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A Black student government at the University of Missouri said the school will not ... the original name but that the public university in Columbia decided it needed to be modified to "Welcome ...

The University of Missouri at Columbia is dissolving its Division for Inclusion, Diversity and Equity, leaders announced Tuesday morning, in an effort to pre-empt legislative action from conservative ...

In January, when the historian Avi Shilon returned to Columbia University from winter break ... the founder of an LGBTQ group, the LezLions, wrote, “Zionists aren’t invited.” ...