[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [ISO] Herman Resigns

Tue Oct 20 10:42:14 CDT 2009

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Date: Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:18 AM
Subject: [ISO] Herman Resigns
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UI Chancellor Richard Herman resigns his position
By Julie Wurth
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 8:46 AM CDT

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URBANA – Richard Herman, University of Illinois chancellor since 2004, has
resigned, The News-Gazette has learned.

Herman's decision follows an admissions probe that also forced the
resignations of most University of Illinois trustees and President B. Joseph

White.

Trustees are expected to meet later this week to consider the matter. The
chancellor is expected to return to the faculty.

Herman now earns about $400,000 a year as chancellor and was due to receive
a retention bonus of $250,000 next July.

Speculation about Herman's future has been rampant since White announced
Sept. 23 he would step down at the end of December. Former UI President
Stanley Ikenberry will serve as interim president until a permanent
replacement
is found, likely by next fall.

Herman's departure means the UI will be searching for a new president,
chancellor and provost, with a board of trustees composed mostly of new
members.

University of Illinois Chancellor Richard Herman has resigned, The News-
Gazette has learned. He is expected to rejoin the university's faculty. By
Darrell
Hoemann
An investigation this summer by the Illinois Admissions Review Commission,
prompted by media reports of admissions abuses, found that scores of
politically connected students over five years were admitted over more-
qualified applicants under pressure from trustees, legislators and others.
The
university kept a "Category I" list to track undergraduate applicants with
powerful backers. Testimony before the admissions commission showed 33 of
the 160 students on the 2009 list had their initial rejections overturned
and
were admitted over more-qualified applicants.

An ad hoc committee of the board of trustees has been reviewing top UI
administrators and their role in the Category I system.

Herman has publicly apologized several times for his part in Category I and
vigorously defended his overall record as chancellor and provost. He has
said
he was trying to insulate academics from outside pressure when he personally

handled admissions requests from trustees and legislators.

Despite his appeals, the campus faculty-student senate voted 98-55 last
month to call for White and Herman to step down in an "orderly transition."

In an Aug. 31 speech to the senate, Herman said he had considered resigning
because of the admissions scandal but decided his accomplishments
outweighed "my failings this summer." He said he believed he didn't have the

power to "end a system that was long in the making and was ingrained in our
state's political culture."

"I believed that the best I could do was shield others at the university
from
these behind-the-scenes maneuverings. I truly believed that I was serving
the
greater good of the university by doing something that, in retrospect, was
sometimes not so good. I still believe that for all the hundreds of
inquiries from
well-connected people over many years, only a small percentage ended up
being mishandled," he said.

Dozens of prominent UI faculty wrote a letter of support for Herman, and
some
also criticized the senate's actions. Similar letters from UI alumni in
Chicago
and local business leaders praised Herman's fundraising abilities and his
promotion of Champaign-Urbana as "an incubator of new ideas in technology,
sustainability and the arts."

But in another letter, eight employees who worked closely with former
provosts
and chancellors said their bosses did not admit applicants because of
outside
pressure or clout, contrary to Herman's assertions.

Herman was grilled by the admissions commission about several admissions
cases, including a 2006 e-mail exchange with former law Dean Heidi Hurd.
They discussed the possibility of obtaining jobs for law school graduates in

exchange for admitting less-than-desirable students pushed by Gov. Rod
Blagojevich, through former UI Board of Trustees Chairman Lawrence Eppley.
Hurd and Herman both testified that no jobs were awarded, and Hurd
described the discussion as "facetious."

Law school officials said the university had forced the College of Law to
admit
24 politically connected students over four years who wouldn't have been
accepted otherwise. Hurd also requested from Herman, and received, about
$350,000 in scholarships to recruit top students to the law school to offset
the
effect of accepting students with lower credentials.

Herman, a widely published scientist and mathematician and native of New
York, was hired as UI provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs in
1998.
He came here after eight years as dean of the College of Computer,
Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Maryland.

He was named interim UI chancellor in July 2004 following the departure of
former Chancellor Nancy Cantor, then was tapped for the permanent job in
April 2005.

As provost, Herman was a finalist for the university president's jobs at
Iowa,
Texas A&M and Florida in 2002-03.

Herman has said he is proud of his record, listing his efforts to promote
racial
and gender diversity on campus, the hiring of 100 "faculty excellence
professors," a doubling of private sector research money, the globalization
of
campus, and the Illinois Promise program, which guarantees that low-income
students will graduate from the UI debt-free. He has cited specific projects

such as the new Blue Waters petascale supercomputing facility, the Center
for
the Study of Democracy in a Multiracial Society, a $500 million biofuels and

biosciences project with energy giant BP, and the Advanced Digital Sciences
Center in Singapore, a partnership with the government of Singapore
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