The investigation’s findings do not include the two other HBCUs affected by the hurricanes — Xavier University of Louisiana and Dillard University — although a significant number of faculty and staff at those institutions also lost their positions. At Xavier, “no specific case emerged,” according to the report. No one at Dillard sought AAUP’s intervention.
At SUNO, the committee concluded that faculty members were furloughed without “academic due process to which they were entitled under the university’s own policies.” The university also eliminated academic programs without input from faculty members, exhibiting “manifested disregard for the faculty’s appropriate role in academic governance.”
In his pre-publication response to the report, Southern University System President Ralph Slaughter defended the school’s actions. “Our administrators must see and consider the entire picture, the whole institution, and not just how the landscape relates to faculty.”
--Margaret Kamara
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