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Name change would help UMR mine talent
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Columbia Daily Tribune
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January 16, 2007
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I'm writing on behalf of the membership of the University of
Missouri-Rolla Board of Trustees to express our organization's
unanimous support of a name change for the University of Missouri-
Rolla.
We believe renaming our university will better convey its mission
as a leading technological research university. This mission is
especially critical today, as our nation faces worldwide challenges
to our leadership in economic innovation. As countless national
reports show, the United States needs more engineers, scientists and
tech-savvy college graduates to keep its edge in an increasingly
competitive global economy. With fewer and fewer college-bound youths
interested in engineering, math and ...
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