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Technorati"After an exhaustive review, however, the Board believed there were a number of problems that were keeping the College from reaching its full potential and concluded that those issues could not be effectively remedied without a change of leadership."
The Board said it would continue supporting a scholarship program for low-income Virginians that was introduced by Nichol and promised to not make changes to the compromise reached on the Wren Chapel's cross.
A conservative pro-family group commended those who took action to end Nichol’s controversial term.
"Universities have pushed the envelope in censoring Christianity and promoting pornography. Under the leadership of Gene Nichols, the College of William & Mary, a respected, historic institution, became the poster child of the degradation of higher learning," Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, said in a statement.
Supporting Cole, she added, "Virginia Delegate Mark Cole and his colleagues in the Virginia House of Delegates boldly held the public university accountable and helped bring that institution back on track to focus on education, not demoralizing the students."
Dean W. Taylor Reveley has been appointed as president until a permanent leader is found, said the Board.
Nichol, who taught at William & Mary two decades ago, said he will join the faculty at the college's school of law and resume teaching and writing.
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