NEWNAN, Ga. — Citing his ongoing brokenness following the suicide of his teenage son in July 2014, Brewton-Parker College President Ergun Caner resigned Jan. 20 to return to Texas.
Caner’s family had never moved to Newnan, Ga., where the college is located, since he accepted the presidency on Dec. 2, 2013. Caner cited his November 2014 heart catheterization as being linked to the stress of losing his son in the midst of a grueling yet ultimately successful re-accreditation process with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.
“Brewton-Parker College cannot become a healthy, growing and stable college under the leadership of a man who is broken. And I am admitting to you that I am broken,” Caner said.
He then stated he was resigning “so I can go back to Texas and heal with my wife and 10-year-old son, Drake. It is one thing to lead a college through a crisis, but this position demands a person’s full attention and full strength. At the moment, I have neither.”
In the midst of the year of struggle, the college reported more than 100 confessions of faith from students during Brewton- Parker’s fall 2014 revival and balanced its budget.
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