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

[John W.]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Chris Tuck <christuck911 at gmail.com> wrote:

ahahaha, im so happy right now..
>

Just more hypocrisy to me.  ALL private colleges and universities give
preferential treatment to applicants whose relatives attended the university
or whose sponsors are big financial donors.  If a state institution can't do
this, then why make it selective at all?  Why not just let everyone in who
can pay the tuition?

John Wason




> 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
>
>
> --
> Chris Tuck
> -Undergrad-UIUC
>      Political Science, Philosophy, Physics.
>
> -Carroll Fire Dept.
>      Firefighter/EMT-B
>
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