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Two weeks after a divided Board of Trustees voted to oust George E. Cooper as president of South Carolina State University, a newly constituted -- yet still deeply divided -- board rehired Cooper as president on Thursday, The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg, S.C. reported. The unusual circumstances remained cloaked in uncertainty, with several higher education officials in the state expressing bafflement at exactly why the situation has unfolded in this way. The Times and Democrat also reported Thursday that the 7-4 vote against Cooper on June 15 followed a negative evaluation in which most trustees gave him poor reviews. The second vote reinstating Cooper came after two trustees who had voted to fire him cycled off the board (as of July 1), and two new trustees came on.
