University of Utah Diversity Action Plan Proposal

The events surrounding the African American student movements on campus to address continued overt racist incidents and undergirding racial climate problems related to institutional and systemic racism came to a head this fall at the University of Missouri-Columbia campus; as the Black football players supported the hunger-strike of the graduate student who was protesting the lack of senior level-leadership on campus to address these problems, this led to the resignation of both the president and chancellor of this campus. This event was also followed by similar moves at other campuses which called into serious question the lack of campus leadership and progressive response to the continual racial problems on predominantly white campuses.