ATLANTA
Justin Mills walked around the Clark Atlanta University campus last week and saw white fliers posted all over the place.
An anonymous group of students had printed up the fliers — which Mills says read “Speak Now, Act Now” — to demand the resignation of school president Walter Broadnax, who has led the school since 2002.
The fliers protested Broadnax’s high salary while students’ tuition, room and board have recently been increased.
“A lot of students up here are paying by themselves, out of pocket, with grants or by loans,” says Mills, a 21-year-old mass media arts major from Houston. “So it’s really hitting students hard.”
The anonymous resignation demand is just the latest in a recent string of issues surrounding the Atlanta University Center campus.
A group of students and professors from CAU’s engineering department are suing the school over their decision to shut down the 13-year-old program. Administrators say it is a cost-cutting move to help erase $7.5 million in debt, but the students and professors believe the move didn’t follow university processes. They argue that the final decision on the program would have been different had administrators gone through proper channels.
