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May 23rd, 2013, 12:08 PM
http://flcourier.com/2013/05/23/wyatt-wins-lawsuit-against-b-cu-2/
DAYTONA BEACH – Former Bethune Cookman-University head football coach Alvin “Shine” Wyatt, Sr. won his breach of contract lawsuit against the Daytona Beach-based school and has been awarded almost $770,000. The decision was announced Wednesday after a non-jury trial that concluded May 17.
Wyatt’s case was just one of 13 state and federal lawsuits and administrative complaints filed in less than two years against the school – and personally against former B-CU President Trudie Kibbe Reed – as indicated in a nine-part investigative series published from June through September 2011 in the Florida Courier entitled “Crisis at B-CU.”
There were legal actions filed by longtime professors, the former men’s basketball head coach, former football head coach Wyatt, and a former student who said she was raped by a group of basketball players and that the university tried to cover it up.
Serious issues
The series also revealed that during Reed’s presidency, B-CU was on the American Association of University Professors’ list of “censured administrations,” which means that conditions for academic freedom and tenure are unsatisfactory at a college or university. B-CU was one of only 49 institutions nationwide on the censure list at the time and has yet to be removed.
The Florida Courier also published the results of a previously secret 360-degree presidential evaluation report that criticized Reed’s performance and that prescribed strong medicine to fix what ailed B-CU.
Reed retired less than a year after the series was published, and was replaced by current B-CU President Dr. Edison Jackson....
DAYTONA BEACH – Former Bethune Cookman-University head football coach Alvin “Shine” Wyatt, Sr. won his breach of contract lawsuit against the Daytona Beach-based school and has been awarded almost $770,000. The decision was announced Wednesday after a non-jury trial that concluded May 17.
Wyatt’s case was just one of 13 state and federal lawsuits and administrative complaints filed in less than two years against the school – and personally against former B-CU President Trudie Kibbe Reed – as indicated in a nine-part investigative series published from June through September 2011 in the Florida Courier entitled “Crisis at B-CU.”
There were legal actions filed by longtime professors, the former men’s basketball head coach, former football head coach Wyatt, and a former student who said she was raped by a group of basketball players and that the university tried to cover it up.
Serious issues
The series also revealed that during Reed’s presidency, B-CU was on the American Association of University Professors’ list of “censured administrations,” which means that conditions for academic freedom and tenure are unsatisfactory at a college or university. B-CU was one of only 49 institutions nationwide on the censure list at the time and has yet to be removed.
The Florida Courier also published the results of a previously secret 360-degree presidential evaluation report that criticized Reed’s performance and that prescribed strong medicine to fix what ailed B-CU.
Reed retired less than a year after the series was published, and was replaced by current B-CU President Dr. Edison Jackson....