President Dan Martin Resigns

President Dan Martin resigns in his ninth year of service to SPU. After being hired as president of the University of Kansas Endowment in July 2022, a spokesperson for the endowment asserted that “the organization was aware of the circumstances surrounding Martin’s departure from SPU, and it was a topic of discussion between him and the search committee. ‘It’s clear Dan leads his work and personal life by putting people first, and he has been an inclusive leader. . . . At Seattle Pacific, a portion of the Board of Trustees were unwilling to adopt a policy to be more inclusive. After repeated efforts to achieve change, Dan departed the university in 2021.’”