… is unsurprising. She made a mess. But FAU’s fatal problem remains: It’s not a university. It holds some classes, yes. But it doesn’t much care about its faculty (all sorts of knaves and fools lurk there and create embarrassment for the school); and it has poured huge money into a football stadium that everyone knows will sit empty and bankrupt the place. Recall that FAU was so desperate to get a naming sponsor’s money that they agreed to have the name of a shady for-profit prison company be emblazoned on the stadium — until ridicule and outrage forced the university to withdraw from the deal. The president blames “fiercely negative media coverage” for her downfall, but when you make a mess that’s what you get.