From staff reports

A TV news report late Tuesday night said David Garland, dean of Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary since 2007, will be Baylor’s interim president.

Garland, contacted by the Tribune-Herald on Tuesday night, denied he had been interviewed for the post and said Baylor regents had not voted to make him interim president.

However, a source told the newspaper that regents are reported to be voting on the interim presidency today with an announcement following. The source is not connected with Baylor regents.

Garland said any report about his becoming interim president is premature.

“Nobody’s talked to me about it,” he said.

Garland did say, however, that Baylor would likely make an announcement today about the post.

On June 1, 2007, Garland, the William B. Hinson Professor of Christian Scriptures at Truett Seminary, succeeded Paul Powell there as dean.

In its 10 p.m. broadcast, KXXV-TV, Channel 25, said its sources at Baylor said Garland would be announced as interim president today. It didn’t cite any sources.

Baylor has been overseen by acting president Harold Cunningham, former chairman of the regents, since the board dismissed John Lilley as president earlier this summer.