Southern University's newly elected Board of Supervisors chairman and certain board members are unsure if current Baton Rouge campus chancellor, Kofi Lomotey, should have a guaranteed contract.

Southern Digest

Tony Clayton

The chairman-elect said the board could find another chancellor if Lomotey refuses to accept an “at-will” status.

As an “at-will” state, Louisiana employees or employers can break employment status without liability. Should Lomotey decide not to accept the status, the board may vote next month on his employment status.

Southern Digest

Kofi Lomotey

Clayton was unopposed for the position of chairman after immediate past chairman Myron Lawson decided not to seek re-election. Lawson likened Clayton to president-elect Barack Obama, a compliment Clayton said was “pushing it.”

He said he wants to decrease out-of-state student fees in order to “compete globally, not just locally,” while getting more private funding for the schools, something he thinks is ‘imperative’ to Southern’s future.

This article was originally published in The Southern Digest, the Southern University Baton Rouge student newspaper.