Mills, a professor and administrator at the university for more than 20 years, will be the first woman to head the institution.

Ron DeSantis’s plan to transform New College of Florida into a beacon of conservatism has left students and faculty members at the tight-knit, progressive school reeling. Rosenbury, the dean of the University of Florida Levin College of Law, to serve as its next president. Barnard College’s New President: The institution announced that it had chosen Laura A.A Controversial Plan: Valparaiso University in Indiana wants to raise money to renovate two dormitories by selling treasures from its art museum.Soon after the professor’s office hours in late October, a white classmate contacted the student who quoted the epithet to say that she should have avoided using it. Professor Bergelson, 59, has said that she did not hear the word spoken during the videoconference session, which three students attended after a criminal law class, and would have corrected the student if she had. “We vehemently condemn the use of the N-word by the student and the acquiescence of its usage,” the petition says. “At the height of a ‘racial reckoning,’ a responsible adult should know not to use a racial slur regardless of its use in a 1993 opinion,” states the petition, which has been signed by law school students and campus organizations across the country.

In early April, in response to the incident, a group of Black first-year students at Rutgers Law began circulating a petition calling for the creation of a policy on racial slurs and formal, public apologies from the student and the professor, Vera Bergelson.

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