However, a new study from the University of Missouri-Columbia shows that while college students do make large gains in the cognitive process, they think about problems in a much simpler way than their professors assume. Starting this fall, Davis will oversee the center's activities to educate the public about the importance of access to governmental information. He will also foster research projects on access issues at the master's and doctoral levels while supervising the long-term preservation of the center's extensive archives. For the next four weeks, the University of Missouri-Columbia campus will be buzzing with a record number of future students, converging to soak up information and advice about their next four years at MU during the annual Summer Welcome program. She will start Aug. 14, 2000.
Most people think that teachers are only in the classroom to teach.
However, one University of Missouri-Columbia researcher is examining how they learn. Jay Scribner, assistant professor of educational leadership and policy analysis, is studying how high school teachers learn while they are on the job. However, for 330 of Missouri's best and brightest high school students, the intense learning and creative thinking process will just be starting to heat up. Kay Strode Harbert, daughter of John and Ethel Strode, and Kay's husband, Charles, established the scholarship. The University of Missouri-Columbia Graduate School and Office of the Provost announced today that qualified graduate students will be offered a health insurance subsidy effective Aug. 15, 2000.