COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Stephens College has raised its full-time employee minimum wage to $10 per hour. The change became effective with the start of the school's fiscal year on July 1. Employees mainly affected by the shift are in service or maintenance roles, including those who clean, take care of the grounds, handle recycling and trash pickup...
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek and his wife have donated an undisclosed amount of money to a new Stephens College screenwriting program. The online graduate program in TV and film writing at the Columbia school sends students to Jim Henson Company Studios in Hollywood for 10 days each semester...
A Columbia, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today (Jan. 23) for two arsons that caused more than $1 million in damages to the Ellis Library at the University of Missouri–Columbia and a building on the Stephens College campus in Columbia.