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Photo Story:  Love Your Body Week brings self-love and self-care to MU


Students come together for three days of events to celebrate their bodies with the Women’s Center During Love Your Body Week, students were able

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MU students condemn white supremacy at rally

MU students gathered at Speakers Circle Wednesday afternoon, calling on administrators to condemn white supremacy on campus.

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MU social justice center employees respond to restructuring


COLUMBIA - MU's social justice centers have been in the public eye for the last few months due to their response to multiple issues on campus.
In April, many employees were told their positions would no longer exist due to a "restructuring of the centers," which include the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center, the LGBTQ Resource Center and the Multicultural Center. The restructuring was paused in May, which meant a July 1 implementation was no longer the case.
MU spokesperson Christian Basi says the restructuring is necessary to improve academic success for marginalized students. 
Now, less than a month before the fall semester, multiple employees in these centers have stepped down from their positions due to what they say is a "lack of professionalism" in the workplace. 

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What you need to know: Tuesday, July 27

What you need to know: Tuesday, July 27
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MU plan to restructure social justice centers pushed back


MU plan to restructure social justice centers pushed back
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University of Missouri students gather for a protest against changes to campus social justice centers on Monday, April 19, 2021.
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A plan to restructure the University of Missouri's social justice centers this summer has been pushed back indefinitely.
MU spokesman Christian Basi said Friday that the plan had been postponed to give Maurice Gipson, vice chair of diversity, inclusion and equity, more time to communicate with those affected by the changes.
MU operates five social justice centers: the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center, LGBTQ Resource Center, Multicultural Center (MCC), Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention (RSVP) Center and the Women's Center. Students held two large protests when word spread through campus about the restructuring.

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Missouri's social justice center restructuring paused after protests


The University of Missouri's diversity director on Thursday apologized to the Faculty Council for communication "missteps" in a plan to restructure social justice centers on campus.
"I certainly take ownership over the way this rollout happened and particularly for our failures in communication," said Maurice Gipson, vice chancellor for inclusion, diversity and equity.
The restructuring plan has been halted in order to gather feedback from stakeholders, he said. July 1 is no longer a target date for implementing the plan.
"We've put this on pause right now, just to listen," Gipson said.
Campus protests developed when information leaked that a restructuring of the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center, LGBTQ Resource Center, Multicultural Center and Women's Center was planned and that the center coordinators may lose their jobs.

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Maneater | Student activist group Mizzou 600 organizes campus-wide protest


Activist group Mizzou 600 organized a protest on April 29 against the future implementation of the MU Department of Social Justice restructuring plan.
The demonstration started on the steps of Jesse Hall, where speakers began listing the ways the Department of Social Justice had aided them. Two unnamed MU staff members followed the demonstration, stating that their purpose was to ensure the protest was safe.
Following their beginning chants and opening statements on the steps of Jesse Hall, demonstrators walked inside to continue the protest. The demonstrators continued to chant and give statements regarding the restructuring. Staff observed the demonstration from the upper level of Jesse Hall.

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Maneater | 'Damage has been done': Gipson says social justice center staff won't lose jobs, rumors 'misconstrued'


In a Monday Zoom meeting with staff from MU’s social justice centers, Maurice Gipson, the vice chancellor of inclusion, diversity and equity, assured attendees that an upcoming realignment will not directly result in the loss of their jobs.
“That’s just inaccurate,” Gipson said in the meeting. “No one is losing their job on June 30. That was never the intent. That was never the case … It was our intent to no longer have coordinators as the title, no coordinator in the title, but to shift to the different model where we have assistant directors and specialists.”
Social media rumors circulated, primarily on Twitter, after leaks from Thursday’s meeting suggested that the coordinators of MU’s social justice centers were being cut from their positions on June 30.

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Students And Advocates Rally For MU Social Justice Centers


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Students protested in Traditions Plaza over MU's planned restructuring of the campus' social justice centers on April 19, 2021
This is a developing story and will be updated. 
A group of more than 100 MU students, faculty and advocates gathered this morning at MU's Traditions Plaza to protest a planned restructuring of key campus social justice organizations.
Campus centers affected by the changes are reported to be the five organizations in the social justice department on campus - including MU's Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center, the Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention (RSVP) Center, the LGBTQ Resource Center, the Multicultural Center (MCC), and the Women's Center. 

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U of Missouri students protest diversity and inclusion staff restructuring


He said claims circulating on social media that all staff members at the centers will be let go and that the centers themselves would be eliminated are false. It is “absolutely not true that we’re getting rid of the centers,” and the university is “absolutely committed to the resources these centers provide,” Basi said.
The Columbia Missourianreported that the plan aims to raise the number of full-time staff members in the centers from 10 to 15.
The private message outlining the restructuring plan said the university would move away from “the current holistic identity-based coordinators” to new “task-oriented positions.” The new positions will span multiple centers and include individual staff members in charge of events and programming for the centers, overseeing student staff members, and managing center training programs. The

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