{"id":49843,"date":"2018-11-09T10:58:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T16:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=49843"},"modified":"2018-11-09T10:59:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T16:59:05","slug":"report-jeffrey-vitter-to-resign-as-chancellor-of-ole-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/report-jeffrey-vitter-to-resign-as-chancellor-of-ole-miss\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Jeffrey Vitter to Resign as Chancellor of Ole Miss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Breaking news in <strong>Oxford, Mississippi<\/strong> this morning. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">According to\u00a0<strong>Chase Parham<\/strong> and <strong>Neal McCready<\/strong> of RebelGrove.com, senior staff members at the <strong>University of Mississippi<\/strong> were informed at 9:30 am on Friday, November 9, 2018 that Chancellor <strong>Jeffrey Vitter<\/strong> is resigning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Ole Miss and the IHL will officially announce sometime today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Chase Parham and Neal McCready wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/olemiss.rivals.com\/news\/ole-miss-chancellor-jeffrey-vitter-s-tenure-coming-to-imminent-end\">RebelGrove.com:<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>&#8220;Be aware that Vitter was hired to the university as a distinguished professor of computer and information science, and it&#8217;s possible to likely that he maintains that title while searching for other employment. His contract &#8212; which he has done nothing to void &#8212; runs through June 2020. We&#8217;re told he&#8217;s likely to remain in position until the end of the calendar year.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Also be aware that this is a long process to find the replacement, and to be frank it&#8217;s going to be a fight. Multiple factions of Ole Miss stakeholders are going to support different candidates, and one source told us earlier today that the fight will be representative of the thought that this is the most important decision on behalf of the university in a long time.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>We expect an interim to be named, but other than rumor there&#8217;s nothing concrete there yet.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This is a developing story.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking news in Oxford, Mississippi this morning. According to\u00a0Chase Parham and Neal McCready of RebelGrove.com, senior staff members<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":49844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[13503,9698,5,13504,7067,4,7682,655],"class_list":["post-49843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-chase-parham","tag-jeffrey-vitter","tag-mississippi","tag-neal-mccready","tag-ole-miss","tag-oxford","tag-rebelgrove-com","tag-university-of-mississippi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/JeffreyVitter.jpg?fit=904%2C490&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}