African-American administrator and former student, Mike Middleton, holds a press conference after being named as interim president of the University of Missouri
Source: Guardian
Middleton, who is black, resigned as deputy chancellor of the Columbia campus in August and took on the role of deputy chancellor emeritus. He had been working part-time with the campus’s chancellor, R Bowen Loftin, on a plan to increase inclusion and diversity at the school.
Middleton has a bachelor’s degree from Missouri and became one of the first black graduates of the law school in 1971. He worked with the federal government in Washington and was a trial attorney in the Department of Justice civil rights division before joining the university law faculty in 1985.
He also helped found the Legion of Black Collegians and himself participated in previous campus protests, for civil rights and against the Vietnam war.
He was interim vice-provost for minority affairs and faculty development starting in 1997, and a year later was named deputy chancellor.
In that role, he was credited with turning the women’s studies and black studies programs into their own departments.
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MU Policy Now, a student group made up of graduate and professional students, had been pushing for Middleton’s appointment.
“Given the recent turmoil, Deputy Chancellor Emeritus Middleton is a strong transitional figure,” the group wrote in a letter of endorsement posted on its Facebook page and sent to curators. Several student organizations signed the recommendation letter, including the Legion of Black Collegians, which has been involved in the current protest.
Guardian
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