Muleskinner temporarily goes all-online after budget cut - JACQUE FLANAGAN, Digitalburg

The student newspaper at the University of Central Missouri will not print this coming school year. The Muleskinner was placed in a one-year abeyance as part of university budget cuts. A total of 11 student staff positions were affected, including the graduate assistantship reserved for the managing editor. Matt Bird-Meyer, the newspaper’s faculty adviser, said these cuts were unexpected as they came after communication department faculty were notified at the end of May of some $35,000 in budget reductions by cutting two graduate assistantships. This was part of the $1.5 million in cuts required of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. However, the chairs for the college were called to an emerge https://digitalburg.com/muleskinner-temporarily-goes-all-online-after-budget-cut/