Presidential News Snippets

William R. Brody, president of the Johns Hopkins University, has said he will retire at the end of this year, the Baltimore Sun reports.
Beloit College’s president, John E. Burris, has resigned unexpectedly to take a job as president of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, a foundation in North Carolina, the Associated Press reports.
Mississippi State University’s president, Robert H. (Doc) Foglesong, resigned abruptly last week, after only two years in the post, Karin Fischer reports on The Chronicle’s News Blog.