STATESBORO — Following the lead of other campuses around the country, Georgia Southern’s black students are posting demands of the school’s administration.

WTOC is reporting that hundreds of black students at Georgia Southern University gathered at the Russell Student Union to lend support for changes they want to see.

The report states they want a more diverse faculty and more resources put behind minority programs.

The campus NAACP chapter asked students to walk out of classes at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday and gather for a demonstration. That resulted in what was mainly a couple of announcements about gatherings on Wednesday.

The NAACP’s list of demands or goals includes raising minority faculty to 12 percent, an audit of the Multicultural Student Center and displays that pays tribute to the university’s first black students back during integration.

“These are concerns that have been around for a long time. They occasionally come to the surface and we talk a little about them and then they die back down. But we need to bring some change beyond just talking,” said GSU student James Woodall.

Another demand is for Interim President Dr. Jean Bartels to be named permanent president. It is unclear she has even applied for the job.

The campus has been in an uproar over the past 24 hours over comments made on social media by a grad student criticizing some of the students at University of Missouri and their response to the attacks in France.  The protesters stated they felt the student’s comments were a physical threat toward GSU’s black students.