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…

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One of the newest-appointed members of the University of Missouri Board of Curators already has his likeness captured in bronze wax on the St. Louis campus.

Wayne Goode, the former longtime state legislator from St. Louis, has been appointed to the…

Dianne Lynch will be the next president of Stephens College, the small women’s college in Columbia announced today.

Lynch is dean of the school of communications at Ithaca College in New York. She will officially take office on June 2, the…

So how many people have been cited for not following St. Charles Community College’s smoking ban? This graphic didn’t make it into today’s newspaper to accompany my story about the rising tide of tobacco-free college campuses. So I’m pasting it…

In a university-wide email today, Washington University Chancellor Mark Wrighton said the school “will mostly likely face significant financial problems in the next several years,” including a projected $20 to $25 million shortfall on the Danforth campus in fiscal year…

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…

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.…

A tuition freeze for this fall at the University of Missouri is on the agenda of Board of Curators meeting later this week. But the 0 percent tuition increase would be contingent on flat state appropriations for higher education, the…

Using a virus, a hacker was able to get into Jefferson College’s online banking system and transfer out a “substantial” amount of money, a college official said.

Roger Barrentine, a college spokesman, said the school was not releasing the dollar amount…

Washington University is taking a break from having television newsmen grace the podium at graduation. Instead, the school’s commencement speaker this May will be Wendy Kopp, the founder and chief executive officer of Teach for America.

It is an apt choice…