Dear Campus Community,

At 11:30pm last night President Cotton informed now former provost Vandergrind that he is being removed from his position and responsibilities as Willard College Provost. This decision came after consulting with the Board of Trustees. Former Provost Vandergrind leaves under a cloud of allegations, including usurpation of the president’s authority, insubordination, and undermining the office of the Presidency by the aforementioned violations. Like Provost Pillow, Vandergrind is under investigation for misappropriation of College resources, including having college staff clean his home and pick up his dry cleaning. Such amenities are reserved, as per the College bylaws, for the president.

We are thrilled, however, to welcome Provost Jason “Jack” Lying. Dr. Lying comes to Willard College from Swamp College where he served in a number of academic and administrative positions. Originally hired to teach U.S. History, he was repurposed to teach Biology and then Engineering and then Nutrition and then Real Estate Law and then French (before that program was resigned) after a series of rightsizing incidents led to teaching reassignments. He then went on to administrative positions, as Dean of Dining, Dean of Attendance, Associate Dean of Enrollment, and then Vice President of Enrollment Management. He helped design and launch Swamp College’s B.S. in Life Coaching. He has published widely on cheating, tax fraud, anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, alternative healing, optimism, parking on college campuses, and leadership. After Swamp College’s penultimate experiment in right sizing he became available to Willard College. We are most fortunate to welcome Provost Lying into our ranks.

If you should see Dr. Lying on campus, please introduce yourself!

Sincerely, President Cotton