An AAUP staffer is asking Florida Memorial University to reverse its decision to terminate three tenured professors who were laid off in May. The faculty members have alleged the school discriminated against them and didn't follow its policies on cutting positions.
Ten professors at Florida Memorial University are now out of a job, accounting for 13% of the faculty at the historically Black school. Some of the professors are claiming the decision was discriminatory.
South Florida's only historically Black university was put on probation in 2021, after years of declining enrollment. But after a recent campus visit, representatives from the school's accrediting organization say Florida Memorial University should be taken off probation.
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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) The only historically Black university in South Florida is hoping to be upgraded from probation to good standing by its accreditation body in June. Representatives of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges were impressed when they visited the Florida Memorial University campus last week, the Miami Herald reported .