Michael Nietzel, the president of Missouri State University, has announced that he will step down from his post by December 2010 - or earlier if his replacement is ready to start before then - for various personal and professional reasons.
Nietzel,…
The University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg announced this morning that its Board of Governors has decided not to renew the contract of President Aaron Podolefsky.
Podolefsky has been president there for about five years. His contract will expire on June…
Just one more note on Obama’s message to U.S. schoolchildren, delivered yesterday.
Karl Frank, a board member at the Mehlville School District in south St. Louis County, decided to keep his kids home from school yesterday to watch the speech, as…
Kevin Lee, president of Loyola Academy of St. Louis, said he has accepted a position with St. John’s Mercy Foundation and will be leaving Loyola at the end of the month.
Lee has guided Loyola, the Jesuit middle school for high-achieving…
Longtime Catholic education leader and volunteer Kevin Short has been elected president of the tuition-assistance nonprofit The Today and Tomorrow Educational Foundation.
The foundation gives scholarships to parish school students from poor families throughout the region. Since its start 19 years…
Dr. Samuel Stanley, vice chancellor for research at Washington University, has been named president of Stony Brook University in New York.
The Board of Trustees of the State University of New York voted unanimously today to appoint Stanley, also a molecular…
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan warned today that he expects states and school districts to spend incoming stimulus money on true innovation, not the “status quo.”
Moreover, schools that do not spend the money on reform, he said, will not…
Thomas Patton, the longtime chief of St. Louis College of Pharmacy, announced this week that he will step down in 2010.
Patton, 60, has served as president of the college located in the Central West End for a marathon 15 years.…
Webster University announced this afternoon that it has chosen Elizabeth Stroble, a senior vice president at the University of Akron, to be its next president.
The other presidential finalist, longtime Webster administrator Neil George, will become Webster’s first chancellor, a newly…
In this photo from a couple years ago, now former Webster President Richard Meyers, left, looks over some plans with Ed Glotzbach, a board member now leading the charge to find a new president
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