Damage inside the U.S. Capitol building after it was overrun by Trump supporters Wednesday.
Paul Pribbenow, president of Augsburg University in Minneapolis, was leading a plenary panel on college presidential leadership at the Council of Independent Colleges’ virtual Presidents Institute when he first saw news of the attack on the U.S. Capitol building Wednesday. Attendees also became distracted by the violence and asked Pribbenow and his colleagues versions of the same question: What should we do?
“There’s a firm sense that our colleges and university communities are asking us to say something and do something,” Pribbenow said. The calls for responses from presidents were similar to community calls for action after a police officer killed George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, in May, setting off nationwide protests.