Email offers clues to University of Missouri search

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Newly obtained emails show five to nine candidates made the cut to be semifinalist for the job of leading the four-campus University of Missouri system.

The Columbia Daily Tribune reported the disclosure was made in internal emails from last month recommending a car service for presidential search interviews.

Few details were released about the presidential search. The paper obtained the email through an open-records request.

Earlier this month, a 16-member search committee concluded two days of 10-hour meetings. But committee leaders declined to say how many candidates were interviewed or provide other particulars.

Protests last year over racial issues on the Columbia campus led to the resignation of system president Tim Wolfe and Columbia chancellor R. Bowen Loftin.