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2001 Higher Ed. Stories

• 12/15/2001: Newspaper Story - Gov. Bob Holden orders use of more tobacco funds and further budget cuts to balance the state's budget.
• 12/ 6/2001: Radio Story - The state government has warned Missouri public colleges and universities that they may the next victims of the state's budget withholdings.
• 10/ 4/2001: Radio Story - The FBI wants all international student records from the University of Missouri and Columbia College.
• 10/ 4/2001: Newspaper Story - MU "deeply regrets" that policy banning KOMU reporters from wearing patriotic symbols may have caused offense
• 9/27/2001: Radio Story - State legislators treatened to investigate KOMU for barring its reporters from wearing lapel flags.
• 5/16/2001: Newspaper Story - Lawmakers send the governor authorization for bonds to build an MU arena.
• 5/14/2001: Newspaper Story - With only four days left in the legislative session, the Missouri lawmakers worked to finalize several issues, from prescription drugs to parental notification.
• 5/10/2001: Radio Story - The two stadium plans have some similarities and many differences.
• 5/ 9/2001: Newspaper Story - Kenney said that he will bring the arena up on the floor this session, but that there are other priorities that must come first.
• 4/25/2001: Newspaper Story - With an 84-72 vote, the House sent the bill on to the Senate. The resolution call for $35 million in revenue bonds doled out over a 20 year period. This comes in addition to a $25 million dollar anonymous donation.
• 4/25/2001: Radio Story - After a winning season, the Lady Bears stole representatives' attention from the MU arena.
• 4/24/2001: Newspaper Story - Missouri Gov. Bob Holden said Tuesday that both the $35 million MU arena issue and the $370 million Cardinals stadium proposal, may be stuck in legislative limbo until bipartisan concerns about their economic impact are resolved.
• 4/ 4/2001: Radio Story - Several parents and teachers spoke out to the Senate Committee meeting about certain restrictions with the A+ scholarship program.
• 4/ 4/2001: Newspaper Story - Sen. Sarah Steelman, R-Rolla, is sponsoring a bill aimed at getting more colleges to offer American Sign Language classes. The bill would require these classes to be counted as a foreign language in college and allow ASL classes taken in high school to count as a foreign language course for college admission.
• 4/ 4/2001: Newspaper Story - The House Special Committee on Private-Public Partnerships voted 3-2 to send the resolution to the floor. MU wants $35 million in revenue bonds from the state, to contribute to a $25 million anonymous donation.
• 4/ 2/2001: Newspaper Story - The House Higher Education committee approves a reversal of a 130-year old ban on the term "tuition" in the UM system.
• 4/ 2/2001: Newspaper Story - The University of Missouri wants to use revenue bonds to supplement a $25 million gift from an anonymous donor, in order to fund a new on-site arena.
• 4/ 2/2001: Radio Story - Some St. Louis residents are catching the University of Missouri system for discrepencies in tuition.
• 3/14/2001: Radio Story - Under a proposed bill, Missouri schools would receive more money from the state in order to teach English to foreign students.
• 3/13/2001: Newspaper Story - The House gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a $458.7 million appropriation in state higher education funds. The funds should help programs in the UM ststem.
• 3/ 8/2001: Newspaper Story - The Missouri Supreme Court handed the state a major victory Thursday by ruling that the state did not have to refund $244 million to taxpayers.
• 3/ 8/2001: Radio Story - The Missouri Supreme Court rules the state doesn't owe an additional $244 million in Hancock tax refunds.
• 3/ 5/2001: Radio Story - House Republicans and Democrats proposed to create a fund for the tobacco settlement money.
• 3/ 5/2001: Radio Story - A bill proposed could give around $30 million to life science research.
• 2/20/2001: Radio Story - A Senate bill would give students foreign language credit for studying American Sign Language.
• 2/15/2001: Newspaper Story - The House Education Appropriations committee handed the University of Missouri System a $458.5 million budget, a 3.7 percent increase over last year and $550,000 more than Missouri Gov. Bob Holden included in his proposed budget.
• 2/15/2001: Newspaper Story - Jonathan Kozol, a noted author and expert of social inequalities, addresses students and faculty at MU.
• 1/31/2001: Radio Story - Missourians may lose their professional licenses for not paying back their student loans.
• 1/31/2001: Radio Story - Higher education faculty members could find themselves on a university governing board.
• 1/30/2001: Newspaper Story - Missouri Gov. Bob Holden proposed using a portion of the state's tobacco settlement to fund life sciences research at large public institutions such as MU over 25 years.
• 1/30/2001: Newspaper Story - As he had throughout his campaign, Missouri Gov. Bob Holden made education the focus of his State of the State address Tuesday.
• 1/ 9/2001: Radio Story - Interns learned their own rules, the rules of the legislature and got a tour of the Capitol during orientation Tuesday.