Transgender Bathroom Rights Questioned Nationally
A pixie cut, “The Narrows” t-shirt and thin black choker dotted with a single pearl - that’s what made up Ian Koopman’s image Tuesday, March 7.
As a transgender man at Rock Bridge high school, the senior knows it might not be a typical masculine look. But it's what he liked for that day. This is how he exists.
For Ian, conversations about the rights of transgender people happening at the state and national level are missing the point. The country is focused on bathrooms, but for Ian, it’s about so much more.
Outside factors have an impact on UM System funding
It was March 22 when Brad Curs got an email that would change the course of his semester: His employer needed to cut funds. Not for next year, but funds he had already planned to spend for the current fiscal year.
Curs is the chair of the Educational Leadership and Policy Department at the University of Missouri, and that was a rough day.
“In the short term it’s very difficult to find enough money to withhold, and within higher education it has a real human effect because 80 percent of higher education budget goes to salaries and benefits for people,” Curs said. “So anytime you start to talk about cutting $20 million, that means if you spread it out evenly, that would be about $16 million in salaries and benefits.”