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Biggest Buzzkill: Effects of low enrollment

Lily Cusack • May 3, 2016

When word spread in March about MU’s budget crisis, the prognosis was grim. How would the university make up a $32 million deficit? Answer: Cutting 5 percent from all departments and instituting a hiring...

Mizzou in Review: Top five WTF moments

Taylor Blatchford • May 3, 2016

This school year has been full of resignations, protests and other general administrative chaos. Stepping back and thinking about all that’s happened, there were some moments that just made us ask, “WTF,...

Most Influential Students: Jonathan Butler

Thomas Oide • May 3, 2016

Jonathan Butler doesn’t see himself as a leader. “I view myself as an engaged community citizen who has a specific lived experience,” Butler said. “I don’t think I’m anybody special, I don’t...

Most Influential Students: Eric Scott and Connor Lewis

Kyra Haas • May 3, 2016

Graduate students Eric Scott and Connor Lewis met at the first meeting of the Forum on Graduate Rights, just days after graduate workers were informed 13 hours before their health coverage period ended...

Top 5 Words of the Year

George Roberson, Nancy Coleman • May 3, 2016

Calling for “muscle” sparked a national debate over the First Amendment, labeling graduate student workers as “kids” voting in a “mock election” infuriated unionization activists, and adding...

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...

Staff open forum addresses budget restraints, job security

Alyssa Bessasparis • May 1, 2016

In a climate of budget constraints and staff unrest, a panel of seven MU administrators fielded questions and concerns from staff regarding job security, career paths and salaries during an open forum...

Chuck Henson to step down as interim vice chancellor for inclusion, diversity and equity

Claire Mitzel • April 29, 2016

Chuck Henson, the interim vice chancellor for inclusion, diversity and equity, will be leaving his position and returning to teaching this fall, interim Chancellor Hank Foley announced in an email to faculty,...

ASUM pushes for confirmation of curators’ student representative

Taylor Blatchford, Claire Mitzel • April 26, 2016

Nearly two months after Gov. Jay Nixon appointed the new student representative to the UM System Board of Curators on March 10, the position is still vacant and the appointee still awaits Missouri Senate...

Race relations committee to address racism and diversity in video podcasts

Alyssa Bessasparis • April 25, 2016

The Faculty Council Committee on Race Relations will soon release a series of video podcasts addressing what they have learned about diversity and racism. Since last May, the committee of 12 faculty members,...

In compromise, legislators limit cuts to UM System and MU

Claire Mitzel • April 21, 2016

Missouri legislators agreed Wednesday in a conference committee to forgo any budget cuts to MU and limit a cut to the UM System to $3.8 million. Drawing close to their deadline of passing the fiscal year...

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...