Liberty University has removed its dean after an investigation determined that he made “self-contradictory” statements about the facts of his heritage as a former Muslim. However, the school is keeping Ergun Caner as faculty and letting him stay on as dean until his term expires June 30.

Caner, a celebrity in the evangelical world for his dramatic story of Muslim conversion, came under fire from Christian, Muslim and liberal bloggers as they noticed a pattern of contradictory statements concerning his past. AP reports that he changed his biographical information after receiving increasing scrutiny, and asked organizations to remove “damning videos.”

In a June 25 statement, the college said the following:

After a thorough and exhaustive review of Dr. Ergun Caner’s public statements, a committee consisting of four members of Liberty University’s Board of Trustees has concluded that Dr. Caner has made factual statements that are selfcontradictory. However, the committee found no evidence to suggest that Dr. Caner was not a Muslim who converted to Christianity as a teenager, but, instead, found discrepancies related to matters such as dates, names and places of residence. Dr. Caner has cooperated with the board committee and has apologized for the discrepancies and misstatements that led to this review.

To add some more perspective, Christian blogger Justin Taylor asks Liberty University to explicitly answer the question, “Was Dr. Caner raised in Turkey as a Muslim terrorist trained in jihad?” He writes,

All of the evidence … suggests that this cannot be the case. And yet Dr. Caner has claimed that this is true and has not publicly repented of this fabrication. If the answer to this question is “No,” then is there not some degree of culpability on the part of the Liberty University trustees for limiting Caner’s “discrepancies” to “matters such as dates, names and places of residence”?