UMSL isn’t the only local university celebrating a successful fundraising year in the midst of the recession. Maryville University is also trumpeting its fiscal year, which ended May 31, in which fundraising increased 87 percent, or $2 million more than the…

When I was on Maryville’s campus yesterday afternoon, I picked up a copy of the student newspaper, Gateway Maryville. The top story, “NO TGIF?” caught my eye.

Apparently, Maryville has had a class schedule that runs mostly from Monday to Thursday for…

It may only be February, but the annual round of commencement speaker announcements has already begun. Maryville University started it off this week with its announcement that CBS newsman Bob Schieffer will be the school’s commencement speaker this May.

Schieffer is…

Maryville President Mark Lombardi

Maryville University is considering a roughly 3 percent tuition increase for next year — a smaller increase than the last several years when tuition increases there have averaged about 5.2 percent.

President Mark Lombardi told me when I…