The chancellor of Fayetteville State University, T.J. Bryan, announced her resignation today. The university, part of the University of North Carolina system, is facing a state audit and has been under fire for a new nursing program that has allegedly failed to adhere to graduation requirements, the Fayetteville Observer reported.
The Fayetteville newspaper also reported that the university system’s president, Erskine B. Bowles, had asked Ms. Bryan to step down in a meeting on Friday.
“I am stepping down so that the university may pursue its core mission of educating students,” Ms. Bryan said in a written statement. She had been the university’s chancellor since 2003.
In May, 24 of 31 students in the nursing program did not graduate after they failed an exit exam that had not been part of their original graduation requirements, the newspaper reported. —Paul Fain
