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Stunning the university community he has led for the past two years, Cornell University President Jeffrey S. Lehman announced earlier this month plans to step down from his post. The president said his resignation comes in the wake of differences with the school’s Board of Trustees, but...
The first Cornell graduate to serve as the university’s president, Lehman was generally popular among students, faculty, and alumni. Yet his presidency, the eleventh in Cornell’s history, has not been free of controversies.
Lehman, who served as dean of the University of Michigan’s law school before coming to Cornell, was also taken to task for tapping a many of his former Michigan colleagues for top posts at Cornell.
Yet none of these controversies seems to have motivated his resignation. Lehman could not be reached for comment, but he told the Cornell Daily Sun that his resignation had been an “evolving decision” that “happened over a period of months.?...
Lehman described what he hoped his legacy at Cornell would be in a statement released after his resignation announcement.