Boone County Community Services will host its first Youth Day from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Aug. 8 at the Boone County Courthouse Plaza. By partnering with youth-oriented resources in the community, the day will offer crafts, face painting, a dunk booth and live music. Also, at 11 a.m., presentations will be given on disproportionate […]
In 2015, the CBT held its first Masters Series class, sponsored by Columbia College, for small-business owners and leaders to sharpen key business skills.
After bitter union negotiations this spring, the teachers union and the Columbia school board aren’t warming up to each other just yet.
LaunchCode helps aspiring developers, many from nontraditional backgrounds, break into the opportunity-rich field of technology.
As consumers change their buying cycle, companies are forced to shift their marketing style. Consumers are engaging in the buying cycle later than ever. In 2013 Forbes reported “customers being nearly 60 percent through the sales process before engaging a sales rep.” And a resounding number of journalists in 2014 reported that 81 percent of
The staff at Hickman High School’s newspaper, Purple and Gold News, knew they wanted to honor the 2015 graduating seniors in a special way, but they never imagined a simple idea would evolve into a newfound tradition. On the evening of Wednesday, May 27, 20 of Hickman’s brightest and most exemplary graduating seniors were honored
Since 1933, the Nora Stewart Early Learning Center has focused on providing children equal opportunities for early childhood education to prepare for success in kindergarten. Amanda Estes founded the Negro Nursery School on Dec. 1, 1933, on Park Avenue to address an education gap for African-American children. This was the first nursery school in Columbia
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There will apparently be little satisfaction for some of us about the fate of Boone County’s Confederate Rock because it’s almost certain the peripatetic multi-ton stone will roll off the Courthouse lawn one of these days if it has not already been moved by the time you are reading this. Beware, and husband your history
Lindsey Boudinot, director of graduate, online and certificate admissions at Stephens College Age: 30 Job description: I develop and maintain professional working relationships with faculty, professional peers, department representatives and program directors; advance departmental enrollment goals through lead generation, marketing and strategy; partner with staff in other departments to develop recruitment plans for each
