Pols charge CUNY is rushing search for Medgar Evers College president
The City University of New York (CUNY) is in too much of a rush to find the next president of Medgar Evers College and isn’t casting a wide enough net to attract a sufficient number of qualified candidates, a group of lawmakers charged.
US Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-Crown Heights) and members of the Central Brooklyn Black Legislators Coalition held a protest rally outside the college at 1650 Bedford Ave. to publicly question CUNY’s commitment to the search process for a new permanent president. The majority of students at the college are African-American. The school is named in honor of Medgar Evers, a civil rights leader in Mississippi who was assassinated in 1963 at the age of 37.
CUNY is setting a 90-day deadline to find a new president to replace President William Pollard, who announced his resignation on Jan. 30 after a rocky three-year tenure. The New York Times reported that Pollard repeatedly clashed with faculty and with students. In November, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education warned the administration of Medgar Evers College that the college was in danger of losing its accreditation, the Times reported.