Source: Connecticut provost to lead University of Missouri

(AP) — A University of Connecticut provost is about to be named president of the University of Missouri, nearly a year after the Columbia campus was roiled by protests over administrators' handling of racial and other issues on the Columbia campus, a person familiar with the search told The Associated Press on Monday.

The university also was strongly criticized by state lawmakers, who threatened funding cuts and closer scrutiny of the system's budget.

Others were angry after assistant professor Melissa Click was not immediately fired for confronting a student photographer and videographer during the protests.

Before that, he was department head of mechanical engineering and associate dean for research at Drexel University.

From 1994 to 2000, he was a faculty member in the mechanical engineering department at the University of Illinois.