization

Kyra Haas April 19, 2016

Graduate student workers made their support for unionization official Tuesday, with 84 percent voting in favor of authorizing the Coalition of Graduate Workers to represent them in collective bargaining...

Interactive Timeline: The Road to Unionization

Interactive Timeline: The Road to Unionization

Taylor Blatchford April 18, 2016

Graduate students have been asking university administrators to meet their demands, including improved housing and child care, since last August. Now, they're holding a vote to determine whether graduate...

Five things to know about the graduate student union authorization election

Five things to know about the graduate student union authorization election

Kyra Haas April 18, 2016

**1. The vote will show whether graduate workers support unionization** The election Monday and Tuesday is for graduate student workers to vote on whether they want the Coalition of Graduate Workers to...

As election approaches, tensions mount between grad students, university

As election approaches, tensions mount between grad students, university

Kyra Haas April 17, 2016

[@MUGradRights](https://twitter.com/MUGradRights), the Twitter account of the Forum on Graduate Rights, has been a flurry of activity the last several days after the most recent development in the push...

MU units work to tighten belt around budget

MU units work to tighten belt around budget

Claire Mitzel April 17, 2016

MU colleges, schools and departments have been working to trim their budgets following interim Chancellor Hank Foley’s announcement of a 5 percent budget cut, including laying off staff, not filling...

Middleton asks UM System to ‘become comfortable with the uncomfortable’

Middleton asks UM System to ‘become comfortable with the uncomfortable’

Taylor Blatchford April 15, 2016

Improving the UM System will only come through engaging in difficult conversations, interim President Mike Middleton said in a UM System Board of Curators meeting Friday morning. Middleton encouraged...

Presidential search committee approves qualification statement

Presidential search committee approves qualification statement

Claire Mitzel April 14, 2016

An understanding of higher education was at the top of the [UM System’s presidential search committee’s qualifications statement](https://www.umsystem.edu/ums/news/news_releases/news_041416) approved...