Speaking Truth and Acting with Integrity: Confronting Challenges of Campus Racial Climate (2018)​

The University of Missouri-Columbia and the University of Missouri System serve as the case site for this report, having experienced a highly visible racial crisis in the 2015–16 academic year. Project co-leads Adrianna Kezar (USC) and Sharon Fries-Britt (University of Maryland) sought three key outcomes from this work: first, to understand what led up to the crisis, second, to understand perceptions of leadership during the crisis in 2015, and third, to understand what it has taken for the University of Missouri to move forward after the crisis. The lessons and insights that they have learned from the initial stages of this case study are the focus of this report.​