University of Missouri System

President Timothy Wolfe outlines challenges to UM System

Libby Franklin — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:31:36 +0000

On the job since February, University of Missouri System President Timothy Wolfe leads an institution with four campuses, more than 74,000 students, and over 13,000 employees. He joined Don Marsh on St. Louis on the Air today from the Columbia studios of KBIA. You can hear their entire conversation in the St.

UM system president urges vote on domestic partner benefits

The Associated Press — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:57:11 +0000

The new president of the University of Missouri system wants curators to soon decide whether to offer domestic partner benefits to campus workers.
The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that president Tim Wolfe says the Board of Curators should take up the issue before the end of the year. Some professors and other employees have long sought to expand health insurance coverage and other benefits to same-sex couples.
Wolfe told the newspaper that "we owe our great employees and potential employees a decision."

Words "inevitable" and "job-losses" used together in U. of Mo. system budget talks

KCUR — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:19:39 +0000

Reporting from KCUR's Dan Verbeck used in this report.
The word “inevitable” is being teamed with “job-losses” if the University of Missouri system is unable to work its way out of an expected 12.5 percent cut in state funding for 2013. The statement comes from the University Curators interim president at the end of its meeting in Kansas City.

Morning headlines: Friday, December 23, 2011

Rachel Lippmann and Maria Altman — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:47:29 +0000

New trouble for Ameren at Taum Sauk power plant
A recent memo to the Missouri Public Service Commission shows major problems for Ameren at its Taum Sauk power station.

Wolfe named new University of Missouri System president

Kelsey Proud and Marshall Griffin — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:18:27 +0000

Updated 3:41 p.m.
Timothy M. Wolfe, 53, has been named the as the newest president of the University of Missouri System this morning.
Wolfe, who will be the 23rd president in the System's history, begins his tenure in mid-February and succeeds Gary Forsee. Forsee resigned from his position in January to care for his ill wife.