September 3, 1999

Board Fires Chancellor of Community College in Louisiana

By ERIK LORDS

The chancellor of Baton Rouge Community College was fired in August, after months of tension between him and staff members. Marion Bonaparte had been accused of mismanaging the college by the Board of Trustees, but he attributes his dismissal to bias against him as a black administrator.

Wayne Brown, president of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System, said Baton Rouge had management problems, and that its financial record-keeping was

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