The University of Wisconsin at Whitewater has demoted a black dean who has been at the forefront of the campus’s efforts to diversify, and it is starting proceedings that could lead to his termination.
Friday’s action resulted from a November 2 audit report of alleged misspending by the dean — Lee Jones, who in 1999 helped found Brothers of the Academy, a nationwide group aimed at increasing the number of black men who earn Ph.D.’s and work in higher education (The Chronicle, November 29, 2002).