Video: Chancellor Dan Jones to No Longer Lead Ole Miss

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Dr. Dan Jones says the state College Board is not renewing his contract as University of Mississippi chancellor, and he will leave the job in mid-September.

The 66-year-old recently returned to work fulltime after treatment for lymphoma. He says Friday that his departure is not related to his health.

He says board members expressed concerns about his “unwillingness to adjust” to the way they conduct business.

Jones, a physician, has led Ole Miss since June 2009 and has sought to distance the university from some of its Old South symbols.

He released a plan last summer to try to try to make the campus more inclusive by creating a mentoring program for black students and documenting the less-than-flattering aspects of the school’s history, including the struggle over integration in 1962.