News Sentinel: Netherton leaves Carson-Newman
Carson-Newman College’s embattled president has accepted a position at Mercer University in Macon, Ga.
Mercer University today announced the appointment of Carson-Newman College President James S. Netherton to the position of executive vice president for administration and finance, effective Oct. 1, 2007.
Netherton succeeds Dr. Thomas G. Estes Jr., who will retire as Mercer’s senior vice president for finance and administration on Sept. 30.
Carson-Newman’s board of trustees was to decide Neverton’s tenure by March 23. One of its options: his dismissal.
Don Olive, professor and former chairman of humanities at Carson-Newman, said last week that he saw no alternative. He said: “You can either change the faculty or you can change the president.”
Doubts about Netherton and concerns about his leadership grew until, on Oct. 4, the teaching faculty approved a no-confidence vote 129-71.
Since then, alumni and retired faculty have also voted no confidence.
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