Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced Wednesday that he is resigning from his position atop the prestigious California university at the end of August.
The announcement caps a seven-year tenure that has seen Stanford become a flashpoint of national controversy in recent years, in part because Tessier-Lavigne has faced allegations that he supervised falsified research and allowed it to be published on several occasions. The school has also come under fire for its response to several free speech incidents.
The outgoing president will be replaced on an interim basis by Richard Saller, a professor of European studies at Stanford, while a search for a replacement takes place. Tessier-Lavigne, meanwhile, will continue working at the university as a professor. In addition to the allegations of fraudulent research, Tessier-Lavigne's tenure as president of Stanford was marked by a number of recent free speech controversies.
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