MEXICO CITY — Classes were canceled or moved online this week in more than half of the departments at Mexico ’s National Autonomous University over security concerns following the recent killing of a student at a university feeder school and a spate of threats.

The rector of the country's leading university committed Tuesday to strengthening security measures and bolstering emotional support available to students.

The school has experienced cases of gender-based violence over the years, and is now investigating threats made against several female professors, in addition to last week’s killing of a 16-year-old student at the Sciences and Humanities School South campus.

The university has reported a dozen threats to the Mexico City prosecutor’s office, university General Counsel Hugo Conc

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