Gov. Jay Nixon announced on Monday that he has appointed Don M. Downing to the UM System Board of Curators.
Downing, a lawyer from Webster Groves, will still have to wait for confirmation from the Missouri Senate.
He previously served as chief deputy attorney general for Missouri, and is also a graduate of MU and the MU School [...]
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Nixon nominates new curator
Posted in Curators, tagged Curators, Downing, Homecoming, law, MU, Nixon on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Curators approve furlough, retirement plan
Posted in 32974, Curators, tagged Curators, furlough, Gary Forsee, payment, retirement on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The UM Board of Curators approved a plan Friday morning that would make participating employees pay into their retirement funds and gave UM System President Gary Forsee the authority to implement furloughs if necessary.
Both of these actions were approved unanimously.
Here is an article with more information.
Curators meet Thursday, Friday
Posted in Curators, State funding, tagged Agenda, benefits, budget, Curators, furloughs, Live Stream, UM system on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The UM Board of Curators are meeting Thursday and Friday. State appropriations and employee benefits are among the topics to be discussed.
A full agenda for the meeting can be found here, and all other public documents for the meeting can be found here.
Also, when the board is meeting in public session, you can listen in [...]
Forsee proposes benefit plan changes
Posted in Curators, Faculty and Staff on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
UM System President Gary Forsee released a memo this morning to faculty and staff recommending changes to the benefits plan for full-time employees, and asking that 2010 salaries be kept at 2009 levels.
Forsee recommended an employee contribution plan be instituted “to preserve a critical benefit for our employees,” among other recommendations.
He will make his recommendations to the UM [...]
ASUM meeting Saturday to discuss an override of the curator bill veto
Posted in 32974, Curators, tagged Associated Students of the University of Missouri, ASUM, Board of Curators, Columbia Missourian, Gary Forsee, Gov. Matt Blunt, governor, Matt Blunt, Michael Sewall, Missouri General Assembly, student curator, UM system, University of Missouri on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Associated Students of the University of Missouri, a student lobbying group, is meeting Saturday afternoon in Kansas City to discuss its strategy to override Gov. Matt Blunt’s veto of a bill on Wednesday. The bill would have given the student representative to the UM System Board of Curators a vote on the board, if [...]
Blunt vetoes curator bill, my e-mail inbox is flooded
Posted in 32974, Curators, tagged Associated Students of the University of Missouri, Board of Curators, Chuck Graham, Columbia Missourian, Gov. Matt Blunt, governor, Ken Jacob, Matt Blunt, Michael Sewall, student curator, UM system, University of Missouri, Young Democrats of Missouri on July 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It seemed that everyone needed to say something about Gov. Matt Blunt’s decision on Wednesday to veto a bill that would have made the student representative to the UM Board of Curators a voting member on the board.
Right now, the board has nine members — one for each Missouri congressional district — and the student [...]
UM System Ramps Up Alert Efforts
Posted in Campus security, Curators, tagged Campus security, UM Board of Curators, UM Security on April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
During Friday morning’s session of the UM Curators meeting last week in Rolla, UM Chief of Staff David Russell gave a report updating the efforts to increase campus security system-wide. He noted the establishment of “3n,” or the National Notification Network, an enhanced emergency alert system for all four UM campuses.
Russell told curators that Missouri [...]
UM curators clarify MU’s name
Posted in Curators on November 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The University of Missouri-Columbia will drop the hypen and Columbia from the university’s name in materials for fundraising, recruiting students and faculty, alumni relations, marketing, intercollegiate athletics and similar public relations functions. MU will still use the hyphen and Columbia when referring to budget documents, legal letters and other official correspondence. The Board of Curators [...]
MU has new general counsel
Posted in Curators on October 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The UM Board of Curators have named Stephen J. Owens, a Kansas City attorney in private practice, as MU’s new next General Counsel. Owens succeeds Marvin E. “Bunky” Wright, whose retirement is effective Dec. 31.
A 1977 graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia with a Bachelor of Science in Public Administration, Owens, 52, is a partner [...]
"Intellectual pluralism”
Posted in Curators on October 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Columbia Missourian: All four UM campuses are creating Web sites that will allow students to electronically submit complaints or concerns about instructors who do not respect “intellectual diversity.”
Many faculty members remain worried that intellectual diversity could force professors to self-censor. Social sciences are especially at risk because they deal more with opinion, said Frank Schmidt, [...]
