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…

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…

Hold the presses! Some universities got back to me late this afternoon about how the swine flu is affecting their students and study abroad options.

Washington University decided today to cancel an undergraduate study-abroad program that was scheduled to begin on…

Here are some interesting tidbits I got too late or didn’t have room for in today’s story about community colleges.

According to St. Louis Community College, about 1,800 of their students transfer to a Missouri public or private four-year school every…

Last fall’s freshman class at Mizzou with 5,800 students — up 785 from the previous year — was one for the record books. But next fall’s class could be even bigger.

According to a monthly enrollment report, the school has already…

University of Missouri-Columbia Chancellor Brady Deaton unveiled his hiring guidelines that will steer the campus’ employment decisions during the hiring freeze, which was put into place last week at the University of Missouri’s four campuses.

Deaton told reporters at a news…