Talk about pandering.

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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri's governing board on Thursday appointed a recently-retired senior administrator from its flagship campus to be the university system's interim president.

Michael Middleton, 68, takes over for Tim Wolfe, who resigned abruptly on Monday amid student-led protests over his administration's handling of racial complaints.

Middleton, who is black, resigned as deputy chancellor of the Columbia campus in August and took on the role of deputy chancellor emeritus. He had been working part-time with the campus' chancellor, R. Bowen Loftin, on a plan to increase inclusion and diversity at the school.

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In addition to being black, an essential qualification, Middleton has a highly acceptable vitae.

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Middleton has a bachelor's degree from Missouri and became one of the first black graduates of the law school in 1971. He worked with the federal government in Washington and was a trial attorney in the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division before joining the university law faculty in 1985.

He also helped found the Legion of Black Collegians, a student group involved in the current protest, and himself participated in previous campus protests for civil rights and against the Vietnam War.

He was interim vice provost for minority affairs and faculty development starting in 1997, and a year later was named deputy chancellor.

In that role, he was credited with turning women's studies and black studies programs into their own departments.

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