This creates an interesting situation where a professor, Dale Brigham, resigned due to backlash over not moving his exam time while protests were ongoing. However, the university refused his resignation, so where does that leave…
Topic: University of Missouri
Mizzou Police ask Students to Report Hateful and Hurtful Speech
Why are universities coddling their students? It won’t help them when they are in the real world and become working professionals.
University of Missouri Student admits Intimidation, Fear on Campus after President Resigned
A student’s op-ed in the College Fix talks about the tension at Mizzou and how people do not want to speak up.
Mizzou Professor’s Fate Uncertain after Resigning a Courtesy Post
Social media mob mentality has its consequences: An assistant communications professor at the Missouri School of Journalism resigned from her courtesy appointment Tuesday after she was caught on video confronting a student journalist and attempting…
Mizzou’s Social Media Policy is Very 1984-esque, Written by Its Law Students
Great take from the College Fix: Law students wrote a breathtakingly autocratic, sloppy social-media policy that brings to mindThe Simpsons Halloween episode where Ned Flanders rules a 1984-like alternate reality that enforces constant smiling. After…
Mizzou Communications Professor Tries to Forcibly Remove Student Reporter from Public Area
Melissa Click, who is an assistant professor of mass media at the University of Missouri, tried to get other students to forcibly remove a student reporter out of the protester’s camp area in the public quad…
Tim Wolfe Resigns from the University of Missouri
John K. Wilson on the American Association of University Professors blog offered his own interesting take on the UMizzou controversy: Tim Wolfe, president of the University of Missouri, resigned this morning under intense pressure. I’m…
Mizzou Football Players Split on Practice Boycott
ESPN’s Brett McMurphy with the latest: A Missouri Tigers player said Sunday night that the entire team is not united over the decision to stop practicing until grad student Jonathan Butler ends his hunger strike….
Mizzou President Resigns Today
Guess the media criticism was too much for Tim Wolfe.
Black Mizzou Football Players Go on Strike until University President Resigns
University of Missouri’s football team may not play this Saturday, which could incur a $1 million penalty to be paid to Brigham Young University due to their scheduling contract: Due to what they deem inadequate…