Like most of you, I am not at the University of Missouri Board of Curators meeting in Columbia today. But I am listening in to parts of it through a live audio stream. And for the first time, I am also…

Wayne Goode

One of the newest-appointed members of the University of Missouri Board of Curators already has his likeness captured in bronze wax on the St. Louis campus.

Wayne Goode, the former longtime state legislator from St. Louis, has been appointed to the…

UMSL has been waiting a decade for state funds to renovate its crumbling labs in the Benton-Stadler science complex. School officials learned today that they will have to wait once more.

The roller coaster ride for UMSL and Mizzou continues.

This morning,…

UM President Gary Forsee

In a hastily-called conference call this morning, the University of Missouri Board of Curators unanimously passed a resolution opposing a potential veto of its two highest-priority building projects under consideration by Gov. Jay Nixon.

University President Gary Forsee…

A tuition freeze for this fall at the University of Missouri is on the agenda of Board of Curators meeting later this week. But the 0 percent tuition increase would be contingent on flat state appropriations for higher education, the…

In case you’re having trouble finding my story from today’s newspaper about Gary Forsee turning down a bonus on stltoday.com, I’m pasting it below. You can also click here to get to it. Have a good weekend.

Missouri’s Forsee turns down…

Pratt

JEFFERSON CITY — A second bill about the composition of the UM system board of curators has been filed.

If Missouri loses a congressional district after the next census, the board will need some sort of restructuring. For years, students have…

Curator debate coming to Mizzou and UM system

Let the games begin!

The issue of the UM system Board of Curators (which oversees UMSL and three other state universities) has come to the forefront in recent years because it looks like Missouri will lose…

Mary James, a former president of the University of Missouri Board of Curators, died last week. The 59-year-old woman from the Kansas City area served on the board from 1999 to 2005.

According to news reports, she died of pancreatic cancer.

She…

Bo Fraser of Columbia was elected to a one-year term as chair of the University of Missouri Board of Curators during the board’s December meeting in St. Louis.

Judy Haggard of Kennett, Mo., was elected vice chair.

The one-year terms began Thursday.…