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Tuskegee University’s Board of Trustees has decided not to renew the contract of its president, Brian L. Johnson, according to a report.
Some trustees were unhappy after Johnson interviewed for the presidency at another institution, North Carolina Central University, according to Diverse Issues in Higher Education. It was not clear whether Johnson’s interviewing was the reason the board decided not to renew his contract, which expires July 1.
He was still the president at Tuskegee as of late Tuesday afternoon, according to a university spokesman, Michael Tullier. But Tullier said he could not comment further on the report or on Johnson’s future status.
Tuskegee hired Johnson as president in 2014, when he was 40 years old. He is the seventh president of Tuskegee, a private historically black university in Alabama founded in 1881 by Booker T. Washington.
