Last fall, a few days after activists at the University of Missouri at Columbia and at Yale University demanded that steps be taken to improve their campuses' racial climates, students at Emory University staged protests and issued demands of their own. Ajay Nair, senior vice president and dean of campus life at Emory, says his initial reaction to those demands was "defensiveness." But after speaking with the activists, Mr. Nair oversaw his institution's unusually detailed response to the protests. Emory convened working groups to assess each of the demands, asked everyone on the campus to weigh in on possible solutions, and held a racial-justice retreat for students and members of the faculty and staff.

March 25, 2016 ・ From Chronicle of Higher Education