“Heartbreaking” is how Falon Ensley, a student and former student government president at Lincoln University, described her feelings reading Antoinette Candia-Bailey’s final email to LU president John Moseley.
On Jan. 8, Candia-Bailey, former vice president of student affairs at LU, took her own life. In that final email sent hours before her death, Candia-Bailey describes the toll that life at Lincoln has taken and offers ways that workplace culture could be improved.
Diana Bruce, left, and Kelsie Rhimes, right, hold a sign during the Lincoln University Founders’ Day Convocation on Feb. 8 at Lincoln University in Jefferson City. Students started the protest for administration changes, which began following Antoinette Candia-Bailey’s death, outside before entering the Robert & Charlene Mitchell Auditorium at Lincoln University.
Students protest for administration changes during the Lincoln University Founders’ Day Convocation on Feb. 8 at Lincoln University’s Robert and Charlene Mitchell Auditorium in Jefferson City. Protests began following faculty member Antoinette Candia-Bailey’s suicide last month.