The mystery over Gretchen Bataille’s surprise resignation as president of the University of North Texas may soon become less mysterious. Buttonholed at today’s DowntownDallas meeting, UNT Chancellor Lee Jackson (pictured; photo by Jeanne Prejean) said that a flood of open-records requests will likely lead to the release of “thousands” of pages of documents relating to the situation in the coming weeks. And as those documents become public, Jackson said, he may be forced to address their contents. He hasn’t talked in detail about Bataille’s resignation until now, he added–not for any legal reason, but because it’s a personnel matter, and the university doesn’t comment on personnel matters.
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