Dive Brief:

• The University of Dayton’s provost is stepping down two months after a “no confidence” vote by the school’s tenured faculty in April.
• The provost, Joseph Saliba, has served his five-year term and will return to teaching at the university’s school of engineering after taking a sabbatical, Dayton’s president announced on Monday.
• The faculty vote, which was non-binding, saw 107 of 160 total votes express no confidence, and his decision to step down was hailed as a "positive step" by one professor who cited a number of issues in need of being addressed.

Dive Insight:

One of the initiators of the no-confidence vote, Rebecca Wells, an associate professor of marketing, said the university has a lot of work to do with the search for a new provost, addressing shared governance with faculty, a negative campus climate and a hostile work environment. Saliba had served a year as interim provost before he was named to the five-year term in 2009.