Dive Brief:

• The leader of the nonprofit organization in charge of the Common Application is being replaced after the online system used by hundreds of colleges suffered repeated troubles.  
• The Common Application was criticized by students and college administrators for glitches in its new application, with some schools extending deadlines to account for the problems.
• The organization characterized the departure of Rob Killion as a mutual decision, while the Chronicle of Higher Education quoted him as saying outright: "I was fired."

Dive Insight:

There's likely more to come on this subject. Killion also told the Chronicle that he was being made the scapegoat and that he will have "much more to say about this publicly soon."