Over the past nine months, with COVID-19 spreading through Columbia and the world, Dr. Peter Stiepleman, superintendent of Columbia Public Schools; Dr. Mun Choi, president of the UM System and chancellor of MU; and Stephanie Browning, director of the Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services, have been forced to make the toughest […]
Job description: Advocate, counselor, dreamer, drudge, planner, cheerleader, manager, yard guy, writer, landlord, sage, taxpayer. Years lived in Columbia: 42 years. I was recruited from North Dakota State University in 1977 to become, at age 36, MU’s youngest dean. I retired in 2002 as the university’s longest-serving dean. Original hometown: Hornick, Iowa. Population 250. Education:
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Dr. Sara Cochran Entrepreneurial Programs Manager, Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship, UM System Age: 37 Dr. Sara Cochran’s passion and intellectual curiosity for entrepreneurship education led her to hear a phrase she never expected. It was “Congratulations, Dr. Cochran!” after presenting her dissertation on the role of gender in entrepreneurship education, thus receiving her doctorate in
