Board of Curators Approves Lamb as Interim President of MU System

The University of Missouri Board of Curators, meeting in Rolla, has appointed Gordon Lamb the Interim President of the University of Missouri system.

Lamb is a veteran educator and former college president who served as interim chancellor of the University of Missouri-Kansas City from February of 1999 to March of 2000. In addition to UMKC, Lamb also served as a Vice President and professor in the University of Texas System, as President of Northeastern Illinois University, and as an interim Chancellor and a professor in the University of Wisconsin System.

Lamb realizes this new job is not a permanent post, saying he will be working hard to help find a new permanent president. The Columbia resident will be paid at the rate of $382,000 annually, approximately the same salary paid to the departing President Elson Floyd. Floyd will assist Lamb and the Board of Curators in finding a permanent president. Lamb officially begins his new duties on Monday.

Download/Listen: News conference introducing interim Presdient Gordon Lamb (15:00 MP3)