Higher Education

Next week is Women Writers Week at Stephens College. One of the events will include Anita Allen, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, speaking about her feminist perspective on ethics in today’s world.

Allen, a recognized expert on privacy law, recently published “The New Ethics: A Guided Tour of the Twenty-First Century Moral Landscape,” which analyzes the ethics of current news topics.

University of Missouri System President Elson Floyd announced the appointment of a search committee to help select the 16th chancellor of the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Former Chancellor Martha Gilliland resigned in December after faculty organizations expressed concerns with her leadership and plans for the school.

When Paulina Perkins, Residential Life director at Stephens College, heard about the December tsunami, her thoughts of sympathy immediately turned into action.

On Saturday, the Residential Life staff will have a garage sale to benefit tsunami relief efforts and the Central Missouri Food Bank. It will be from 7 a.m. to noon in the foyer of Stephens Auditorium, 22 Dorsey St.

Indonesia’s Tempo Weekly News Magazine was awarded a 2004 Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism on Thursday. Founding Editor Goenawan Mohamad and Editor in Chief Bambang Harymurti accepted the honor.

Tempo was founded in 1971 as Indonesia’s first independent weekly news magazine, and the first magazine to provide non-governmental versions of the news.

Juggling is a skill Ashley Hightower has perfected. But this type of juggling does not involve tennis balls, but rather school, work and friends.

Hightower, a Columbia native, spends 22 hours a week working as a receptionist at a salon while taking 13 hours of college credit. Attending Moberly Area Community College’s Columbia Higher Education Center has complemented her busy lifestyle and work schedule.

Elson Floyd, UM system president, received unanimous support from the UM Intercampus Faculty Council and the MU Faculty Council last week.

On Feb. 21, the Intercampus Faculty Council — the top governing body of faculty in the UM system — endorsed a resolution that expressed its “unqualified” support for Floyd, according to a release.

Helen Ladd and her husband, former New York Times Education Editor Edward Fiske, used three main measures to evaluate the progress South Africa’s government has made to balance racial equity in its education system: equal treatment, educational opportunity and educational adequacy.

Ladd, of Duke University, expounded on their work Friday when she gave a Monroe-Paine Distinguished Lecture in Public Affairs, presented by MU’s Truman School of Public Affairs.

“Bobma” would be a new concept to any student in Bob Flanagan’s religious studies classes, but to Flanagan it is just his way of communicating.

Flanagan points out to his classes that if you reverse the word “dogma,” you get “am God,” and he says one of society’s failures comes when too many people fail to distinguish their points of view from God’s.

What was learned: An MU study found stressors to women on the faculty affect them more acutely than men and proposed ways to reduce stress for women.

How they did it: Jennifer Hart, assistant professor in the department of educational leadership and policy analysis at MU, and Christine Cress, a continuing education professor at Portland State University, sent surveys to, and composed focus groups of, faculty members from a large university in the Southwest (unidentified for these purposes) to evaluate each person and gauge stressors in his or her areas of scholarship.

Two mid-Missouri researchers have found sentencing disparities across the state, and their findings have the potential to change the way offenders are sentenced.

“Harsh sentencing has increased over time, and this is expensive to the state and taxes our limited resources,” said Mara Aruguete, department chairwoman of psychology at Stephens College.

Stephens College turns the lens on women in film to begin Women’s History Month this week.

On Monday, Liz Mermin, the director of “Beauty Academy of Kabul,” discussed documentary filmmaking. Tonight, Columbia filmmakers Kerri Yost, Beth Pike, Beth Federici and Katherine Gorman will speak about women’s roles in the film industry followed by excerpts from their current projects.

JEFFERSON CITY — In an effort to help more Missouri students attend college, the Coordinating Board for Higher Education voted recently to freeze the maximum amount of need-based scholarship dollars available to each student.

Funding for the state’s need-based scholarships — administered through Missouri Guarantee Program — has remained at $8 million for three academic years. Traditionally, the commission has increased the limit on aid available per student to help students keep up with rising tuition rates.

Those sandstone-colored bins you see at MU are the latest in a campus recycling effort.

Campus Facilities distributed 50 recycling bins on campus during the week of Feb. 14. The bins can hold aluminum or steel cans, glass and plastic bottles.

The issues on “Global Journalist,” a weekly radio program aired in Columbia on KBIA/91.3 FM, are broad, sophisticated and often complicated. But the studio where the program is recorded is small and narrow in comparison to the vast and fast-moving global news the program’s producers present each Thursday night.

Current producers of the “Global Journalist,” graduate students from the MU School of Journalism, and moderator Stuart Loory, the Lee Hills Chair in Free-Press Studies, sat down Thursday morning to record a special fifth anniversary broadcast of Global Journalist. Also in the studio was Pat Akers of KBIA, the program’s director.

Some students around MU are now wearing “I Love Brady” shirts to show their support for the remodeling of the student center.

Architects from Mackey Mitchell Associates of St. Louis and Holtzman Moss of New York, came to Brady Commons and Eva J’s dining hall on Thursday to present current design plans and get student feedback.

An English teacher at the college for 29 years, Metscher has seen her share of different types of students and has learned a lot about them.

“I’ve taught traditional, nontraditional and international students. I’ve liked aspects of each,” Metscher said. “I like being in the classroom and knowing other educators.”

Responsibility is more than the name of an MU residence hall. The campus Wellness Center is distributing green “Responsibility” bracelets to students willing to commit to being responsible for themselves and their friends when drinking alcohol.

These symbolic bracelets are part of a process to change a person’s life, said Kim Dude, director of the Wellness Center.

Here are a few facts about the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources:

1 Students in the college can choose from among 14 degree programs and can now get a degree with an emphasis on sustainable agriculture.

With thoughts of college life and independence on their minds, many high school seniors may be suffering from senioritis. But with its classic symptoms of laziness and procrastination, senioritis can be a blow to students’ post high-school dreams.

Students need to stay on top of deadlines, including ones for college admission, financial aid, scholarships and tests, as well as continue to work hard in their high school classes.

A 1998 lawsuit that could result in the refund of educational fees to some students in the UM system — and cost the university as much as $470 million — is in the discovery phase.

St. Louis County Circuit Court Judge Kenneth Romines ruled in favor of three former UM system students on a lawsuit more than two years ago.