[lbo-talk] Hurrah! "University of Illinois Chancellor Wise resigning Aug. 12"

[Joseph Catron]

"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whose job offer she rescinded over his anti-Israel Twitter messages, a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offer it rescinded last summer before he could begin teaching on the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?

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