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Contact: Jennifer Hollingshead

Office: (573) 882-0601

E-mail: hollingsheadj@umsystem.edu

What: èßäapp Public Higher Education Unity Tour

Where: èßäapp Southern State University's Billingsly Student Center, Connor Ballroom, Joplin, Mo.

When: 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., Sept. 27, 2006

University of èßäapp President Elson S. Floyd and èßäapp Southern State University President Julio Leon will share a stage on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2006 at an 11:30 a.m. luncheon at MSSU's Billingsly Student Center in the Connor Ballroom in Joplin, Mo. The two presidents will discuss improving need-based financial aid for students and shared principles of service to our state by public higher education institutions. This is the fifth of a series of events President Floyd is conducting with other public university presidents around èßäapp.

"I am delighted to share the stage in Joplin with President Leon to talk with èßäappans about how our state's public higher education institutions are working to assure access, affordability and accountability," President Floyd said. "Our institutions want to share this positive story at every opportunity, as we collaborate on ways to better serve èßäappans, and specifically work together to improve need-based student financial aid."

The presidents will have media availability in the ballroom at MSSU after the luncheon at roughly 1:00 p.m.

Directions

From St. Louis:

Merge onto I-55 S

Merge onto I-44 W via EXIT 207 / 290C

Take the US-71 S / MO-249 N exit- EXIT 11A-B- toward NEOSHO / FORT SMITH AR / JOPLIN

Merge onto MO-249 N via EXIT 11B toward JOPLIN

Turn LEFT onto NEWMAN RD

End at 3950 Newman Rd

From Kansas City:

HWY 71 South to Webb City; follow signage

South on Madison Ave (which becomes Range Line Road at Joplin City Limits) to Newman Road

East on Newman Road approximately 1.5 miles to èßäapp Southern campus