A plaything of hacks, Chicago State University has apparently been kicked around one too many times for its long-suffering faculty. They’ve only just evicted President Elnora Daniel – a party girl with a penchant for long, university-subsidized Caribbean cruises – and now the school’s hopeless board of trustees wants to unload another hack on them.
It’s not every day that a faculty pulls itself together to ask the governor to remove its entire board of trustees, and to halt the appointment of its next president, but that’s what CSU’s professors have done.
Chicago State University faculty took the unusual step Tuesday of asking Gov. Pat Quinn to remove the university’s board of trustees.
The unanimous request from the Faculty Senate, which comes days before trustees plan to announce their decision on the next university leader, also asks Quinn to stop the board from hiring a president.
Chicago State faculty and students have argued they were excluded from the presidential search process and have criticized the two finalists as local political insiders. On Friday, 13 of the 15 members of the campus’ search advisory committee resigned in protest.
The finalists are Carol Adams, secretary of the Illinois Department of Human Services, and Wayne Watson, the retiring chancellor of City Colleges of Chicago.
[From earlier news coverage: “Donald Pettis, president of Chicago State’s alumni association and an advisory committee member, said that only one of the 14 committee members voted for Adams. None voted for Watson…”]Rev. Leon Finney, the Chicago State board chairman, did not respond to a request for comment…
Yeah, why comment. Really, why bother. Who cares.
April 23rd, 2009 at 9:24AM
This is what is called The Chicago Way.
Mr. Watson is a longtime fan of the illustrious Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Adams is probably the front-runner though. The gov. needs to toss her out of DHS to make room for his own homies.
January 23rd, 2010 at 9:46AM
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