CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) — Two lawmakers say Southern Illinois University’s president should resign following allegations he tried to move more than $5 million in state appropriations from Carbondale to Edwardsville campuses.

Carbondale professor Kathleen Chwalisz said in a Thursday column that documents obtained through public records requests show SIU President Randy Dunn hid the proposed transfer from Carbondale officials. Dunn said in an internal email that he used certain funding distribution figures “simply to shut up” those against the reallocation.

The SIU Board of Trustees last month rejected the proposal made in response to projected campus enrollments.

Dunn says he never withheld details and that Chwalisz’s statements are “misleading and … grossly misrepresenting the situation.” He says his wording in the email containing an expletive was a “mistake.”

Republican Reps. Terri Bryant and Chad Hays are calling for his resignation.