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Bob Jones University has terminated an agreement with GRACE--a firm investigating a past response to allegations of sexual abuse and drafting new procedures for future responses.A statement released Thursday by BJU reads: "Over the last several months, we grew concerned about how GRACE was pursuing our objectives, and on Jan. 27, 2014, BJU terminated its contract with GRACE."GRACE began its investigation in January of 2013. The Board of Trustees at BJU said it wanted to review policies and procedures for responding to reports of sexual abuse and to review a past instance in which a student alleged the school did not respond appropriately to reports of abuse.GRACE released a statement Thursday night as well. It read: "This notice of termination took GRACE by complete surprise as there had been no prior indications from BJU that termination was even being considered. Furthermore, this termination occurred days before GRACE was to conduct the last interviews of this 13-month investigation and begin drafting the final report scheduled for publication in March."