Thirteen employees of Bishop State Community College have been charged with stealing more than $45,000 in connection with a federal financial-aid scandal at the college, in Mobile, Ala., according to the Press-Register, a local newspaper. The Mobile County district attorney also has charged another individual who was not an employee.

Bishop State has been accused of misusing a total of $438,000 in federal financial aid and sports-program money as part of a state and federal investigation of Alabama’s system of two-year colleges.

The college’s president, Yvonne Kennedy, is expected to appear before the State Board of Education on Thursday to defend her job, according to the Press-Register. Several board members have said she should resign because she allowed widespread theft to occur on her watch. —Elyse Ashburn