The University of Missouri’s Board of Curators will name Mike Middleton as the system’s interim president Thursday, the Missourian and Columbia Daily Tribune reported. The law professor and civil rights attorney will replace Tim Wolfe, who resigned Monday after students protested his handling of racist incidents on campus, as well as his administration’s decision to cancel graduate students’ health insurance subsidies and university contracts with Planned Parenthood. According to the Tribune, Middleton will be the second black president of the University of Missouri system. Middleton is currently Mizzou’s deputy chancellor emeritus and a professor emeritus of law, and previously served as vice…
The University of Missouri’s Board of Curators will name Mike Middleton as the system’s interim president Thursday, the Missourian and Columbia Daily Tribune reported.
The law professor and civil rights attorney will replace Tim Wolfe, who resigned Monday after students protested his handling of racist incidents on campus, as well as his administration’s decision to cancel graduate students’ health insurance subsidies and university contracts with Planned Parenthood. According to the Tribune, Middleton will be the second black president of the University of Missouri system.
Middleton is currently Mizzou’s deputy chancellor emeritus and a professor emeritus of law, and previously served as vice provost for minority affairs and faculty development. According to the Missourian, he helped to found the Legion of Black Collegians while a student at Mizzou, and pushed for scholarships for black students during his time as an administrator.
The curators said they planned to formally announce a new interim president at a news conference Thursday afternoon. The student activists who pushed for Wolfe’s resignation praised the selection of Middleton.
Middleton previously served an attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. He currently sits on the 40-member Commission on Racial and Ethnic Fairness appointed by the Missouri Supreme Court.
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Mike Middleton Picked As University Of Missouri’s Interim President: Reports
