If you want to feel good about the people who are going to be in tomorrow’s research labs, engineering firms, and university classrooms, check out today’s story on a program called STARS, or Students and Teachers as Research Scientists.  A…

The Current, the student newspaper at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, usually puts out two issues in the summer. But it may not this year.

That’s because the university has suspended the student organization’s privileges and access to university resources (including…

Have you lost your job, or is it in trouble?  Do you think you want to teach instead?  You might want to think harder.  More and more people are interested in going into teaching as a “fallback” career, at a…

I am sitting in the student center of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, waiting for Vice President Joe Biden’s middle class task force meeting on college affordability to begin. The Muzak is in full force and about 300 people are…

This is a post from Virginia Young, our Jefferson City bureau chief. Originally posted at Political Fix.

Last week, while getting a tour of the college of education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, I met with the folks who run a neat program called YEA! TEAM or Youth Empowerment in Action Tobacco Education, Advocacy and Media.…