The president of St. Mary’s University of Minnesota resigned this week after admitting that, while president of St. Mary’s College of California, he “engaged in an episode of inappropriate sexual behavior with an adult student” enrolled at that institution, according to a news release issued by the Minnesota university. St. Mary’s of Minnesota said its former president, Brother Craig J. Franz, a member of the Christian Brothers order, had left the campus and was “residing with his religious community.”

Brother Craig also resigned from St. Mary’s of California. In 2004 he quit after discovering that a regent had reneged on a series of pledges totaling $112-million. The regent blamed his problems on a criminal fraud against him, but the college had already begun an ambitious construction plan on the assumption that the pledges would be fulfilled. The college later issued a report detailing how it had fallen victim to both a professional swindle and faulty assumptions.