A powerful movement of protests and walkouts by students and faculty at the University of Missouri and a boycott by the school’s revenue-generating Division I football team in response to inaction by the administration surrounding increased racial tensions on campus accomplished its mission to topple the university’s ineffective leadership.
Student Action
Now that both President Tim Wolfe and Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin (who will be entering a new role at the university on Jan. 1, “advancing research,” he told reporters) have resigned, protestors are not giving up. Concerned Student 1950, the student group of activists behind the protests (named as such because the university first began admitting Black students in 1950), issued new demands following Wolfe’s resignation.
