Damning evidence in public records that Kentucky State University's Board of Regents feigned ignorance of the school's dire financial condition—and failed to act—in the period leading up to President Chris Brown's hasty departure.

From today's State Journal and reporter Austin Horn:

"The Kentucky State University Board of Regents had a busy closed session on July 12.

"Memos were passed around regarding the scope of the school's financial issues — which new Chief Financial Officer Greg Rush characterized later as a '$15 million problem' — and then-President M. Christopher Brown II's plan to address them.

"Former staff regent Chandee Felder told The State Journal that she felt somewhat overwhelmed by all of the information presented. But one particular action compelled her to speak up.

"Attorneys with the school's Office of the General Counsel read from a document that, according to Felder, was meant to make clear that the board was not aware of the problems.

"'The documents listed out all the financial problems, about how we were millions of dollars in the hole, and the attorney kept saying each item and adding 'but the board was not aware,"' Felder said.

Felder claims that board members, including herself, knew of serious financial problems for more than a year before Brown's resignation and failed to act.

Because of that inaction, Felder called for the removal of appointed members of the board during the time that those problems grew — including herself. She told the governor as much in an email obtained by The State Journal via an open records request.

Felder's reward for her attempts to hold the board of regents accountable for its inaction in the face of overwhelming evidence of the university's dire financial condition?

Termination.

Determined to make a bad situation worse, KSU fired Felder yesterday afternoon.

The story continues in another State Journal account of this shocking turn of events.