Wow, this is great! Good riddance to her. Sadly Salaita's reinstatement still seems highly unlikely, and perhaps even undesirable considering hostility and resentment he is likely to face there. But this may clear the way for some kind of resolution. -raghu.
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Joseph Catron <[email protected]> wrote: > "University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Chancellor Phyllis Wise said > Thursday that she is resigning, citing a range of 'external issues' > she says have become a distraction for the school. > > "Wise leaves as she and the school face a lawsuit filed by a professor > whose job offer she rescinded over his anti-Israel Twitter messages, a > vote by a prominent academic group to censure the campus in response, > and complaints and a pair of lawsuits alleging mistreatment of > athletes in three sports. Her resignation is effective Aug. 12." > > > http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ad89fcdf27dc4e83a8e76d0d1e8b0427/university-illinois-chancellor-wise-resigning-aug-12 > > Coming a few hours after this, the timing of her announcement seems clear: > > "The University of Illinois cannot disavow having contractual > obligations to Steven G. Salaita, the controversial scholar whose job > offer it rescinded last summer before he could begin teaching on the > Urbana-Champaign campus, a federal court ruled on Thursday." > > > http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/court-holds-that-u-of-illinois-broke-contract-in-salaita-case/102881 > > Academic types, am I correct in thinking that six days' notice is awfully > short? > > -- > "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure > mægen lytlað." > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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