<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Corey Robin <<a href="mailto:comment-reply@wordpress.com">comment-reply@wordpress.com</a>><br><b>Date:</b> August 25, 2014, 8:10:13 AM CDT<br><b>To:</b> <<a href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu">galliher@illinois.edu</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>[New post] Follow the Money at the University of Illinois</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> Corey Robin <<a href="mailto:comment+r38qziukobtpgyccvtvcjfq@comment.wordpress.com">comment+r38qziukobtpgyccvtvcjfq@comment.wordpress.com</a>><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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Corey Robin posted: "Inside Higher Ed has gotten some of the preliminary documents on the back and forth between Chancellor Wise, officials at the University of Illinois (including a top person in charge of fundraising), and a high-level donor, before Wise made her initial de" </span>
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<h2 class="post-title" style="margin: .4em 0 .3em; font-size: 1.8em; font-size: 1.6em; color: #555; margin: 0; font-size: 20px;"><a href="http://coreyrobin.com/2014/08/25/follow-the-money-at-the-university-of-illinois/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #2585B2; text-decoration: none !important;">Follow the Money at the University of Illinois</a></h2>
<span style="color: #888;">by <a href="http://coreyrobin.com/author/coreyrobin/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #2585B2; color: #888 !important;">Corey Robin</a></span>
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<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em"><a style="text-decoration: underline; color: #2585B2;" href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/08/25/u-illinois-officials-defend-decision-deny-job-scholar-documents-show-lobbying"><em>Inside Higher Ed</em> has gotten some of the preliminary documents</a> on the back and forth between Chancellor Wise, officials at the University of Illinois (including a top person in charge of fundraising), and a high-level donor, before Wise made her initial decision to dehire Steven Salaita. There's still a lot we don't know about the external and internal pressure that went into this decision (though from my own experience with this issue I can only assume that that fear of external financial pressure was very very high), and as the article notes, none of these emails tells us what ultimately prompted Wise to make the decision she did. Still, it's telling that in the days leading up to her decision, she received 70 communiques (in one instance from a very high-level donor), regarding the Salaita hire, only one of which was urging her to keep him on board.</p>
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