I recently got back from the Tiger Treasures rummage sale at MU’s Memorial Stadium today. Close to a thousand people showed up to get bargain prices on clothing, appliances, electronics and many other things that were donated or left behind by students in MU residence halls, student apartments and Greek houses.
Although a lot of the [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Tiger Treasures rummage sale
Posted in 32974 on May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
MU Thompson Center expands personnel
Posted in 32974 on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The MU Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders expanded its personnel on Wednesday, MU Provost Brian Foster said in a news release. Foster announced Jim Poehling as executive director and chief administrative officer. Janet Farmer, the center’s founding director, was named academic programs director.
The center was established in 2005 from an $8.5 million gift [...]
Forsee marks 100 days in office
Posted in 32974, tagged Gary Forsee, UM system on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
UM system President Gary Forsee reflected Wednesday on his first 100 days in the office of the president via e-mail to students, faculty, staff and employees at the system’s Columbia, Kansas City, Rolla and St. Louis campuses. Forsee was announced as president of the system Dec. 20, 2007 and took office Feb. 18, 2008. In [...]
MoCRI won’t make November ballot
Posted in 32974, tagged http://www.missouricri.org/resources.html on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Missouri Civil Rights Initiative, an anti-affirmative action initiative, will not be on the November 2008 ballot after receiving only 170,000 of the 210,000 signatures needed.
Executive Director, Tim Asher said the initiative didn’t get the numbers needed because of the short period of time allotted to collect signatures, and not because Missouri voters disagree [...]
Heads Up on MU’s AAUP Chapter
Posted in Faculty and Staff, tagged AAUP, American Association of University Professors, MU Faculty, MU Faculty meeting on May 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week at the special MU faculty meeting, there were a couple of signs that the university’s American Association of University Professors chapter is looking to receive a kick-start from its relatively dormant last few years on campus.
Victoria Johnson, an associate professor of sociology, was one of the drafters of the petition that kick-started the [...]
Missouri’s Not Alone
Posted in Financial aid, State funding, tagged Compete Missouri, Education budget crisis, Florida spending cuts, Higher education crisis, MU budget woes, University budget cuts on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My previous post (Enough Bang for Your Buck?, May 2) addressed the big picture regarding troubles with educational spending and how it intertwined with faculty concerns about the fiscal future of the university. The Compete Missouri plan, as it stands, will take $7 million of in-house money in order to fund faculty salary increases. That [...]
Enough Bang for Your Buck?
Posted in Faculty and Staff, State funding on May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At the Columbia Missourian, we’ve reported numerous times in the past few months on the rising cost of college education. The causes of the price hike that has pervaded the better part of this decade are numerous, but that’s not the point today.
Yesterday I talked with MU mathematics professor Stephen Montgomery-Smith about some MU faculty members [...]
Students ‘Going Green’ via Facebook (Update)
Posted in 32974, Miscellaneous, Student Life, tagged (Lil) Green Patch, Adopt an Acre, Facebook, Nature Conservancy, Osa Peninsula, Stacey Talarovich, Students 'Going Green' via Facebook on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Original post: Students ‘Going Green’ via Facebook
As it is May 1, some may be curious to know what the new total is for Facebook’s, a social networking site, application (Lil) Green Patch. The April donation was made to the Nature Conservancy and Facebook users have helped to save over 20 million square feet of rainforest [...]
