re: Ken Starr resigns as chancellor of Baylor

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Does the Board of Regents at Baylor have some sort of higher authority like the Southern Baptist Convention?

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No.

Back in the 1970's their Board of Regents was appointed by the Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT, the Texas state convention which at that time was affiliated with the SBC).

However, in the late 1970's and early 1980's the SBC (nationally and in Texas) was in the middle of a battle over control between "moderates" and "conservatives" (or "liberals" and "fundamentalists", depending on the source). BGCT tried to appoint Regents who were on the conservative wing.

In response, Baylor (which is actually older than the BGCT) changed (legally) its nominating process: now the Board nominates the majority of its replacements.

(Later the "moderate" wing would form a new Southern Baptist group, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, and the BGCT would ironically affiliate with them instead of the conservatives)