MARS HILL, N.C. — President Max Lennon and Chancellor Robert Knott resigned their positions amid faculty unrest at Mars Hill College Jan. 24. The resignations were announced in a statement from the executive committee of the college’s board of trustees.
Lennon, president since March 1996, has been under fire from faculty members over his leadership of the small liberal arts college. Areas of contention reportedly included faculty pay, hiring practices and the creation of a foundation in 1998 to raise more money for the school.
Representatives of the school’s 85 faculty members met with Lennon in December and with a committee appointed by the trustees to address issues between the faculty and administration.
Dan Lunsford, dean of the school of education and leadership, took over immediately as interim president of the Baptist-affiliated college in North Carolina.
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