Missouri S&T chancellor joins Twitter

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On August 10, 2012 Posted in Chancellor, News, Top Headlines

Dr. Cheryl B. Schrader, chancellor of Missouri University of Science and Technology, joined Twitter today (Friday, Aug. 10, 2012). Her Twitter handle is @SandTChancellor.


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Schrader joins a growing number of higher education leaders who are embracing Twitter and other forms of social media. They include Tim Wolfe, president of the four-campus University of Missouri System, which includes Missouri S&T. Wolfe joined Twitter last May.

Twitter use is on the rise among Missouri S&T students. A survey of S&T’s incoming freshman class shows that 14 percent of the respondents say Twitter is the social media platform they use most often. A year ago, just 3 percent of incoming freshmen indicated that Twitter was their social media tool of choice.

A former Missouri S&T student, Jack Dorsey, co-founded Twitter in 2006. More recently, Dorsey founded Square, a mobile payments company.

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