Plenty of letters of resignation in higher education, and announcements of departures, are more polite than factual. At Saint Louis University, a resignation Wednesday by the law dean made no attempt to cover up disagreements. And the dean's resignation letter quickly turned up in its entirety on a blog. The university refused to respond to the specific criticisms in the letter, but announced that the dean was able to resign only because she had avoided a meeting Wednesday at which she was to have been fired. Annette E. Clark, the resigning dean, had been in the job only about a year. In ...