University president Tessa Martinez Pollack resigned on March 1, 2013. She began her presidency in 2002. Her resignation follows what the "San Antonio Express-News" characterizes as "months of tumult in which students and faculty protested Pollack's decision to eliminate a dozen degree majors, including religious studies and Mexican American studies, which some considered at the core of the Catholic school's mission and identity." Sister Jane Ann Slater CDP served as Interim President until current president Diane Melby was appointed in July 2015.