Ex-Mizzou President Claims School Faced ‘Ferguson-Like Event’ to Get More Police
The drama continues at the University of Missouri.
The College Fix reported.
Ex-Missouri president claims it faced ‘Ferguson-like event’; campus to get more police
No explanation how university will pay for grad-student benefit spike
The former president of the University of Missouri System abruptly resigned in November to preempt a “Ferguson-like event” on the Columbia campus amid racial protests, he said in a “confidential email to a select few friends” made public Wednesday.
Tim Wolfe accused the four-campus system’s board of curators and administrators of leadership failure and advancing personal agendas in the Jan. 19 message to supporters, while laying much of the blame for campus unrest on ousted Mizzou Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin.
In the email, obtained and publicized by university administrators, Wolfe also alleged a political maneuvering scheme by a Missouri state senator to keep a University of Missouri professor from running for attorney general.
Wolfe’s accusations went viral hours before his and Loftin’s successors delivered the annual State of the University address.
Though interim Chancellor Hank Foley announced a dramatically expanded campus police force and an increased graduate student stipend of $15,000, up from $3,000 – one of the causes of this fall’s unrest – he did not offer his thoughts on Wolfe’s leaked email or how the university would pay for the new benefits.
Ex-Missouri president claims it faced ‘Ferguson-like event’; campus to get more police (The College Fix)