Des Moines Register/Montgomery Advertiser: Steven Leath, former Iowa State University president, is out as Auburn University president after two years on the job. He and members of the Alabama school’s board of trustees’ presidential assessment working group mutually decided to part ways after discussions about the university’s leadership, Auburn announced in a news release late Friday. Leath spent five years at the helm of Iowa State, leaving in 2017 after a year clouded by criticism over his use of university aircraft.