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Late this June, the City University of New York (CUNY) Board of Trustees gave the final vote of approval for Director of the Harvard Foundation S. Allen Counter, Jr. to become the next president of Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York. From a field of more than 70 candidates, CUNY picked Counter to head the community college it oversees...
...Following an extensive national search, Dr. [S. Allen] Counter of Harvard University was offered and accepted the position of president of Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York. On Monday June 27, the board of trustees of CUNY voted unanimously to appoint Dr. Counter president of Medgar Evers College. Dr. Counter is discussing with CUNY the terms and conditions of employment for the position...
Searches for college presidents are generallythe most discrete of undertakings, and formaloffers are traditionally not made until anacceptance has been assured. But such was not thecase for Medgar Evers. After having made theirchoice public, they were now in an embarrassingsituation...
CUNY officials say that two weeks ago, during ameeting in which employment negotiations wereexpected to take place, Counter informed theadministrators that he was declining thepresidency and expressed doubt about Medgar Evers'future as a college...
...Medgar Evers was founded in 1969 as a four-yearcollege, but was turned into a community collegeduring the 1976 New York fiscal crisis. CUNY haspetitioned New York state to reinstate the schoolas a senior college. Medgar Evers currently handsout both two and four-year diplomas