Dive Brief:
- Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has requested that two Alabama State University trustees resign.
- The request follows the revelation that the trustees were proposing to strip much of university president Gwendolyn Boyd’s power, the Montgomery Advertiser reported.
- Amendments to school bylaws proposed by the trustees would install a board liaison with the same powers as Boyd and allow a committee chairperson to direct the actions of the president.
Dive Insight:
According to the Montgomery Advertiser, the governor asked for board chairman Elton Dean and vice chairman Marvin Wiggins to resign by end of day Thursday in letters sent on Tuesday. The proposed amendments had not been sent to Bentley, who is president of the board, but had been circulated to all of the other trustees. Boyd is very popular with students, faculty, and alumni, and the national alumni president and the student government president have also called for the two trustees to step down.