University of Minnesota faculty members led a rally Monday in support of student protesters who were arrested last week while pressing for greater diversity on campus.

Thirteen people, most of them students, were arrested Feb. 9 for refusing to leave President Eric Kaler’s office at Morrill Hall.

A faculty group that assembled Monday outside Morrill Hall wants administrators to move to withdraw the trespassing charges and refrain from any academic sanctions for the arrested students.

They also want Kaler’s administration to take concrete steps to meet the students’ demands, which include hiring more faculty of color, keeping open the Department of Postsecondary Teaching and Learning, and removing racial descriptors from campus crime alerts.

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