Nation's Largest Historically Black University System Suspends Its President With Pay

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Source: Associated Press

Nation's Largest Historically Black University System Suspends Its President With Pay
05-05-2007 8:46 PM

BATON ROUGE, La. (Associated Press) -- The nation's largest historically black university system suspended its president with pay Saturday and ordered him to cooperate with an investigation into the way sexual harassment charges against a fellow administrator were handled.

Southern University System President Ralph Slaughter was suspended through July 5 by the institution's Board of Supervisors during a special meeting.

Board member Elvin Pradia confirmed the suspension, but referred all other comment to acting board Chairwoman Dale N. Atkins, who could not be reached.

Slaughter and the board were criticized last month by Baton Rouge lawyer Mark Falcon who complained that they had thwarted his inquiry into sexual harassment complaints made against board Chairman Johnny Anderson by some university employees. Falcon submitted a report saying he could not determine the validity of the allegations.

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1. Too bad it wasn't a firing at Duke...