News Articles
Lab fee use not always audited
One department coordinator says students charged more than needed
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Lab fees are often charged to student accounts with little explanation for why the funds are necessary for a particular course. Many students don't know where lab fee money ends up or what it is ultimately used for.
New retirement program offered
60 faculty, staff qualify for new early retirement transition program
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Webster University officials introduced a new early retirement policy for certain full-time faculty and staff members March 21. In e-mails to the campus listserv, Betsy Schmutz, director of Human Resources, outlined the programs that 60 faculty and staff qualify for. The programs are completely voluntary.
Professor shows revitalized Maori culture
Bauermeister shares photos and video of her six months in New Zealand
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Professor Maxine Bauermeister said she had to learn about herself and her own culture in order to understand the Maori culture that surrounded her. Bauermeister spent six months in New Zealand, staying with two Maori families while she worked on her dissertation on the Kohanga Reo and native early childhood education.
Webster unlikely to make discount pass deal with Metro
Not enough students will use passes to justify cost, says Dey
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Washington University made history when it signed on to the largest agreement ever made between any university and Metro, the public transportation authority. The deal allows full-time Wash U. students, benefits-eligible faculty, staff and full-time employees the opportunity to use the MetroBus and MetroLink systems at no cost, enabling them to travel between campuses and all over the St. Louis area
Supreme Court rules in favor of military recruiting
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On March 6, the Supreme Court voted unanimously to uphold the Solomon Amendment. The Solomon Amendment states that no college or university can ban government agencies - especially military recruiters - from coming on its campus to recruit students. Any institution that chooses to ignore this ruling will risk forfeiting any federal money and contracts the school receives.
Philosophy Club to host regional universities on campus next week
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Speakers from Washington University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, DePaul University, Ball State and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale will speak on a wide variety of subjects, ranging from film, art, music and social topics, all with tie-ins to philosophy.
NEWS BRIEFS
Men in the media panel; Associate VP for marketing resigns; "Make the Connection" event
MISDEMEANORS AND MISHAPS
March 21, 7:15 p.m.: A student's vehicle was damaged in Parking Lot K. Between Feb. 4 and 6: Equipment was removed from a classroom at the Little Rock, Ark., campus. Between March 22, 6 p.m. and March 23, 8 a.m.: Tools were taken from a cart in the Physical Plant Building.
