New President and Faculty Tangle at U. of the District of Columbia

Just a month after becoming president of the University of the District of Columbia, Allen L. Sessoms is locked in a battle with the institution's faculty senate, which he wants to shut down and replace with a new forum of students and faculty and staff members.

Mr. Sessoms announced this week that he was disbanding the group, known as the University Senate. The Board of Trustees has already agreed to put together an interim academic senate of department-elected faculty

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