PURPOSE: The purpose of this rule is to set forth and define certain words or phrases as they relate to the government of the University of Missouri. These definitions are also found at section 3.0101 of the Collected Rules of the University of Missouri.

1. (1) The term university or University of Missouri shall refer to the institution, in all of its parts, persons, property and relationships wherever situated, owned, operated, controlled, managed or otherwise regulated under the supervision or direction of the Curators of the University of Missouri or the Board of Curators of the University of Missouri.
2. (2) The Curators of the University of Missouri shall refer to the corporate entity, of which the Board of Curators is the governing body.
3. (3) The Board of Curators of the University of Missouri or board shall refer to the governing board of the Curators of the University of Missouri and shall be composed of the curators duly appointed and qualified as provided by law.
4. (4) The executive committee shall refer to that committee of the Board of Curators appointed to act for and in behalf of the Board of Curators when such Board of Curators is not in session. Such executive committee shall be deemed to be the executive board and executive committee as known.
5. (5) The term site of the University of Missouri shall be deemed to include each and every campus of the university; any real estate owned by the university and wherever located and any other land or building in the possession or under the control of the university whether owned, leased, rented, held under purchase contract or owned by others for the use and benefit of the university, during any and all times that such land or buildings or parts thereto may be under the actual control and in the actual possession of the University.
6. (6) The term president of the board shall refer to the curator who is duly elected or acting president of the Board of Curators.
7. (7) The term president of the university or president shall refer to the duly appointed or acting president of the university and who shall be the chief executive and academic officer of the university.
8. (8) The term campus shall refer to an academic or administrative subdivision of the university as established by the Board of Curators.
9. (9) The appointments of all officers and employees of the university, although made for administrative or fiscal purposes for a specific term, may be terminated by the Board of Curators at any time at the pleasure of the Board of Curators.

AUTHORITY: section 172.100, RSMo 1986.* Original rule filed April 19, 1977, effective Sept. 11, 1977. *Original authority: 172.100, RSMo 1939.