Resignations in N.D. and Mass.

Elsewhere in North Dakota, Valley City State University’s 15-year president, Ellen E. Chaffee, said Monday that she planned to leave in June, the Grand Forks Herald reports.

Meanwhile, across the country, the provost of Massachusetts Bay Community College, Steve Berrien, quit yesterday after holding the post for just over a year, The Boston Globe reports. His sudden departure follows months of instability on a campus that has already lost six deans, none of whom have been permanently replaced, the reporter, David Abel, writes.

In addition, “the union representing faculty at the state’s 15 community colleges censured the school’s president, Carole Berotte Joseph,” who since taking charge in March 2005 has been sharply criticized for reorganizing the college and for “what some faculty see as her abrasive style,” he writes.

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