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…

The University of Missouri announced today that it has issued $332 million in bonds to finance more than a dozen projects at its four campuses, including new residence halls, a new patient tower in Columbia, and upgrading safety components such…

Not surprisingly, the folks at the University of Missouri are none too pleased by Gov. Jay Nixon’s budget announcement this morning. Nixon is vetoing some state funding, and has frozen other funds slated for a variety of projects, including the…

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…

UMSL’s University Assembly unanimously passed a resolution on Tuesday that criticizes the university administration for not thoroughly consulting with them before changing the retirement plan. The resolution also recommends that the changes that have already been approved be for only one…

Gordon Lamb, the no-nonsense man who led the University of Missouri for a year as interim president and who is now executive vice president, will retire on March 1.

As some of you might remember, Lamb became interim president in April…

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…

The chance that the University of Missouri will furlough employees at its four campuses is looking quite dim. University of Missouri President Gary Forsee has said that the only event in which he anticipated he would need to do furloughs was…

Gary Forsee

OK, so there were no major fireworks this afternoon when University of Missouri system President Gary Forsee spoke before more than 100 UMSL faculty members. But it was definitely a somber crowd that did not smile or laugh when…

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…