The ouster of two top University of Missouri administrators after protests over racism is a wake-up call for campuses nationwide and signals a new sense of racial consciousness, politics and race experts said.
The abrupt resignations Monday of University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe and the chancellor of the flagship campus R. Bowen Loftin showed the power of the growing tide of social activism among people who felt the school leaders did not respond aggressively enough to racist incidents on campus. Experts say campuses can expect more social activism if they fail to take specific actions to rid schools of hostility toward students of color.
“The University of Missouri is a signal for other universities to take notice that it’s no longer business as usual as far as the handling diversity,” said Keisha Bentley-Edwards, a professor at the University of Texas-Austin who who studies the racialized experience of young people.
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