Kenneth W. Starr said Wednesday that he would resign as chancellor of Baylor University effective immediately, according to ESPN, which planned to broadcast an interview with Starr on Wednesday afternoon. Starr’s decision comes less than a week after he was stripped of the more operationally powerful position of president of the university in the wake of a scandal in which Baylor acknowledged that it had mishandled accusations of sexual assault against several football players.
Starr made his statement to the ESPN program “Outside the Lines.” While Starr is stepping down as chancellor, a role that a Baylor regent described last week as one focused primarily on raising money as well as “religious liberty,” ESPN said he planned to retain his post as a professor at Baylor’s law school.