Prairie View’s President prematurely steps down

Prairie View A&M University’s President, Ruth Simmons, recently announced that she was prematurely stepping down as President of the university. In her announcement, Simmons states that she will step down at the end of February which is four months earlier than her expected resignation date. Her previously tendered resignation date was Jun. 1. The cause of the resignation stems from a disagreement with Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp regarding hiring during the remaining months of Simmons’ tenure as president. In her letter, Simmons stated that “she could only continue as a president with limited presidential authority” and her immediate response was that she “could not and would not agree to being president in name only.”

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