Two Deans Stepping Down at Southern

                                                                                                                              Vol. VI, No. 4, May 1993

Two of the four deans at Southern Seminary will step down from those posts the day before president-elect Al Mohler takes office 1 August. Milburn Price, dean of the school of church music since 1981, has been named dean of the music school at Samford University, Birmingham, AL. Bill Rogers, dean of Southern's school of Christian education, will resign as dean because of differences with Mohler over the role of women. Rogers will remain on the faculty. Both Rogers and Price said Mohler had not asked for their resignations nor the resignations of anyone else to their knowledge.

Some sources on campus estimate up to half the current administrative staff may resign by the start of the fall semester. In addition to the four deans, the school's administrative staff includes a provost and five vice presidents. Southern's deans and other administrators serve at the pleasure of the president and are not elected by trustees as are faculty. [Religious Herald]