[MSN] "Marquette will work toward creating a Black Living Learning Community in a residence hall," campus administrators said to the student body in a statement last month, adding that learning communities "bring together students with common majors or common interests."The school’s black student council started a petition, signed by over 1,500 people on Change.org in July, outlining a list of demands, including asking the university to "publicly recognize and apologize for the traumatic events that Black students experience on campus and the part Marquette has played in contributing to the experiences."
Marquette said in a statement that it plans to "review and revise, as needed, current policies regarding hate speech and racist behaviors to better allow for effective enforcement."
"We — along with other senior university leaders — met with the Black Student Council and other concerned students following the student demonstration," school administrators said after meeting with the black student council. "Their stories made vividly clear that racism — both systemic racism and racist, discriminatory actions — are part of our campus life."