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Tim Wolfe Case Study

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Amid recent racial events, protests of students, and the possible boycott by the football team, University of Missouri 's president Tim Wolfe has decided to resign (Svrluga). Tim Wolfe is accused of not "addressing racist and bigoted incidents this academic year, including when the undergraduate student body president was called the n-word, when a white student climbed onto a stage and shouted slurs as a black group rehearsed a skit, and more recently when a swastika was drawn on a wall with human feces" (Svrluga). Even other colleges are chiming in on the issue, saying "the university had 'failed ' its minorities after students rallied on campus with emotional tales of discrimination and insults" (Svrluga). In an effort to ease tensions,

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