Michael Hogan has resigned. I confess that this comes as a surprised to me (some of my fellow Hounds are not).
Hogan was a disappointment. Not because of what he did, but what he did not do. He did nothing to fix the scandal that caused his predecessor's demise-he never fired White, Herman, Hurd, or any of the others involved. He never fired Ghosh, ask questions about Frerich's appointment. He never fired Renee Romano or Anna Gonzalez. David Green is still collecting a pay check for...something. He has not lowered tuition, improved quality of applicants, nor brought any kind of faith in the U of ILL back to the people of Illinois.
Oh yes he did manage to fire Dr. Howell. There is that.
Posted by Alpha Hound
Showing posts with label University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. Show all posts
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
The U of ILL has announced it will appeal the earlier ruling concerning the release of students names on the Category I list. Posted by No. 6
Sunday, July 11, 2010
UI fires Catholic Prof for Teaching...Catholicism (Updated)
Professor Kenneth Howell was shown the back door last week for writing about...the back door. And worse, he was writing about Catholicism.
Prompted by an interesting complaint letter (more on this in a subsequent post) dated from early May, Howell was removed for "hate speech" by Robert McKim, chair of the Religious Department. McKim is conveniently out of the country at the moment.
No mention of the case yet by FIRE, but the Alliance Defense Fund and the AAUP have both offered legal and moral support, respectively, for Professor Howell.
Given the recently exposed developments of behind-the-scenes shenanigans by the U of ILL in recent months, the developments of this story will be fun to watch as the facts continue to come to light-a process that the UI always finds extremely deplorable.
The case recalls the time when Acton Gordon was fired for printing the Jylland-Posten Mohammad Cartoons.
Posted by Hound No. 9
(Update 7-10-10 23:00pm):
The UIUC Atheists, Agnostics, and Freethinkers have posted that they too find the administrations actions wrong.
Prompted by an interesting complaint letter (more on this in a subsequent post) dated from early May, Howell was removed for "hate speech" by Robert McKim, chair of the Religious Department. McKim is conveniently out of the country at the moment.
No mention of the case yet by FIRE, but the Alliance Defense Fund and the AAUP have both offered legal and moral support, respectively, for Professor Howell.
Given the recently exposed developments of behind-the-scenes shenanigans by the U of ILL in recent months, the developments of this story will be fun to watch as the facts continue to come to light-a process that the UI always finds extremely deplorable.
The case recalls the time when Acton Gordon was fired for printing the Jylland-Posten Mohammad Cartoons.
Posted by Hound No. 9
(Update 7-10-10 23:00pm):
The UIUC Atheists, Agnostics, and Freethinkers have posted that they too find the administrations actions wrong.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Future of UI, Black?
Is the future of the University of Illinois black? Perhaps there will be a Black in its future, as state representative Bill Black has requested to be named as a Board of Trustee member since the fallout of the Admissions scandal.
We believe that Bill Black has been a well-established voice of the community in downstate ILL and believe as a result he will be an excellent voice on the board. Given too, his proximity to his constituency (and hence, the university) we would support him.
Black has previously said that "When I think they [the University administration] are wrong, I'm going to say so."
We hope so.
And yet, we have trepidations, since we feel Black will not send those responsible with their tails between their legs. His "no preconceived notions" of the culpability of White, Herman, etc. and his necessitating of examination in "and orderly fashion and with due process" worries us. The latter, no. The former yes.
It surpasses the bounds of belief that Black can have no preconceived notions of White nor Herman's unethical behavior. If the results of the Mikva report are not sufficient in its own right, then what? Perhaps White's admission of pushing for family member entrance via his official position (an obvious violation of UI ethics policy)? Or perhaps Herman's grudging acquiescence that Hurd's "facetious" nonsensical ramblings were indeed genuine ("Sometimes a plow is a plow," as Mikva himself observed)?
Black is up to the task of leading the university no question, but that cannot be seriously undertaken until the obstacles that prevent that are removed. Right now that is White, Herman, Hurd, Ghosh, DeBrock, Hardy, Kaler, et al. Unless the darkness that engulfs the Unversity now is disinfected with transparency and new light, there is no sense in adding more Black.
Posted by Hound No. 6
We believe that Bill Black has been a well-established voice of the community in downstate ILL and believe as a result he will be an excellent voice on the board. Given too, his proximity to his constituency (and hence, the university) we would support him.
Black has previously said that "When I think they [the University administration] are wrong, I'm going to say so."
We hope so.
And yet, we have trepidations, since we feel Black will not send those responsible with their tails between their legs. His "no preconceived notions" of the culpability of White, Herman, etc. and his necessitating of examination in "and orderly fashion and with due process" worries us. The latter, no. The former yes.
It surpasses the bounds of belief that Black can have no preconceived notions of White nor Herman's unethical behavior. If the results of the Mikva report are not sufficient in its own right, then what? Perhaps White's admission of pushing for family member entrance via his official position (an obvious violation of UI ethics policy)? Or perhaps Herman's grudging acquiescence that Hurd's "facetious" nonsensical ramblings were indeed genuine ("Sometimes a plow is a plow," as Mikva himself observed)?
Black is up to the task of leading the university no question, but that cannot be seriously undertaken until the obstacles that prevent that are removed. Right now that is White, Herman, Hurd, Ghosh, DeBrock, Hardy, Kaler, et al. Unless the darkness that engulfs the Unversity now is disinfected with transparency and new light, there is no sense in adding more Black.
Posted by Hound No. 6
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
More Clout at UI
State Senator Michael Frerichs has apparently joined the clout list at the UI. Although denying any involvement, Frerichs' wife has a now six-figure income job at the UI college of business.
Not that this any surprise at the UI of lately, but it certainly is suspicious. to be fair, over at IlliniPundit, there is skepticism that this would be an issue if not for the selling of admissions at the UI. But by the same line of thought, it would not be an issue if there was no admissions scandal (which there certainly is).
Posted by Hound No. 3
***Update***
Hound No. 3 incorrectly posted that Laura Frerichs' position is in the College of Business, something also incorrectly posted on IlliniPundit. Frerich's new position is actually in Administration, not CoB. We apologize for the error and misinformation.
Posted by Alpha Hound
Not that this any surprise at the UI of lately, but it certainly is suspicious. to be fair, over at IlliniPundit, there is skepticism that this would be an issue if not for the selling of admissions at the UI. But by the same line of thought, it would not be an issue if there was no admissions scandal (which there certainly is).
Posted by Hound No. 3
***Update***
Hound No. 3 incorrectly posted that Laura Frerichs' position is in the College of Business, something also incorrectly posted on IlliniPundit. Frerich's new position is actually in Administration, not CoB. We apologize for the error and misinformation.
Posted by Alpha Hound
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