After teaching at Chicago State University for 26 years, Haki Madhubuti decided to resign as a professor on Friday. Madhubuti, a celebrated poet who has founded Third World Press and oversees three charter schools and a private school in Chicago, stated that the primary reason for his resignation was due to the strained relationship between him and the president of CSU, Wayne Watson. Madhubuti had said in his remarks at the annual Gwendolyn Brooks Conference for Black Literature and Creative Writing on Friday that he had no choice but to leave and was 'forced out" of his position at CSU: more ›

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The students and faculty at Chicago State aren't too pleased with their new school president, Wayne Watson. The students and faculty were upset about the way the school's board of trustees handled the selection and the lack of acceptable candidates. Speaking to WBEZ, Watson dismissed the issues: "Where's the facts to back it up. You can't google me and find, well Wayne Watson was politically involved with, endorsing, cutting deals, or doing anything with these people. [Be]cause it's not there, it didn't happen." Watson was previously the City Colleges of Chicago chancellor, which had some opposed to his appointment crying accusations of being an insider. more ›