Source: Connecticut provost to lead University of Missouri
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A University of Connecticut provost is about to be named president of the University of Missouri, nearly a year after the Columbia campus was roiled by protests over administrators’ handling of racial and other issues on the Columbia campus, a person familiar with the search told The Associated Press on Monday.
The person said the university system’s governor board is expected to finalize the appointment of Mun Y. Choi. The person insisted on anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly ahead of an announcement scheduled for Wednesday in Jefferson City.
The governing Board of Curators met in closed session Monday morning.
Choi, 52, has been provost at the University of Connecticut since 2012. He would replace Tim Wolfe, who resigned in November 2015 along with Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin, in response to the protests, which included a hunger strike by one student and the football team threatening not to play a game if the administration did not respond to students’ complaints.