THE DAILY
MISSISSIPPIAN
Monday, April 6, 2015
Volume 103, No. 111
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Chancellor Dan Jones has declined the state College Boardâs offer to extend his contract for two years. The board will press forward with the search for the next chancellor of The University of Mississippi..
BY LOGAN KIRKLAND
fter days of negotiations, The University of Mississippi Chancellor Dan Jones declined the state College Boardâs offer to extend his contract for 21 months. He will step down from his position on Sept. 15 when his current contract expires. Minutes before the chancellorâs press conference Thursday in Oxford, the Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees and Commissioner Jim Borsig released a statement explaining that an agreement between the two parties could not be reached, and the board would âmove forward with their search for a
new chancellor.â Two minutes later, Jones issued a letter via email to the university community stating he had declined the boardâs offer. He began the conference by reading that letter aloud. âI feel strongly, as do most of my advisers, that serving two years as a lame duck would make it difficult to recruit and retain key leaders and continue our momentum in private giving,â Jones said in the letter. âMore importantly, it is clear from the boardâs position that the board would not support my leadership during any extension.â
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