SIU Board to Discuss Removing President Dunn

Southern Illinois University's Board of Trustees are scheduled to meet Thursday in Edwardsville about the future of President Randy Dunn.

The board has set a special meeting to consider placing the school president on administrative leave after a dispute over a failed move to shift about $5 million in state funding between its campuses.
 
The board's agenda includes consideration of appointing an acting president.
 
Three state lawmakers called for Dunn's resignation last month after release of an internal email in which Dunn used an expletive to describe opponents of shifting money from SIU's Carbondale campus to its growing Edwardsville campus.

The meeting comes two weeks after the board's vice chairman and secretary tried to take action against Dunn. But the chairwoman objected, calling the attempt a "power play."

Dunn was previously president at Murray State University from 2006 until 2013.