Baylor interim head quickly fires provost: Replacement to "bring people together"
The interim president of Baylor University, Bill Underwood, quickly acted on his first day on the job, replacing provost David L. Jeffrey, who last fall had taken up Underwood’s challenge to debate academic freedom during the Texas school’s contentious effort to redefine itself.
Underwood, who became interim head of the Baptist campus on June 1, appointed Randall O’Brien, the religion department chairman, to replace Jeffrey, who had been in that post for exactly two years.