Based in Atlanta, Financial Aid Services earns up to $2,710 a day for the work it does at Bishop State, and is being paid from the community college’s general operating funds, Jordan says.
For decades, Bishop State was the only game in town for Blacks in Mobile who sought a college education.
The school started in 1927 as the Mobile branch of Alabama State Teachers College. Nine years later, it was renamed Bishop State Community College and designated a two-year college.
In the wake of the series of negative headlines, three Republican members of the state board of education have called for Kennedy to resign.
Jordan insists that despite the unfavorable headlines, Bishop State is still doing a good job of educating Mobile-area students. He notes that the university’s commercial food service program enjoys robust enrollment, and points to a waiting list for associate degrees in nursing.
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