Change welcome in beginning, but soon led to friction.Dr. Robert Jennings was never trustees' first pick to become the 10th permanent president of Alabama A&M University.
They voted 5-4 to offer him the job on Dec. 16, 2005, after their unanimous first choice, Dr. Julian Earls, then director of NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, had turned them down in October.
Jennings, now 57, was the executive vice president and chief operating officer of Future Focus 2020, an academic think tank and research training center in the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C.
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AAMU Jennings fired for financial improperiety
