The nine-member governing body of the University of Missouri is set to name an interim president for the university system.
The Board of Curators scheduled a 2:30 p.m. ET news conference Thursday to announce the person who will lead the four-campus system. The flagship Columbia campus has been roiled by weeks of unrest following a series of racially charged incidents.
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The announcement comes three days after the university system’s president, Tim Wolfe, and the Columbia campus’ chancellor, R. Bowen Loftin, resigned under pressure from students who said the administration’s response to the incidents was insufficient.
A source told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch that Michael A. Middleton, a longtime law school professor, has been chosen for the role. NBC News could not immediately confirm that report.









