Maryville and SLU have already done it. So have the University of Missouri’s four campuses.
Now Fontbonne University has become the latest St. Louis-area university to freeze faculty and staff salaries for the next school year because of the economic downturn.…
Gary Forsee
The honeymoon appears to be over between the faculty and University of Missouri system President Gary Forsee, who became president about a year ago.
Forsee’s sudden announcement a couple weeks ago that the university was changing its pension plan to require…
University of Missouri-Columbia Chancellor Brady Deaton unveiled his hiring guidelines that will steer the campus’ employment decisions during the hiring freeze, which was put into place last week at the University of Missouri’s four campuses.
Deaton told reporters at a news…
The economic downturn has hit many universities hard, especially for those that depend on their endowments, which have been shrinking like most people’s 401K’s. And it could get worse, particularly for public universities who are worried that state appropriations to…
Here’s another name to add to the list of university presidents declining raises or taking voluntary pay cuts: Elson Floyd.
As I reported in a story earlier this week, when Floyd left the presidency at the University of Missouri system last…
Washington University will slow faculty salary increases, delay or eliminate some capital projects, and limit administrative hiring in light of the economic crisis, Chancellor Mark Wrighton wrote in an email to the university community this morning.
Wrighton said he has even…
University of Missouri-Columbia Chancellor Brady Deaton
The chancellors of the four campuses in the University of Missouri system are drawing up recommendations they will present to President Gary Forsee on Monday about how the will evaluate the what the most critical…
Gary Forsee, the president of the University of Missouri system, announced a hiring freeze at the four campuses earlier today. Click here to read his full letter to the university community about the freeze.
A story in tomorrow’s paper will flesh out…
