Obama administration: Colleges must ‘respond aggressively’ to racially charged incidents

After a week of heightened tension on college campuses, Education Secretary John B. King Jr. on Tuesday urged public university leaders to “respond aggressively” to any cases of racial harassment. The “challenging national moment … has left many of our students feeling vulnerable,” King told a crowd of public university administrators at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities meeting in Austin. “We’ve got to make sure all of our students feel like our campuses are a place they belong and will feel supported all the way through to graduation. We’ve got to respond aggressively to incidents where that safety is violated and we have to set a tone on all of our campuses that we see diversity as an asset.”