FAMU TO TWO MORE PROFESSORS: "YOU'RE FIRED!"

The list of employees at Florida A&M University being terminated in the wake of a payroll irregularity scandal increased by two, bringing the total number to 41. And the end may not quite be near, as school officials are expected to send letters to as many as two dozen more employees requesting evidence that they actually earned their paychecks.

According to the story in Saturday's Orlando Sentinel, Melva Thompson-Robinson, co-director of an HIV prevention research institute at the Tallahassee school, and Adrienne Hollis, listed as a public health professor, were informed that they were being removed from the payroll. Both academics held full-time positions in other states; Thompson-Robinson as an assistant professor at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, and Hollis as a teacher in New Jersey. Thompson-Robinson claims her situation was approved by FAMU administrators, and that she has records showing she did work on behalf of the school, although she did not do it in Tallahassee. Hollis could not be reached.

The two dozen employees still in question need to sign affidavits claiming they were working for the university as of last month. A FAMU spokesperson says that at least some of those were out of the country or on sabbatical.