University of Missouri President Resigns Over Mismanagement Of Racial Incidents

University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe resigned today amid protests from students, including football players, who alleged that the University has not properly handled incidents of racism at the school.

The ConcernedStudent1950 protest organization, which says it represents every black student at the University since 1950, when the first black student was admitted, had released a list of demands last month that included Wolfe's removal, as a part of a protest over the way the university handles racial harassment.

The group's list of demands also asks for a comprehensive racial awareness and inclusion curriculum, and an increase of black faculty and staff. 

Wolfe, who’d held the office since 2012, announced his resignation this morning at the university's Board of Curators meeting, asking the campus to "use my resignation to heal and start talking again."

"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.