Friday, July 25, 2008

Administrative Failure: Baylor University President John Lilley has been fired for failing to “bring the Baylor family together.”

Note to Southwest Baptist University Trustees and Administration (entire list here) ...
and the Missouri Baptist Executive Convention Board (
entire list here):
Baptist university administrators can (and perhaps should)
be fired for
failure to exercise
administrative leadership and discernment.


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Update2: Baylor disunity leads to Lilley's firing

By Marv Knox, Editor, Baptist Standard
Published: July 24, 2008

GRAPEVINE—Baylor University President John Lilley has been fired for failing to “bring the Baylor family together,” reported Howard Batson, chairman of the university’s board of regents.


Regents voted to remove Lilley from office, effective immediately, during their summer meeting July 24. The vote was taken by secret ballot, and the vote total was not announced to the board, Batson said.


Batson cited Lilley’s inability to unite Baylor’s various constituencies at least nine times in a 20-minute national teleconference with reporters and several times in an interview with the Baptist Standard shortly after the regents’ vote.

Remainder of the article from the [Texas] Baptist Standard (here).