It’s not every day an interim university president steps to the front of a news conference and admits that the school he or she is stewarding is “in the midst of a crisis.”
But that’s what Hubert Grimes, now in charge at Bethune-Cookman University, did earlier this month.
He told reporters, according to the Orlando Sentinel, that the school is not going to shut down, even in the wake of a dormitory building project that is going to cost the school $306 million over 40 years — more than four times the originally budgeted price — and saddle the school of just about 4,000 students with a crippling debt load for years to come.