WEBSTER GROVES — Webster University's president is out.

Julian Schuster said he is "officially retiring" after 15 years at the university headquartered in St. Louis' suburbs. His last day was May 31.

"It has been a long journey filled with joy and pride," Schuster wrote in an announcement on LinkedIn.

The Webster University Board of Trustees declined to renew Schuster's contract last fall, sources previously told the Post-Dispatch.

He was offered a faculty position in the business school, but university spokesperson Patrick Giblin said Thursday that Schuster no longer works for Webster and will hold no future employment there.

Chancellor Tim Keane, in an email to the Webster community on April 25, said the university planned to merge the roles of chancellor and president.

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