Administration – Minnesota Higher Education Worker Center

Worker Center intervenes to stop Regents from arresting Professor John Wright, founder of African & African American Studies Department

(Member report) The UMN Board of Regents were going to arrest and remove Professor John Wright — founder of its African American & African Studies Dept, civil rights activist, MacArthur fellow (nominated by novelist Ralph Ellison) — from their farce of a meeting yesterday about the building re-naming commission’s report, until the Minnesota Higher EducationContinue reading “Worker Center intervenes to stop Regents from arresting Professor John Wright, founder of African & African American Studies Department”

How the University Works

This is how the Administration of the University of Minnesota operates. At the University of Minnesota, we recently witnessed University leaders uniting expediency and power when the Board of Regents (BOR) rolled out its proposal for changes to the Student Code of Conduct. The language the BOR planned to add was written in a wayContinue reading “How the University Works”