Reassigned Haskell president won't return to job

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The president of Haskell Indian Nations University who was reassigned shortly after a scathing federal report won't be returning to the job.

Venida Chenault, who served for five years as the leader of the federally operated tribal college in Lawrence, will work in the Office of Research, Policy and Post-Secondary Education with the Bureau of Indian Education, the Lawrence Journal-World reported. She will remain in Lawrence and have an office on the Haskell campus, said Nedra Darling, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Chenault was placed on special assignment in November after a report by the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Interior.