CANTON -- SUNY Canton President Joseph L. Kennedy's resignation and plans to leave the school Sept. 1 have been changed by a deal announced by SUNY Central on Tuesday.
The new plan will have Kennedy remain as president of SUNY Canton until the end of the 2011-12 academic year, at which point he will retire and become a special adviser to SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher.
Following an emergency meeting called by SUNY Canton's College Council Thursday, there was public outcry about the rumor that Kennedy's job was being absorbed by SUNY Potsdam President John F. Schwaller beginning in September. State Sen. Patricia A. Ritchie, R-Heuvelton, said she brought up the possibility of a state Senate committee conducting hearings on the matter.
Morgan W. Hook, a spokesman for SUNY Central, denied that SUNY was backtracking on a plan that would have had Mr. Kennedy resign as SUNY Canton head by Sept. 1, insisting that the university system had made no final decisions until Tuesday.
-- Watertown Daily Times
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