Apparently deciding it didn’t want a costly and embarrassing legal battle, the University of Illinois board of trustees has withdrawn its promised dismissal proceedings against Phyllis Wise, the chancellor of the Urbana-Champaign campus.
As The College Fix has noted, Wise was implicated in a scandal involving senior administration officials who were hiding their emails from public-record requests, just a day after she said she was resigning.
Email subjects included the school rescinding a job offer to a professor, Steven Salaita, whom it had functionally hired but whose virulent anti-Israel tweets went viral before the board had approved his offer.
The board said it was clawing back a $400,000 negotiated payment to Wise as a condition of her resignation.
After Wise spurned the school president’s offer yesterday to take a lucrative consulting position in the midst of her dismissal proceedings and rescinded bonus – and insinuated that she would sue the university if it tried to fire her – the board lost its mettle.
The Daily Illini reports that the board has accepted Wise’s second resignation offer and won’t try to fire her, but it’s not clear if she’ll get the $400,000 payment or if she’ll take a yearlong sabbatical.
Her resignation as chancellor means she’ll join the faculty again in the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, the paper said.
Read Wise’s threat and the Daily story.
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