It's been six months since Kristina Johnson announced her resignation as president of The Ohio State University, which was unexpected by much of the Buckeye community.
Johnson reflected on her tenure in a conversation Thursday with WOSU's Ann Fisher. Johnson said her vision did not align anymore with the leadership of the university.
She also said there was no internal investigation of her leadership, but did not add any more details on the reasoning behind her resignation.
Johnson responded to criticism of her being too progressive for the board of trustees by expressing her passion for diversity, equity and inclusion.
"You can't say you're for intellectual diversity, only if the ideas that you're for are the ones that comport with your political philosophy. You have to open it up for all ideas. To think that we indoctrinate students is not to understand what we do, and what we do is we don't close minds, we open minds," Johnson said.
Johnson's final goodbye was during the May 7 commencement ceremony, and she has since moved back to Washington, D.C.
"....to all the faculty, the students and the staff, this is tremendous gratitude Veronica and I have for the joy and the talented individuals that we've had the opportunity to work with, and so I just want to say thank you," Johnson said.
The search to find Johnson's replacement is still ongoing and an interim president has not been named.
