July 25, 2008

Another President Falls at Baylor University

By Paul Fain

The presidency at Baylor University has become a volatile job. On Thursday, three years after then-president Robert B. Sloan Jr. departed under a cloud of controversy, Baylor's Board of Regents fired John M. Lilley, the university's president, effective immediately.

While his predecessor's downfall was marked by deep philosophical rifts over the future of Baylor, the world's largest Baptist university, Mr. Lilley's firing appears to be due instead to clashes over his management

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