A look into UM System President Mun Y. Choi’s salary | Higher Education

Three years after taking the dual role of MU chancellor and UM System president, Mun Choi’s pay package has quietly approached $1 million through decisions made in a series of closed-door curators meetings.

An attorney who works with Missouri open meetings law argued decisions on Choi’s salary should be made in public.

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