The University of Missouri at Columbia announced on Thursday that it hadreinstated Patrice Delafontaine as dean of the School of Medicine, effective immediately. Dr. Delafontaine’s sudden resignation in September was among the incidents that contributed to a loss of confidence among other deans in the campus’s chancellor at the time, R. Bowen Loftin.
When Mr. Loftin himself resigned two months later, his departure was seen as a consequence of student protests over race relations that had roiled the Columbia campus.
