Florida Atlantic University president Mary Jane Saunders has tendered her resignation in the wake of negative media coverage and a school year rocked with several strange-but-true incidents that have turned the school into a curiosity.
“It is with a heavy heart that I am resigning as president of Florida Atlantic University and returning to a faculty position at the university,” Saunders said in a letter dated Tuesday and released Wednesday morning. Her resignation takes effect in 90 days.
FAU has been rocked by unwanted national attention this year for a plan to name its football stadium after a private prison contractor, a classroom exercise in which students were asked to write “Jesus” on a piece of paper and step on it and a tenured professor’s suggestions that the Newtown, Conn., massacre and Boston Marathon bombings might have been hoaxes, the Palm Beach Post reports.
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