Add UMSL to the list of universities high off of a record enrollment this fall. Numbers the school released today show that its total enrollment of 16,548 students this year — a 5 percent increase over last year — breaks…

St. Louis University has set up a “recovery center” a couple blocks off of campus where students who come down with swine flu can be isolated and treated.

The university sent out an email to students, staff and faculty this afternoon to…

More than 50 students at the University of Missouri-Columbia have reported flu-like symptoms and are suspected of having swine flu.

“Novel H1N1 influenza (”swine flu”) is present at MU,” Chancellor Brady Deaton wrote in an email yesterday to faculty, staff and…

The University of Missouri-Columbia is now taking a more pro-active stance against the “Fan Can” marketing campaign by Anheuser-Busch InBev. Chancellor Brady Deaton wrote a letter to the company today asking it to immediately stop the marketing campaign that has…

The University of Missouri-Columbia is one of the campuses where “Fan Cans” have begun to pop up. The cans of beer, part of an Anheuser-Busch InBev special promotion sold in the markets around 27 college campuses nationwide, do not include…

As incoming freshman descend on college campuses this week, some of them will dine at a “zero waste” picnic and others will be handed aluminum water bottles — to encourage them not to use plastic ones.

Those are two of the…

This piece of information came in too late for my story today about UMSL’s record-breaking fund-raising year. But Mizzou’s development folks got back to me today to tell me they were also pleased with their fund-raising year, having raised $122.6…

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,…

Mizzou’s graduates from last year have found fewer jobs than the class the year before, according to an annual survey by the school.

The study, which had a 50 percent response rate, showed that the percentage of 2007-08 graduates who were…

Washington University just announced that it will go smoke free by July 2010.

That means that smoking and tobacco use will be prohibited everywhere on campus, including on all university-owned and -managed properties.

“We know it will be difficult for some in the…