January 19, 2001

Florida Chancellor Quits as Governance Is Overhauled

By JEFFREY SELINGO and JULIANNE BASINGER

In an upheaval for Florida's public-university system, its chancellor resigned only a few days before a state committee recommended last week that the Legislature eliminate the system's Board of Regents -- and with it the position of chancellor.

The panel's proposal was expected, and was largely responsible for Adam W. Herbert's departure. "It is now clear that we are going into a different stage in the life of the State University System," he wrote in his

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