University of Missouri President Resigns Amid Race Row

University of Missouri system President Tim Wolfe announced his resignation at a press conference on November 9 amid protests on the Missouri campus by students over his perceived inaction over recent racist incidents at the university. Faculty members and state lawmakers had joined the call for Wolfe to step down.

“I’m resigning as president of the University of Missouri System … my motivation in making this decision comes from love. I love MU, Columbia where I grew up, the state of Missouri. I thought, prayed about this decision. It’s the right thing to do", Wolfe said.

“Use my resignation to heal and to start talking again, to make the changes necessary. And let’s focus on changing what we can change today and in the future, not what we can’t change, which is what happened in the past", he said.

Wolfe’s resignation stems from three separate incidents in recent weeks in which African-American students at the college were subjected to racial slurs and epithets. Black members of the university’s football team announcing on Sunday it would not take part in any football-related activities until Wolfe resigned or was removed. Credit: YouTube/Strata Commun