We just got this from Mizzou — a notice about area teachers honored there by MU Honors College students who nominated them.  Cool idea!  Congratulations to these teachers.

The University of Missouri recognized the outstanding teaching abilities of 32 Missouri high…

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…

Reynolds Journalism Institute at MU

The Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri-Columbia is getting $15 million over the next five years from the foundation that is its namesake.

The gift is third largest donation in the Columbia campus’ history. The largest…

As promised, I’m returning with an answer as to why the Benton-Stadler science building at UMSL and the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center and MU were not included in the University of Missouri’s $332 million bond issue. Those two buildings are…

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…

I ran into Dan Potter, the general manager of the Columbia Missourian, earlier this week when I was at the Missouri School of Journalism helping out at a workshop for high school students. A relieved Potter told me that the…

Wayne Goode

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…

Not surprisingly, the folks at the University of Missouri are none too pleased by Gov. Jay Nixon’s budget announcement this morning. Nixon is vetoing some state funding, and has frozen other funds slated for a variety of projects, including the…

UMSL has been waiting a decade for state funds to renovate its crumbling labs in the Benton-Stadler science complex. School officials learned today that they will have to wait once more.

The roller coaster ride for UMSL and Mizzou continues.

This morning,…

UM President Gary Forsee

In a hastily-called conference call this morning, the University of Missouri Board of Curators unanimously passed a resolution opposing a potential veto of its two highest-priority building projects under consideration by Gov. Jay Nixon.

University President Gary Forsee…