And there seems to be more to her resignation than the AP story covers. Wise may be in some serious legal trouble personally for what appear to be rather blatant email coverups.
The real question is: why is she being allowed to resign as Chancellor and return to her tenured faculty position. Shouldn't she be fired for cause? I guess that kind of treatment is only for the little people. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/administrators-broke-mail-rules-hide-messages-32952395 ---------------------------------snip The University of Illinois <http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/illinois.htm> announced Friday that several administrators — including Chancellor Phyllis Wise, who resigned earlier this week — violated school policy by using private emails to hide sometimes sharply worded, disparaging correspondence from public view. Hundreds of pages of emails released simultaneously include discussions about controlling the damage from a high-profile controversy spurred by the chancellor's revocation of a job offer to a professor who sent anti-Israel Twitter <http://abcnews.go.com/topics/business/technology/twitter.htm> messages. Emails on three topics — professor Steven Salaita and his tweets, the hiring of 1970s-era radical James Kilgore and the opening of the Carle Illinois College of Medicine — should have been turned over in response to a Freedom of Information request, the university said in its statement. Wise, whose salary was nearly $550,000 this year, appeared to understand her emails could land her in trouble. In an email dated Sept. 18, 2014, she wrote to one employee that she was purposely not communicating on the university's email system because of a litigation matter — one that was not related to the professor, Kilgore or the medical school. "We are doing virtually nothing over our Illinois email addresses," Wise wrote. "I am even being careful with this email address and deleting after sending." University spokesman Tom Hardy would not say if Wise was asked to step down before she resigned Thursday. Wise hasn't explained why she was resigning, citing only "external issues" on Thursday. On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 7:35 PM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow, this is great! Good riddance to her. > > Sadly Salaita's reinstatement still seems highly unlikely, and perhaps > even undesirable considering hostility and resentment he is likely to face > there. But this may clear the way for some kind of resolution. > -raghu. > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Joseph Catron <[email protected]> wrote: > >> "University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Chancellor Phyllis Wise said >> Thursday that she is resigning, citing a range of 'external issues' >> she says have become a distraction for the school. >> >> "Wise leaves as she and the school face a lawsuit filed by a professor >> whose job offer she rescinded over his anti-Israel Twitter messages, a >> vote by a prominent academic group to censure the campus in response, >> and complaints and a pair of lawsuits alleging mistreatment of >> athletes in three sports. Her resignation is effective Aug. 12." >> >> >> http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ad89fcdf27dc4e83a8e76d0d1e8b0427/university-illinois-chancellor-wise-resigning-aug-12 >> >> Coming a few hours after this, the timing of her announcement seems clear: >> >> "The University of Illinois cannot disavow having contractual >> obligations to Steven G. Salaita, the controversial scholar whose job >> offer it rescinded last summer before he could begin teaching on the >> Urbana-Champaign campus, a federal court ruled on Thursday." >> >> >> http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/court-holds-that-u-of-illinois-broke-contract-in-salaita-case/102881 >> >> Academic types, am I correct in thinking that six days' notice is awfully >> short? >> >> -- >> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure >> mægen lytlað." >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> > >
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