March 19, 1999

St. Augustine College's Admissions Director Is Fired, and His Staff Quits

The admissions director at St. Augustine's College returned from a recruiting trip to the Virgin Islands this month to find an unpleasant surprise: a pink slip.

The next day, his bosses got a surprise of their own: resignation letters from three out of four admissions counselors.

Officials of the historically black institution in North Carolina said they were eliminating Keith M. Powell's job and

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