WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Howard University’s board of trustees announced Monday that veteran Washington lawyer Vernon E. Jordan Jr. will lead a presidential search committee charged with replacing Sidney A. Ribeau, who retired abruptly last year after months of internal debate over the condition of the university.Howard, one of the nation’s preeminent historically black universities, weathered a series of challenges in 2013.
First the vice chairwoman of the board, Renee Higginbotham-Brooks, warned trustees that the university in Northwest Washington was in “genuine trouble” because of fiscal and management issues. Her letter became public in June. The university’s academic deans echoed some of her concerns in another letter asserting that Howard was in jeopardy because of “fiscal mismanagement.”
Ribeau denied that allegation, and board Chairman Addison Barry Rand has maintained that ...
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