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Former University of Missouri President Says Merger Idea Is Efficient.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2003

By Nate Carlisle, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 21--Former University of Missouri President Manuel Pacheco says he never advocated closing a UM campus and that he once suggested to the governor that the state bring all its four-year colleges and universities under the UM umbrella.

"As we were looking at the financial situation in Missouri, I thought one good approach to it might be the consolidation of a number of institutions with the University of Missouri being a central part of that," Pacheco said.

Although he retired from UM at the end of December, Pacheco's name has remained in the news. In Missouri, it's been reported that preliminary discussions for a UM and Northwest Missouri State...

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