Ken Starr, who last week was removed from his role as president of Baylor University and installed as chancellor amid controversy over how the school handled sexual assault cases, will resign from his role as chancellor, ESPN reported on Wednesday.
Starr told ESPN that he will remain as a law professor at the school.
THIS JUST IN: Former Baylor president Kenneth Starr tells @schadjoe he will resign as chancellor in wake of scandal. pic.twitter.com/luyeLjvVdz
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) June 1, 2016
Starr told ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” in an interview set to air Wednesday afternoon, that he accepts responsibility for the way the claims were handled.
“We need to put this horrible situation behind us. We need to be honest,” he said. “I didn’t know about what was happening, but I have to, and I willingly do accept responsibility.”
BREAKING: Baylor’s Ken Starr has resigned, effective immediately as chancellor of Baylor University as a “matter of conscience”
— Outside The Lines (@OTLonESPN) June 1, 2016
Starr was removed as president of the Texas university last week over the way Baylor officials handled numerous claims that members of the football team had committed sexual assault between 2009 and 2016. The university also announced it would suspend and then terminate the school’s football coach, Art Briles.
An external investigation found that university officials did not adequately respond to those who made claims of sexual assault and that some officials “discouraged some complainants from reporting or participating in student conduct processes and in one instance constituted retaliation against a complainant for reporting sexual assault,” according to a report issued last week by the Baylor board of regents.
