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Article: Cloud of turmoil: Edward Waters College stumbles again just as it began to bury its troubled past.
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- Florida Trend
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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In seven years as president of Edward Waters College, Jimmie Jenkins led the school from the brink of academic and financial bankruptcy to the threshold of respectability.
Enrollment at the historically black college had risen from 300 to 1,300, decaying campus buildings had been refurbished and a football team--the Tigers--had taken the field. Jenkins dubbed Edward Waters the "rising star" on Jacksonville's Northside.
Now, an embarrassing plagiarism scandal has sent the school's star waning again. Edward Waters recently lost its accreditation, ambitious expansion plans are in peril, and Jenkins has resigned after being publicly admonished.
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