President Of Floundering Mountain State Univ Sacked By Board


In 2009 he was nearly the highest compensated university president in the country, raking in nearly $2M in salary and other perks. Not bad considering he arrived at West Virginia Mountain State University (MSU) in* in 1990, after resigning as president of Daytona Beach Community College in Florida amid an investigation by the Florida Ethics Commission.It was alleged that he had violated Florida law for having a contractual relationship with a real estate developer who was doing business with the college. In 1991, the Ethics Commission found that Polk did violate Florida law recommending he be publicly censured, according to the Ethics Commission case report. Charles H. Polk, the longtime president of beleaguered Mountain State University, was fired Wednesday night by MSU’s board of trustees. The move does nothing however. The university’s fate is already sealed and rests in the hands of* the Higher Learning Commission. The time for a … (Continued...)



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