“The other side of the story was left untold” after the scathing Pepper Hamilton report that ultimately led to Ken Starr’s departure from Baylor University, Starr says in

On May 26, Baylor regents reassigned Starr, fired head football coach Art Briles and put Athletic Director Ian McCaw on probation in the wake of a scathing report of a review of the sexual assault scandal that engulfed the school’s football program.

All three have since severed ties with the university.

“Campus safety – and the safety of our students in all respects, including freedom from interpersonal violence – was a high priority throughout my years of servant-leadership,” Starr wrote in the draft provided to KWTX.

“The idea that Pat Neff Hall was oblivious to student-safety concerns was belied not only by common sense and basic human decency, but refuted by the facts.”

After the May 26 meeting, Starr later stepped down as chancellor and then in August he and Baylor issued a joint statement announcing that he was “leaving his faculty status and tenure at Baylor University’s Law School.”

that the May 26 announcement, though stunning, was “not entirely unexpected.”

“Quietly, I had been living on borrowed time. For nearly five years, the Board’s leadership had worked to ease me out of the CEO role and slot me instead into the non-executive position of Chancellor, primarily a fundraiser,” he wrote.

“For various reasons, I was not satisfying the Board’s vision of a CEO. In their view, I was to be, instead, an outside person who built the University through raising money. Although I relished the fundraising role, I had resisted the dramatic change in roles. No longer would I be placing my imprint, however modest, on the University. Yet, as I saw it, I could energetically continue to fundraise through the daily work of the presidency,” he wrote.

The university announced Starr’s selection as the school’s president on Feb. 16, 2010, and Baylor regents and members of the school’s presidential search and advisory committees praised him for his intellect, his academic credentials, his administrative skill and his Christian faith.

He was named to succeed President John Lilley, whom regents forced out in mid-2008 after selecting him to replace embattled former President Dr. Robert Sloan on Nov. 4, 2005.

Starr returned to Malibu, Calif. to complete the 2010 spring semester as dean of the Pepperdine Law School before moving into the president’s office on June 1, 2010 just in time to face the potential implosion of the Big 12 Conference.

During his six years as president, he mended rifts between the university and its faculty and alumni that had festered for more than a decade.

Starr had served as the Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean and Professor of Law at Pepperdine University from 2004 until May 2010, and was of counsel to the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, at which he was a partner from 1993 to 2004.

He served as solicitor general of the United States from 1989 to 1993 and took over the Whitewater probe in August 1994.

That investigation eventually led to the impeachment of then President Bill Clinton.

He holds degrees from George Washington University and Brown University and earned a law degree from Duke University in 1973.

He did not attend Baylor.

Starr is a fifth-generation Texan who was born in Vernon and grew up in San Antonio, the son of a Church of Christ minister.