KU Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little

Update: Wednesday’s forum has been moved to a new room inside the Kansas Union, according to KU’s Office of Multicultural Affairs. The event will now take place in Woodruff Auditorium on the fifth floor of the Union.

Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little herself will moderate the town hall forum on race Wednesday on the KU campus.

KU announced the planned forum on Monday, after University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe resigned under pressure from students who said the school failed to properly respond to racial problems there. MU Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin stepped down later that day.

KU’s forum is set for 4 p.m. Wednesday at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union, 1301 Jayhawk Blvd.

The event is open to members of the KU community and envisioned as an opportunity for KU students, faculty and staff to discuss race and inclusion, as well as respect and responsibility, according to KU.

Initially, it was announced that KU vice provost for student affairs Tammara Durham would moderate the forum and that KU vice provost for diversity and equity Nate Thomas also would attend. Durham and Thomas are black, as is Gray-Little.

The change in moderator was due to scheduling, university spokesman Joe Monaco said.

Monaco said KU wanted to announce the event as quickly as possible and that later, Gray-Little was able to open up her schedule to be there. KU announced Tuesday that she would lead the forum.

“Recent events at the University of Missouri, Yale University and other schools have intensified our nation’s ongoing conversation about race and, more generally, about respect, responsibility and free speech,” Chancellor Gray-Little said in a KU news release. “We want our students, faculty and staff to be engaged in these topics and to discuss the implications for our campus, but also for our nation and society.”