Dive Brief:

• The Lincoln University of Pennsylvania president, in trouble for comments he made about women and rape that appeared on YouTube this week, has a history of making inflammatory comments.
• Inside Higher Ed reports that Robert Jennings, president of the historically black college, has upset both faculty and students with decisions they say have jeopardized Lincoln’s academics, violated privacy and cast the school in a bad light.
• Enrollment at Lincoln dropped 7.3% for the 2013-2014 school year, Moody’s Investors Service has a negative outlook on the university’s credit rating and Jennings abruptly implemented a new rule this fall requiring students to pay 80% of their semester’s tuition upfront.

Dive Insight:

Jennings’ latest controversial remarks came during a female-only convocation for incoming students. He holds weekly student convocations, which are sometimes female- or male-only, during which all classes are closed, as well as the cafeteria and library. During the latest inflammatory speech, from September, Jennings spoke about women being responsible when men treated them inappropriately, and said that three women who made rape accusations may have not been actually raped. Last month, the faculty passed a “no-confidence” vote against the president.