Ann Stuart

Members of the Texas Woman’s University faculty senate approved a resolution Friday expressing “no confidence” in Chancellor Ann Stuart. The vote took place during a regularly scheduled faculty senate meeting. Stuart, who also is TWU’s president, addressed the faculty earlier in the meeting in hopes of answering lingering questions over recent budget cuts, the search for a new provost and the morale of the faculty.

Thousands of documents released Thursday afternoon show former President Gretchen Bataille and Chancellor Lee Jackson disagreed on how much to raise tuition, whether to consolidate some campus technology and human resource departments, and the future of downtown Dallas classroom facilities.

DRC/David Minton

Johnny Jones, University of North Texas men’s basketball head coach, holds up the Sun Belt Conference tournament trophy at a victory celebration Wednesday at the Super Pit.

About 300 University of North Texas students, teachers, officials and supporters went to the UNT Coliseum on Wednesday afternoon to welcome the Mean Green men’s basketball team home from its triumph in the Sun Belt Conference postseason tournament. They cheered, clapped, waved green-and-white pompoms and blared away on hand-held air horns.

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University of North Texas President Gretchen Bataille stands in her office Wednesday.

University of North Texas President Gretchen Bataille was unaware she would abruptly resign or that there were any issues with her performance until the discussion was brought up in a Feb. 7 meeting she had with UNT system Chancellor Lee Jackson, she said. But questions still surround her resignation, which takes effect Sunday.

Kay Clayton and Keith McFarland

Kay Clayton, Texas Woman’s University’s provost and vice president of academic affairs, will step down effective March 1 because of health reasons. Clayton announced the decision to her staff and in an e-mail to the entire university Monday. She said she would begin her medical leave March 1 and would retire in late August.

Gretchen Bataille

Gretchen Bataille said Wednesday her health is fine and she hasn’t taken another job, but she still would not say why she resigned suddenly as University of North Texas president last week. “I’m not ill, I don’t have another job lined up and I’m not looking for another job,” she said. Speaking at a quarterly UNT employee luncheon, Bataille said her resignation is in the best interest of the university, regardless of public speculation on the subject, including tension between her and UNT system Chancellor Lee Jackson.

For The Dallas Morning News/Rex C. Curry

University of North Texas President Gretchen Bataille presents the finance plan for the university to the UNT Board of Regents during a meeting on Thursday in Dallas.

DALLAS — Gretchen Bataille’s sudden resignation as president of the University of North Texas will be expensive. Regents with the UNT system agreed Friday to pay Bataille $723,000 for the remainder of her contract, which runs through August 2011, and up to $20,000 in legal fees.

Gretch Bataille

University of North Texas President Gretchen Bataille addressed the Board of Regents for the first time Thursday, after she abruptly resigned Wednesday. But the reason for her resignation, which takes effect Feb. 28, remained a mystery. When she was asked why she resigned, Bataille, 65, shook her head, saying she was unable to comment. The board is scheduled to discuss and formally accept her resignation today, but not without a fight from students.