(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”
Category Archives: Underrepresented Students
The Criminalization of Student Activism
On Friday May 13, 2016, several students at the University of Minnesota attended a Board of Regents meeting to express our concerns about the skyrocketing costs of tuition. To make our case, a number of us added our names to a list of those who would be granted a 3-minute opportunity to address the BoardContinue reading “The Criminalization of Student Activism”
Minnesota Higher Education Worker Center 