{"id":23523,"date":"2012-05-30T16:18:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T16:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23523"},"modified":"2012-05-30T16:18:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T16:18:55","slug":"university-of-missouri-press-to-shut-down-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23523","title":{"rendered":"University of Missouri Press to Shut Down in July"},"content":{"rendered":"

University of Missouri Press to Shut Down in July<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Riverfront Times<\/a>
\nSt. Louis, Missouri
\n2012-05-25<\/p>\n

Aimee Levitt<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Post-Dispatch<\/em><\/a> was not the only publishing institution in Missouri to have a bad week. Yesterday morning, Tim Wolfe, the president of the University of Missouri system, announced plans to shut down the University of Missouri Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The news came as a complete surprise to the ten-member staff, editor in chief Clair Wilcox told the Columbia Daily Tribune<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was true the press, which was partially funded by a $400,000 annual subsidy from the university system, had continued to operate with a deficit even after seven employees had been laid off three years ago, but who expects a university press to be a major money-making operation?<\/p>\n

The purpose of the U of M Press, founded in 1958, was to showcase scholarly work about Missouri and its people which would be ignored by more commercial publishers. The current catalog<\/a>, likely to be the press’s last, features a memoir by a Bootheel farmer, a study of old-time Missouri fiddlers, histories of the Missouri State Penitentiary and a Civil War draft resistance movement and biographies of Satchel Paige and the folklorist Mary Alicia Owen (the last with the tantalizing title Voodoo Priests, Noble Savages and Ozark Gypsies<\/em>)…<\/p>\n

Read the enetire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

University of Missouri Press to Shut Down in July Riverfront Times St. Louis, Missouri 2012-05-25 Aimee Levitt The Post-Dispatch was not the only publishing institution in Missouri to have a bad week. Yesterday morning, Tim Wolfe, the president of the University of Missouri system, announced plans to shut down the University of Missouri Press. \u00a0The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,8,20],"tags":[10968,10967,769],"class_list":["post-23523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-aimee-levitt","tag-riverfront-times","tag-university-of-missouri-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}