The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Missteps, not student revolt, led to Mizzou chancellor’s demise

By Koran Addo

Even as it became clear Monday morning that Timothy M. Wolfe would not stay on as president of the University of Missouri System, he continued to have broad support from his bosses, the University of Missouri Board of Curators.

That was true up until the moment he resigned. Multiple people with knowledge of the situation say the curators were ready to stand behind Wolfe even as he’d become the focus of intense student outrage over his perceived failure to adequately respond to racist incidents on campus.