One true measure of the struggling economy is seeing how many students can’t afford to buy school lunches.  The federal government offers a free and reduced lunch program to qualifying students, and more and more of them are signing up.

But…

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,…

Washington University student leaders will hold a press conference at 3:30 this afternoon to announce their next steps in addressing the incident in which six black seniors were denied entrance to a Chicago nightclub. Students have considered a range of responses…

U.S. Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Missouri, has joined the chorus of voices asking for a swift and thorough inquiry into the Chicago nightclub incident in which six black students were turned away from the door, ostensibly because of a “baggy…

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 "Breakthrough" sculpture on Westminster College's campus. The sculpture is made from sections of the Berlin Wall.

Westminster College and UMSL will “tear down this wall” next month as they commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

It…

Today, we reported that St. Louis Public Schools unveiled a draft of its accountability plan to regain state accreditation within two years.  But when they gave the draft to its special administrative board Tuesday night, they said the details wouldn’t…

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…

Central Institute for the Deaf in St. Louis was thrilled to find out over the weekend that one of their 1956 graduates, T. Alan Hurwitz, will be Gallaudet University’s new president.   He spent 10 years learning to talk as a child…

Dozens of Washington University students protested about a block away from a Chicago nightclub on Sunday morning after 6 black students were not admitted inside the night before, according to Student Life, the Washington U. student newspaper.

The black students were…