A group calling itself “Morehouse Alumni,” has launched an online petition asking the Board of Trustees to oust the school’s president. The document says Morehouse is in “great turmoil,” and blames President John Wilson Jr.’s administration for alienating alumni, a drop in enrollment and poor fundraising efforts.
Cathy Tyler, executive director of strategic communications at Morehouse, says Wilson has tried to address some of those issues since becoming president of the historically black college in 2013.
“I know the college is going in the right direction,” she says. “When Dr. Wilson arrived, there were some problems, like all HBCUs, and that’s a fundraising problem. That is starting to pick up. No school can live on tuition alone. So, we are starting to reach out more, so we are reaching out more, looking for more donors.”
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