Earlier this month, protesters at the University of Missouri—citing pervasive racism on the campus—forced its president and chancellor to resign. Now other colleges and universities are taking Mizzou’s lead, demanding a host of racial and social reforms.

Protesters at Ithaca College staged a walkout to demand the resignation of its own president. Protests at Yale University encouraged its president to work toward a “better, more diverse, and more inclusive” institution. Scads of other schools, from the huge University of Southern California to the smaller Claremont McKenna College, are seeing a great deal of unrest and debate based on racial issues and so-called microaggressions.

“What is unique about these issues is how social media has changed the way protests take place on college campuses,” says Tyrone Howard, associate dean of equity, diversity and inclusion at UCLA. “A protest goes viral in no time flat. With Instagram and Twitter, you’re in an immediate news cycle. This was not how it was 20 or 30 years ago.” (Los Angeles Times)