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Karrin Taylor Robson: ACTA Board Member and Former Arizona Board of Regents Member
Karrin Taylor Robson is a respected and long-time Arizona business leader and land-use expert.
Missouri is the “Show Me” state—with this goal in mind, the report examines the state of higher education in Missouri, focusing on four key areas of the public’s interest. They are: what students are learning (the curriculum), whether the marketplace of ideas is vibrant (intellectual diversity), how the universities are run (governance), and what a college education costs (affordability). If our nation is to ensure its continued preeminence, policymakers, trustees, alumni, and taxpayers must know what’s going on in higher education. This report card aims to do just that—and it follows similar ACTA report cards on higher education in the states of North Carolina and Georgia.
Karrin Taylor Robson is a respected and long-time Arizona business leader and land-use expert.
Tennessee, country tunes and typical pleasantries were among the points of conversation in a four-minute phone call between Victor Ashe ’67 and University President Peter Salovey two springs ago.
Ashe, the former mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee and United States ambassador to Poland who was running for a coveted spot on the Yale Corporation, had qualified as one of the first petition candidates on the ballot in 18 years.
When Ruth Simmons assumed the presidency of Prairie View A&M University in 2017, it was considered a major boost to the historically Black university. She brought to the role decades of leadership experience, including stints as the president of Smith College and then...
Members of a free speech advocacy group visited MU Thursday to discuss an initiative that they say would hamper the free exchange of ideas and viewpoints on Missouri campuses. Members from the Center for Campus Free Speech were discussing the Emily Brooker Intellectual Diversity Act, which was a...
State Rep. Jane Cunningham, R-Chesterfield, has filed a bill that her release says will "ensure the free exchange of ideas on the state's public university campuses." House Bill 213 "would require Missouri's public institutions of higher education to report annually on specific ...
Students report being pressured into particular political views by professors on Missouri campuses. "I think there's good sides on both parts of the spectrum so just meeting in the middle somewhere in my opinion is the best way," said Pat Jackson, MU student. While most students speak their min...
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