Michele Skalicky talks with Springfield Daily Citizen education reporter Joe Hadsall.
What is the university saying about why they made the decision to eliminate the bias response team?
Hadsall: They say that this was a team that didn’t get used much to begin with. They noted in their statement that the last time the team met, it was September of 2025. Earlier, about a month ago, the university had decided to end the program, meaning it would have filled out the the rest of the year, which ends technically on June the 30th, and it would have disbanded after that. The lawsuit forced the university to just go ahead and make that an immediate cut…