COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - A Louisiana State University professor will become dean of the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
Missouri officials announced Thursday that David Kurpius, professor of mass communication and an associate vice chancellor at LSU, will become the new dean on July 1.
The Columbia Daily Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/1BVAI5u) Kurpius' annual salary will be $240,000.
He will replace Dean Mills, who is retiring after 25 years of leading the journalism school. He is working part-time as the director of the Reynolds Fellows program at the Reynolds Journalism Institute.
Kurpius has worked for LSU's mass communication school since 1997. He was the associate dean of undergraduate studies and administration from 2005 to 2010 and taught advanced newsgathering classes, public affairs reporting and courses on minorities in journalism.