Community college enrollment increases reduce impact of cuts [Des Moines (Iowa) Register]
UT endowment showed 15 percent drop [The Daily Texan, University of Texas]
Resident Staff redesigns RA application process [The Cavalier Daily, University of Virginia]
Chair of College Republicans up for impeachment tonight [The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan]
Two SU students killed [...]
The Western Historical Manuscript Collection’s mission is to collect, preserve and make available primary source documents that detail the history of Missouri and the surrounding region.
Collect, preserve and make available. That mantra is repeated on the collection’s Web site, in its brochures and by its staff.
Preservation takes a lot of [...]
Maria Holt and Meghan Orbe, both students at MU’s Trulaske College of Business, won prizes at a North American entrepreneurial competition in October.
At this year’s Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization (CEO) elevator pitch competition, Holt gave a 90-second presentation before a panel of judges about a two-sided nail polish pen. The pen [...]
Although the news never sleeps, it does in fact eat.
Like most every other student in Columbia and every person in the United States, the staff of the Missourian who contribute to this blog will celebrate Thanksgiving next week.
While they travel home and back again, this blog will be on hiatus. [...]
On Tuesday, Gov. Jay Nixon announced a proposal to freeze tuition and academic fees at Missouri’s public universities and college for the 2010-2011 school year. In return, the state won’t decrease funding much.
The agreement, which was made in conjunction with Missouri university presidents, would mark the second consecutive year that [...]
Success is sweet for scientists announcing the discovery of water on the moon.
“The whole experiment was a complete success,” said Val Germann, president of the Central Missouri Astronomical Association. “The only question is now is what do they do next and that’s still up in the air.”
According to NASA scientists, [...]
A New York Times article Saturday focuses on the University of North Carolina’s controversial decision earlier this year to hire the consultant firm Bain & Company to identify budget inefficiencies in the UNC-Chapel Hill.
The New York Times reports that Bain’s recommendations, if applied, could save the university $161 million each [...]
Keg party ends in gunshots [The Daily Helmsman, The University of Memphis]
NASA grant funds lunar living research [The Informer, University of Hartford]
NSIT to implement e-mail forwarding, new Web portal [Chicago Maroon, The University of Chicago]
Turnout drops for Drop Fees [The Varsity, University of Toronto]
Delta Chi brothers serve all-you-can-eat pancakes, cheaply [...]
In the spring of 2003, three young University of Southern California cinematography majors journeyed to Africa in search of a story. What they found there would change their lives forever.
What started out as a film project about northern Uganda transformed into much more when these men discovered a tragedy that [...]
Thanks to new MU research on increasing the nutritional value of ice cream, you can no longer feel so guilty about eating that whole tub of Ben & Jerry’s.
For more than a century, ice cream researchers at MU have helped develop and manufacture the cold treat. According to a news [...]
MU’s chapter of the National Science Teachers Association hosted “Mizzou Night at the Youzeum” Wednesday night to raise money and awareness for Columbia’s Youzeum.
The Youzeum is Columbia’s first science museum; it opened May 2008. According to Debbie Hanuscin, the sponsor of NSTA at Mizzou, because the Youzeum opened during difficult [...]
“I feel disgusting. I feel gross,” said Kristan Baker, a buyer for TigerTech, from behind the cashier desk. She wasn’t the only one feeling the heat. TigerTech had been packed with over 150 men (and a few women) for the past four hours, most there to participate in TigerTech’s first [...]
Several programs on MU’s campus have been created to help students with personal problems.
One such program is the At Risk Behaviors Committee, whose purpose is to provide coordinated response to distressed students.
The committee was created partly due to violence on other college campuses in recent years, such as the Virginia [...]
MU faculty, administrators and staff received a message from President Gary Forsee on Friday.
It follows:
Let me begin this note by thanking each of you individually and collectively for your efforts across our four campuses and system office to support our mission of teaching, service, research and economic development for the [...]
The Boone County Retired Teachers meeting will be held at 10:30 a.m. on November 17 at the Peachtree Catering & Banquet Center on 120 E. Nifong Blvd. in Columbia. The event will be followed by lunch at 11:30 a.m.
The meeting’s speaker will be Karen Taylor. She will present a program [...]
I’m working on an article for the Missourian about Scott Standifer, who recently developed a guide for vocational rehabilitation counselors to help adults with autism find jobs. Standifer, a clinical associate professor with MU’s School of Health Professions, wanted to write this guide because of the lack of information on [...]
Drilling into the Missouri School of Journalism’s historic archway will begin Wednesday, said Brian Brooks, associate dean for undergraduate studies and administration. Water leakage at the archway’s base and seepage into a classroom, necessitate repairs that will involve digging into the foundation.
Once drilling begins, the archway should be closed for [...]
I’m going to be very upfront: I am an active member of the Catholic Students Association at the Columbia Newman Center. I am the secretary for the CSA steering committee, I led the behind-the-scenes staff for the annual Awakenings retreat and I am a writer and director for the annual [...]
The Halloween season seemed longer than in years past — perhaps because Halloween fell on a Saturday. In 2008, Halloween was on Friday; the year before that, Wednesday. Whatever the reason, people celebrated Halloween during the entire week before the holiday.
Molly Cody, an MU freshman majoring in communications, said she [...]
Part of the inauguration festivities for the installation of Dianne Lynch as the 24th president of Stephens College, the school hosted an Academic Symposium. Seniors gathered Friday afternoon in the Kimball Ballroom of Lela Raney Wood Hall to display some of their senior capstone projects, including projects involving legal studies, [...]
As a part of the inauguration of Dianne Lynch as the 24th president of Stephens College, an academic symposium was held after the inauguration ceremony. The symposium was an opportunity for students and staff of Stephens to show off projects they have been working on.
Kimball Ballroom in Lela Raney Wood [...]
Gee forfeits $220,000 raise, bonus; gives funds to scholarships [The Lantern, The Ohio State University]
Students Line Up for Flu Shots [The Statesman, The State University of New York at Stony Brook]
Doyle orders bill explained: State statute allows young adults under 27 coverage by parents’ health insurance [The Badger Herald, University [...]
Everyone knows that the internet is revolutionizing the way students learn. But just how revolutionary is it? [...] 
