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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

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

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’

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

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...

CS1950 takes on Million Student March

Alexzandria Churchill • April 13, 2016

Correction: The quote in the fourth photo is “We broke as hell, we woke as hell.” The Concerned Student 1950 organization gathered Wednesday to raise awareness for racism and student debt. While marching...

Three things to watch for at this week’s Board of Curators meeting

Taylor Blatchford • April 12, 2016

The UM System Board of Curators will meet this Thursday and Friday at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla. Here are the most important things they’ll discuss: **Presidential search...

Respect and Excellence halls’ student staff not guaranteed floor positions

Claire Mitzel, Alyssa Bessasparis • April 12, 2016

After it was [announced Friday](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2016/4/9/respect-and-excellence-unavailable-incoming-studen/) that students could not select rooms in Excellence and Respect halls for...

Graduate workers to hold union authorization election after year of administrative pushback

Kyra Haas • April 12, 2016

An email sent by the Graduate Professional Council to students last Friday sparked an exchange between graduate students and interim Chancellor Hank Foley, the latest in the effort to form a graduate worker...

Project of the Week: Building names reveal racial disparities

Tessa Weinberg • April 11, 2016

As another year of incoming freshmen begin to log on to ROAR and decide where they’ll live for next year with the help of our [Residence Hall guide](https://www.themaneater.com/special-sections/res-hall-guide/),...

Improving AAU status is a long-term game following budget cuts, leadership changes

Kyra Haas • April 11, 2016

At a general faculty meeting in April 2014, then-Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin urged Faculty Council to consider the face of the university in 50 years. “Why can’t we be the aspirational land grant (university)?”...

Respect and Excellence halls unavailable for incoming students

Katherine Knott • April 9, 2016

Incoming students set on living in Respect and Excellence halls will have to make other plans. The Department of Residential Life put a notice on [the ROAR site](https://roar.missouri.edu/Login.aspx)...