
May 22, 2025
Shared Governance Award Recipients
2024-2025 Individual Award Bill Horner, PhDCurators Distinguished Teaching ProfessorTruman School of Public Affairs “Dr. Horner’s twenty-five years of work have focused on effective faculty governance, working diligently with faculty, staff, students, and administration. Horner strongly advocates that productive campus affairs begins with the democratic process. As an educator of American Government, he continuously champions the democratic process as a leader in curriculum affairs and campus shared governance. ” (Left to right: University of Missouri President Mun Choi, Curators’ Distinguished Professor Bill Horner and Mizzou Faculty Council Chair Tom Warhover) Group Award MU Task Force on Artificial Intelligence “The…

June 24, 2020
Higher Education in Missouri in the Wake of COVID-19: Two Visions
Higher Education in Missouri in the Wake of COVID-19: Two Visions by Dr. Art Jago

June 24, 2020
Commentary by Art Jago
http://columbiatribune.mo.newsmemory.com/?token=997f6336bf460b59062d21a6e1423d6e_5ef20898_ca067e7&selDate=20200623

June 24, 2020
UMS/MU Merger Debate
https://www.change.org/p/um-system-board-of-curators-do-not-allow-dr-mun-choi-to-hold-the-title-of-both-um-president-and-mu-chancellor

May 28, 2020
Is This the End of the World as We Know It? I Hope Not.
Is This the End of the World as We Know It? I Hope Not. Linda E. Mitchell Martha Jane Phillips Starr Missouri Distinguished Endowed Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies University of Missouri—Kansas City April 16, 2020 Faced with massive budget shortfalls in the wake of the novel coronavirus epidemic, Missouri governor Mike Parson—a self-identified “champion” of higher education—announced that he would manage the shortfall using Missouri’s knee-jerk go-to strategy of obliterating the state allocation to higher education. University of Missouri President Mun Choi subsequently announced huge budget cuts for the four UM System universities, leading to…

Feb. 17, 2020
Welcome to Faculty Council Dialogue
Welcome to the MU Faculty Council Dialogue page, which provides a forum for robust discussions on issues affecting our campus. Content presented here is solely the opinions of the author(s), unless clearly stated otherwise; that is, this content should not in any way be viewed as expressing the positions of Faculty Council. For council resolutions and meeting minutes, please review the content found elsewhere on this site. Editorial decisions – what to publish and when – are in the exclusive purview of the Chair of the Faculty Council with guidance from the council’s Executive Committee. Content is posted to spark…