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By Associated Press
Mar 12, 2007, 08:12
A faculty leader at
Theodore
Bremner, chairman of the faculty senate, wrote to Howard’s board of
trustees this past week on behalf of the senate’s leadership council that
it is time to end “an intolerable condition of incompetence and
dysfunction at the highest level.” The letter was obtained by The
Swygert,
who has been president since 1995, said he had seen the letter and does not
plan to resign.
“I
think it clearly demonstrates how democratic and how open the university is and
how free the faculty is to express opinions,” he said.
The
letter accuses Swygert of failing to keep financial problems at the university
hospital from spilling over into academic budgets. Academic programs are
plagued by substandard equipment and facilities, it said.
It also
cited a recent National Science Foundation audit that criticized Howard’s
management of grant money. The federal government is the largest source of
revenue for the private university.
The
faculty senate, made up of more than 1,000 full-time professors, has had a
contentious relationship with the administration. Earlier this month, the
leadership council voted 16 to 2, with one abstention, to send the letter of
concern to the board. The council has about 50 members.
Board
chairman Addison Barry Rand said the trustees take all complaints seriously but
that they did not have enough information yet about why the letter was sent.
--Associated Press
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