Overview
- Caner filed a breach‑of‑contract complaint on June 5 in White County Superior Court seeking lost salary, benefits, speaking income and attorney fees after trustees voted 19-10 to end his employment on Sept. 25, 2025.
- The suit argues his 2021 contract ran through June 30, 2031 and allowed early termination only for cause, which Caner says did not occur.
- A central factual fight is when trustees and other leaders learned about a 2024 investigation into former vice president Bradley Reynolds and when a graphic letter from the victim’s attorneys was circulated to trustees and others.
- Trustees placed Caner on leave in June 2025 and cited findings from an outside review and a May 2025 Roys Report when they later voted to remove him, a sequence Caner says improperly changed the board’s earlier inaction.
- The litigation will resolve the competing timelines and could shape governance, Title IX response and reputational fallout for small faith‑based colleges while leaving lives and careers of those involved unsettled.