N.C. A&T alumni are upset over outgoing Chancellor Stanley Battle’s sweet deal that allows him to draw his chancellor’s salary during a six-month sabbatical before taking his position as a tenured professor.
Arthur Spears, an A&T alum from the Class of ’72, said he felt the same way.
“You tell me what excuse anyone could have for paying a man to quit a job he was chosen to do, that he asked for, that should be an honor?” Spears said. “And to go on paying him six months after he quits? Aggies should be ashamed of this.”
Some A&T faculty and staff also said they were unhappy with the terms, but most said they would not speak publicly for fear of reprisal.
I don’t know who A&T is going to select for its next chancellor, but he or she is walking into a mess complicated by a hovering former chancellor.
