Three Rivers assessment begins soon
(11/08/07)
A study to determine higher education needs in Cape Girardeau County will be conducted soon, according to officials at Three Rivers Community College. In August, Three Rivers officials announced their plans to establish an education center here, saying a proposal could come before the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education as soon as October. ...
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TRCC vs. SEMO dispute
Schools, state still locked in data debate
(12/10/06) A year after state higher education officials ordered Southeast Missouri State University and Three Rivers Community College to annually report on the operations of their competing Bootheel education centers, the schools and the state have yet to reach agreement over what financial data must be submitted...
SEMO: Higher education move is paying off
(05/01/06) Southeast Missouri State University says its decision to evict Three Rivers Community College from its three Bootheel education centers last year is paying off financially even though the centers are still operating in the red. School officials said the university is generating more revenue from student fees now that it's offering all the classes at centers in Sikeston, Malden and Kennett...
SEMO: Higher education move is paying off
(05/01/06) Southeast Missouri State University says its decision to evict Three Rivers Community College from its three Bootheel education centers last year is paying off financially even though the centers are still operating in the red. School officials said the university is generating more revenue from student fees now that it's offering all the classes at centers in Sikeston, Malden and Kennett...
Higher ed board may get more power
(02/17/06) Rebellious state colleges could lose some state funding if they fail to comply with the state's higher education board, pending a bill approved by the Missouri Senate on Thursday. The bill would give more authority for state higher education officials to resolve disputes like the lingering one between Southeast Missouri State University and Three Rivers Community College...
Three Rivers won't offer nurse program in Cape Girardeau
(01/06/06) Three Rivers Community College won't offer nursing classes in Cape Girardeau because the college and Saint Francis Medical Center can't agree on a contract. The issue centered on Three Rivers' refusal to enter into a partnership with Southeast Missouri State University to teach the nursing and general education courses, college and hospital officials said...
Judge refuses to dismiss TRCC suit against Southeast
(12/20/05) Circuit Judge William Seay has refused to dismiss a lawsuit by Three Rivers Community College against Southeast Missouri State University over operation of Bootheel education centers. Southeast asked the judge to dismiss the lawsuit. The university argued that TRCC failed to work through the administrative process of the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education to resolve the dispute...
Coordinating board orders annual report on Southeast, TRCC centers
(12/09/05) The Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education on Thursday ordered Southeast Missouri State University and Three Rivers Community College to annually report on the operations of their competing Bootheel education centers. Seven board members supported the measure at the meeting in Jefferson City. Board member Kathy Swan of Cape Girardeau abstained because she said she wanted to avoid any conflict of interest...
SEMO, TRCC may be forced to report financial details
(12/08/05) Feuding Southeast Missouri State University and Three Rivers Community College have "irreconcilable differences" that state higher education officials say they can't resolve. But the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education may require the two institutions to annually disclose spending, enrollment and other details surrounding their competing higher education centers in the Bootheel...
TRCC seeks OK for Cape-based nursing program
(11/21/05) Three Rivers Community College wants state approval to offer a nursing program at a Cape Girardeau hospital. TRCC has filed an application with the Missouri Department of Higher Education to offer a degree program at Saint Francis Medical Center that would allow licensed practical nurses to get the training needed to become registered nurses...
Panel wants top education officials to be appointed
(11/06/05) A proposal for the most dramatic changes in education leadership in 60 years should help propel a legislative debate about who will run state schools and colleges in Missouri. The Missouri State Government Review Commission wants to give governors the power to directly appoint the heads of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Department of Higher Education...
Solution to SEMO, TRCC feud sought before next session
(10/18/05) Missouri's higher education commissioner said Monday that he hopes a dispute between Three Rivers Community College and Southeast Missouri State University over regional sites they used to run together will be resolved before the next legislative session...
Lawmaker aims to end college tiff by year's end
(10/12/05) Poplar Bluff state Rep. Gayle Kingery hopes to use his legislative power to broker a solution over education centers. A Poplar Bluff lawmaker will intervene to resolve the dispute between Southeast Missouri State University and Three Rivers Community College...
Higher Ed's top official to review college tiff
(09/28/05) Commissioner says that Three Rivers and Southeast can better serve students without duplication of services and additional expense. Missouri's commissioner of higher education will review the establishment of all nine Bootheel education centers as he seeks to address the lingering dispute between Southeast Missouri State University and Three Rivers Community College...
Southeast, Three Rivers square off over nursing program
(09/24/05) Saint Francis Medical Center can't get a nurse-training program started because of an ongoing feud between Southeast Missouri State University and Three Rivers Community College. The Poplar Bluff, Mo.-based community college wanted to offer both the general education courses and the nursing courses that would allow licensed practical nurses to get the training needed to become registered nurses...
TRCC, Southeast tout higher enrollment
(09/07/05) TRCC numbers fall at outlying centers following breakup with Southeast. Two feuding Bootheel colleges enrolled hundreds of students in competing higher education centers this fall. That has officials of the rival schools both celebrating victory even though overall enrollment dropped at one of the schools...
Three Rivers, SEMO square off in Bootheel
(07/03/05) Three Rivers will open six education centers in August; three will go head to head with Southeast's. A bitter feud between Three Rivers Community College and Southeast Missouri State University has prompted Three Rivers to launch its own higher education centers as the two schools aggressively compete for students in the Bootheel...
State works to solve higher-ed dispute
(06/02/05) Missouri's higher education commissioner says he hopes by the end of June to recommend a solution to a dispute between Southeast Missouri State University and Three Rivers Community College over the operation of three Bootheel education centers. With funding issues at the center of the disagreement, commissioner Dr. Gregory Fitch said the state may need to review financial records of the two schools to determine the facts...
Three Rivers offers funding plan
(05/20/05) Three Rivers Community College proposes to take over operation of three Bootheel education centers in an effort to resolve a dispute with Southeast Missouri State University. The Poplar Bluff, Mo., community college says its plan would save Southeast money...
Swan- Three Rivers, Southeast dispute won't be in speech
(04/28/05) A member of Missouri's Coordinating Board for Higher Education who will deliver the commencement address at Three Rivers Community College on May 13 says her speech won't mention the dispute between Three Rivers and Southeast Missouri State University...
Three Rivers, SEMO differ on numbers in proposal
(04/23/05) Southeast Missouri State University and Three Rivers Community College differ over what percentage of courses each school would teach at the three Bootheel education centers if a plan favored by Southeast's regents was implemented. Southeast president Dr. Ken Dobbins said his school would end up teaching 51 percent of the classes at the education centers in Malden, Kennett and Sikeston compared to 49 percent for Three Rivers...
Three Rivers board questions mediation efforts
(04/13/05) POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Trustees from Three Rivers Community College sought answers Tuesday from the state official who has been mediating a dispute over the operation of higher education centers between the college and Southeast Missouri State University...
Southeast seeks dismissal of community college lawsuit
(04/09/05) Southeast Missouri State University on Friday filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit against the school that was filed by Three Rivers Community College in March. The motion for dismissal was filed on the grounds that Three Rivers hasn't given the administrative mediation process with the Coordinating Board of Higher Education the chance to be completed before filing the lawsuit...
Three Rivers, SEMO quibble over paper
(04/08/05) The dispute between Three Rivers Community College and Southeast Missouri State University took an even nastier tone on Thursday. Three Rivers staff at the Crisp Bootheel Education Center in Malden, Mo., leveled accusations that they were denied necessary supplies for the learning environment by Southeast staff at the centers...
TRCC's view: There is a need for affordable and accessible higher education.
(04/03/05) John R. Stanard of Poplar Bluff is the chairman of the Three Rivers Community College Board of Trustees....
SEMO's view: The higher education center concept is a good one
(04/03/05) John Tlapek of Cape Girardeau is president of the Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents, and Brad Bedell of Sikeston is vice president....
Bootheel higher ed plan OK'd by SEMO
(03/30/05) The Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents unanimously approved a proposal Tuesday crafted by the state commissioner of higher education to end a bitter dispute with Three Rivers Community College over the operation of three Bootheel higher education centers...
Three Rivers suit of little concern to many students
(03/29/05) Forget the legalities and the battle of right and wrong. A simple matter of distance prompted 18-year-old Daniel Lance to show up for a registration session for Three Rivers Community College on Monday. "It's closer to home. I don't have to travel so far," said Lance, a senior at Scott City High School. "I don't really know anything about the lawsuit."...
Lawsuit- SEMO violated rules on funding
(03/20/05) Southeast Missouri State University wrongly participated in the state's A-Plus scholarship program, which was designed to pay tuition only for students attending community colleges and vocational schools, Three Rivers Community College alleges in a lawsuit against the Cape Girardeau school...
Three Rivers aims lawsuit at Southeast
(03/18/05) As a dispute between a Poplar Bluff, Mo., community college and Southeast Missouri State University goes to court, some Cape Girardeau educators are suggesting the Cape Girardeau Career and Technology Center could be expanded into a community college...
College takes on SEMO in Scott City
(03/16/05) Cape Girardeau doesn't have a community college, but starting this summer community college classes will be held only a short drive away in Scott City. The board of trustees at Three Rivers Community College has voted to lower out-of-district tuition and offer summer and fall classes in area high schools throughout the district as it continues what it considers a battle with Southeast Missouri State University for Bootheel students...
Three Rivers clears way for lawsuit
(03/14/05) The Three Rivers Community College Board of Trustees agreed unanimously Sunday on a motion authorizing the college's attorneys to take whatever action necessary, including a lawsuit, against Southeast Missouri State University for eliminating Three Rivers courses from its Bootheel education centers...
Cost-sharing pact in works for university
(03/12/05) Prodded by Missouri's higher education commissioner, officials at Southeast Missouri State University and Three Rivers Community College are seeking to iron out a cost-sharing agreement over the operation of three Bootheel education centers. The Cape Girardeau university and Poplar Bluff, Mo., community college have tentatively agreed to a cost-sharing plan worked out by higher education commissioner Dr. ...
Southeast severs ties to Poplar Bluff community college
(03/02/05)
Southeast Missouri State University's decision to eliminate Three Rivers Community College courses at its three Bootheel higher education centers has outraged officials at the Poplar Bluff community college and prompted its president to file a complaint with the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education... |