Missteps, not student revolt, led to Mizzou chancellor's demise
Source: STL Post Dispatch
Outside of Columbia, the perception is that both leaders were victims of the same student revolt. But people on campus point out the key differences behind their respective exits.
Wolfe — who was hired in 2011 on the strength of his business career — was done in relatively swiftly by an activist group, a student on a hunger strike and a pledge from the football team not to take the field again until he resigned.
Loftin’s demise was longer in the making. Over time, he made a series of missteps, making enemies out of deans, faculty and graduate students before the curators ultimately decided it was time to move on.
“People say it was about the students, but his undoing was really about the faculty,” one university leader said on the condition of anonymity.
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