Five Lessons for Campus Leaders: Academic Freedom, Shared Governance, and Tenure at an Historically Black University.

The article offers the author's insights on the lessons that can be learned from an incident at Clark Atlanta University on February 6, 2009. The author says that university president Carlton E. Brown terminated 70 employees, including 55 full-time faculty members, without notice and due process for financial reasons. She adds that Brown's actions made it harder for the black university to hire new faculty and surmised the university's quality. She states that from the incident, colleges and universities, particularly black colleges and universities (HBCUs), must tell the truth about financial difficulties, which may lead the university's employees to pitch in for the great good. She also says that presidents sometimes forget that tenure implies acceptance of its key premise.