UPDATED: At 4 p.m. with information about deans calling for dismissal of Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin.
COLUMBIA • Within hours of the resignation of University of Missouri System President Timothy W. Wolfe, the deans of nine Mizzou departments signed a letter calling for Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin to also be dismissed.
Missouri School of Journalism Dean David Kurpius said that the deans had met with Loftin on Oct. 9 and then with Wolfe, Loftin and Provost Garnett Stokes to express concerns about the handling of "race and cultural" issues on campus.